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

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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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Thursday Night Endurance Group

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

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Monday Night Junior Sprint Group Training

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

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Lauren Dickson – SIAB International Cross Country, Bolton 22 March 2014

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

 

 

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SIAB International Cross Country, Bolton, 22 March 2014

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.

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Scottish Secondary Schools Cross Country Champs

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.

  • Under 14 Girls – Sarah Tait  2nd
  • Under 14 Boys – Magnus Tait 3rd
  • Girls 14-15 – Lauren Dickson 4th
  • Girls 14-15  – Lauren Wilkie 78th
  • Boys 15-17 – Cameron Steven 27th
  • Boys 15-17 – Matthew Smith 38th
  • Girls over 17 – Amy Frankland 2nd
  • Boys over 17 – Rowen Marr – 11th

Well done to all the athletes on their performances.

For full results please click here

 

 

 

 

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National Indoor 3000M Championships 02 March 2014

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 3000m.emirates

 Amy outside the Emirates after the race with her medal.

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National Cross Country Championships – 22 February 2014

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.

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Important Notice, We Need Road Race Helpers

Road Race Helpers

* This Is an Important Notice to all Parents *

We desperately need helpers to help make up food for the Road Race so far there are only two people signed up to help this is not enough we need about 8 people to do this it is a massive job to feed around 4oo runners plus Officials, Marshals.

The Road Race is on Sunday 2nd /March /2014 at whitehill Welfare Football Ground Rosewell. it is only a few hours we need you for don’t forget this is a event that makes money for the Club to keep it going, Please try and help. if you can please contact Ruth Szymanski on Email: elkasaruma@hotmail.co.uk or at training Monday & Thursday at Dalkeith

This years flyer with details about the race: LAC Road Race 2014 Flyer

The Lasswade 10  is a major event and needs folk to get behind the organisation on the day.

 

 

 

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