As part of the ‘Are you ready?’ campaign, England Athletics has been inviting clubs to sign up to host a Try Athletics Day to mark 100 days to go until the Olympic and Paralympic Games.  We spoke to one host club about their Try Athletics Day. 365 Academy, Leamington has signed up to host an event on 18th April 2012.

As part of the ‘Are you ready?’ campaign, England Athletics has been inviting clubs to sign up to host a Try Athletics Day to mark 100 days to go until the Olympic and Paralympic Games.  We spoke to one host club about their Try Athletics Day. 365 Academy, Leamington has signed up to host an event on 18th April 2012.

As part of the ‘Are you ready?’ campaign, England Athletics has been inviting clubs to sign up to host a Try Athletics Day to mark 100 days to go until the Olympic and Paralympic Games.  We spoke to one host club about their Try Athletics Day. 365 Academy, Leamington has signed up to host an event on 18th April 2012.

The Oxfordshire Athletics Network has organised an EDM training day for Oxfordshire Field Officials.

The freezing conditions did not stop the members turning out to training at Chelmsford recently, for the club to receive its Clubmark certificate.

Charnwood AC’s Juliet Doyle improved from the silver medal position a year ago at Leamington Spa to regain the Senior Women’s title in picturesque Wollaton Park at Nottingham.

This Sunday - 12th February is a great opportunity to attend a free LCDP Throws Workshop with Malcolm Fenton - the England Athletics National Coach Mentor for Heavy Throws.

The Duchy Athletics Network took the opportunity to promote the work of Run England at the Marazion 10k and to sign-up as many runners as it could, to ensure they benefitted from the free membership which gives them offers on kit, training advice and event updates and a fortnightly eNewsletter.

The Herne Hill Harriers produced some fine individual performances at the annual Chichester Priory 10K on 5 February to win second team prize and smash a number of personal records in the process. The three-man team was led home by Chris Busaileh, who finished in 8th place, clocking 30.20 minutes, just 3 seconds outside of his personal best.

The Herne Hill Harriers produced some fine individual performances at the annual Chichester Priory 10K on 5 February to win second team prize and smash a number of personal records in the process. The three-man team was led home by Chris Busaileh, who finished in 8th place, clocking 30.20 minutes, just 3 seconds outside of his personal best.

England Athletics have joined forces with Fundrazor.com to launch a brand new annual membership scheme that will provide athletic clubs with an amazing opportunity to raise money.

Two days after returning from four weeks training in Kenya, Bristol and West AC’s Charlie MacLean spread-eagled the field to win the Junior Men’s title in a time of 24 mins 49 secs by a margin of 24 seconds in picturesque Wollaton Park at Nottingham

The North Yorkshire Athletics Network held their injury prevention workshop recently in Thirsk.  6 attendees from across the Network allowed for greater space for the practical aspects.

The weather conditions also could not prevent the 21st Chichester Priory 10km being a resounding success. This is one of the major road races in the English road running calendar and is recognised nationwide as a top quality road race.

Olympic gold medalist Sally Gunnell is lending a hand – and her fast feet - to a new campaign spearheaded by Sport England to get more people involved in running.

As part of the ‘Are you ready?’ campaign and volunteer initiative, England Athletics are inviting all clubs to host a ‘Try Athletics Day’ to mark 100 days to go until the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012. 

Sport Makers has recruited 10,000 people already and everyone in Oxfordshire can be part of the Olympic Legacy too.  10,000 people across the country have registered to become Sport Makers and you can now book your place to become a Sport Maker in Oxfordshire.

The Hereford and Worcester Athletics Network recently held a very successful Psychology Workshop for Network coaches and athletes, the session was delivered by Senior Lecturer of Sport Psychology at the University of Birmingham Dr Jennifer Cumming.

In the last of their trips away from Great Britain this season, England is sending a team which is a a mixture of youth and experience to Halshout for a Belgium Cross Cup event, next Sunday.

On a freezing evening in February the young athletes of S Factor Athletics Club were not deterred by the minus temperatures and got on with their training session at Ladywell Arena in the London borough of Lewisham. Club Secretary Jaishree Solanke expressed her surprise that so many athletes had turned up and commented “this is typical of them they come here to meet their friends and mix with kids who go to different schools – we have a real sense of community in this club, the cold won’t stop them!” .