Freddie strikes Gold.

View this email in your browser Cole Williams, Paul Bearman and Freddie Clemons It's been another one of those successful weeks in the life this great club of ours. Pride of place goes to Freddie Clemons and Cole Williams for their performances at the England Athletics under 15 and 17 Championships, winning gold and bronze medals respectively. There were also superb performances from our 5 other club members who had successfully qualified to compete in these prestigious championships Okay, I know I'm totally, 100% biased but there was also a superb effort by our Vets T&F team in the Vets T&F Cup Final in Nottingham. 17 teams from the greater Midlands area were competing on the day and we finished in a magnificent 3rd place. Once again, sincere thanks are due to our officials on the day - John and Andrew Turner, Tony Jackson and Sandy Green. Senior club members were out in force at the Kenilworth half marathon with PBs galore recorded on the day. Tri club member Ellie Deaner distinguished herself in her first adult senior sprint distance Tri, although due to the poor quality of the water the Tri became a duathlon ! Senior members Lynne Hinson and Adrian Mason competed in the Cotswold Trail Half marathon, both saying it was the toughest race they had yet competed in. Cadie Hibberd ran a PB in the Cardiff University 10k and Tomos Horbury also ran a PB in the Kew and Richmond 10k. Finally, in Dartmouth, father and son Tim and Fin Hutchinson ran the Dartmouth Road Race Regatta together. Apologies but there won't be a newsletter for the next couple of weeks as I am off on holiday. Good luck to all of you competing at the weekend. I know many of you will be running the Stratford Big 10K and many more will be competing in the highlight of the club calendar, the Club Championships, at the High School on Sunday. Best Wishes David Jones Freddie with his lucky Andrew Pozzi spikes. Cole looks on admiringly. The England Athletics under 15 and 17 Championships. Report - Paul Bearman. Held at the Bedford International Stadium, these are effectively the UK championships with the best young athletes from right across the while of the UK competing. 7 Stratford athletes met the qualifying standards required to be able to compete at this level, which is a test in itself. On day one and in his first season of Triple Jumping, U17 Nick Butler lined up for his first taste of competition at this level. His opening jump of 12.74m was his 2nd best ever and despite 2 more jumps spot on the board, he couldn’t improve and finished 13th but was only one of his shoe lengths from getting through to the final. Georgie Campbell has had a superb but very long and tiring season and she lined up in the U17 1500m in blustery conditions that buffeted the athletes in the back straight. Georgie stayed in the leading…