Edinburgh Athletic Club

Endurance report produced for the AGM is available here.

Results from Grangemouth ‘Round the Houses’  race Sunday 28th March.

10k Race:-

Neil Thin      32:55
Roger Alsop    33:38
Lars Ottemoller 34:29
Malcolm Fraser 36:04
Andrew Laycock 36:13
Scott Logan  36:14
Richard Meade  36:24
Niamh Devlin   37:13
Hayley Ovens   39:27
Lianne Logan   41:42
Debra Murray   42:29
Sharyn Ramage  43:00
Eric Stevenson 46:02

5k Race:-

Neil Calder    16:25 
Jonathan Ferry 18:41 
Cath Ferry     19:03

 If any of the athletes would like to submit a race report? it would be much appreciated.

Endurance Fixture List 2009

The following races have been selected from the SAL fixture list as races to target as a club. It contains road, hill and trail races, the aim is to encourage large turnouts and team prizes!

Saturday 4th April – Scottish Road Relay Championships, Livingston

Saturday 11th April – Normans Law Hill Race, Fife (5.5 miles, 750ft)

Wednesday 29th April – Self Transcendence 5k, Meadows, Edinburgh

Sunday 10th May – *Dunfermline ½M (Scottish Championship)

Saturday 16^th May – *Loch Leven ½M (East District Championship)

Friday 22nd May – Black Rock 5 Beach Race, Kinghorn.

Wednesday 27th May – *Auld Toun Dunfermline 10k (East District Championship)

Saturday 30th May – Haddington 5 mile

Wednesday 3rd June – Self Transcendence 5k, Silverknowes

Sunday 14th June – *Vale of Leven 10k (Scottish Championship)

Sunday 21st June – 7 Hills of Edinburgh Race

Wednesday 1st July – Self Transcendence 5k, Meadows, Edinburgh

Sunday 12th July – Crieff 10k Trail Run

Saturday 25th July – Musselburgh 10k

Sunday 2nd August – Scottish Gas 10k, Granton, Edinburgh

Wednesday 5th August – North Berwick Law Hill Race

Wednesday 2nd September – Self Transcendence 5k, Meadows, Edinburgh

Sunday 20th September – Stirling 10k

Sunday 27th September – Linlithgow 10k (Note date change from 13th)

Sunday 25th October – Jedburgh ½ Marathon 

* Please note, for championship events, the club will refund the entry fee if the following performance standards are met: For 10k:  Men 36 min, Women 38:30.  For ½ Marathon: Men 1:18, Women 1:25.

Mike James Course Director for the Edinburgh Half Marathon has been in touch with the club asking us to help provide marshals for this event.  Anybody who is interested should contact Mike directly for more information on the numbers given below.  Mike has already provided a list of marshal requirements of which the key ones are:

• must be over 17 years old
• must attend briefing at Meadowbank at 7.30am on race day
• must have mobile phone with them on the day

The club gets paid £15 for every person we provide and marshals get refreshments provided pre-race and at their posts.

Mike James
Course Director
Edinburgh Half Marathon
07846468664
01228564567

mikej@gbevents.net

The inaugural Scottish Inter-District 10k Champs will be held on Sunday 3rd May and will be incorporated with the popular Bupa Great Edinburgh Run. 

Teams will be selected on current form but with particular emphasis being paid to the National Men’s 6 stage and Women’s 4 stage relays taking place at Livingston on Saturday 4th April.

The club encourages all athletes to turn out for the relays so that we can field as strong a team as possible for this and thus select a strong squad for the inaugural 10k Inter-District championship.  Those interested in running should contact Alex McEwan (men) or Marietta Beal (women).

Congratulations to Rachael Dunn and Emily Dudgeon who have been selected for the Scottish Team going to London Mini Marathon on 26th April.
(Enid Johnston)

Scottish Indoor League Finals and Relays – Kelvin Hall, 15 March 2009

 It was a hectic day at the SAIL finals with 13 of our teams qualifying for the finals and the relays also taking place. Our athletes had a great day with 45 PBs or season’s best performances. In the relays our U20 men set a new Scottish U20 club record with a time of 1.31.11, just missing the U20 national record by 0.2sec.

In the team events our U13 girls did exceptionally well, taking both 1^st and 2^nd places as well as taking gold in the relay.     

Many thanks also to all those who support the league from officials (experienced and new) and to parents/grandparents and friends. 

As mentioned previously it cost £480 to enter teams plus 4 buses each time costing a total of £1,100.  We managed to collect £900 which is a great help towards the overall costs.   So a big thank you to the Bank of Mum and Dad!

 Team Managers
Yvonne Jones and Keith Ridley

 PS If anyone is willing to assist by way of sponsorship/monies to any league that the Club participate in this would be gratefully appreciated (even small donations help).
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British Universities Indoor Championships – Sheffield 13 – 15 March 2009 

3 EAC athletes won medals at the British Universities Indoor Championships -
Simon Herron won the men’s High Jump with a height of 2.00m,
Pat Swan was 2^nd in the 400m 48.44 and
Sarah Hood was 3^rd in the 1500m in 4.29.59, taking more than 3 seconds off her previous best.

Full results available on http://www.bucs.org.uk/page.asp?section=13034&sectionTitle=Indoor+Championships  (NB – medal winners only shown on this page; for full results go to links at the foot of the page)

Scottish Schools Cross Country Championships -
Irvine 14 March 2009

Some good results from our athletes who were representing their schools at the cross country championships in Irvine:

Rachael Dunn, Olivia MacKenzie, Blair Wood and  Emily Dudgeon have all been selected for the Schools International on 28th March in Bangor.

Top 15 finishers listed below (apologies to anyone missed):
(Enid Johston, Keith Ridley)

U14 Girls
Emily Strathdee       4^th
Ali Hunter                  8^th       

U14 Boys
Jake Kerr                   1^st
Robert Bough          2^nd
Jack Harrison          6^th

14-15 Girls
Rachael Dunn           2^nd
Olivia Mackenzie     3^rd
Blair Wood                7^th 
Caitlin Gray               15^th    

15-17 Girls
Emily Dudgeon        4^th

15-17 Boys
Marcus Cram              10^th
Jake Wightman          11^th    

 Full results available on http://sbe.napier.ac.uk/rontest/SSAA_Info/XC_schools_2009.pdf