Lilleshall 5M Rankings

Lilleshall 5 mile Mens Rankings.

( all times under 29 minutes. )

2010 – 259 finishers,   2011 -  329 finishers,   2012 -  258 finishers.

1.	Mark Dalkins	Telford AC V35	25.02	1st       2010
2.	Chris Davies	Telford AC	25.31	1st       2011
3.	Ross Jones	Tipton H	25.42	2nd      2011
4.	Chris Rimmer	Telford AC	25.54	3rd      2011
5.	David Evans	Wolves & Bilston AC	26.51	4th      2011
6.	Chris Carter	Telford AC	26.52	3rd      2010
7.	Paul Ward	Wrekin RR   V45	27.00	1st      2012
8=.	Peter Middleton	Shrewsbury AC	27.16	5th      2011
8=	Steve Cale	Mercia FR	27.16	2nd     2012
10.	Peter Butler	Oswestry Oly	27.21	3rd      2012
11.	Chris Bagshaw	Telford AC	27.31	4th      2010
12.	Daniel Brazier	Wolves & BIlston AC	27.39	4th      2012
13.	Paul Hammond	Wolves & BIlston AC	27.47	7th      2011
14.	Ryan Heath	Telford AC	27.55	5th      2012
15.	Robin Sedman  Smith	Telford AC	28.02	6th      2010
16.	Ian Mansell	Centurian RC	28.09	6th      2012
17.	Steve Cunningham	Wolves & Bilston AC    V45	28.10	9th      2011
18.	Andrew Sprague	Dudley Kingswinford    V40	28.11	7th      2012
19.	Dave Mansbridge	Telford AC   V45	28.26	8th      2012
20.	Dave Smith	Wolves & BIlston AC  V40	28.27	7th      2010
21=	Greg McDonald	RAF Cosford   V40	28.40	10th    2012
21=	Daniel Maskew	Wolves & BIlston AC	28.40	11th    2011
23=	Johnny Sanders	Telford AC  V45	28.42	8th      2010
23=	Mark Burnhope	Wolves & BIlston AC  V50	28.42	11th    2012
25.	Dale Wilkinson	Telford AC   V40	28.43	12th    2012
26.	Alex Russell	Telford AC	28.49	9th      2010
27.	Jamie Davies	Telford AC	28.54	13th    2011
28.	James Bennett	Market Drayton RC    V40	28.55	14th    2012

Lilleshall 5 mile Womens Rankings.

( all times under 38 minutes. )

2010 – 259 finishers,   2011 -  329 finishers,   2012 -  258 finishers.

1.	Claire Martin	Telford AC                     V35	28.46	1st        2011
2.	Sian Webb	Telford AC	29.42	1st        2010
3.	Claire Burgoyne	Shrewsbury AC	30.57	2nd        2011
4.	Michelle Clarke	Telford AC                     V35	31.23	2nd        2010
5.	Denise Sanders	Telford AC                     V40	32.05	3rd        2010
6.	Emma Gould	Serpentine RC	32.47	3rd        2011
7.	Sally Potts	Newport RC                   V40	34.18	5th        2010
8.	Cheralyn Evans	Telford AC                     V45	34.22	6th        2010
9	Sian Powell	Kidderminister & Stourport	34.24	2nd       2012
10.	Helena Bramwell	Shropshire Shufflers     V40	34.54	7th        2010
11.	Val Carter	Birchfield H                    V45	35.09	5th        2011
12.	Lucy Kesek	Unattached	35.32	8th        2010
13.	Yvonne Hill	Oswestry Olympians     V45	35.36	9th        2010
14.	Lisa Blagden	Telford AC                     V40	35.37	6th        2011
15.	Catherine Voyce	Shropshire Shufflers      V35	36.09	3rd        2012
16.	Adele Hickman	Action Heart	36.10	11th      2010
17.	Rachel Gibson	Telford H	36.34	8th        2011
18.	Kathy Jones	Shrewsbury Tri	36.37	4th        2012
19.	Kathryn Morgans	Wolves & Bilston AC	36.40	5th        2012
20.	Sharon Tommy	Unattached	36.41	13th      2010
21	Jenny Weare	Unattached	36.48	14th      2010
22	Catherine Mayall	Cobra RC                      V35	37.00	6th        2012
23	Esme Wilson	Telford H	37.03	10th      2011
24	Amelia Reynolds	Telford AC	37.30	7th        2012
25.	Georgia Potts	Bridgnorth AC	37.33	11th      2011
26.	Debbie Woolley	Telford H                       V40	37.50	8th        2012
27.	Emma Davis	Telford AC	37.55	12th      2010

Updated 12^th April 2013.

