All Teens summer sessions are planned to be outside at Deer Park on the grass track area,  at the usual time (6:30 to 7:30). We will be trying a new approach to the sessions to better align the activities with the Teens’ specific interests and introducing some new activities to aid their physical development. The sessions will be organised initially into two groupings, generally based on age, i.e. Bears, Seahawks and Lions (BSL) as one grouping, and Vikings, Giants and Titans

Ed in his new 'go faster' spikes Only three Club members competed at the Mark Cawte memorial games at Foundation Park track in Swindon on Sunday, as T&F "stalwart", Aria Stavrakakis was ill. A mixed weather day, but with a chilling strong wind made it a tough day for good performances (I'm getting in my excuses early!). But we did have two Teens who despite that set PBs : Ed Knight in the 1000m and Alice Averies in the 600m. Their coach also participated in some events, bizar

Friends Jess and Florence took it steady running together at the pace of "chat". Hi all, on a bright but cold and windy Sunday morning half a dozen of our Juniors and Teens pitched up for the (2k) Junior Parkrun in Lydiard Park. Although the author was very familiar with the location, it was his first experience of Junior Parkrun, and he thought it was excellent. With loads of marshalls (44), a very friendly Race Director introduction and a fun warm up for all participants (8

It was set to be another fairly quiet weekend for racing until we heard of a club runner competing in the first big marathon of the season (you’ll hear plenty more about marathons over the next two weeks at least).   We're grateful for Charlie Clarke sending this report in -   “I ran the Brighton marathon today and finished in 4 hours 14 minutes. It was a comfortable run with excellent crowd support and a twisting course that covers all that Brighton has to offer. It was wi

What, the club? Well not quite. Club member Susanna Austin is featured in the May edition of Runner's World which is the latest edition currently available in magazine racks, with Harry Styles on the cover, whoever he is ;-). Susanna is "Member of the Month" and kindly ensured that her club membership was included, along with Tuesday training. We can't reproduce the whole article here but here's an extract photo provided by Susanna - many congratulations to her, and thank

***********************POLITE REMINDERS******************** Club Secretary Rich Allen has asked us to remind you all of the following Your nominations are invited BY WEDNESDAY for the committee to consider in deciding on the club awards for 2025. There is a handy form you can fill in here https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAAGBUbVcqtBUNE01VFZROENJNjJMWVZCTzlSMDdFRlZNOC4u&route=shorturl Can you also please let us know ASAP if yo

These are events that act as an introduction to athletics meetings and so are for younger athletes (U14s {year 8} and younger). They are put on by Cheltenham and County Harriers at the Prince of Wales Stadium (Tommy Taylors Lane, Cheltenham) in a very supportive environment. The first event is on Sunday 26th April starting at 9:45am. The whole event is finished at 2pm. Sign-up is simple via an online spreadsheet here So why not let your Junior / younger Teen try out athletics

There are some opportunities to do athletics in April: Mark Cawte Memorial, Swindon, Sunday 12th April Running2Time Midweek Open, Oxford, Wednesday 22nd April (1st of a monthly series) Gloucester AC Spring Open, Sunday 26th April There will be more events in May (I will post about that as soon as they are open to enter). Registration for the events as follows: Mark Cawte (Swindon): here Running2Time (Oxford) : here Gloucester Open via Why not give them a try? Dorian

On Saturday some of our Juniors, all boys (now, come on girls!!!), ran in the National Primary Schools Cross-Country Championships at Stoneleigh, in Warwickshire. The course was tough, undulating with long grass, but the weather was not the usual XC weather (see photo). Albert pleased with his medal Representing the Club, in the Year 4 boys race (U9s), we had: Brecon Musk and George Platts . In Year 5 (U10s) race it was: Ruaridh Wright , and in Year 6 (U11s), it was George's

Quite a busy weekend for our members competing over distances from 5 mi to half marathon on road and trail – all today Sunday 22 nd . We'll start with the run that looked the most fun! Chianti trail half marathon (Italy, obviously)   Angela Hilditch covered just about 3,000ft of elevation in this trail race, and looking at her photos on Strava no wonder her comment was   “Stunning scenery, really fun, very hilly ⛰️🍇”   Angela Hilditch with the enviable scenery behind of the

