Well done to our junior athletes who took part in the London Mini Marathon Championship race yesterday. A brilliant event running the final 2.62k of the London marathon course.

Bedford & County hammer throwers were out in force at the Dickenson Classic Memorial Hammer competition in Windsor on Saturday 11^th April, honouring former hammer thrower and BBC commentator Paul Dickenson.

Mia returned to form in style, throwing back over 50m to win the U16 girls’ event and take home an impressive haul of prizes.

Darren experienced a mixed competition but saved his best for last, digging deep in the final round to produce a new personal best and club M55 record, launching the 6kg hammer to 49.07m.

Glen delivered a solid series just shy of 56m, but one of the standout moments of the day came away from the circle. The team caught up with Hungarian Olympic champion Krisztián Pars. Glen and Pars previously competed together back in 2003 while Glen was on international duty for Scotland in Slovenia. Remarkably, Glen still has the original scorecard from that event - a piece of history featuring three Olympic champions: Pars (2012), Adrián Annus, and Primož Kozmus.

Picture of Glen, Krisztian, Darren and Mia.

Well done to everyone that ran in the 1500m county championships at the weekend as part of the Bedfordshire AAA open meeting. There were some outstanding performances with lots of podium finishes for Bedford & County athletes.

A great start to the season for our middle distance runners.

Bedford & County AC and GLL hosted dignitaries and guests, including the Mayor of Bedford Borough Council, Tom Wootton, and CEO of England Athletics, Chris Jones, to a reception and ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the opening of the refurbished stadium ahead of the Bedfordshire AAA Open meeting on Saturday 4 April.

Tenny James reached the podium twice at the European Masters Indoor Athletics Championships held recently in Torun, Poland.

Competing in the M65 age category, he claimed silver in the 60m hurdles in a time of 10.01. He then took the gold as part of the winning GB 4x200m relay team. Their performance of 1.47.67 set a new European record for this event.

Tenny also made the final of the 400m with a seasons best of 62.5 and the semi final of the 200m in 27.9.