Graham Merrington Writes...

To League Management Committee-UK Youth Development League

Re: Midland West 1 Division U13/U15 age group

I am writing on behalf of Telford AC to strongly object to how Telford has been treated by the organizers of this League.

This objection is on the basis of our understanding that the new league structure was introduced to give athletes improved competition, reducing the distance athletes had to travel for competition, and reducing the cost to Clubs of competing.

I have to say that the Division Telford were forced into(despite an appeal) has resulted in none of the  objectives being met. The distance that athletes will have to travel has become enormous and as a result the transport costs will be excessive. With regard to the objective of improved competition this will not be achieved because as the  Club will not be able to travel to all of the fixtures because of distance, and clubs will not travel to Telford for the same reason for their host match, competition will become almost non existent for our athletes.

In late November when the league structure was made public an appeal was made to yourselves via Wendy Daniel. The appeal was that Telford was in the wrong Division (West 1) and the reasoning was the excessive amount of travelling the Club would have to do (and I included travel distances). I compared it to being Division East 1 were the distances would be much less and we would be competing against our “neighbors”. In fact I made the case where several teams in East 1 were better suited to West1. Even with the switch both Divisions would remain the same in number. The appeal was heard on 8 December. The club did not hear of the outcome, so I emailed Wendy to ask the outcome. The Club have still not heard form her. On 19 December I emailed our Area Co coordinator Joyce Tomala to ask if she knew the outcome. Her reply was ”the request was considered but apart from travelling the committee had to take into account all other options”. No change. No explanation was given as to the “other options”

Since that date the final League structure has been made public and the host clubs announced. Firstly this has resulted in the other Shropshire club (Shropshire All Blacks) resigning because of travelling. This now means that our nearest neighbour club Is Yate, which is 84 miles away! As Telford are hosting a meeting it means that the club have 3 away fixtures which will result in the Club travelling 650 miles. What further compounds the problem is that on the weekend of June1/2, Telford are being asked to travel to Yeovil on the Saturday and Cardiff on the Sunday at a combined total of 550 miles. You cannot expect athletes, officials and families (who will have children in both age groups) to travel these ridiculous distances.

How can this be a league structure that promotes participation and more meaningful competition? Shropshire athletes have been very badly served by you and were much better served by the National Young Athletes League.

Graham Merrington   Track and Field secretary   Telford AC       11/03/2013


 

TO ALL TEAM MANAGERS, COACHES, ATHLETES AND PARENTS:

With the fixture list now published, many of you will have seen the venues for the newly formed National Youth Development League. I would imagine that you were shocked at seeing the venues that the Club have to travel to. Although the U17/U20 league team has some long distances to travel, it is nothing like the distance that the U13/U15 league team have to travel.

As this is the first season of this league, the League Management Committee have decided in what Divisions Clubs should be placed. In Telford’s case they were placed in Midland West 1 which has Clubs from South Wales, Gloucestershire and Somerset. This in the opinion of the Club Committee was clearly the wrong Division as Midland East 1 had clubs from Staffordshire and the West Midlands. In December the Club appealed to the League Management Committee that they had been placed in the wrong Division and the reasons for it. This appeal was rejected.

The Club was then left in the position of either withdrawing form the League or staying in it and being selective in the venues the team travels to. In March the Club Committee considered this and decided to remain in the League, and to continue to lobby the National Committee to try and change the League structure for 2014.

The U13/U15 age group is now in a division with teams from Carmarthen, Cwmbran, North Somerset, Bath, Yate and Yeovil. The alternative division denied to our team has Clubs from Cannock and Stafford, Halesowen, Leicester, Tamworth, Sutton Coldfield and Wolverhampton and Bilston.

The latest letter from your Club Committee to the National Youth Development League is attached for your information.

Graham Merrington, Track and Field Secretary on behalf of Telford AC Club Committee 26/03/2013

The Bollard

The Spring 2013 edition of the TAC Bollard is now available on the Bollard pages of the TAC website.
http://www.telfordathleticclub.co.uk/bollard

Wrekin Fell Race update

23-Mar-2013 13:00
After checking the course this morning we have decided to reluctantly postpone the race and a new date will be arranged.

The school car park is covered in deep snow, parts of the course have knee-deep snow and the rest 9 inches or so. Several broken tree branches down across the course and the steep descents are slippery underneath with deep snow on top.

So for the first time in 36 years the race has been postponed due to snow. It was cancelled in 2001 due to the foot and mouth outbreak.

Apologies to all concerned as we really wanted to go ahead and I thought the trees on much of the course would have protected it from the snow but this is not the case and the snow drifting is much worse than we expected.