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86th Cross-Country Championships - January 7th 2012 at Rotherby Farm

The full results can be found by clicking on this link

Endurance Results in August, September and October 2011

The results of the L&RAA County Championships for 10 miles, 10k, Half Marathon and Marathon can be found on this link for Endurance Results.

Congratulations to all!

Junior Inter Counties T&F Competition Nottingham September 2011

For the first time in the history of this competition (about 20+ years) Leicestershire and Rutland became the overall winners!! In previous years we have been 4th or 5th only!! (with Warwickshire, Derbysire or Nottinghamshire in the first 3 positions). The top four places were very close and our success is probably due to the performances of our U13 and U15 Boys - but this is the kind of event where every point counts - it is better to ensure we have athletes there even if they are not in the top three.

Disability Quadrathlon - April 6th 2011

Please see the disability page for the details

10,000m County Champs 2011

The 10,000m County Champs for Leics & Rutland were held on Thursday 31st March at Saffron Lane Stadium, Leicester. These were held jointly with Northamptonshire AA. The combined results including times for each runner can be found by clicking the link. There were 29 runners entered: 26 started the race and 25 finished (17 from Leics & Rutland). Many thanks to everyone who entered and to the UKA Technical Officials and helpers. The L&R County medals were presented by June Clarke, President of L&RAA.

Here are the Leics & Rutland Medal-winners and the Overall Trophy winner:

Overall Champion (winner of Trophy): Gordon Lee, Leicester Coritanian AC

Senior Men: 1st Alastair Watson, Hermitage Harriers; 2nd Mark Powell, Wigston Phoenix; 3rd Mark Couldwell, Charnwood AC.

Senior Women: 1st Nicola Roder. Leicester Tri Club; 2nd Catherine Tinker, Leicester Tri Club.

Junior Men: 1st Jake Harrison, Charnwood AC; 2nd Jamie Short, Fleckney & Kibworth AC; 3rd Chris Burke, Fleckney & Kibworth AC

Masters Men: 1st Gordon Lee, Leicester Coritanian AC; 2nd Ian Murdey, Beaumont RC, 3rd Chris Talbot, Huncote Harriers AC

Many thanks

CAU Inter Counties XC Championships

Please find below a summary of the reports from two of the Team Managers

From Paul Blissett: Things did not go quite to plan as both Girls and Boys U13 squads lost key runners due to illness the day before: Alfie Thompson and Hannah Cox. Best individual placing from the youngsters was Xander Tansey - 10th in the U25 Boys; Amy Griffiths (14th) and Mari Smith (16th) were well inside the top 20. George Bell did extremely well to finish 32nd from no 3 in the pen and Lucy Crooke's 32nd was another step forward in a very high standard race.

The U15 Girls achieved the best team result of the day finishing 7th, just a handful of points away from the top 6. There were a lot of solid performances but it was one of those days when very few raised their game. As it happens, Hannah's absence did not affect the U13 Girls chances - there were 3 outstanding teams well clear of the rest but worthy of mention was Helena Keenhan's 65th position as 3rd scorer for the U15 girls - that was an excellent run from her!

There was every chance that the U13 Boys would have been right in the mix had Alfie been there - once again the others packed really well with Ben just edging Sam at the line and George following closely behind - Alfie with George would have meant silver or bronze for the team but sometimes these things happen.

Just to draw down the curtain on 2011, could I take this opportunity to thank all the team for their support and I shall look forward to managing the girls' teams again next year. It was particularly gratifying that everyone accepted all of the close decisions that I had to make - as always I try my best to get things right and to be fair to everyone in the best interests of the team. The fact that I did not receive a single complaint helped enormously and added to feeling that, despite the work involved, it is all worthwhile!

It has been a pleasure and I hope that everyone has a good track season and continues to enjoy our great sport.

CAU results can be found on this link: http://www.uka.org.uk/competitions/mccain-uk-cross-challenge/ Click on 'Birmingham' and scroll to the bottom of the page - link follows 'Excel' icons.

From Ian Wilson: I would like to close this year's event by saying," thank you and well done" to all who started on the day, to the reserves, and to the others who would have loved to be able to run but could not. The senior women's team finished 10th of 25, a solid performance considering who was missing, but not as good as their 3rd place in 2008.

From those entered we were missing Tara Krzywicki, Gemma Hillier and Clare McKittrick, had they all been available, I think our team would have been well in to the top 6.   I remain convinced that, as a county, we have the potential to finish in the top 3 as we did in 2008, it just needs the best nine runners to be available and fit.

On the day Gemma Steel and Hannah Whitmore continued their excellent running to finish 4th and 6th respectively. I have just seen on the UKA web site that Gemma has been selected for the World cross but Hannah has not.  So congratulations to Gemma and commiserations to Hannah.  It's the second consecutive year that Hannah has been passed over following the trial.  In 2010 Hannah finished 4th and UKA took the first 3 plus 2 others who did not run the trial.  This year Hannah finished 6th and UKA have selected 6 who were the first 5 plus the 7th finisher.   I find all this very confusing.  I am sure Hannah will be pleased to receive any support you can give.