15 March 2026, Fission ‘20’ and HM at Berkeley former Power Station   Shifting from a Saturday to clash with Mothering Sunday didn’t seem to reduce by too much the numbers running the Fission 20 and HM races at Berkeley this year.  Whilst the 20 mile race was in the Glos AAA road race series, it also attracts runners from Wales, Avon, Wiltshire and even further afield. some of them of a very high standard ( the winning time for the 20 miles was faster than anyone from our clu

Each summer we measure some performances on the track and field, so we can see how the Teens, in particular, are progressing. In addition to just looking at how the performanne level changes over time, we use a couple of established standards: the English Schools Sports Associations (ESAA) standards and the EA PB Awards standards. I have already reported on the ESAA achievements by Juniors and Teens . For the PB Awards, there are no U11 standards, the lowest age group being

As mentioned in the QuadKids competition blog , here I am going to report the best performances, last summer semester, as determined by the England Schools Athletics Association standards. The standards are set up to motivate children and recognise their improvement and go from 1 to 9. Age is not a factor, but gender is, so the expectation is that children will increase their level, or "stages" as ESAA call them as they do athletics events. Consequently, it's almost impossibl

As mentioned in the QuadKids competition blog , here I am going to report the best performances from last summer semester, as determined by the England Schools Athletics Association standards. The standards are set up to motivate children and recognise their improvement and go from 1 to 9. Age is not a factor, but gender is, so the expectation is that children will increase their level, or "stages" as ESAA call them as they do athletics events. Consequently, it's almost impos

Several Juniors represented their districts in the Gloucestershire Year 5 and 6 Primary School Championships, last Sunday, at Ashley Manor Preparatory School. Representing their districts were: Year 5's: Hetty Franklin, George Farmer, Jacob Harrison and Ruaridh Wright Year 6's: Albert Platt, Clari Wallis, and Digby Withington The Gloucestershire districts competing were: Cheltenham Cirencester Cotswolds (North) Dursley Forest Gloucester Stroud Tewkesbury The course wasn't you

Aria and Henry in Glos Sportshall Team colours. Last weekend Aria Stavrakakis and Henry Thomas represented the County at the South West Sportshall athletics championships in Taunton, Devon. Henry ran in the hurdles and obstacles races in the Boys' Under 11 age category Aria ran in the four lap race and the relay in the Under 13 girls. The Sporthall competitions are team events at this level and Henry's team came 4th, and Aria's 3rd. Aria on her relay leg and Henry going over

It was a relatively quiet week for racing, with just 3 road races on Sunday 8 th March, although lots of members were out at the weekend putting in long training runs as part of their Spring marathon preparation.   One of those building several races into his marathon plan is Mike Hobbs, and he’s on a bit of a roll! In his third race at least this year, this time at the Dorney Lake course (Ed. I know it well – great for a PB attempt if the wind isn’t too bad) Mike, who is in

Before the regular reporting on last week’s racing, just a reminder on a couple of important dates coming up :-   1 st April - last chance to nominate members for various 2025 awards – this year we have hopefully made it easier and there is an online form for you to fill in – please follow this long! link   https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAAGBUbVcqtBUNE01VFZROENJNjJMWVZCTzlSMDdFRlZNOC4u&route=shorturl   28 th April – AGM

The last regular weekly report before the editor’s holiday was published on 1 st February. This is a catch-up report covering the next 3 weeks to 22 nd February.   *************************Cross-country series***********************   Newsfeed items have kindly been posted by Dorian Matts covering the cross-country events on 7 th and 14 th Feb (Cotswold Farm Park and Pittville Park). A short item confirming the consequent position on the club championships for 2025/26 was

As covered in Dorian's news item on 18th February, the last of the Glos county series of XC races took place at Pittville Park in Cheltenham on 14th February. The 4 races in the series were the fixtures for the club XC championship and were October 12th - Tinkley Gate near Woodchester November 1st - Cirencester Park December 14th - Bath University February 14th - Pittville Park, Cheltenham No ladies took part in any of the races, so the club shield/cup won't be awarded for th