Mens

World indoor trials Results were mixed with Richard Hill winning the 800m and gaining selection for the World championships in Valencia.  Richard won his heat on day 1 of the trials in a time of 1:51.69 and went on to Win the final on day 2 taking the lead with 300m to go. Richard came under slight pressure from Damian Moss off the final bend but was strong enough to drive on and come home in 1:48.26, he is currently ranked in the top 10 in the world.  Chris Warburton won a bronze medal finishing 3rd 8:20.40 in the trial but just outside a selection place.  Bruce Raeside 3:56.58 5th 1500m and Paul Judson 21:90 5th 200m reached the semi finals but missed out on the finals.

UK Challenge Final Bruce Raeside won the 1500m final in Sheffield in a time of 3.51.6 beating 2 of the AAA's finalists from the previous week. Bruce's performance also helped Sheffield to team honours.

Alsager 5 9th Billy Farquharson 24.40 10th Ian Boneham 24.41 15th Martin Whitehouse 24.58 and 30th Matt Blunden 25.43.

Stamford 30k 1st Matt Blunden 1.41.49 24th Mike Benford 1.59.02.

Richard Hill  Storms to a 1.47.6 in . Vienna on Tuesday night which is well inside the world qualifying time. It was a p.b. and he is currently ranked 5th in the world indoors 2008.

Midland Indoor Senior and U20 Championships NIA Birmingham
200m Senior- 1st Paul Judson 21.58
60m Senior- 5th Paul Judson 7.10
60m U20- 5th Michael Warner 7.12
60m U20- 6th Adam Goulding 7.26
60m U20W- 4th Emma Hourd 8.23
High Jump- 1st Matt Ashley 1.90

Notts AC's Ben Norris (U17) Finished 5th in the Belfast International Uk
Cross Country

Nicola Bamford finished 29th in the World xc Challenge/Lotto Cross Cup on Dec 23rd

Derby Midweek 5k Jan 9th Ashley Sabin finished 4th in 15.19 and Ben Norris finished 5th 15.57

UKA INDOOR CITY CHALLENGE JAN 27TH

Bruce Raeside, Paul Judson and Chris Warburton all won their events at the uk:a Indoor City Challenge on Sunday 27 January at Sports City, Manchester.  Their performances contributed to Team Sheffield winning the match convincingly and getting through to the Final.
Bruce's performance was worthy of a mention in the report of the match on the uk athletics website.
"Among the many Team Sheffield event winners was Bruce Raeside who stunned spectators with a convincing win in the 800m. Usually a 1500m runner, the venture into a different event was used to his advantage: ‘I'm very happy with the win. I was trapped in last place at the start but as the others began to tire I still had plenty left because I normally compete in endurance. I managed to make up the distance and felt really strong when I finished.' Raeside will compete at the Norwich Union World Trails and UK Championships in Sheffield on the 9 & 10 of February as he looks towards qualification for this year's Olympics".
Paul Judson - 200m - 22.03 Bruce Raeside - 800m - 1:54:57 Chris Warburton - 1500m - 3:48:59 For full report and results, go to www.ukathletics.net .

NOTTS AC CHRISTMAS RELAYS 27TH DEC

Billy Farquharson helped the Notts AC 'A' team to victory in this years relays, but they did not have it all there own way. Redhill were out to spoil the fun with M. Yates bringing them in 1st on the Masters Leg. The lead was short lived when Billy ran the fastest leg of the day 11.37 to gain the lead for Notts from training partner Alan Smith. It was then the women's chance to shine with Sarah Costin setting off with a 12 sec advantage, Redhill came back with a fabulous run from C. Hay to give Redhill a commanding lead. However it was Notts that triumph due to a good run from consistent performer Tim Hartley taking almost 2 min's out of S. Nash on the last leg. Notts AC B team finished 3rd with Amber Vally taking 4th. Full Results Fun Run Results

MIDLAND 7 CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS 08 DEC
Notts AC Senior Men won this championship in emphatic style for the 5th year in succession. Darren Fowlie lead the team home followed in by Richard Kay and Martin Whitehouse making up the first 3. Tom Bailey was next home in 5th, Ashely Sabin 6th, Martin Gibbons 11th. Results Previous Winners

EUROPEAN CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS 09 DEC

Billy Farquharson finished in 44th in 33.37. Farquharson, who ran so aggressively that he was ninth at one-third distance, said: “I'm not that happy with my run as I didn't think it was much good. I couldn't breath after the second lap and that really took its toll. I thought the first two loops were quite easy, but it got difficult after that. The pace wasn't that fast but I think the wind played a part.” (Courtesy of UKA Athletics)

BEDFORD HARRIERS AND KEYWORTH TURKEY TROT HALF MARATHONS 09 DEC

Matt Blunden completed the undulating Bedford Harriers course in 70.53 for 3rd position, this is an improvement by 2mins on last years effort. Tim Hartley had an excellent run in the Keyworth Turkey trot winning a Turkey in 68.10.

