Collingwood Athletic Club

Last update
23 Jan 2012

London Marathon coach: there will be a coach running from Sutton Post Office (6:45am), via Wallington Town Hall (7:00am) to the London Marathon start. To book a place (£8) contact Mel via email or phone 07788411912

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

Beginners course: Contact Collingwood AC if you are interested in starting running from scratch. Our next beginners running course "From Couch to 5k" commences 4th April 2012 (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

New club standards awards from 1 Dec. 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

Alison's latest beginners group completed their Roundshaw Downs parkrun on Saturday 12th November Everyone celebrated their achievement with the now traditional Bucks Fizz and blueberry muffins afterwards!

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.

AGM 2009: we held our AGM on 5 May 09. For a report, prizewinners and photos see here.

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 2011/12 can be found on this page. The final results for 2010/11 have now been posted.

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
21 Jan

Crystal Palace parkrun
21 Jan

Riddlesdown parkrun
21 Jan

Nonsuch Park parkrun
21 Jan

Banstead Woods parkrun
21 Jan

Winter Tanners 30
15 Jan

Men's Sy Lge XC
14 Jan

Ladies' Sy Lge XC
14 Jan

Roundshaw Downs parkrun
14 Jan

Banstead Woods parkrun
14 Jan

Nonsuch Park parkrun
14 Jan

Riddlesdown parkrun
14 Jan

100 Club AGM Marathon
8 Jan

Surrey Cty XC Champs
7 Jan

Nonsuch Park parkrun
7 Jan

Roundshaw Downs parkrun
7 Jan

Banstead Woods parkrun
7 Jan

Tadworth 10
2 Jan

Liverbird Double 2
1 Jan

Lloyd Park parkrun
1 Jan

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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 90 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.

The Perch
29 Jan 12

East Sy Lge Relay - Wimbledon Common
4 Feb 12

Surrey League XCs
11 Feb 12

National XC Champs
25 Feb 12

East Sy Lge - Denbies Relay
10 Mar 12

Spitfire 20/Tempest 10
18 Mar 12

Hastings Half
25 Mar 12

club nominated races in bold

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Quiz night at Croygas: the next quiz is 16 Dec, £2 per head, team of 6 (max). The questions will all be Christmas themed and Sandra will be providing mulled wine and sausage rolls.

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