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Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Essex Athletics Championships 23/24 May
The annual Essex Athletics the Championships take place this weekend with athletes heading to Chelmsford's Sport & Athletics Centre to pit themselves against the County's best.
The track and field timetable can be viewed HERE
Good luck to everyone competing!
RunSouthend
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Perfect conditions for Great Bentley Half Marathon
The sun was out today at the annual Great Bentley Running Club Half Marathon as runners from across the South in search of a PB.
First over the line was Chris Sellens of Colchester Harriers in 1:12:45 with Team mate Sarah Stradling the first female home in 1:18:58.
From a local prospective the first Southend Athletics Club male finisher was Ty Farrer (22nd overall & 3rd M40-44 in 1:19:31). The first Leigh on Sea Strider male finisher was Neil Spicer (10th overall in 1:16:37) with Tracy English the first female home for the club (94th overall & 1st F35-39 in 1:28:14).
Well done to everyone that took part.
Full results can be found HERE
First over the line was Chris Sellens of Colchester Harriers in 1:12:45 with Team mate Sarah Stradling the first female home in 1:18:58.
From a local prospective the first Southend Athletics Club male finisher was Ty Farrer (22nd overall & 3rd M40-44 in 1:19:31). The first Leigh on Sea Strider male finisher was Neil Spicer (10th overall in 1:16:37) with Tracy English the first female home for the club (94th overall & 1st F35-39 in 1:28:14).
Well done to everyone that took part.
Full results can be found HERE
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Adam Hickey's 2015 Run England Training Sessions
Great Britain International Runner & Run Coach Adam Hickey will be leading the following Run England accredited run coaching sessions around the Southend area during the January & February school term time 2015.
Tuesday: 9:45am meet at Leigh Train Station
Thursday: 9:15am meet at Chalkwell Park
Both sessions are open to all abilities, cost just £3 each and are a great way to improve your fitness in a fun and friendly environment! Training sessions include a mixture of running on paths, grass, beach, flat and hilly ground with each person working at their own level so there's no need to feel nervous about coming along!
Feel free to head down to a session or contact Adam via email: adamhickeycoaching@hotmail.com or via his coaching Facebook page by searching Adam Hickey Sports Coaching
Tuesday: 9:45am meet at Leigh Train Station
Thursday: 9:15am meet at Chalkwell Park
Both sessions are open to all abilities, cost just £3 each and are a great way to improve your fitness in a fun and friendly environment! Training sessions include a mixture of running on paths, grass, beach, flat and hilly ground with each person working at their own level so there's no need to feel nervous about coming along!
Feel free to head down to a session or contact Adam via email: adamhickeycoaching@hotmail.com or via his coaching Facebook page by searching Adam Hickey Sports Coaching
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Eddy Cooper's latest blog for RunSouthend.com - October '14
Well it's been an interesting and enjoyable few months since we last spoke, I've started my AS levels (year 12) at SHSG (Southend High School for Girls - the 6th form is mixed!), competed in the Southend 10k and began the cross country leagues! After track season finished, and my emotionally traumatising first few weeks at SHSG had drawn to a close, the cross country relays approached on the 27th of September. I was due to run the 2nd leg of our team in the U17's race with my friends Michael Williams and James Hiscock. I had a really good run and was ranked in the top 15 of all the runners' individual legs. Michael and james followed that up with decent runs and we did pretty well to finish in the top 7. I was pretty pleased with that performance as it put me within around 10seconds of some elite runners (like George Elliot).
On the back of this performance, I wanted to do a good time (sub 37minutes) in the Southend 10k (5th October) after running 37:49 last year. I felt good leading up to the race and had my new brooks racers, courtesy of Runner's Edge, to compete in and I had a good feeling about the day. Mum was there with some of the Fittology crew (her beginners' group, back in 2012, and now intermediate group!) that were looking to set good times for themselves, some running the distance for the first time so a big well done to all of them! I set off pretty quickly (and when I say pretty I mean far too quickly!) and completed the first mile in 5:38 :') dooming myself from the start! But I did go on to run consistent miles just over the 6 minute mark and the final mile was a brisk 5:51 so I was very pleased with my performance, mainly because I'd run (on average) lower than 6 minute miling, but a little disappointed because I was just outside of that sub 37 minute time; finishing in 37:06. So a sucker punch to be so close, but onwards and upwards and besides, a PB is still a PB! :D
Finally, yesterday (the 18th) I competed in the first cross country league at one tree hill. Without a shadow of a doubt the HARDEST cross country I have ever competed in!!! Oh jeez... there was literally no flat bit apart from the first 20 metres of the race... (and even that had a camber!). So a tough one, but our team, considering it was injury laden and minus one of our fastest runners (Adam Foster - hope he recovers quickly from his hip injury after he was hit by a car whilst on a bike ride during the Summer! He has been back training, but he feels as though it's too early to race) performed decently. I had a solid run, albeit with growing pains (I kid you not, I am actually beginning to grow), and finished, outside my aim of top 15, but a good run nonetheless; in 17th, James (even with a back injury) finished in 21st, Michael (again with knee problems) finished 37th and Ryan (who fell over, threw up and did just about everything else!) still managed to finish the race. So something to improve on for us all, but decent performances.
