The club has decided to maintain its membership fees for the coming year at the same level as previous years. You can see these here. Club membership renewals for the 2021 / 22 season will be going out from the membership system at the end of March to all current club members and will be due for payment by the end of April. If you do not want to renew… Read More »2021/22 Club Membership Update
The latest edition of the Cotswold Way Association Newsletter is now available here. CLICK HERE The Club is a supporter of this organisation as so many of us run and use the Cotswold Way.
Tom brimming with confidence after his 5000m Bronze medal at the British Championships 10 days ago, was so very close to his goal! Tom Mortimer returned to Manchester last night in the mens 3000m A race, in his quest to break the 8min barrier. After Tom took 14s off is PB in August he was the 2nd fastest in the field. Very quickly the pace maker pulled away from the… Read More »Manchester Gold Standard BMC
Tom Mortimer ran in a quality 1500m A race at Lee Valley in London last night finishing 6th out of 8 runners. All those ahead of Tom will be running in the 1500m at the British Championships next week. Tom was in the pack until 250m to go looking comfortable, when the kick for Home came and he found himself lacking the finishing speed to match the specialist 1500m runners.… Read More »Lee Valley Gold Standard 1500m
Last week brought disappointment as 18 year old Annie Testar withdrew from the British Championships 800m as she was unable to get in shape to compete at this level, Tom Mortimer’s courageous but disappointing run in Kent just falling short of the qualifying time but smashing the clubs record for 3000m. However Tom yesterday was delighted to receive an invite to compete in the 5000m which will be live on… Read More »British Track and Field Championships – 4/5th Sept – Manchester
Further to our recent post we are pleased to announce that we have now approved our updated Risk assessment and COVID recovery plan, both of which are available via our website. We have reviewed and implemented the England Athletics guidance on returning to activities as part of preparing our plan. Click here to read the Risk assessment Click here to read the Recovery plan If you have any feedback on… Read More »Update on Returning to activities
As you know this years Standish woodland chase has been postponed to 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. However we have set up a Free to Enter Virtual version for any of you that would like to take part. The race is open from now until the end of August and is hosted over at Opentrack. CLICK here to go to the entry page. You can find the route and… Read More »Standish Woodland Chase – Virtual race
It’s more than four months since we were last able to train and compete together and I hope you have all been safe and well. It has been very encouraging to see members getting out, remaining active and enjoying the various “Virtual Challenges” that have been going on. As restrictions have now started to ease, the Club has formed a small group, co-ordinated by Jo Stevenson, to plan how we… Read More »Covid Recovery Survey sent out to all Members
Following our clubs race committee meeting last night and with no change at present in the current EA /UKA race guidelines, we have made the tough decision to postpone both of our remaining races until 2021 All entrants will automatically transfer to the 2021 race(s) or you can request a refund of the entry fee(s). An email has been sent to this year’s entries with full details, these can also… Read More »Standish Woodland Chase and Woodchester Park – 2020 Race Update – Postponed until 2021
Over the bank holiday weekend 7 junior club members completed in the British milers club 1k time trials and uploaded there results online. All Stroud results were excellent and many would if they had been in competition have broken both club road and track records. The oldest runner was 18 year old Annie Testar who backed up her 3rd place in the U20W Roger Bannister 1 mile time trial at… Read More »British Miler Club 1k Time Trial