Kent AC Weekly News Bulletin – 30th August 2020
Please see this weeks update for Kent AC members – 30th August 2020
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KENT AC NEWS BULLETIN
30th August, 2020
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THE TRACK
Fusion partnership
Lewisham Leisure has terminated it’s contract with Fusion and partnered with GLL
(operating as “Better”). You can find the full details here.
The committee have a meeting with Lewisham Leisure on Thursday. For now the track remains closed, however the committee will be pressing for a reopening and maintenance, and for details on what it means to have GLL in charge.
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NEWS
Update to EA Return to Cross Country
England Athletics have released an update on returning to cross country. Good news is that it looks like only league race 1 has been cancelled and cross country is scheduled to re-start from 17th October with National XC relays still on the schedule for 31st October. Guidance for event organisers will be released w/c 14th September. You can read the full update here.
Club Champs:
Members are continuing to work hard to try to organise the Club Champs – however this has been somewhat constrained by qualified officials. Some members have signed up for an online Starters’s Assistant course to begin their way to qualification. If you would like to find out more information about these courses please see the link here.
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TRAINING
Training restart for C group
C Group returns to training Tuesday 1st September @ 19:00
Thank you to over 40 members who completed the survey in last week’s bulletin.
60% of respondents wanted training to restart on 1st September.
There will be a minimum of 4 pace groups and more depending on the numbers who attend.
Sub 20, Sub 21, Sub 23, 25+.
Please see the details for next Tuesday’s session.
Any questions please contact via email here.
Training restart for A group:
The A group will return training again on Tuesday 1st September meeting at Ladywell @ 19:30.
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RESULTS
Wimbledon, 26th August:
Wednesday evening saw the return of track racing for several Kent AC members with an evening of 3kms at Wimbledon.
Leading the way was Jim Allchin in 8:33 with Anthony Johnson and Ben Cook also PB’ing.
Jim Allchin 8:33
Anthony Johnson 8:50
Ben Harding 9:02
Sean Fitzpatrick 9:06
Dave Morgan 9:08
Adrian Lowther 9:15
Ben Cook 9:23
Lucas Zurdo 9:39
Rob Laing 9:42
BMC – Lee Valley, 29th August:
As part of the BMC Gold Standard races at Lee Valley on 29th August, development invitational races for u13 boys and girls were staged. Well done to Olly Buck who was selected and ran his inaugural 800m in 2:24, placing 2nd. You can find the full results here.
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KENTversation
No podcast this week, but you can still catch last weeks episode with Aly Dixon, marathoner and 50km World Record Holder – listen to it and previous episodes on Spotify now.
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