Edinburgh Athletic Club

At the Scottish Athletics awards dinner on Saturday night, Edinburgh AC was announced as Scottish Athletics Track and Field Club of the Year 2009. Congratulations to all Athletes, Coaches, Officials, Helpers and everyone involved, on a fantastic achievement.

Lauren Peffers pictured above, was awarded the “Disability Athlete of the Year” for her acheivements in the World Deaf Games in Taipie China, where she won Sivler in the 400m and the 800m.

More pictures are in the gallery page.

Here’s a quick competition to win a session with Denise Lewis: enter here.  Closing date is 30th November, and if you need a hand to answer the question, click here.

The Winter fixture list for the club can be downloaded here:
Winter Fixtures_2009-2010

New Pictures added this week:

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Scottish Cross Country Relay Championships

Young Athletes.
A superb performance by the young Females winning the Scottish Relays.
We very narrowly missed out in taking 3rd.  Finishing 1st,4th,& 7th three teams in the first 10. 
I have checked back on the results that I have and I do not think that it has been done before. 
Emma Dunnett gained the fastest lap followed by Emily Dudgeon.

The young Males finished in 12th place & 23rd, they were missing one or two people who were on holiday, but the boys that were there ran well. 
Josh Kerr was the 5th fastest u-13  and Jake Kerr 7th fastest u15.
Well done to all.
(Enid Johnstone)

Full results can be found here:
http://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/index.php?p=80&itemType=fixtures&itemId=11549

Hi Folks, In case you hadn’t realised this is the OMM weekend. For older readers this is still known as the Karimor – the event where you wish you could Kariless (yes, ok, I know its an old joke). Nevertheless, there are two things in common for this weekend.

1) The clocks go back or forward or whatever it is. What this means is that its a lot darker for the next few months.

2) Those in the know will not plan anything outdoors this weekend. The KIMM is famous for provding weather of biblical proportions – well maybe last year was at the ‘bad’ end of the scale, but ‘normal’ is still pretty diabolical. (more…)

Grand Prix results for senior athletes after the Scottish Cross Country Relay’s at Cumbernauld 24/10/09 are shown in the linked spreadsheet.

Grand-Prix-09-Winter-241009

Click on the ‘Scottish Relays’ tab at the bottom of the spreadsheet to get all of the individual times.

Womens Teams were 8th and 18th, Men’s Teams 10th, 21st, 40th. With the best result of the day going to the Mens Vet Team which picked up the Silver Medal for finishing 2nd.

Full results from Cumbernauld can be found at:

http://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/index.php?p=80&itemType=fixtures&itemId=11549

At long last, the dates and venues have been announced for this years Borders Cross Country League.

Sunday 15th November – Norham, Village Hall
Sunday 29th November – Lauder, Sports Centre
Sunday 13th December – Dunbar, John Muir Park
Sunday 10th January – Galashiels, Swimming Pool
Sunday 31st January – Berwick, Spittal Point
Sunday 28th February – Peebles, Hay Lodge Park

Full details can be found at http://www.norhamrc.co.uk/

If anyone is looking for an introduction to ‘real cross country’ this is it!

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Are you based in the centre of Edinburgh? can you get out running at lunchtime? Are you interested in a brisk 7 mile run on Wednesday’s at 12.15?

A few EAC runners have started a regular ‘Wednesday’ training run starting from Bristo Square (outside McEwan Hall) at 12.15. The route is almost exactly 7 miles long, going down Middle Meadow Walk, heading out via the Grange to Kings Buildings, following the KB4 route through the Hermitage, before heading back to the starting point.

For the exact route, see http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3275310

The run takes about 50 minutes (approx 7 min/mile), plus whatever you need to add on to get to the starting point from your work!

If anyone would like to join in, you are more than welcome. You can just turn up, but you might be best e-mailing me to say you will be there, just incase there are any last minute changes.

Garry

To help keep club members better informed and to show some of the work which is done on your behalf, the Club Executive has decided to make the minutes of their meetings available to all members, by posting them on this website.
If you have any queries or points you wish to raise with committee please contact any of the commitee members.
EAC Minutes August 2009