I'm looking forward to competing in the Chelmsford 10k at the start of November and also the subsequent cross country league events, that occur all over Essex. Cheers for reading guys!
Keep reading and running!
Eddy
P.S: Yes I really did sprint to the front of the 10k to get my photo in the paper :') not really, just a very brisk start! As mentioned, too brisk! :')
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Eddy Cooper's latest blog for RunSouthend.com - August '14
Hello again readers!
With track season, for me, now over I think it's about time that I reflected on what has been an enjoyable and brilliant 2014 so far for me! and yes I did include track in that enjoyable sense... I can't believe it either! So, picking up where I last left off... I'd just run a new PB cutting down my official time by 15 seconds in the 1500m to reach a time of 4:46:50s... Just shy of my target time set at the start of the season. Moving on from the 1500m, and after that great run I was due to run a 3000m at Woodford Green AC's open meeting on the 8th of July. The conditions weren't great, but a PB run nonetheless! Again, running from start to finish almost completely on my own I ran to a new PB of 10:12:16 which was 7seconds quicker than my first 3000m at the start of the season and a 3second PB :) Although it was a good run, a sub 10minute 3000m looked a long way off, but I was training well and my coach still believed that I had it in me!
The next race was my last ever EYAL (Eastern Young Athletes' League) and I was so sad (:D - did I say sad? :')... anyways... I was down to run in the 1500m at Watford and attempting to beat 4:46:50 and potentially run under 4:45 (my target)... I ran a really good race and for once I wasn't on my own! I kept with the bunch for the whole race and finished in a time that was 4:46:15! Showing consistency, but disappointingly close to 4:45! Buuuutt... A PB is a PB! :D
Temporarily taking a break from the track and over to a brilliantly well organised race, by the club that I run for (BRC) and specifically this year a man called Karl Cadman and the rest of his committee, called the Kirste 5. For those that don't know the Kirste 5 is a memorial race named after a lady that sadly died battling cancer whilst at BRC and she raised a lot of money for Cancer charity support groups such as MacMillan. The proceeds of this race go to charities that Kirste supported and there is always a great turn out in the past few years that it has been going. Before I ran in the 5 mile race, I had to "hare" (which I'm sure Adam has had to many a time!) - its basically a lead runner and you show the other runners the way - for the mile race. After this I had to dash back to the start line for the main event. The conditions weren't at all great and as mud lined the route (and my trainers) I finished in a very credible time of 32:36 for an off-road 5 miler! Very pleased! Usually positions don't matter to me except in cross country events, and in this one I was immensely surprised to have finished 4th! It was a great run and I thoroughly enjoyed it! With immense support and atmosphere almost the whole way along I didn't feel any pain until the last :D
Taking a break from athletics quickly I managed to pass my CBT (Compulsory Basic Training) for a 50cc mosquito on wheels... I mean moped! This was a 16th birthday present from wonderful parents that have helped me (a lot) to get me to where I am today... which still doesn't stop me from forgetting to clean my room! Sorry! :')
On the back of some great performances my last track race was scheduled to be the last Woodford meet of the season. Having enjoyed a PB every race there I was looking forward to see how I would perform in this final sub 10 minute 3000m attempt! With doubt thrown right to the back of my mind the race was nearing... My friend and training partner, who has suffered with injury and illness this track season, James Hiscock ran in the race before me and had a decent race. I was up next with his sister, a phenomenal runner who is also in (my coach) Ian Pike's group at BRC, Victoria Hiscock. Vicky, with a previous PB of 10:15, was attempting to run a sub 10minute 3000m as well so I was hoping that I wouldn't be alone this time! I ran an almost perfect race with a fast first lap of 74s I kept going, with Vicky right behind, at an 80/82s per lap pace, and as I approached the bell I saw the clock reach 8:41... with an 80s last lap that would give me 10:01! I wasn't having that! The last 400m was a blur of pain and excitement and I jumped for the line and crossed it in a time of... 9:58! A PB of 14 seconds and possibly the World Record for the biggest smile on a runner's face :D
After an enjoyable season I began to become increasingly nervous until... the 21st of August arrived - Results day! I entered alone, after telling my parents to stay hidden in the car, and opened the envelope to reveal... 3A*s, 3As and 3Bs as well as 3 unmentionable grades in science :') anyways it was enough to get me into my 6th form of choice: Southend High School For Girls. So I'm very much looking forward to starting a new chapter in my book at an all girls school. And when I turn up in a few weeks at the front gates with everybody already staring... I am expected to be told that "this is the girls school? Southend Boys is over the other side of Southend, year 7!"
