With Stroud Half Marathon just 14 weeks away, Bill Chandler is offering a training tips seminar this Wed 18th July 18:30-19:00 in the Jack Russell room at Archway School. This is aimed primarily at first time or relative newcomers to the sport who are looking to improve their performance over the half marathon distance. Karen Saunders Will also be on hand to demonstrate some yoga stretches which will help all runners cope with the demands of running higher mileages.

After a great evening last night our race results are now available online.

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Congratulations to Jason Barry and Mario McNamara for setting new course records in the MV45 and MV60 categories.

A big part of our annual Sports Day is the opportunity for everyone to try some field events - long jump and throwing mini howlers, javelin, shot and discus. This is mainly for fun but an element of competition always creeps in! Thanks to Steve Carr for organising the events and to all who helped supervise. If you want any more information about the Club's throwing activities please contact Steve.

1. Long Jump winner - Anaya Powis 4.00m. All results by age group:

Age 6: Sam Fortnam - 2.00

Age 7: Oliver North - 2.65

We had an excellent day in the sunshine on Sunday. A big thank you to everyone who helped to plan and organise the day and deliver a very enjoyable event. There were some terrific performances to enjoy and we all had fun!

1. The day started with a new event - the Ruscombe Rampage off-road 5k:

1st - Ian Cutler (course record) - 22:12, 2nd - Michael Stevenson - 22:19, 3rd - Ben Lowe - 22:49, 4th - Adam Tavner - 23:29, 5th - Gill Tavner (first lady) - 25:58 , 6th - Mark Calverley - 26:29, 7th - Rob Case - 27:00

This is the largest annual athletic event in the world and the 4th largest of all athletic event behind the Olympic Games, World championships, and the Commonwealth games. Each of the 45 English Counties sent teams of boys and girls in 3 year age groups, 8/9, 10/11, 12/13. Counties are split into large, medium, and small. Gloucestershire is a small county and can only take a maximum of 25 athletic across the gender age groups, which covers the 97 events.

Tom Mortimer's final of the 5000m will be run on Saturday the 14th July at local time 3.20pm, which is 1.20pm in the UK. Tom is ranked 4th in the World outside of Africa, behind a Serbian and 2 Americans but if we include the African’s Tom is ranked 37th! So this going to be an amazing experience and a stern test for Tom.