Race Walking Record April 2013 In association with the Race Walking Association Contents The News this Month This is the second issue of the new Record. This month’s news In this issue news from the European Veterans T&F News and reviews championships, from across England and across the Fixtures Calendar and adverts waters in Guernsey. Results Readers Page > Letters and reports > Photos Logo competition Changes to the Race Walking Record Welcome to the second issue of the new Record. Thank you for all the positive feedback. Please continue to let us know what you think and what you want to see in the issues. The key to our success is going to be the contributions from our readers so please get in contact. Please also spread the word about the re-launch and get your walking friends to subscribe by emailing us at: [email protected] [email protected] The Record is going to grow and develop overtime and we thank everyone who has provided feedback on the layout and content. 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If you wish to make a donation to assist in running the website and producing the Record please send these to the Race Walking Association stating the purpose of the donation. Philadelphia Cup Team Race, Les Ammarreurs, Guernsey by Elliott Caleta Women head the field in Philadelphia Team Walk The women walkers achieved head of the field individual success in the Philadelphia Team Cup handicap one mile road walk at Les Amarreurs. One of the first walkers to start, Kay Coulson held first position to cross the line in 11.36, three seconds ahead of Harriet Payne, who in turn was another three seconds up on third to finish Rose Druckes. The women’s success continued with Joanne Le Prevost taking fourth place and leading her team to victory, backed up by Peter Beckerleg who walked to a new best time, removing well over a minute off his previous time and Rob Elliott. Page 1 of 23 Contact us at [email protected] or [email protected] Race Walking Record April 2013 In association with the Race Walking Association Philadelphia Cup Team Race cont’d The team result, in which watch times are added together, was a very close thing with only 21 seconds separating all four teams. The winning team totalled a time of 35.44, ten second ahead of the second team and 16 seconds ahead of third. Walk of the day was Peter Beckerleg’s new best time, whilst Terry Bates and Rose Druckes both improved on their Guernsey Age Best times for the one mile road walk. Backmarker Jason Le Noury had the fastest time of the day with 7.35, ahead of Rob Elliott 8.29 and Terry Bates 8.51. Full results later in the record. New National Mentor coach for Race Walking, information from England Athletics Bulletin. Dr Andi Drake has joined the National Coach Mentor team on a two days per week basis covering the northern half of the country as Long distance and Walks National Coach Mentor. Andi has been based at the National Centre for Race Walking, Leeds Metropolitan University for the last 4 years as head coach and he will continue in this role alongside his mentoring for England Athletics. He coaches Johanna Jackson (Atkinson), Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist and Olympian 20Km walk as well as Tom Bosworth, Commonwealth Games representative, GB 5km Walk outdoor record holder and a number of other successful walkers. Andi has a Doctoral degree in Exercise Physiology and was a successful walker competing for GB in the World and European Championships. He also holds the record for the little known but highly respected combined 20km Walk (84.04) and Marathon Run challenge (2.23.42). He can be contacted at [email protected] A vacancy is currently being advertised for a National Coach Mentor - Endurance to cover the southern England region. You can find this in our jobs section. You can view all National Coach Mentors at www.englandathletics.org/NCM and Area Coach Mentors at www.englandathletics.org/ACM. Office Solutions sponsored Eric Waldron Trophy courtesy of Rob Elliott 2 miles track walk, Osmond Priaulx, Guernsey Stuart Le Noury retained the Office Solutions Eric Waldron Trophy in the first evening race of the year. The bitterly cold evening and windy conditions did not help as he led from start to finish to cross the line in 16.39. Second man home and thirty seconds behind was Phil Lockwood with past winner Rob Elliott back in third. Rose Druckes was the quickest of the women ahead of Harriet Payne. Page 2 of 23 Contact us at [email protected] or [email protected] Race Walking Record April 2013 In association with the Race Walking Association 10 km Isle of Man road walking championships and Y.A.G. champ courtesy of N&K Partingdon The re-arranged championships, delayed by the recent snow, took place last Thursday evening and resulted in an excellent night of racing. All age groups (6 of them) started together with the under 11/13 1km category first to finish. Eight started and all should be encouraged after their performance and hopefully will continue to train and race. Harry Read was the first boy across the line with Leah Goddard just pipping Emily Hunter for top honours in the girl’s race. Stephen Waddington was the lone entrant in the 2km, the distance he will race in the National championships in Coventry at the end of this month. Similarly, for Jason Turner and Tom Partington, 3km was also a try-out for the National championships and they were closely matched with Jason edging away in the final kilometre. The 5km is the distance under 17 Rebecca Greatbatch will race and she dominated the race ahead of the seniors and was only just outside her personal best time, recent newcomer Emma Read was second and super vet Enid Watson took third. 22 lined up for the 10km championship and on the calm cold night conditions seemed good for racing. A cautious start saw juniors Adam Cowin and Alex Eaton along with leading lady Michelle Turner at the head of the field. After halfway the pace increased with Adam breaking away and covering the second half in under 24 minutes. Alex came home second, also with a negative split as did Michelle as she took the ladies title. Third male to finish was Brian Wade who made remarkable progress with a 53 minute 03 second time, just getting the better of Chris Cale and Vinny Lynch. Second in the ladies went to Marie Jackson who is back hitting fine performances, such that she is amongst the best in the world in her age group and subject to ratification, set a new Manx age group record at the distance. Steph Quayle was 3rd lady, showing excellent technique along with Michelle and Marie. Manx Harriers would like to thank all the officials and helpers on the night who helped make it a good event. European Veterans Indoor Championship at San Sebastion- Donostia by Eric Horwill Overall, a satisfactory haul of medals! The Indoor events were well organised and avoided the overcrowded tracks of some previous championships. However the Judges continued to decimate some of the women’s fields and were generally rather inconsistent. Our British team suffered no less than 6 DQs indoors. The outdoor 5kms were held on a flat, fast course in the suburbs of Errenteria. The location ensured protection from the prevailing winds, and with the sun shining most of the time, provided much the warmest day we had. Many of the competition made use of the water station! We had 4 DQs despite a slightly more realistic attitude from the judges. It was good to see Roger Michell doing well in a major event, having suffered a stroke a little over a year ago. Results later in record. Page 3 of 23 Contact us at [email protected] or [email protected] Race Walking Record April 2013 In association with the Race Walking Association 2nd South Yorkshire Race Walking League Millhouses Park 16/04/13 by Brian Adams In this South Yorkshire League event walkers join the race at different times according to the distance they are walking and the handicap they have been given. With 2km remaining Alana Zeidler was in 3rd position but steadily moving through towards the front, Ana Garcia was moving faster 2 mins back and still in last place. Alana passed Ella Sharkey to hit the front with 500m to go wondering if Ana would snatch victory away from her. She held on to the lead to cross the line 29 seconds ahead of Ana just 3 seconds outside her recent personal best.