Edinburgh Athletic Club

This weekend will see all the usual endurance training sessions: On Saturday, meet at 10.00am at the Meadows Pavilion for a speed session. On Sunday at 9.00am its a long slow distance run from Craiglockhart Tennis Centre running out via the Canal path and Water of Leith to Balerno and further if required.  Have a great weekend of running.

Seamus is heading off for some warm weather training in December and is keen to encourage others to join him. See below for information on the holiday he is arranging:-

Fancy some excellent warm weather training this winter and the opportunity to race against some of Spain’s top clubs in Gran Canaria? (more…)

Coaching isn’t all about telling athletes to train harder and more often. I’m sure some of you are getting fed up with me saying that rest and recovery can be as important as hard sessions (yes, you know who you are!). So, what is this rest and recovery all about then?

After we do hard speed sessions, races or long hard runs, we feel great and have a buzz as we feel good and the adrenalin is flowing. The next day, we wake up and think, I’ll have some more of that, jump out of bed and discover your legs whether quads, calves or hamstrings are a bit stiff and painful, they may even feel worse the next day again! so what has happened! (more…)

It was a race against time – could I get to the summit of Colt Hill (NX698990) and back to the car before darkness fell.  I hadn’t any torches with me and on strange ground it is always difficult to estimate the time it will take to get to a fixed point, but it was a fine evening, clear sky, and there was just a hint of a full moon rising. (more…)

It’s a bit embarrassing when you enter a race because it’s makes a good excuse for a day trip to a chippy, but it was a good enough reason for a group of us to head over to the East Neuk 10k race. Arriving in Anstruther, the sun was shining and with Jo, Ben and Matt also making it over the bridge, we had a really good group of us together. (more…)

Dunfermline and West Fife Sports Council are hosting an endurance seminar, on Sunday 26th September 1.30pm-5.00pm in the Carnegie Hall Annexe. The topic is ’Running Your Best, why are today’s endurance athletes slower than 40 years ago?’

Speakers include Frank Clement 5^th 1500m Olympics 1976, John Linaker 3000m steeplechase Commonwealth Games 1966, Lachie Stewart 1^st 10,000m Commonwealth Games 1970 and Donald McGregor marathon 1972 Olympics, who will be there to tell you about their  training,  their motivation and answer your questions. Everyone is welcome to go along.

The usual training sessions are on this weekend, Saturday 10.00am meet at the Meadows (beside Green Pavilion) for a speed session and then on Sunday the long run is at 9.00am from Craiglockhart Sports Centre. Just turn up and join in with both sessions.

A few races this weekend that EAC runners are heading for, the Dumfries 1/2M and also the East Neuk 10k  and Linlithgow 10k   Have a great weekend of running.

JSB Plumbing Forth Valley League

Another success from our young athletes in winning the JSB Plumbing Forth Valley League Div I. As well as being overall winners in the league, they were also first in the Track and first in the Field events.
We run two teams in this league and our Division II team finished 5th in the league. This year in order to give more athletes a chance to compete,  we made a concerted effort to try and avoid using our first, second and third stream athletes and were very happy that we still retained the title. (more…)

I completed the inaugural Nokia Scottish Coast to Coast on Sunday which was a 100 mile journey from Nairn to the Isles of Glencoe Hotel in Ballachulish on foot, bike and kayak.  Over the weekend there were three categories and the one which appealed to me happened to be the ‘expert’ category as it involved 11 miles of kayaking compared to one mile in the other categories.  Before entering the race though I checked with the organisers that I would be okay to take part in case they were only looking for elite racers! (more…)

Scottish Athletics Awards Dinner
 If you would like to attend the Dinner please let Pat Sinclair know pagesin@blueyonder.co.uk , the club has booked 2 tables of 10 but can book more. It is on Saturday 30th October at the Marriott Hotel Glasgow. The cost is £39 per person but £350 for a table of 10. it is usually a good evening and we should receive some awards.