Our final league race of the season took place in Cheltenham. It was a great way to round off with both the men and women competing at the same venue. There was plenty of support and the weather was glorious, making for a great day of racing. The course incorporated some obstacles reminiscent of the classic Senneleys Park course in Birmingham – the infamous water jump.
Though numbers were down after some hard racing the previous weekend in Cardiff, our men finished as one of the only clubs with both an A and B team and our women finished as the 9th team on the day.
Even with a few niggles in the club all our athletes completed the race and finished the season on a high. The women finished the season as the 7th team out of 26 and can look forward to competing in the top division next year when the league is being split in to two tiers. Due to an injury ridden season the men unfortunately occupied the final relegation spot, finishing 14 of 16 clubs. However next year we look forward to achieving a strong result competing in the second division in the Birmingham league.
Well done to all for such a fantastic effort this year and good luck to next season’s captains.
On Saturday 4th February we took teams to compete in BUCS Cross-Country in Cardiff, Wales. With over 50 universities present there was a phenomenal atmosphere with a lot of spectators and hundreds of runners. The conditions were... well, snowy! The ground was pretty solid with freezing weather and heavy snow falling throughout making for an interesting and fast race on the flat course.
It's the event that you have all been waiting for, the creme de la creme of athletics socials ....The one....The ONLY....PUB JOG 69!!!
This is our termly epic social. You should never miss out on a Pub Jog, especially the 69th one ;) . Each Pub Jog has a unique t-shirt design, so if you don't buy one, you'll regret it forever. Baaasically, we meet in Rootes Social Bar on Monday week 10 (5th December, approximately 5pm, time tbc) where everybody collects their t-shirt. From there, we proceed to jog around 10 local pubs in and around Earlsdon, where the mightiest shall drink full pints in each.
This year, it's all changed. Purchase your t-shirt online at the price of £8 from the link below. This is the full price, so don't worry about finding us at training with little monies. They are on sale now, but they go off sale on Monday week 8 (21st November) at 11pm. Don't you dare miss out.
http://www.warwicksu.com/ents/event/8003/
So order your t-shirt now by Monday Week 8 for the baddest social in town.
This Sunday the club had eight athletes competing in the annual Birmingham 5k, including a certain alumni runner James Robertson (Men’s Captain 2009-2010), in a field of 140 runners. The close to perfect conditions saw seven of our eight runners gain 5k pb’s, with James Robertson finishing 2nd overall, Jon Undy 3rd overall, Ellie Kitchen 2nd female and Ceara Rice 3rd female – a truly excellent performance guys! The winning time was 16:30 and the results are as follows:
2nd James Robertson (Alumni) 16:42
3rd Jonathan Undy 16:44
4th Christopher Melbourne 16:52
19th Bernard Sexton 19:18
21st Antoine Levoir 19:46
35th (2nd F) Ellie Kitchen 20:32
36th (3rd F) Ceara Rice 20:35
51st (7th F) Alice Ebbage 22:11
Full race results can be found at http://www.eddiearmchair.com/uni5k/winners.htm
Results are in... course accurately measured 400m. All drinks were above 4% and women were allowed half pints. Women's positions are bracketted:
1) Alex Houghton 6.21
2) Andrew Sheridan 6.35
3) Nico Prokop 6.44
4) Nick Houghton 6.46
5) Luke Parry 7.56
6) (1)Sarah Hurford 8.01
7) Andy Nash 8.28
8) Antoine Levoir 8.33
9) James Warner Smith 8.37
10) Joe Smart 9.12
11) Jawad Safdar 9.22
12) Alex Lowden 9.26
13) Mike Farmer 9.43
14) Rob Dutfield 9.44
15) Nathan Wilkins 10.00
16) (2)Alice Ebbage 10.02
17) (3)Diana Barac 10.53
18) Edward Campbell 11.04
19) Ed Hill 11.07
20) (4)Kat Price 11.08
21) Jeremy Belbin 11.51
22) Stefan Colaço 11.54
23) Peter Hutchinson 11.56
24) James Robertson 12.01
Congratulations to everyone who took part and thank you to Andyx2 for organisation.
Warwick Athletics Reunion Race
Sunday 15 May 2011.
1 Matt Armstrong 27m54 c
2 Vincent O'Sullivan 28m49 o
3 Graham Robinson 29m00 o
4 Nick Houghton 29m42 c
5 Chris Rye 30m11 o
6 Harold Wyber 30m33 o
7 Chris Melbourne 30m41 c
8 James Robertson 30m58 o
9 Luke Lambourne 31m16 o
10 Austin Caulfield 31m20 -
11 Nathan Wilkins 31m32 c
12 Ollie Ager 31m43 c
13 Jack Matthewman 31m55 o
14 Alex Houghton 32m08 c
15 Tom Gray 32m16 o
16 Ed Campbell 32m19 c
17 Nick Clarke 32m22 c
18 Jimmy Warner-Smith 33m14 c
19 Jawad Safdar 33m37 c
20 Lewis Sullivan 33m45 o
21(1) Rachel Wood 33m55 c
22 Derek Hatley 34m07 c
23(2) Jenny Gray 34m09 o
24 Bernard Sexton 34m42 c
25 Thom Reichow 34m53 o
26 Nico Prokop 35m07 c
27 Matt Roberts 35m15 o
28(3) Chloe Mackay 35m27 c
29(4) Annie Homer 35m27 c
30(5) Ellie Kitchen 36m06 c
31(6) Amy Concannon 36m17 c
32 Chris Keenan 36m28 c
33 Andy Nash 36m32 c
34 Antoine Levoir 37m00 c
35(7) Sarah Hurford 37m14 c
36(8) Ceara Rice 38m35 c
37 Luke Parry 40m03 c
38 Jack Bennett 41m18 o
39 Nat Breakwell 44m58 c
40(9) Ivana Ojukwu 47m55 c
41 Jeremy Belbin 47m55 c
42(10) Fran Donnelly 48m03 c
43(11) Kat Price 48m05 c
44(12) Colette Monahan 48m08 o
45(13) Lucia Gobbi 48m08 c
46(14) Steph Collings 49m10 c
47(15) Claire Lowe 49m18 c
Male Winners: Leavers Team
Female Winners: Current Team
Overall Winners: Current Team.
