2001, 2008, 2020 – The Story Continues.

Theo Skirvin completing a PE challenge in his back garden This week we saw some truly impressive 800m & 1500m times by some of our young endurance runners at the Leamington track on Wednesday where they were recording times for a Virtual English Schools Competition. Sunday saw 60 of our young endurance runners training on the Welcombe Hills in socially distanced groups of 5, each group with a coach. Tuesday evening saw 35 of them training on the sports field at the sports club, again in groups of 5. Also this week, Paul Bearman has taken groups of track and field athletes to train at the Leamington track, where a small group of our Vet's T&F athletes also trained on Monday evening. Excitement is at fever pitch as the July vShakespeare Race, 10 mile bike TT and Magic Mile draws to an end. There's also the vWRRL mile race continuing Boy, are we going to be quick out of the blocks when proper racing resumes. We've got a write up from new boy Ben Kruze, reports on training under lockdown from Theo Skirvin and The Pridhams, with a couple of great quotes, continuing the theme of previous correspondents "it has been BRILLIANT to start training again with the athletics club at the Welcombe Hills" "Truly we are grateful to have such a fantastic and supportive club." There's more archive material, where we learn of an aspiring youngster by the name of Andrew Pozzi from 2008. We learn some dark secrets of members from as far back as 2001, as well as reports on the activities of our juniors, also from 2001and finally, more memories from the Barbie Scrapbook of Emily Adams...don't ask. Enjoy the rest of your week. Best Wishes David Jones English Schools Virtual Competition. Leamington Track - Wednesday 8th July 800m & 1500m Despite awful weather conditions, a few of our endurance group members took part in 800m and 1500m runs on Wednesday night to record times for an English Schools Virtual Competition. Coach Paul Hawkins commented "the weather was pretty awful but I thought everyone ran incredibly well in the two virtual races, particularly as for some of them it was only their first or second time back on a track since March." The times were: 800m Owain Jones 2.15.7 Daisy Musk 2.27.3 1500m Alex Adams 4.15.1 (PB) Taylor Stubbins 4.35.7 (PB) Caleb Spriggs 4.38.4 (PB) Georgie Campbell 4.42.0 (PB) Ned Campbell 5.16.5 (PB) Adam Taylor 5.24.9 Abbie Wootton 5.29.9 Ellen Taylor 5.32.1 These are unofficial times so won’t count for records or Power of 10 but they are a great marker to show just where the athletes are, for when we get back to proper competition. Had these been official times, Alex's time would place him 2nd on the UK rankings for his age group this year, with Taylor and Caleb 11th and 17th respectively. Although there hasn't been much racing this year, Alex's time would have placed him 14th in 2019. Georgie's time places her…