Hi Everyone,
This years East District Track and Field Championships take place at Pitreavie on 23rd and 24th May. The closing date for entries is 08 May 2014. If you intend to enter please remember to submit your entry by the closing date.
Please click here to take you to relevant page on scottish athletics website.
Just a reminder that the team bus leaves Lasswade High School at 10am tomorrow morning.
A timetable is attached
Linda Smith
Team Manager
07833 667489
Apologies that I haven’t updated the blog posts in a while! This post shall round up my training/racing over the last few months from January to now.
Indoors was unfortunately nowhere near as successful as I had hoped for. My first race was great, I ran a 1:52 800m at 5000ft altitude the day after an 8mile tempo run and off the back of a 75mile week. After this I had big hopes for the indoor season. However the races that followed were uncharacteristically bad! I ran my first mile race in 4:21 followed by a 4:23 2 weeks later. I had been training well but the lack of consistency over Christmas showed in the latter stages of the races and I would begin to detach from the group and gradually slow down resulting in poor times. I got blood tests which also showed my iron levels were low which may also have been a factor in the poor performances. But the main focus was just to continue training consistently for outdoors.
I ran my first outdoor race at Stanford in early April. I was nervous going into the race as I had no idea how I’d run and feared a repeat of indoors again. I felt good throughout the race though and won in 3:47 (1500m) which is my fastest ever season opener. This was a big boost going into the next race 2 weeks later, also in California. This race was filled with quality runners and was expected to be quick. I felt great through 800 and ran a 2:01 split, slightly slower than it should be. The 2nd half picked up however and I was able to get in a break away group. I held my position and kicked on to run a lifetime best of 3:43.2, just 1 second off the qualifying time needed for the commonwealth games. This time has placed me 3rd in the Scottish rankings for this year so far.
I am heading to California to race this weekend in Stanford again to try and give the games qualifier another shot. In order to be selected I need to run the time twice by the 8th of June, which means I have this weekend and 2 other races in May to get the time. It’s a tough task but not impossible!
Below are links to 2 of my outdoor races. The first was my season opener in Stanford, the 2nd was a video of the 4xmile relay my team ran in Pennsylvania this past weekend. The Penn relays was a great weekend and the atmosphere in the stadium was like nothing I’ve experienced before. There was nearly 40,000 people in the stadium and I was on the first leg. My aim was to give the 2nd leg runner the baton in a good position amongst the group.
I will continue to keep posting as my outdoor season progresses. I will be coming home for summer in 5-7 weeks depending if I make the NCAA finals or not. Training is going great, I am consistently running between 70-80 miles per week and I believe it is this consistency that is the main reason behind my current form/success. And as always, the sun is still shining and the temperatures are continuing to climb here in New Mexico!
http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/251505-Stanford-Invitational-2014/video/741709-Mens-1500-H06#.U0Tb8ie9KK0
http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/251558-Penn-Relays-2014/videos/744512-Mens-4xMile-F01-Event-459-Championship-of-America-Oregon-4-all-time#.U17Dndq9KK0
The 2nd link is still only accessible to flotrack account holders however it should be available to the public in a couple of days
The Endurance Group training on Thursdays has now moved back from George V Park, Bonnyrigg to Dalkeith Campus. All Endurance Group training is now based at the Dalkeith Campus.
Training times for the Endurance Group are:-
Monday, Dalkeith Campus – 7pm-8.30pm
Thursday, Dalkeith Campus – 7pm-8.30pm
Thanks
Linda
07833 667489
Could all athletes who attend the Monday night Junior Sprints Group please remember that we will now be meeting up at that track for our warm up, as we no longer have the use of the hall.
Please also remember that our session will be from 6.30 – 8.00pm.
Please pass this reminder on to others in our group who may have forgotten!
See you all on Monday night.
Gordon
Well done to Lauren Dickson who competed for Scottish Schools finishing 16th in the SIAB International Cross Country yesterday in Bolton and helped the Scottish U15G team bring back the Silver team medal.
For full results please click link here
Congratulations and good luck from all the Club to Lauren Dickson (u15G) on her selection to represent the Scottish Schools at SIAB International Cross County at Bolton on Saturday 22 March 2104.
The Scottish secondary schools cross country championships took place on 8 March 2014 at Beach Park, Irvine and there were some fine performances by Lasswade Athletes.
Well done to all the athletes on their performances.
For full results please click here
The National Indoor 3000m Championships took place at the Emirates Arena last weekend with Amy Frankland of Lasswade winning the Under 20 Women’s event in a time of 10.22.13 which was a personal best by over 20 seconds.
Well done and congratulations Amy!
Amy outside the Emirates after the race with her medal.
The National Cross Country Championships took place at Callendar Park, Falkirk this weekend.
It turned out to be a good day with lots of great performances by Lasswade athletes. Please click National Cross Country 2014 for report of the days events. For full results of all the races click here
This is the last club Cross Country event for the season so thanks to all the athletes and parents for their support over the winter. Thanks also to Andy Sobik, David Hand, Stuart and Elaine Tait for getting to Falkirk early and erecting the club tents for everyone else arriving.
Congratulations to all the athletes on their performances yesterday.
