Day: February 28, 2016

Yes I know, it’s been a while coming!

After 15 years of running the original club website the effort needed to do so has become more and more time consuming. The old package it was developed in became harder to keep running and website hosts who would host the old style site became increasingly harder to find.

So after a while of trying to develop this while keeping the old site upto date (which wasn’t possible) I decided to concentrate on moving over to the new site (you might have noticed the lack of news on the original site!)  I have been keeping this site up to date during the development so there shouldn’t be a gap between new and old and of course all that history is still there on the original site for you to search.

This new platform should be easier for others to share the task of updating stories, records etc… so if you’d like to see something on the site or volunteer to help please get in touch!  Please feel free to send in any news items or performances that we’ve missed.

There’s no excuse for not getting involved – we have arranged not one but two club championships to focus your choice of all the races available out there. The first of these is the St Helens 10k on March 6th – enter now!

More details St Helens Sutton AC Competitions

Several of the road races are also part of the Merseyside Grand Prix which also start with the above race.  As with our championship there’s no additional charge for the series, just enter the race as an individual, list your club name and you’ll be included.  Simple.

Merseyside Grand Prix

Saturday 27th February 2016 saw the English National Cross Country Championship held at Donnington Park. The conditions were ideal for cross country.

First off for the club was the junior women’s 6km race. Rachel McGoldrick finished in 66th place in 25:58.

Representing the under 13 boy’s in the 3km race; Michael Brussels ran superb to finish 216th in 15:08 and Charlie Roberts finished strong in 258th in 15:25. Both boys competed in their first National championships and gained experience from the race, well done!

Gemma Connolly ran in the senior women’s 8km championship, completing the race in 96th place in 35:21.

Steve Anders, Jake Healy, Andy O’Connor and Ian White all covered the distance of 12km in the senior men’s race. Steve finished in 680th place in 56.08 and Jake finished in 1294th place in 1:04:55 whilst Andy completed the race in 1330th in a time of 1:05:36 and Ian White finished in 1381st in 1:06:47.

Well done to those who travelled to represent the club in the National Championship. Hopefully all of the hard work from the cross country season will pay off in the track season this year!

Team manager- Helena.