Club Champs – All Systems Go.

A great photo by Mike Sheppard of daughter Imy competing at The Night of 800. We start this week's newsletter with some truly wonderful news. The Club Championships will take place on 13th September. Please read Paul Bearman's article below. It's another mixed bag this week. Four of our senior members were delighted to be back competing in a 10K trail event at the weekend with Ben Kruze winning by a considerable margin. There were PBs aplenty at the Midlands Open Competition at The Pingles Stadium on Sunday. 48 hours earlier we had 5 members competing in a night of 800m races, again at The Pingles. There's a fabulous report from Louise Stewart on her virtual race across Tennessee and an item from Phil Brennan on his success in the European Virtual Half Marathon. The August Magic Mile results are up and they show a considerable level of success from many of our junior endurance group runners and finally, details of August's WRRL results, which are subject to final confirmation. Take care Best Wishes David Jones STRATFORD UPON AVON AC 2020 TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS Sunday 13th September 2020 Registration starts 9.15am : First Events at 10.00am From Paul Bearman. In this weird world that we're living in, now that we are back training we don’t have many competition opportunities and so the Age Group Leaders have agreed to host a scaled down version of the Club Champs on the original scheduled date 13th September. We had to wait for Stratford School pupils to return this week before they were able to confirm that we can run the event and I’m very pleased they have agreed. The safety and wellbeing of all athletes, coaches and the wider community is at the heart of any guidance that England Athletics is distributing for competition and we want to ensure that the safety and wellbeing of everyone involved is considered the priority. Agreement to run the champs is based on us running the event within the strict protocols we use for training together with England Athletics guidance for competitions. An example of risk mitigation is maintaining 2m social distancing. Details of the timings, events and the application form will be sent out by the respective Age Group Leaders shortly and so the information below is just for guidance at the moment and is subject to potential change. I'm also trying to get the event licensed ….. what a task that’s turning out to be ….this means if we have our qualified officials and experienced coaches officiating the athletes can have something to show on the Power of 10 for their efforts. It is going to take a monumental effort to organise the Champs (it usually takes about 5 weeks) and I’m very pleased with the overwhelming support we have already received from our volunteer officials and coaches. However, we will need a fast turnaround from our athletes, both junior and senior, on receipt of the entry form. For the juniors a parent will…