Scottish Schools Track & Field Championships

The Scottish Schools Track and Field Championships took place on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st June 2014 at Hampden Park in Glasgow. This was a great opportunity for young athletes to compete on the new track prior to the Commonwealth Games and Diamond League events taking place later next month.

There were sixteen athletes from Lasswade AC competing over the two days. There were a number of fine performances with many athletes setting personal bests and three of our athletes winning medals. For full results please click here

  • Rachel Robertson (Girls A)  – Long Jump 1st, Triple Jump 2nd and 200m 2nd
  • Amy Frankland (Girls A) – 3000m 2nd
  • Lauren Dickson (Girls C) – 1500m 1st

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Picture above shows Rachel receiving one of her medals.

Well done to all of our athletes and congratulations to the medalists.

 

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Queen’s Baton Relay

Congratulations to all the Lasswade AC athletes and coaches who had the honour of carrying the Queen’s Baton through Midlothian today, 16 June 2014.  It was a fantastic day and the girls all thoroughly enjoyed the experience. It was wonderful to see the club so well represented at this event. It was also great to see so many people (Lasswade coaches, officials, athletes,  parents, family and friends) out on the course supporting the girls. Thanks to everyone for their support and helping to make this such a memorable day.

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Pictured above from left to right our baton carriers are:

Amy Frankland, Erin Feely, Sophie Miller, Linda Smith (Coach) and Sabina Jedrzejczyk.

Well done girls!!

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Lasswade Calling

David Hand sent Guy Learmonth a note of congratulations on his recent 800m performance and new personal best of 1.46.85. I attach a copy of the reply from Guy.

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Hi David,
Good to hear from you! Thanks for the wishes about PB and all else too. Things really cranking up with me, obviously very busy but extremely excited for the Games now, just have to keep the head down and keep working away. I’ll be knocking out these1.45s soon enough!
Send my regards to everyone at Lasswade.
Hope you’re well too!
Speak soon,
Guy 
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Breaking News ! Greg Louden

The Scottish Men’s 4 x 400m team, which includes Lasswade AC athlete Greg Louden, have made the qualifying time for the Commonwealth Games. The team competing in Namur, Belgium recorded an unconfirmed time of 3.06.5.

Congratulations to all the athletes and coaches involved with the team.

 

 

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East District Track and Field Championships – Pitreavie 23 & 24 May 2014

The East District Track and Field Championships took place this weekend at Pitreavie over Friday night and Saturday. There were a number of  athletes from Lasswade AC competing with some fine performances. Well done to all those who took part and congratulations to all of the winners and medalists from Lasswade AC.

For a full list of results please click here to take you to the relevant page on Scottish athletics website.

 

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**NEW** Sprint Group Starts 29/05/2014

Hi Everyone,

There will be a new sprint group starting this Thursday 29/05/2014 at Dalkeith High School Campus. This will cater for younger athletes and will be run by Susie Maxwell.

For more information please contact Dave Hand on 0131 663 0434

 

 

 

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Hooded Tops and Tee Shirts

Hi All,

I have just taken over ordering hooded tops and Tee Shirts, I received a bag of tops on monday night from Heather Fleming who previously did this job, please see below i have listed  names that i have hooded tops and tee shirts for, come and see me after i have collected all the subs, My name is John Brash, i usualy collect the subs at the track gates.

I will also have a new form if anyone wishes to order hooded tops or tee shirts.

Matthew Hooded Top  Abbi  Hooded Top

Jamie  Hooded Top      Rachel Hooded Top

Niall  Hooded Top        Ben + Tee Shirt

Mya Hooded Top        Bethany + Tee Shirt

John

John Brash

 

 

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**East District Championship 23rd & 24th May 2014**

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.

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Youth Development League, Sunday 4 May 2014 at East Kilbride

Just a reminder that the team  bus leaves Lasswade High School at 10am tomorrow morning.

A timetable is attached

YDL TIMETABLE 2014

 

Linda Smith

Team Manager

07833 667489

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Ross Matheson’s New Mexico Training Blog (28th of April 2014)

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

 

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