Young & Old – Back at the track.

Back at the Track. Monday evening as some of our seniors' resumed training on our home track after a long gap. Vet's sprinters John Boxall and Mark Illingworth on Monday evening. Meanwhile our junior endurance group continued with their Sunday morning training sessions on the Welcombe Hills. Rachel and Ewan Sparrow seemed to be enjoying the session This week training finally resumed at our own track for all age groups. Much Joy. There's a lovely report on the recent under 11's Lockdown Pentathlon, together with reports on Charly Marshall competing in the Pan European Youth Challenge in both duathlon and aquathlon disciplines and Matt Sims and his latest ultra endeavours. There's a reminder from Paul Bearman about club kit. This week's Trip Down Memory Lane is from the December 2006 newsletter and interesting reading it makes too, with lots of familiar names who are still members. This Friday is the final day of the month's WRRL virtual mile race. At the time of writing Ben Kruze is currently leading the men's race and 14 year old Alex Adams is in 8th place. Our men's A team is in 2nd place and our men's Masters team occupies the top spot. Our ladies A and B teams are in 3rd and 4th place respectively, while our ladies Masters team are in 2nd and 4th place. Finally, a few of us will be competing in actual events at the Pingles Stadium in Nuneaton on Sunday. I'm looking forward to running an 800m in lanes all the way round. Here's hoping for a lane 1 draw. Also at the Pingles on Saturday, a few of our Vet's team will be taking part in a Virtual World Masters event, which I had hoped to take part in but I missed the cut-off date for entries. Doh. Best Wishes David Jones Under 11's Lockdown Pentathlon. Report - Carolyne Johnston and Michelle Bartlett. All of our Under 11's were invited to take in the challenge of our lockdown virtual pentathlon which was quite timely just 3 weeks before resuming training at the track last week. 10 children enthusiastically took up the opportunity and tackled a pentathlon with a difference every week for 3 weeks. Remember all those toilet rolls that everyone was stockpiling? Well we used a lot! The challenges ranged from shuttle runs, target throw improvising with toys, socks and washing baskets, high jump using toilet roll towers, bear crawls and toilet roll burpees. It is quite amazing how each of them came up with their own ideas. Their scores were sent to us each week to complete the 3 week challenge. Congratulations to Clea Roach who achieved the highest score of 800 points! A lot of fun and laughter was had by all looking at the amusing photos. The parents of the 10 that took part were pleased for their childrens opportunity to get involved with the pentathlon challenge and were also pleased that their children were invited to be the pilot group of athletes…