Buxton & District Athletic Club

Derbyshire Track & Field Mini League

The Derbyshire County Athletic Association runs a series of four track & field fixtures on Saturday mornings. These are relatively low-key affairs. It is an excellent opportunity to get used to competing in front of a crowd and to try out new events. The league is open athletes in the U11, U13 and U15 age groups. The athletes must be nine years of age or older on the day of the competition. The competitions are all held on Saturday mornings at Moorways Stadium in Derby. The first event starts at 10:30am. The programme for each fixture are not known yet. The dates are as follows:

Saturday 21st April 2012	Moorways Stadium, Derby
Saturday 9th June 2012	Moorways Stadium, Derby
Saturday 7th July 2012	Moorways Stadium, Derby
Saturday 11th August 2012	Moorways Stadium, Derby

Post added on 30 January 2012

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Revised County Cross Country Championship Results

The results of the County Cross Country Championship has been revised and now includes Rob White-11th (MS) and Darren Hawkins-6th (MV40-49). The full official result can be downloaded by clicking on Derbyshire XC Champs 2012 Results. Next stop is the Northern Area Cross Country Championships in two week's time.

Post added on 11 January 2012

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Update on the County Cross Country Championship Results

Sheila Bradley is currently quering the results from the County Championships with the organiser. I have added Rob White to the results, but was not aware of Darren Hawkins having been missed out as well. We will bring you the revised results when we have them!

Post added on 8 January 2012

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Committe Meeting [11 January 2012]

The next club committee meeting will be held in the Old Clubhouse on Wednesday 11 January 2012. The meeting will start at 20:15 (or 8:15pm). All members are welcome to attend the meeting.

Post added on 8 January 2012

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Club Subscriptions for 2012 are now Due

The annual club subscription is now due. It remains a fantastic value at only £17 per person. Please can you send or give the money or a cheque (payable to Buxton & District AC) to Sheila Bradley, the membership secretary. Please be prompt in paying the subscription by 29 February 2012 at the latest in order to reduce the burden on Sheila.

Post added on 8 January 2012

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Results of Derbyshire County Cross Country Championships

The club enjoyed a great deal of success at the County Cross Country Championships at Markeaton Park in Derby yesterday. These were the results: U11 Boys: Elliott Meylan-3rd, Jacob Buckley-5th and Edward Ivings-10th. The team won the team gold! U11 Girls: Amelia Newbould-9th. U13 Girls: Helen Thornhill-7th. U13 Boys: Stephen Mellor-8th, Rhys Bowen-13th, Daniel Burt-18th and Kieran Connell-19th. In the Senior Ladies races, Amy Whelan-9th, Annemarie Claye-10th, Kirsty Forder-13th. In the Veteran Women's races: Emma Wentworth-8th (WV35), Emma Havenhand-11th (WV40-49), Wendy Bainbridge-12th(WV40-49) and Sheila Bradley-3rd (WV50-59). In the Men's race: Rob White-11th(?), Mat Ivings-13th and Mark Pursell-24th. In the Veteran Men's races: Roland Meylan-21st (MV40-49), Mark Babington-24th (MV40-49),Peter Bailey-16th (MV50-59) and Simon Moorhouse-18th (MV50-59). The club had two bronze medal winners through Elliot Meylan and Sheila Bradley and one team gold. Excellent! Well done, everyone. Other notable performances came from Amy Mellor-1st (WJ), Tracey Greenway-1st (WV40-49) and 4th overall, Nathan Staniford-2nd (U17 Men) and Sophie Quince-8th (U15 Girls). The full official result can be downloaded by clicking on Derbyshire XC Champs 2012 Results. Also missing from the results list is Darren Hawkins. Sheila Bradley is pursuing this with the organisers.

Post added on 8 January 2012

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Website Changes

I have added a feature on the Upcoming Races page, so that you can view the fell races held in any particular month. You need to have Javascript switched on to use the feature. You get the whole long list of races if Javascript is disabled. I have also corrected some of the dates for the fell races listed on the Upcoming Races page. You will also notice that there are some uncertainties with respect to some of the dates. Please let me know if you when the races are being held, for example Chrome Hill and Chelmorton Chase. Please let me know if you find the new way of viewing the races is good, bad or indifferent or if you encounter any problems. I have tested the page on a windows machine running Chrome (v16.0.912.63), Firefox (v9.0.1), Safari (v5.1.2), Opera (v11.60) and Internet Explorer (v.9) and it has been working as intended.

Post added on 1 January 2012

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Inn to Inn Winter Record Broken at Last

Mark Cudahy, Geoff Pettengell, Ian Charters and Tom Howard took an amazing 5 hours off the old winter record for the run between the two highest inns in England, that is to say the Tan Hill Inn and the Cat & Fiddle. The team had to contend with very strong winds, rain and snow, but completed the run in 56 h and 35 min. The previous record was held by Mike Cudahy, Mark's father. Well done, lads. Tremendous effort.

Post added on 1 January 2012

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Happy New Year!

I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. I hope that you will reach your targets in 2012. However, the most important thing is to enjoy your running, everything else will follow.

Post added on 1 January 2012

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