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Norwich Union Grand Prix – Final Details

Well with only a few days to go excitment is building about the London Grand Prix.
With many big names confirmed (bar one American pansy!) this promises to be an excellent night of athletics.
By now all 42 of you (bar 2) should have revceived your tickets.
With this in mind here are a few final details:

Travel

A group of people will be traveling from Walton station, meeting up at 3:25pm and departing on the 3:41pm to be there for 4:32pm. Anyone is welcome to join us for this.

Timetable

Here it is, thanks to Nat!

Timetable

Seating

We are all seated in block 25, but we are across 3 rows. Please sit on the seat marked on the BACK of your ticket and NOT the front.

Please see this document for a detailed seating plan:

Seating Plan

See you there!!

Weekend Round Up 24th/25th June

Another busy weekend on the competition front with the Southern Womens League team travelling to Wimborne on Saturday and the Young Athletes League team at Perivale on Sunday.

Lack of numbers led to the teams finishing last in both matches but there were some excellent individual performances, see reports below.

There was also a Rosenheim League match last Wednesday at Eton Rosenheim League at Eton
Next week sees just one match, an Ebbisham League match at Kingston. All under 13 and under 15 boys are eligible to compete, contact Phil Cox on 01932 – 225351
Many of our junior athletes have performed well in district schools championaships and if we are sent any results we will publish them here.
These are from the West Surrey Prep Schools Champs at Bracknell on June 22nd.

U11 Georgia Morse 600m 2.20.3 75m 12.6

U13
Sasha Morse ran a very good 1500 in 5.39.7 came  4th. 
Jessica Woodley threw 6.73m in the shot
Katie Draper ran an excellent 100m to come equal 1st in time of 13.6 ( a pb)and goes on to
represent West Surrey at the Nationals at Birmingham
Carla Letheby won the Javelin with 23,43m and the discus with a new championship record of 24,78m( a pb) and will also go on to the finals at Birmingham.
Carla also came 2nd in the 800m

Weekend Round Up 17th/18th June

There were two junior matches this weekend, the home Lily B match on Saturday and an Ebbisham League match on Sunday at Croydon.
Reports from both matches can be found below

A few others were in action.
Two of our senior ladies ran in an open meeting at Tooting Bec and both recorded 1500m personal bests. Jo Locker ran 4.49.4 and Natalie Warren 5.07.1

Jack Marchbank ran two personal bests in an afternoon at his District Schools Championships, 2.18 for 800m amd 4.58 to win the 1500m. We don’t normally see any results from Schools Championships so please let us have any results you know of.

Endurance running coach Jon Hamblen showed that he can still do it as well as coach it with a 2nd place from a field of 900 runners in the Yately 10k in 33.20.

Hugo Fleming  ran at the Thames Valley Athletics Centre (Eton) on 19th June in the
West Surrey Prep School Championships (IAPS) where he came 1st in the
U12 800m with a time of 2:31.5 , a new personal best.  He will now race at the National Championships in Birmingham later this month. This was the day after he ran in the Ebbisham League match at Croydon.
This coming weekend is another busy one with the Southern Women’s League team travelling to Wimborne on Saturday and the Young Athletes League team in action on Sunday at Perivale.

 

Weekend Round Up 10th/11th June

The weekend was dominated by the junior club championship which produced the usual high level of competition with some high quality performance.

See the report in the next column or Junior Club Championships 

Also this weekend, on Saturday ,were the Surrrey Schools Championships. We have heard about two excellent performances by Walton athletes and if anyone has any other news to report please let us know.. Kaylee Price improved her 100m hurdles personal best to 15.7s and Alex Ferrelly improved his pb for 1500m to 4.16.85, congratulation to both.

Last week saw the third Rosenheim League match see Rosenheim League match 3
Next weekend we have a home Lily B League match starting at 12.00 at Stompond Lane.

There are events for under 13, under 15 and under 17 girls and there are also some non scoring events for under 11 girls. Contact John Lane or Mike Fraser or any coach for details.

As usual anyone who can help out on the day would be most appreciated. Please offer your services to John, Mike or any coach.

Bruce Judd

A service of thanksgiving for Bruce Judd was held at St Nicolas Parish Church, Cranleigh on 5 June 2006. It was attended by family and friends including colleagues on the Surrey County Committee and contemporaries of Bruce from Walton AC. An address was given by Derek Crookes and the following is based upon that and the remarks made by the Rector, the Rev’d Canon Nigel Nicholson.
Those of us in the Athletics community knew of his activities in and around the sport but we learnt how he and Eileen had been very involved in the local community. Bruce was a member of the local Robbie Burns Society and became very involved with the schemes to help orphans in Romania.
Bruce’s active athletic career was with Walton AC where he achieved a high standard in Road, Cross Country and Track over the middle and long distances. The main focus for the club over the winter months were the Southern Area 12-stage relay, the London to Brighton in October and the National event (also London to Brighton) in March. Bruce was, at various times, Captain and Team Manager of the Walton teams which held their own with the best in these events. This obviously meant a lot of administration by Bruce as well as competing. Bruce ran well on the track in races with the likes of Gordon Pirie, Peter Driver and Chris Chataway.
At the time when Bruce was running his training and competition had to be fitted around a working week where Saturday working, at least half a day, but some times a full day, was the norm. He was an engineer with Cooper (the world-famous motor racing marque) in Surbiton. The story was told where Bruce received an invitation for a race a Chiswick on a Saturday – a day that he was working all day. He worked out that he could travel from work to Chiswick, race, and then get back to work without his absence causing much attention. Unfortunately, he had not reckoned on the race being televised and he was spotted by one of his managers! Luckily Bruce did not lose his job and, no doubt made up the time and probably gained in the esteem of his colleagues. One of his roles at Cooper was a significant involvement in the initial Mini Cooper project.
In his active days and later a characteristic of Bruce was his modesty with regard to his achievements. Clearly he was a very loyal team man. Following this he went into officiating and administration. In addition to roles he held at Walton AC, including running their successful road relays for many years, he became a committee member of the South of the Thames CC Association and was their president in 1994/1995. He also joined the Surrey County AA Committee and was our President in 1995/1996.
The vast amount of hard work done can be seen from the number of County sub-committees he was involved with:-
(a)Road – this included visiting road races in the County to check on such things as Course Marshalling, First Aid, Refreshments and checking for points of danger.
(b)Championships – as meeting secretary for the Young Athletes CC Relays, the Veterans Championships and the main CC Championships he was a key member.
(c)Coaching & Development – where he liaised with Regional and County Development Officers to provide opportunities for promising young athletes to further their goals.
One proviso for all his hard work was that there had to be at least 3 free weekends for him to go to Scotland (his roots were Scottish) to visit family and to see his favourite football team – Falkirk.
His officiating duties included being a Track Judge and a Recorder. Several people have described Bruce as unflappable. One example of this occurred at a Surrey Youth Games where he was the Chief Judge with only one assistant. A 100 Metres race had five competitors all wearing number 4! Calmly, a result was obtained by quickly writing down such features as: Blue Shorts, Long hair, Glasses etc on the result card.
In spite of the difficulties inherent with the roles he has undertaken Bruce was never derogatory about anyone. He was a high-class athlete, official and administrator. Bruce was characterised as quiet and unassuming – a person who got on with things, often in the background, not seeking any personal glory – a real gentleman. He will be greatly missed.