Edinburgh Athletic Club

The first Young Athletes Rankings of the season produced by Keith Ridley, can be viewed here:
Young_Rankings_2012

A few runners were out racing this weekend, up at Balmoral in the 5k, Emma Dunnett was 2nd in 17.55, with Oonagh Dunnett close behind in 18.44. In the 10k, James Mittra posted 38.47. At the Callander 10k trail race Sheenagh MacLullich won the women’s race. Finally, the Park Run had Chris Poxton 18.09, Colin Laidlaw 20.51, Sharyn Ramage 20.55, Jim Buick 21.01, Sarah Cadenas 21.55, Pam Armstrong 24.13, Sarah Broadhurst 27.47, Alastair Jack 33.00.

Is anyone else is planning on entering the Women’s 10k in Glasgow on 13th May? Jenny and I have entered and we’ll also have a special appearance from Ms Devlin, over from Dublin for a special EAC race outing after our Club La Santa trip!

There are prizes for teams with four people counting, if you are running, please let us know as it looks like team sheets have to be listed separately! There are also prizes for the top 20 finishers so something to aim for as well! If you have not already entered, enter tonight and you’ll get your race pack posted to you rather than having to collect it in person in Glasgow. Full details and entry at http://www.runglasgow.org/10k-2012/

Vik

The timetable for the Scottish Young Athletes meetings can be downloded here:
Young Athletes League timetable

For training this weekend, on Sunday there will be the usual long training run at 9am from Craiglockhart Sports Centre. Meet in the top car park and we will head out on the Canal and Water of Leith paths to Balerno and beyond, with run distances of 12-16 miles, mainly on paths and trails. A range of distances and a range of speeds, all welcome, just turn up and join in.

For racing, it is fairly low key, with a few aiming for the Park Run 5k, Balmoral races or Callander 10k. Everyone else is spending the weekend catching up with all of our London Marathon race reports at  http://edinburghac.org.uk/?p=12937  !

The East District Track and Field Championships are on 12/13th May and we are encouraging parents of the young athletes to sign up to help at this event, which is a big event for the club. If you can help please let me know asap – we will keep you right.  It does not have to be all day, even if you could help for a few hours, it would be appreciated. 
The Parent’s group are once again fundraising and would appreciate any items for a kids/adult’s raffle/tombola or cake and candy which we plan to run both days.  We raised £455 at the Lothian and Borders trials, thanks to all those who made this happen. Please try to give something, no matter how small.

Thanks, Yvonne

EAC 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           (more…)

Scottish Athletics League Div I, Meadowbank, Saturday 21st April 2012

Edinburgh AC were second in the first meeting of the league, the results can be viewed here:
scottish athletics league 1

Scottish Womans Athletics League, Meadowbank, Sunday 22nd April 2012

Edinburgh AC won the first meeting of the SWAL, the results can be viewed here:
swal1_results April 2012

Lothian Trials, Meadowbank, 8th April 2012

An updated version of the results can be viewed here:
Lothian Trial Results 2012

We must apologise that the Senior Shot Putt card has gone missing