Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad.

  Some well-dressed representatives from the U15 group collect their spoils from Olympic medallist & UK 400m record-holder Iwan Thomas MBE It's been another of those weeks that separates us from mere athletics clubs. On Friday the club had no fewer than 5 finalists at the Stratford-on-Avon District Community Sports Awards, hosted by Olympic medallist and UK 400m record-holder Iwan Thomas. MBE. Our U15 T&F team picked up the Junior Team of the Year award, with Lewis Byng being victorious in arguably the most competitive award of the night, the Junior Sports Person of the year Award. We had 3 of the 6 finalists in this category, with Freddie Clemons and Alex Adams losing out to Lewis. Other finalists in this hotly contested category included a couple of World and European record holders. The club's Couch to 5k initiative was a finalist in the first Getting Stratford-on-Avon District Active Award. It was always going to be a tough one to win, as the we were up against the hugely successful Stratford Parkrun and so it proved to be, with the Parkrun team picking up the award. Paula Williams, another club member was also a finalist in this category for her work with both Walking Netball and Back to Netball. On Monday, the latest of our C25K groups, supported by volunteer helpers, met for the first time to embark on their running journey. Good luck. You won't regret it. Elsewhere, it was another extremely successful race for Senior club members at the 4th of this season's Winter Series races held at Ilmington. Rich Shepherd and Matt Burdus-Cook finished 1st and 2nd respectively, separated by just 6 seconds and club members occupied 4 of the top 10 places. It's the time of the year when our T&F athletes, young and old, find out if their winter training has really been worth the effort as they venture out into the indoor season. It would seem, that despite the atrocious conditions this winter, all of that hard work has indeed been worth it and is already paying dividends. Last night we were visited by Chris Jones - CEO of England Athletics, along with other members of his team. They came along to our Senior's club night and the highlights of his visit should soon be available as a podcast on the England Athletics website. Finally, Paul Bearman has produced a pretty comprehensive fixture list for the year, across all age groups. It's way above my pay grade to be able to include it in this newsletter, if that's even possible but it is on the club's website as Fixtures 2020. Please have a look at it. stratfordac.co.uk Enjoy the rest of your week. Best Wishes David Jones View this email in your browser The victorious Lewis Byng. Stratford-on-Avon District Community Sports Awards. Mike Sheppard Hi everyone, as many of you will be aware, on Friday Stratford AC U15 Track & Field Teams' were crowned Junior Team of the Year at the Stratford-on-Avon District Community…