Nowadays few sports people excel at more than one sport, dour specialisation pursing one objective rules the day. Before the1980's there were many Gloucester citizens who excelled mixing rugby with other sports.Clive Wootton(83) still active walking the hills and fells was of Gloucester's finest. Top level at rugby and athletics between 1953 and 1983, he... Continue Reading →
Severn Athletic Club captain James Rose(V40), in training for an autumn marathon, was pleased with his victory in his club's last socially distanced time trial of lockdown. Over a new configuration of the Elmore loop, he set a course record of 59 minutes 22 seconds. "That's better than my county 10 Mile championship run over... Continue Reading →
Four of Severn Athletic Club's veteran runners competed in the Oldbury-on-Severn Age Grader 5 Time Trial. On an officially measured road course of 5 miles the first year was run as a 'template' event with a limited field of runners. Overall positions were based on age-adjusted times and not actual time. Results: Pos: Name: Cat: AG Time:... Continue Reading →
After returning to the event in 2019 with an overall finishing time of 15 hours 54 minutes and 16 seconds and finishing in 17th place the club decided to enter two teams into this years 2021 event, Severn AC Vets & Severn AC A team. The race is run as 10 leg relay starting in... Continue Reading →
This Saturday see's the return of parkrun to the majority of former locations and parkrun organisers have launched a new code of practice that they would like all runners to be respectful of going forward.
Severn Athletic Club's latest new member James Smith(V40) made a good start in Severn's blue and yellow stripes placing 18th in 38 minutes 11 secs in the Castle Combe 10K. Other recent new members: 39th Dan Nurse(V40) 41:02 & 80th Mathew Leyshon(V40) 46:27(pb). 208 ran. Imran Hassenjee(V40) ran 44:40 as a pacer. Race winner Courtenay Chessell(Swindon... Continue Reading →
Meg Partridge Local racing continued to return to the county on Monday with Stroud AC holding the annual Frampton on Severn 10k. In the ladies division Meg Partridge achieved a new personal best in the distance by beating her previous best time set at Bourton 10k in 2020 by 57 seconds with a time in... Continue Reading →
Severn Athletic Club's rising distance star Alex Rawlings(18) was seventh in 9 minutes 37 seconds in the Midland Counties Under 20 3000 Metre Track Championships at Nuneaton. Winner: Liam Rawlings(Shrewsbury) in 8 minutes 42 seconds.Severn AC Open Pilot 5K May virtual raceLast month’s virtual race saw a reduced number of entrants. Perhaps as a result... Continue Reading →
John Chapman, Pratik Pradhan and Jim Smith Six days after pacing a friend around the Boston(UK) Marathon in 3 hrs 17 mins 36 secs, Severn Athletic Club's Imran Hassanjee(V40) placed 6th in the Sharpness 50K in 4:45:21(5/V40). He just finished outside his 4:43:25 time from 2019 when placing 4th. Running his first race since joining... Continue Reading →
Alex Rawlings Severn Athletic Club's Alex Rawlings maintains his purple patch of setting pb's. Five days after breaking the 9 minute barrier for 3000 Metres on the track he ran a 12 second pb in the Hereford 5 Kilometre Road Race placing 7th in 14:59. "I stayed with the pace almost all the way, a... Continue Reading →
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