Bedford & County Athletic Club is one of the leading athletic clubs in the South and East of England. The club caters for athletes of both sexes and all ages and abilities.
The club competes at the highest level in Track & Field, Road, and Cross country. All sections of the Club, men and women, young and old, are achieving success on the track, on field, over the country and on the roads, whilst the Bedford International Athletics Stadium hosts many major meetings each year.
In July
Sun 25 National Junior Athletes League, Cambridge
Sat 31 BAL Glasgow, UKWL Liverpool, SML Cambridge
In August
Wed 4 Eastern Veterans T&F Lge, Cambridge
Sat 7 Southern Womens League, Bedford – Help needed.
Beagles - Are now on their summer break and will start again on Saturday 4 September.
Passport - There will be no passport sessions on Tuesday 3 or Thursday 5 August.
Please send match reports, results and photo’s to the website via the admin email address.
You can find earlier race and match reports by following these links. Reports 2010 Reports 2009
The club has a new newsletter, Pick up a copy at the track or download it here. July 2010
The club fixture list is under the Diary tab on this page – new dates for Autumn. Photos in the gallery from the BAL & UKWL at Bedford. Honours Board updated for 2009 performances. Club Records updated for this season’s performances.
2009 AGM Chairman’s Report and Club Development Plan for 2010. Click the links to download word documents.
Several club members competed in the championships that doubled as the Commonwealth Games trials. Mark Draper and Neilson Hall completed a club double with first and second in the 5000m 14:06.21 & 14:07.35; a PB for Neilson. Lucy Spray ran 64.1 in the 400mH heats, Suzi Boast clocked 4:33.88 in the 1500m, Rob Heaney ran 3:55.18 in the 1500m heats. Michelle Webster ran 12.25 in the heats of the 100m and followed this up with 12.15 in the final she also ran 25.5 to qualify for the 200m final where she recorded 25.22. Lucy James ran 56.50 in the 400m heats. Finally, former club member Robbie Grabatz won the High Jump with 2m25.
Our senior mens team returned to winning ways in the match on Saturday. Full results can be found on the Power of 10 website. The team scored 121 points to second place Barnet’s 85. Bedford are second in the division on 15 points to Dacorum & Tring the only team with a 100% record & 1 more than Watford. Strong all round performances by the team mean that Bedford have 458 pts the highest in the division with following teams some 70 points behind. With a good result in the final match promotion may well follow.
There were several club members competing in the races on Saturday. Mark Draper won the 5000m A race in 14:05.38 closely followed by Neilson Hall in 14:10.91 and Matt Janes a little further back in 14:27.78. You can watch their progress (and all the other races) by following this link.
Other results Katrina Wootton ran 4:20.25 in the 1500m A race and Suzi Boast ran 04:31.24. Andrew Moraghan ran 800m in 01:56.47, Robert Heaney ran 1500m in 03:50.81 & Alex Bellew 4:01.16.
