Edinburgh Athletic Club

SCOTS SHINE IN LIVERPOOL
28th November 2009

Freya Murray (Chester-le-Street/EdinburghAC) and Beth Potter (Victoria Park City of Glasgow) secured their Aviva GB & NI team spots for the SPAR European Cross Country Championships (Dublin, Sunday 13 December), with top three finishes in today’s trial races in Liverpool’s Sefton Park (Saturday 28 November), also round two of the McCain UK Cross Challenge series.

Freya, who recently returned to the UK following a period of training at altitude in Boulder, Colorado (USA), finished second behind Hayley Yelling (Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow) and will make her European Cross Country debut in Dublin.
(News from Scottish Athletics)

Here’s the endurance section report for 2009 by Alex and Marietta and with contributions by Jonathan Whitehead and Club Captain Martin Ferguson.

EAC apologises for the inconvenience that this has caused.

The latest pictures added to the gallery are:

2000: track and field 2000
2005: indoors 2005-2006

A band of intrepid EAC athletes headed out to Lanzarote’s Club La Santa for a week of warm weather competition and training. All had a very successful and enjoyable week and have arrived back fitter and healthier, read on for the daily diary:

Friday: After an early start with a 6.50am flight from Edinburgh airport, we arrived in the resort by lunchtime, quickly unpacked and headed out to explore the complex. After a quick tour to show the ‘newbie’s’ where all the facilities were, it was straight into action. (more…)

EAC VOLUNTEERS / HELPERS

Edinburgh Athletic Club is a very successful club in competitions locally, nationally and at UK level.
This is due in the main to four things:-
• Recruiting talented athletes.
• Providing appropriate qualified coaching.
• Facilitating the highest level of competition.
• Providing financial and welfare support.

Edinburgh Athletic Club provides all of the above and here’s the amazing bit, it is all done by volunteers.

This is where parents / partners / friends and families can do their bit to support the athletes.

There are many opportunities to help athletes and the athletics club in general.

Here are some of the ways you can help:

• By helping the Parent’s Association with the social side of things such as organising fund raising events, catering, social events and activities.

• By assisting the coaches on training nights at Meadowbank, particularly with the younger age groups. You might even be interested in becoming a qualified coach!

• By becoming a qualified track or field official. Our club needs to supply a number of officials at each competition. Training is provided free of charge.

• Providing professional skills and attributes from your work environment which will benefit the club in any way i.e. marketing,  media relations & financial management to name a few, but there are many more.

YOUR CLUB NEEDS YOU!

If you think you can help or want to know more before you commit please contact: 
Mrs Pat Sinclair, EAC Club Secretary.
(Pat can be contacted via the contact page on this site http://edinburghac.org.uk/?page_id=20 )

                                       The Virgin London Marathon 2010

We have two guaranteed entries for Club Members, entry is before 8th January 2010. Initially register your interest with Alex MacEwen and if we have more than two expressions of interest , it goes to member who does most  volunteering for the club.

 A few other notes:
You pay entry fee and transport to London, run in EAC club vest, you have paid your subs and you do some training!
(Alex MacEwen)

The Grand Prix spreadsheet has now been updated with the results from Braid Hills, Norham and the East District Race at Dunfermline, they are shown in the linked spreadsheet.
Grand-Prix-09-Winter-231109

Click on the ‘tab’ at the bottom of the spreadsheet to get all of the individual times for each event.

Full results from Braids at:
http://haries.eusu.ed.ac.uk/?q=node/278#attachments

Norham at:
http://www.norhamrc.co.uk/

East District at:
http://www.eastleague.co.uk/results/200910/2nd.htm

EAC Christmas Night Out

Saturday 5^th December 2009 – 6.30pm till late

After a long hard season, it’s time to celebrate those new PBs, medals, trophies and running achievements with a Christmas Night Out.

So following the Scottish Athletics East District Championship in Livingston on the 5^th December we have organised a private function room at Ciao Roma on South Bridge with a three course meal to be followed by a Ceilidh at the Roxy Art House – just round the corner. (more…)

Meadowbank shall host an Open Graded Indoor Meeting on Saturday 9th January 2010

Entries to be in by the  4th January, timetable and entry form can be downloaded here:
Timetable Jan 9

Entry Form – January 9