Collingwood Athletic Club

Last update
21 May 2012

Beginners course: Contact Collingwood AC if you are interested in starting running from scratch. Our next beginners running course "From Couch to 5k" commences 5th Sep (7.00pm start); this course will take you from not daring to run for a bus to running our local parkrun 5k free time trial in 10 weeks! If you are interested, send an email to beginners@collingwoodac.org.uk for full details. Application Form

More baby news: 23/04/12 - Andy Randall and wife Venus had a baby boy.

Social: 01/07/12 - Picnic and rounders at Nonsuch Park. See Events page.

Congratulations to Prisca Abalo who was announced as the Sweatshop prizewinner for March 2012 at Roundshaw Downs parkrun.

Mob Match v Tadworth AC - last night (29/03/12) saw the first mob match between the 2 clubs. Well done to Tadworth who took the honours. Full Results Photos

Club competitions - final results for 2011/2012 are out now on the Competitions page.

Recurring Handicap - a record field of 35 for Thursday's event (01/03/12). Janet Nash was the winner so well done to her. Full Results

Men's Surrey League XC - it's official, the men's team won the final fixture (11/02/12) and consolidated 2nd place and promotion to Div 3.

Doug White completed his 50th marathon at the weekend (11/12/11) - The Saxon Shore. Well done Doug.

Baby news: as most of you are aware now, Nicola had her baby (Jack) in November, but also Joe Bangs and his wife had their first baby around the same time.

parkrun: Robert Knight won the monthly Sweatshop prize at Banstead Woods, where Jenny leads the women's points table and Roger, Robert and Steve are in 3rd, 4th and 5th in the men's table. At Roundshaw, Ercole is in 3rd.

London Marathon 2012 club ballot places: the draw took place on 13 Oct and the 2 winners were Cat Gaskell and Bill Walsh. 1st reserve Steve Cooney, 2nd reserve Richard Fox.

Allan Rumbles 150 mile Spartathlon on 30/09/11. Unfortunately Allan had to succumb to crippling plantar fasciitis at around 60 miles but gave it a good crack and vows to return next year. You can still donate to his charity at Just Giving

Congratulations to Rob Wilson who completed his 400th marathon at Kauai in Hawaii 04/09/11 and bagged 1st M70 place. Results

New club standards awards from 1 Dec 2010. Medals will be awarded to members who have achieved a set standard for their age group, from 01/12/10 onwards, in distances from 5k to Marathon. Standards Tables. Rules & Explanation. Contact Ruth to claim your award. Congratulations to Nigel Wood and Dave Johnson on being the first recipients of awards. Photos

Congratulations to the newest member of the 100 Marathon Club, Tom Wilkie, who today (18/04/10) completed the Brighton Marathon. Results

Gill Stalley has now joined Andy, both as parkrunner of the week, and also now becoming a co-director of the Banstead Woods parkrun. And a pb today (17/04/10) as well.

Well done to Andy Stalley, this week named as parkrunner of the week. Andy has run and volunteered numerous times at Banstead Woods and has latterly been a co-director of the event.

A brilliant achievement by Allan Rumbles last weekend, running the Oner 78.6 mile ultra on the Jurassic Coast. Read his epic report on an epic race.

Congratulations to Mel Johnstone - Guinness have now confirmed her as setting a world record for the youngest female to run 100 marathons. Guinness

Congratulations to Steve and Allan who both completed their 100th marathon in the past couple of days.

Banstead Woods Time Trial - congrats to Andy Stalley who has become a co-director of the event.

Well done to Andy Stalley who completed a milestone 100th marathon at The Picnic on Sat 20 Jun 09. Results and photos.

We have a new Press Officer and committee member, Alison Fox. Thank you to John Ivers for his many years of hard work in the role and welcome to Alison. She'll be resurrecting a monthly newsletter so if you have race reports or other material for this, contact Alison.

For info on the Club Championships, Handicaps and Age-Graded competitions, go to the new "Competitions" page from the link in the menu above. A nominated race list for 2012/13 can be found on this page.

England Athletics took over governance of athletics in England as of Apr 1. A regional council will be elected to run the South East region, which is split into 2 sub-regions. Surrey is part of SSK (Surrey, Sussex, Kent).

Roundshaw Downs parkrun
19 May

Nonsuch parkrun
19 May

Riddlesdown parkrun
19 May

Whitstable parkrun
19 May

Banstead Woods parkrun
19 May

Self Transcendence 5k
14 May

Hillcrest 10k
13 May

Halstead Marathon
13 May

Sutton 10k
13 May

Marafun
12 May

Trailblazer 10k
12 May

Roundshaw Downs parkrun
12 May

Riddlesdown parkrun
12 May

Banstead Woods parkrun
12 May

Nonsuch parkrun
12 May

Forbanks Relay
9 May

Belfast Marathon
7 May

Pony Express Ultra
5/6 May

Three Forts Marathon
6 May

Richmond Half
6 May

Bewl Water Marathon
5 May

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Surrey County AA

Croygas Sports & Social Club
Mollison Drive
Wallington
Surrey   SM6 9BY

The club is growing all the time. We currently have around 105 members ranging from casual runners to the highly competitive.

If you're a teeny bit interested, why not try before you buy - come along to our HQ on a training evening (Tue/Thur 6:30pm for a 6:45pm start) and check us out.

Or you'll find us meeting for long runs on Sundays when we're not racing, on Stafford Rd., Wallington at Mellows Park car park (8:30am).

Runners of all standards welcome - this means you.

Mob Match v Sutton R v 26.2RRC
7 Jun 12

Dorking 10
10 Jun 12

Tour of Epsom
11-15 Jun 12

Horton Ctry Pk Relay
19 Jun 12

Richmond 10k
24 Jun 12

Open Evening
26 Jun 12

Near As Damn It 10k
28 Jun 12

Social - Nonsuch Pk
1 Jul 12

Nonsuch Pk Relay
4 Jul 12

Croydon Ultra
8 Jul 12

Open Evening
10 Jul 12

Mob Match v Sutton R v 26.2RRC
12 Jul 12

club nominated races in bold

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Quiz night at Croygas: the next quiz is TBA, £2 per head, team of 6 (max).

This site is for members and non-members alike. Hopefully you'll find some useful information within these pages whether you're with or without us. Although most of the results listed in the right hand pane are focussed on members' performances, there are many links to the full results of races as well.
If you're not a member - have you thought about joining a club? It can offer you some benefits:

training advice
cheaper race entries - save £2 or more on road race entry fees when you're a member of an affiliated club. Entry to league and most of the championship cross-country events is even cheaper - we pay your entry fee!
discounts in some of the better sports shops - 5 to 10% on production of your membership card
like-minded people to train with on those cold, wet nights, and even the warm and dry ones as well