the official newsletter of TeamBath Athletic Club
Membership September 2009 – 500
The Bath Plug
No. 1030 22nd September 2009
22nd year – first published tuesday 1st december 1987
Strong Middle Distance Squad
The future of Middle Distance at the club looks strong no fewer
than 23 athletes getting into the national ranking from 800m to
3000m. Below are the detail for each athlete giving there age
group, South West Ranking and National Ranking.
From Adrian Clover
Note Loren Bleaken is Rank No. 1 in the UK at the Mile.
For the 800 16 athletes
Loren Bleaken
Katherine Turner
Felix Freeston
Lui Pollastrone
Alfie Kilgour
Dan Bartlett
Emily Dixon
Daniella Whiting
Collette McCambridge
Alex Carter
Robert Blackmore
Adan Trebble
George Logut
Annie Ingram
Alex Dudbridge
Anna Alexander-Holmes
For the 1500 11 athletes
Loren Bleaken
Alex Carter
Daniella Whiting
Felix Freeston
Imogen Wolsey
Collette McCambridge
Annie Ingram
Alfie Kilgour
Adan Trebble
Marcie Bower
Alex Dudbridge
U15G
U17G
U13B
U17B
U13B
U20M
U15G
U13G
U17G
U15B
U15B
U17B
U13B
U15G
U15B
U15G
SW
1
4
15
15
18
18
20
23
25
28
30
39
39
43
47
50
National
5
45
138
224
200
198
212
290
296
349
408
452
442
414
607
515
U15G
U15B
U13G
U13B
U17G
U17G
U15G
U13B
U17B
U17G
U15B
1
10
10
12
13
21
25
26
26
28
51
3
87
132
110
110
230
255
215
236
280
591
For the 3000m 7 athletes
Imogen Wolsey
Alex Carter
Alex Stainthorpe
Tom Beer
Ryan Lavelle
Alexander Hill
Rebecca Pierce
7
8
10
19
23
24
55
58
87
81
239
240
247
661
In addition 6 of these athletes have made it into the overall UK
ranking. This is their ranking in the UK regardless of their
age. Apart from Dan and Rebecca all of the athletes are under
16.
Loren Bleaken
Loren Bleaken
Katherine Turner
Imogen Wolsey
Alex Stainthorpe
Imogen Wolsey
Dan Bartlett
Rebecca Pierce
183
202
242
371
507
537
651
661
1500m
800m
800m
3000m
3000m
1500m
800m
3000m
Well done to all, this is great reward for all the hard training put
in over the year.
Unfortunately there is no rest as they with the Cross Country and
Road races coming up over the winter.
Need Any Advice?
Steve Hale - Top Vet in Prom
I finished 9th and 1st MV50 in the first of
Weston 5 mile prom races last Thursday. Lots of repair work on prom meant a
little more care than usual!
Good conditions - little breeze, but as
usual a mental battle over the 2 lap route
with the prom going on forever! 1st of 9
race winter series so can be recommended
for a good.
email from Steve Hale
U17G
U15B
U17G
U20M
U17B
U17B
SEN
1 Ben Morley
GWR
2 Matt Newman
Unattached
3 Anthony Glover
Westbury
8 Brian Charters 1V40 Exeter
9 Steve Hale
1V50 Team Bath
21 Robyn Golding 1L
Westbury
224 finishers
Try out our COBAC Web Site at www.teambathac.org
26.54
27.49
28.34
29.20
29.25
30.49
Next Tuesday 22nd September Martin
Rush England Athletics National Coach
Mentor for Endurance will be giving a
talk on Long Term Targeting for a Race.
The talk will take place in the Sports
Village Café meeting room starting at
8pm.
There will be plenty of time for discussion and questions. All are welcome.
Important Notice
Tonight (Tuesday 22nd September) the
track in-field is not available due to spraying having taken place.
Editor Ray Brigden
Tel 01761 432 426 or email
[email protected]
Three Men to Berlin!!
Dave Coales
Craig Davey
Alan Buckingham
Dave Coales reports from Berlin.
Sadly Alan then collapsed at 41k, did not
complete the marathon and spent the afterThe hot conditions (24c and sunny) played noon in hospital. Fortunately Alan is now
a big part in yesterdays Berlin Marathon as ok says he "now knows about
how brutal a marathon can be"
Alan Buckingham hit the wall in Berlin.
Alan was looking for a time of 2:37 following on from his pb in the Bristol Half
two weeks ago.
