Edinburgh Athletic Club

The revised timetable for the Lothian and Border Trials, to be held at Meadowbank on Sunday 3rd April can be viewed below:
lothian trials timetable

Hello fellow club members,

With the Marathon season coming up; London, Edinburgh, etc l would like to tell you how I fortunately won the British over 45 Marathon title last April and hopefully it can help the athletes running  future Marathons.

IT’S A NUMBERS GAME!

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Edinburgh Leisure Peformance Access Scheme 2011 to 2012 – Extension for Under 15 athletes

We have agreed to extend the application process for the Edinburgh Leisure PAS Scheme to athletes in the Under 15 age group during 2010 season.

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The road race season has now well and truly stated with a number of races over the past few weeks.

The rankings below have been updated following these results and they are showing a good number of EAC PBs. Obviously all the winter training is paying off!

I have added a couple of columns on the “By Athlete” tab of the spreadsheet that gives details of the number of PBs run this year.

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The results for the Edinburgh AC athletes representing Scotland at the International Cross Countries held in Antrim Northern Ireland, 26th March 2011 are listed below.

Avivia Schools International Cross Country Saturday 26th March
Junior Boys: Robert Bough 20th.
Intermediate Girls: Rachael Dunn 9th,  Emma Dunnett 10th, Oonagh Dunnett 16th, Olivia McKenzie 26th, Isla Pawson 32nd.
Intermediate Boys: Ruaridh Miller 21st.

Home Counties Cross Country International
Senior Women: Sarah Hood 24th

Scotland were third placed in all the above catagories 

Full Results at
http://www.niathletics.org/filestore/default.asp?itemId=500

There is a national athletic’s officials training day being held at Grangemouth on Saturday 14^th May 2011.

There is something for officials of all levels, from the inexperienced to the long in the tooth!  No matter how long you’ve been involved in the athletics officiating there is always something new to learn.

To see full details and download an application form follow the link >>>> Official’s Training Day

Hello fellow Edinburgh Athletic Club members.

Following on from Susan McKelvie’s article regarding Susan being your female athlete rep at the club executive committee meetings, l am your male rep. (more…)

Congratulations to Sarah Hood on her selection to the Scottish team for the Home Countries Cross Country to be held in Antrim on Saturday 26th March.

The SUMMER SEASON EDINBURGH ENDURANCE SESSIONS will start on Saturday the 26th March 2011
details here:
EES Summer 2011

I was casting an eye over recent results and evaluations from the EAC athletes who are training for London and Edinburgh, some of whom were at the Alloa Half marathon. Comments I hear included delighted, pleased with huge PB and awesome.

Overall there are some really positive results, beneficial training programmes and constructive reflections on races. On the other hand we would not be human if there were not some niggly areas when members are not training at their best, but this can be turned around in the long term.     (more…)