It is interesting to note that in 2007, when our senior women finished 10th team, the 6th scorer, in 141st place, was Gemma Steel.  This just shows what can be achieved by organised, hard work.

We had 10 entries in the U20's team which is a significant improvement on the 4 in 2009.  On the day 5 started, the others being unable to run due to injury and illness.  All 5 finished and our team was 9th of 13, an improvement on the 12th, 19th, 18th and 13th of the previous 4 years.  Lucy Crooks, the County Champion, lead the team home and will still be in this age group next year as will Catherine Robertson who was in this year's entry, (those born in 1993 or later will still be eligible next year).

Thus with 8 of those entered moving to the senior ranks in 2012 there should be added competition to get into our senior women's team for this event. 

For the record the performances were:-

Senior Women (8k)                                                              U20 Women (6k)

4       Gemma Steel                   28:08                    32    Lucy Crooks           23:33
6       Hannah Whitmore          28:25                       42   Lucy Hall                 23:52
94     Nicola Roder                    31:46                     58   Katya Blackledge   24:54
101  Nicki Nealon                     32:02                      105 Tania White           27:33
159  Joanne Bradford               33:20 Team 9th with 237 points
189  Claire Shea-Simmonds    34:30                                   
Team 10th with 553 points 128   Sarah Ward            31:11

199    Amber Magee                34:55
214    Julie Lamb                     35:26
242    Lorna Waters                 37:16

The results can be found on: http://www.thepowerof10.info/results/results.aspx?meetingid=41058
All that remains now is for me to thank you all for being good at communicating with me, to wish you all a healthy and successful end to the cross country season and a successful summer at you chosen events.  I look forward to working with you again in the future.

For the record keepers here are some previous results for the Senior Women (8k) -

1991   2nd (the Inter-counties XC was a very different event then!)............
2005- 17^th; 2006 - 16^th; 2007 - 10^th; 2008 - 3^rd, 2009 - 9^th, 2010 - 7^th, and 2011 - 10th

L&RAA County XC Champs - 8th January 2011

The Full results can be found by clicking on this link. For each tab, the team results follow on from the individuals.

Leics & Rutland Sportshall League 2010

Teams have competed from Charnwood AC, Leicester Coritanian AC, Fleckney & Kibworth, Ivanhoe Robins, Stilton Striders and Wreake Runners. All Team Managers have a copy of the results but the full results can be found on the Sportshall website www.sportshall.org County League results.

Major congratulations to Ivanhoe Robins who had a tremendous victory overall and received all three three age group County awards!!

County Track & Field Champs - 8th & 9th May 2010

You can find the Championship Results by clicking Saturday or Sunday.

Junior Inter Counties - September 11th 2010

Our U13 Boys were top of all seven Counties and they achieved the highest number of AAAs Standards at Grade 1.

Everyone performed "out of their skins" in front of a cheering home crowd - well done!!

You can find the results by clicking on the results here.

10,000m Championships - 15th April 2010

Leicestershire & Rutland County Championships:

Overall Winner (and Trophy Presented to): Gordon Lee, Leicester Coritanian AC

Senior Men: 1^st Alastair Watson, Hermitage Harriers 31:46.6; 2^nd Jason Williams, OWLS AC 33.06.9;

3^rd Ian Murdey, Beaumont RC 34:22.4

Senior Women: 1^st Nicola Roder, Leicester Triathlon Club 37.55.8

Masters Men: 1^st Gordon Lee, Leicester Coritanian AC 31:37.8; 2^nd Gareth Deacon, Leicester Coritanian AC, 33:23.7;

3^rd William Clapp, Harborough AC 34:25.2

Northamptonshire County Champs

Senior Men: 1^st Andrew McKenna, Wellingborough AC 32:48.1; 2^nd Neil Barnett, Wellingborough AC 33:09.0

Senior Women: 1^st Laura Burton, Wellingborough AC 51:29.2

Masters Men: 1^st Vince Carroll, Rugby & Northampton AC 36:10.0

Masters Women: 1^st Kate Armstrong, Corby AC 43:29.7

Other Finishers: Alistair Richards (Senior), Desford Striders 35:08.4; Dave Egginton (Masters), Huncote Harriers 35:17.7; Paul Gregory (Senior), Hermitage Harriers, 35:26.2; Jamie Strange (Senior), Fleckney & Kibworth, 35:48.3; Dave Pearce (Masters), Leicester Coritanian AC, 36:05.7; Richard Bettsworth (Masters), Wreake RC, 36:27.5; Mike Davies (Senior), OWLS AC, 37:20.2; David Saunders (Masters), Leicester Coritanian AC 38:01.8; Mark Gregory (Senior), Huncote Harriers, 39:16.0; David Wheeler (Masters), Fleckney & Kibworth, 41:16.7; Sam Morton (U20), Unattached (Leicester University), 43:50.8; Matthew Pacey (U20), Unattached (Leicester University), 47:09.5

Thanks to everyone for the advance entries (15 in total) - this helps the organisation of the event. Thanks to all the technical officials and to Leicester City Council for their support.

There were 25 entries and 24 people ran. Eleven Leicestershire & Rutland clubs were represented; three Northamptonshire clubs were represented.