Hope any soon-to-be-year12s reading this have had good results and if not then good luck in your A levels! :D
Keep running and reading guys!
Eddy
With track season, for me, now over I think it's about time that I reflected on what has been an enjoyable and brilliant 2014 so far for me! and yes I did include track in that enjoyable sense... I can't believe it either! So, picking up where I last left off... I'd just run a new PB cutting down my official time by 15 seconds in the 1500m to reach a time of 4:46:50s... Just shy of my target time set at the start of the season. Moving on from the 1500m, and after that great run I was due to run a 3000m at Woodford Green AC's open meeting on the 8th of July. The conditions weren't great, but a PB run nonetheless! Again, running from start to finish almost completely on my own I ran to a new PB of 10:12:16 which was 7seconds quicker than my first 3000m at the start of the season and a 3second PB :) Although it was a good run, a sub 10minute 3000m looked a long way off, but I was training well and my coach still believed that I had it in me!
The next race was my last ever EYAL (Eastern Young Athletes' League) and I was so sad (:D - did I say sad? :')... anyways... I was down to run in the 1500m at Watford and attempting to beat 4:46:50 and potentially run under 4:45 (my target)... I ran a really good race and for once I wasn't on my own! I kept with the bunch for the whole race and finished in a time that was 4:46:15! Showing consistency, but disappointingly close to 4:45! Buuuutt... A PB is a PB! :D
Temporarily taking a break from the track and over to a brilliantly well organised race, by the club that I run for (BRC) and specifically this year a man called Karl Cadman and the rest of his committee, called the Kirste 5. For those that don't know the Kirste 5 is a memorial race named after a lady that sadly died battling cancer whilst at BRC and she raised a lot of money for Cancer charity support groups such as MacMillan. The proceeds of this race go to charities that Kirste supported and there is always a great turn out in the past few years that it has been going. Before I ran in the 5 mile race, I had to "hare" (which I'm sure Adam has had to many a time!) - its basically a lead runner and you show the other runners the way - for the mile race. After this I had to dash back to the start line for the main event. The conditions weren't at all great and as mud lined the route (and my trainers) I finished in a very credible time of 32:36 for an off-road 5 miler! Very pleased! Usually positions don't matter to me except in cross country events, and in this one I was immensely surprised to have finished 4th! It was a great run and I thoroughly enjoyed it! With immense support and atmosphere almost the whole way along I didn't feel any pain until the last :D
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| In action at the Kirste 5 |
Taking a break from athletics quickly I managed to pass my CBT (Compulsory Basic Training) for a 50cc mosquito on wheels... I mean moped! This was a 16th birthday present from wonderful parents that have helped me (a lot) to get me to where I am today... which still doesn't stop me from forgetting to clean my room! Sorry! :')
On the back of some great performances my last track race was scheduled to be the last Woodford meet of the season. Having enjoyed a PB every race there I was looking forward to see how I would perform in this final sub 10 minute 3000m attempt! With doubt thrown right to the back of my mind the race was nearing... My friend and training partner, who has suffered with injury and illness this track season, James Hiscock ran in the race before me and had a decent race. I was up next with his sister, a phenomenal runner who is also in (my coach) Ian Pike's group at BRC, Victoria Hiscock. Vicky, with a previous PB of 10:15, was attempting to run a sub 10minute 3000m as well so I was hoping that I wouldn't be alone this time! I ran an almost perfect race with a fast first lap of 74s I kept going, with Vicky right behind, at an 80/82s per lap pace, and as I approached the bell I saw the clock reach 8:41... with an 80s last lap that would give me 10:01! I wasn't having that! The last 400m was a blur of pain and excitement and I jumped for the line and crossed it in a time of... 9:58! A PB of 14 seconds and possibly the World Record for the biggest smile on a runner's face :D
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| Post 1500m PB photo! |
After an enjoyable season I began to become increasingly nervous until... the 21st of August arrived - Results day! I entered alone, after telling my parents to stay hidden in the car, and opened the envelope to reveal... 3A*s, 3As and 3Bs as well as 3 unmentionable grades in science :') anyways it was enough to get me into my 6th form of choice: Southend High School For Girls. So I'm very much looking forward to starting a new chapter in my book at an all girls school. And when I turn up in a few weeks at the front gates with everybody already staring... I am expected to be told that "this is the girls school? Southend Boys is over the other side of Southend, year 7!"
Hope any soon-to-be-year12s reading this have had good results and if not then good luck in your A levels! :D
Keep running and reading guys!
Eddy
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Southend Athletics Club Open Athletics Meeting - Bank Holiday Monday 25th August 2014
TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS & OPEN 2014
Bank Holiday Monday August 25th – Garon Park
First event : 10.30am
Entry on the day - £4 per event/3 events for £10
All age groups catered for and wheelchair anchors for Discus/Hammer
Supported by The Rotary Club of Leigh-on-Sea
View the timetable HERE
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