Last Sunday 6 of the club's Masters Athletes were competing in York in the England Masters Inter Area Championships.

Our middle distance runners were out in force at the BMC at Trafford on Saturday.

In the 1500’s, Sam Knee-Robinson ran a PB of 3:51.04, whilst Sam Winters ran his second fastest time ever, recording 3:46.89. Ed Blythman was very unfortunate to be badly baulked with 150 to go, but still held on for a creditable time of 3:49.08.

In the 800, Alfie Yabsley, ran 1:55.43, after also running 1:55.56 in midweek at Loughborough.

In the 5000’s, Ben Alcock was very close to breaking 14 minutes again, with 14:00.43, and Ben Davies ran a very solid 14:32.36 in his first track 5000 for many years.

Joe Strange recorded 2:00.46 in finishing second in his race at Loughborough in midweek, but, perhaps more notably, when Joe ran 1:59.09 at Nuneaton in July, this constituted his 12^th consecutive year of recording a sub 2 minute 800 – quite an achievement.

Some of our athletes were in action at the England Athletics U15/U17 Championships this weekend:

Mia - 2nd English athlete Hammer
Archie - 6th English athlete 1500m S/C
Oliver - 7th English athlete 3000m
Fraser - 8th English athlete 1500m
Katy - 7th in her heat in the 100m

Well done to everyone who has competed over the last few days, and good luck to those competing tomorrow.

Bedford’s youngest athletes 4^th EYAL match took place at home. We scored 610 points – finishing 3^rd behind Havering and Stevenage.  We came away with 1 new Club Record set by Chloe K in the U17 W Pole Vault at 3.10m, 53 PBs (boys 22, girls 31) and 4 SBs for the girls. This result consolidated our 10^th position in the league.  Finishing in 10^th means we have qualified for the Plate Final on 07^th September in Thurrock.

Congratulations to Chloe Kingman who has set a new U17 pole vault club record of 3.10m at the EYAL today. 

Congratulations to Andy Blair who ran 19:06 in the Doug Anderson 5k on Wednesday, setting a new M60 5km Club record.

Bedford & County were well represented across all age groups and events at the Eastern Counties Championships at Cambridge on 19^th July and came away with a large haul of medals.

At the English Schools Centenary Championships where the athletes paraded through a guard of honour of over one hundred former champions, Bedford & County athletes achieved four medals, claimed six top eight places and set nine lifetime bests.

The silver star was Mia Flynn, whilst Lois Fordham, Zaphaniah Bryan and Thaila-Jade Mason all won bronze medals.

There were some exceptional performances from Bedford & County athletes at the BMC Grand Prix yesterday, at a very hot and sunny Watford.

Congratulations to Sam Winters who set a new club record of 1:49.93 in the 800, finishing second in his race with a perfectly judged effort, after passing the bell in 54.2. This breaks his own club record, and takes the figures under the magic 1:50 barrier for the first time.

Elsewhere, Ed Blythman ran a pb in the 1500, with a very creditable 3:48.09, and there were seasons bests for Alfie Yabsley in the 800 (1:55.03), and for Sam Knee-Robinson (3:52.85) and Lauren Nichols (4:40.59) in the 1500.

Congratulations to Helen Buller who has set a new W45 3000m record of 11:22:7, a minute faster than the previous record that has stood for 25 years. 

Some of our Bedford & County athletes ran in the Newport Pagnell 5K today. 

Jamie Prior 4th 16:06

Mark Allen 16th 16:59

Oliver Coombes 19th 17:11

Thomas Harper 24th 17:18

Adam Harris 28th 17:26

Sean Crawley 52nd 18:10

Ellie Harper 62nd 18:39

Simon Harper 74th 19:18

Rosie Cusack 133rd 21:48

Eliza Gibbs 175th 23:25

Well done to everyone that ran.

Bedfordshire Team Captains: Lyla Danobrega and Zaphaniah Bryan

JG 300m         Sophia Wing

JG PV             Lois Fordham

JG Javelin       Emily Elphick

JG Ham.          Mia Flynn