Courtesy of Brian Smiths Photos

LEEDS ABBEY DASH 10K

Ian Boneham had the run of his life winning this prestigious 10k. Ian left Olympic, World representive and Commonwealth Games Marathon Bronze medalist Dan Robinson in his wake as he romped to a winning 29.25 clocking. This is the first time Ian has been under 30mins for 10k and he did it in style. Backing Ian up for Notts was the inform Rob Joy finishing in a pb of 30.33, Rob's Wife is about to give birth at anytime which is probably why Rob ran so fast. Darren Fowlie was under pressure to keep with Rob as he was giving him a lift back to Norfolk and was rewarded with a pb of 30.44. Notts collected the team prize and the club is starting to show the strength we always new was there.

TELFORD 10K 16 DEC
Martin Whitehouse ran his 2nd quickest 10k ever to finish in10th position 30.22, for his efforts Martin won a tub of vaseline, a pair of women's gloves and some elastic lace's, well done Martin. Matt Blunden finished 17th in a new Pb of 30.42 taking 20sec his previous best.

UK X-COUNTRY TRIALS, LIVERPOOL SEFTON PARK 24th NOV

A Fantastic Run from Billy Farquharson finishing 5th Britain and gaining selection for the Great Britain and NI X-Country team due to compete in the European Cross Country Championships in Spain on 9th December. This result puts Billy back up where he belongs having missed out over the last few years due to pesistant injuries. It just goes to show what Billy can achieve on a run of consistant training. Second home for Notts was Chris Warburton followed by Matt Blunden who was competing for the Combined Services. Tom Bailey was next home also competing for the Combined Services. Nicola Bamford Aiming for GB an NI section finished 12th in her very competative U23 race. In the U15 age group Tom Collins finished 26th while in the U17 Ben Norris finished 28th. Full Results

BENIDORM HALF MARATHON

Tim Hartley performed well in this regular fixture for him favouring the sun rather than the cold and wet of the x-country trials or Leeds Abbey Dash. Tim finished 6th in 67.59.

Gateshead International X-Country
Billy Farquharson finished an impressive 6th, while equally impressive Nicola Bamford finished 15th for full results click here womens mens, Ben Norris finished 20th in the under 17's , Tom Collins performed fantastically well to finish 10th in the under 15's

Riverside Half Marathon
Paul Rowland and Matt Blunden finished 1st and 2nd on this very cold and wintry day at St Neots. Matt won in a new pb of 69.17 and Roly on his way back to form recorded his best for a few years 71.32.

Notts AC Senior Men put in a dominant performance at the Midland 6 Stage Road Relay Championships at Sutton Park. Billy Farquharson brought the team home comfortable in front with a time of 17.29 2nd quickest time of the day. Back in form Ian Boneham ran the 4th quickest time of the day 17.46 and Tim Hartley was 9th quickest 17.53.

1 Notts AC 'A' 1:47:29, Darren Fowlie (3) 18:11 M Whitehouse (1) 18:02 Bruce Raeside (1) 18:08 Ian Boneham (1) 17:46 Tim Hartley (1) 17:53 B Farquharson (1) 17:29

5 Notts AC 'B' 1:52:36 Rob Joy (7) 18:16 Paul Rowland (4) 18:35 Ashley Sabin (6) 18:58 William Speake (6) 18:50 Sean Sutton (6) 19:01 Rob Birchall (5) 18:56

15 Notts AC 'C' 1:59:57 Simon Burton (50) 20:33 Colin Palmer (29) 19:09 Richard Kay (20) 19:06 Tim Woodthorpe (17) 20:23 James Hayden (15) 19:41 David Oxland(15) 21:05

51 Notts AC 'D' 2:12:16 Paul Archer (64) 21:42 Chris McGurk (63) 22:32 M Benford (60) 21:29 Kyle Tombleson (55) 21:54 Fred Pidgeon (57) 23:10 S Jennings (51) 21:29