Craig Davey also ran a fairly evenly paced
race. Craig´s time of 3:12 was about what
he was looking for. Berlin is a flat fast
course, it was a shame the weather was so
warm. He was using it as a `get fit' marathon. He said he paid for missing out on
training but was pleased to get under the
'good for age' cut off of 3:15
I ran a fairly evenly paced race. It was obvious from about 15k that my pb of 2:45
was out of range in the heat. I went
through halfway in 1;23:27 and finished in
There were over 44,000 finishers making
Alan went through halfway in 1:18, he had 2:49:21. I came 446 overall. I have now
Berlin the biggest field of the 5 marathon
slowed to 2:32 by the 40k mark, but was
completed the five marathon majors of
Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New majors.
still on for a pb.
York.
David Coales Team Bath Ac
split time
diff km/h
5 km 00:20:25
20:25
10 km 00:39:48
19:23
15 km 00:59:41
19:53
20 km 01:19:37
19:56
half 01:23:53
04:16
25 km 01:39:32
15:39
30 km 01:59:46
20:14
35 km 02:20:08
20:22
40 km 02:40:58
20:50
42 km 02:49:21
08:23
min/km
14.7 04:05
15.48 03:53
15.09 03:59
15.05 04:00
15.44 03:54
14.96 04:01
14.83 04:03
14.73 04:05
14.4 04:11
15.73 03:49
Tough in Midlands
Craig Davey Teambath Ac
split time
diff km/h
5 km 00:22:45
22:45
10 km 00:44:38
21:53
15 km 01:06:36
21:58
20 km 01:28:49
22:13
half 01:33:38
04:49
25 km 01:50:56
17:18
30 km 02:13:23
22:27
35 km 02:36:54
23:31
40 km 03:01:54
25:00
42 km 03:12:31
10:37
min/km
13.19 04:33
13.71 04:23
13.66 04:24
13.5 04:27
13.68 04:24
13.53 04:27
13.36 04:30
12.76 04:43
12 05:00
12.4 04:51
teams for the nationals), but this year I
think we were about 14th and had a
combined time of 69:07. Also our most
consistent performance in a while, with all
team members completing their leg within
one minute of each other.
From Emer Brangan
We had a good day out on Saturday (10th
September) in a sunny Sutton Park for the
Midland Counties Road Relays. It was
pleasing to have both men's and ladies
teams compete given we didn't manage to
field a team in either competition last year. Ladies Results
1 Charnwood
2 B&W
The men needed to finish in the top 25
3 Birchfield
to qualify for the Nationals but unfortunately came 48th out of the 85 teams.
14 TeamBathAC
1 Emer Brangan
The ladies had no such qualifying pres2 Rebecca Pierce
sure, but still turned in comfortably their
3 Kirstie Morrison
best team performance at the Midlands in
4 Jenny Carter
the last 5 years - both in time and race position, and this despite the absence of all
our speediest members who were variously 1 Birchfield
2 Tipton
otherwise occupied.
3 B&W
For the last few years we have been finish48 TeamBathAC
ing positioned in the early thirties, in 74
1 Steve Rose
minute+ times (we have had stronger
00:59:07
01:00:04
01:02:06
01:09:07
16:51
17:32
17:43
17:05
01:48:51
01:49:17
01:49:28
02.13.02
20:27
Alan Buckingham Team Bath
split time
diff km/h
5 km 00:18:47
18:47
10 km 00:37:26
18:39
15 km 00:56:07
18:41
20 km 01:14:39
18:32
half 01:18:42
04:03
25 km 01:33:20
14:38
30 km 01:52:20
19:00
35 km 02:11:53
19:33
40 km 02:32:43
20:50
42km Alan did not finish
2 Dan Jones
3 Steve Cottington
4 Nick Bower
5 Ian Cade
6 Dave Gunstone
min/km
15.98 03:46
16.09 03:44
16.06 03:45
16.19 03:43
16.27 03:42
16 03:46
15.79 03:49
15.35 03:55
14.4 04:10
21:22
23:38
23:27
22:09
22:09
We all enjoyed it and hopefully we can
build on this in the Nationals on October
17th - please can any ladies who would
like to be included on the entry get in
touch with me. (Emer Brangan)
New Members Mandy Savory and Nigel
Savory completed the Great North Run
last Sunday in 1:50:20 and 1:49:46 respectively.
Help Needed
Help needed for our October 5K on Tuesday 6th. Please contact me (Ray Brigden
01761 432 426 or email
[email protected])