Report by Jodi Henderson:

Firstly, I would like to thank all of the parents and athletes for such a warm welcome as Boys Team Manager – you have all made my job much easier!

YDL

On Sunday 8 May, the U13 and U15 boys represented ‘Team Bedfordshire’ in the first round of the YDL. It was a tough field and the team scored 261 points overall and finished in 5^th place. Standout performances came from Dane R in shot who came 1^st and a 3^rd place for Bejay M in the 80m hurdles.

Report by Craig Emmerson:
Sunday the 22^nd of May saw Bedford & County’s senior Men and Women open their Southern athletics league campaign at Hemel Hempstead.  After a reasonable start to the season in the First NAL match, Team managers Craig Emmerson an Emma Coombes had hoped that a solid team performance would really kick start the season for the seniors. However it wasn’t to be quite to be.

Congratulations to Dan Jarvis, who broke the club's 3000m Steeplechase Record in the Diamond League at Birmingham on 21st May.  Dan's new mark is 8:37.58.

800m

Sam Winters, 1:51.50 (PB), 6th in BMC A race.

Lauren Nichols, 2:20.34, 9th in race 8.

Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire both staged their county championships recently, and Bedford and County athletes competed at both events.  There was only a partial field programme at the Cambridgeshire championships due to lack of officials.  Those field events not held on Saturday will be held at open meetings in June.