74 Notts AC 'E' 2:26:23 Ken Allen (92) 24:31 Richard Belton (77) 21:41 Pete Robinson (84) 26:32 R Stratton (86) 27:26 Rob Denton (80) 22:02 Martyn Gibbons (74) 24:11

83 Notts AC 'F' 2:35:50 John Noble (62) 21:25 Joe Evans (85) 26:26 Ian Hart (86) 25:08 Richard Rudd (83) 26:04 R Darling (78) 22:15 Mick Robinson (83) 34:32

Robin Hood Half Marathon Rersults

Sean Sutton 13th 1.14.15 James Hayden 20th 1.17.18 Steve Jennings 45th 1.21.02 Simon Burton 79th 1.23.14 David Oxland 70th 1.22.45 Mike Benford 114th 1.25.42 Scott Ricsher 116th 1.25.40 Rob Denton 135th  1.27.10 Barry Harper 198 1.30.16 Paul Allcock 219 1.31.02 Michael Plant 367 1.34.58 Tracey Hallam 449 1.36.33 Kan Allen 454th 1.36.39 Chris Ricsher 560th 1.38.42 Alyson Wile 835th 1.42.58 Loraine Botham 1708th 1.52.46 Richard Mitson 2427th 1.58.52 Alan Marsh 2807th 2.01.47 Pat Allen 2818 2.01.53 Rachel Whittaker 3374th 2.06.08 Sally Smith 3629th 2.08.19 Karen Wood 3783rd 2.09.52 Michael Jones 3793rd 2.09.56 Stefan Doyle 3979th 2.11.55 Alan Smith 4169th 2.13.54 Yvonne Dawson 4277 2.14.51 Ros Perry 4398th 2.16.14 Elizabeth Smith 4509th 2.17.19 Andrew McLennghan 4757 2.20.15 Jonathan Lake 5163 2.25.20

Tim Wealthall Mile Race

This was the 16th year of the event. In the elite race ; "The Cooper Parry sub 4 Challenge",   (race 8) Chris Warburton from Notts AC broke the event record by 2.3 seconds but missed beating 4 minutes in blustery conditions
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British Milers Club Stretford

Two notable runs on Saturday 11th Aug in the prestigious Emsley Carr Mile race, to which they were both invited.  Chris Warburton ducked below 4 minutes finishing 5th in 3.58.44 (PB). Also, Bruce Reaside finished 8th in 4.01.55 (another PB). In the BMC events, Martin Gibbons did 1.51.91 for the 800 while Nicola Bamford ran 10.01.71 for the 3000

Midland Mens League Final Match

The Midland Team finished the season strongly with another improvement of a 6th overall match position.

We welcomed a further 3 x U17s for their debut to the Midland League : Victor Ferdinando (who gained a pb in the javelin), Alex Lewington (who competed in the long jump and attempted the triple jump for the first time) and Ben Norris (who led the 1500m A and B string athletes for most of the race before being pipped in the end for 3rd overall place). We also welcomed back to the team two of our ‘super vets’ - British Masters M55 gold medallists Viv Oliver and David Oxland.
Full Report Results

Briish Athletics League
Dave Denton's Merry Men secured promotion to the BAL National League 2 at Derby Moorways Stadium yesterday by winning the match by 20 points. Performances to note were Paul Judson's double in the sprints, anchoring the 4x100m to victory and helping the 4x400m relay team to 2nd. A string wins for Chris Warbuton, Bruce Reaside, Martin Whitehouse, Nick Talbot, Rob Careless. B string wins for Mark Dunwell, Bruce Reaside, Ian Boneham, Tim Hartley, Colin Palmer, Chris Shorthouse. Also 75 year old Bob Brown scored vital points in the PoleVault.
Full Results Pictures

Northern Athletics v AA Wales v Athletics Ireland v Midland CAA v Northern Ireland AF
v Scottish Athletics v South of EAA.

U23 Women 3000m - 2 Nicola Bamford - 10.05.87
U23 Men 1500m - 5 Martyn Gibbons - 4.09.68
U23 Men 200m - 3 Paul Judson - 22.10
U23 Men 400m - 1 Richard Hill - 47.06
U23 Men 4 x 400m - 1 Midlands - 3.15.69
U23 Men Hammer - 4 Chris Shorthouse - 52.50
U23 Women Pole Vault - 1 Emma Lyons - 3.91
U20 Men 100m - 2 Paul Judson - 11.02
U20 Men 1500m - 4 Richard Hill - 3.56.85