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WINTER TRAINING CANCELLED – THURSDAY 7 JAN 2010 *** ATTENTION ALL
U13’s, U15’s, U17’s, U20’s:
WINTER TRAINING Winter
endurance/fitness training starts this Thursday, 1 October. Please meet in
Marlborough Rugby Club car park at 6.30pm. The session lasts
about an hour and is primarily targeted at 400m-1500m runners. We will do a
variety of intervals, including some speed work and hill reps. Please bring
trainers & spikes for road and grass training. The sessions will
be run by Richard and/or Miles, but other coaches also welcome. Any queries, please email Karen on karen@ukontime. |
CROSS COUNTRY
EVENTS THIS WINTER We are taking part
in some cross-country events. If you are interested, please let Lucy
Lassiter and/or Kev Garraway know and we can get a team together.
(Sorry there are no under 9 events.)
Athletes
remain in the year group for the summer season, so if your birthday is Sept
98 you compete as an U11 even though you have had your 11th birthday! Any adults who feel
enthusiastic can also take part! |
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RECENT EVENTS
INCLUDED: MADJA Committee
Meeting – Monday 7 December We had a very
productive committee meeting – please read the minutes here and let us
know your thoughts. St. John’s Clubs
Fair - Monday 28th September Thanks to all who
came along to find out what MADJA is all about – we look forward to seeing
you next season. We start the season on 21 March 2010. |
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RESULTS UPDATE National Pentathlon
Success for Marlborough Athletes Marlborough Juniors athletes have registered some
great successes at recent major Pentathlon and Heptathlon events. Just as our gold medallist, Jess Ennis at the
World championships must, these athletes compete in five or seven events and
accumulate points for each performance. The faster the time, or the
longer/higher the jump, the more points scored. Pentathletes
and Heptathletes thus need to be good at sprinting,
hurdling, middle distance running, high jumping, long
jumping and in throws such as Shotput and Javelin. Over the weekend of 19/20 Sept, Ben Davies (Under
15), Lucy Averill (U20), Chris Claydon (U20), Hannah Claydon (U17), and
Hannah Thompson (U20) all represented Wiltshire in the English Schools
Multi-events championships at the Exeter Arena. To qualify for this final,
athletes first had to succeed at county level, and then be in the top 6 in a
South West competition. Over 6000 athletes across 50+ counties dream of
qualifying for the national final but only about 36 per age group make it
through. The best MADJA performers were Lucy Averill who
came 12th with 3735 points and Ben Davies who came 17th with 2443 pts. Ben’s
performance was outstanding as this was his first major pentathlon competition
and the U15 Boys category is highly competitive. To get 2443 points Ben
needed to: run 13.3s for his sprint
hurdles, Shotput 11.31m, High Jump 1.65m, Long Jump
5.04m and run 2.22 min for 800m. Chris Claydon finished a creditable 22nd in
his decathlon, Hannah Thompson 25th and Hannah Claydon 29th. The following weekend at Exeter, three of MADJA’s
U13 athletes had their first major Pentathlon experience at the Exeter
Harriers open Pentathlon meeting. Joe Williamson won the U13 Boys category with
a score of 1510 points and Alex Painting was 2nd. In the U13 Girls, Amy
Cooper came 4th with a score of 2191 points. The girls
winner, Morgan Lake from Slough, also broke the national record for U13G
Pentathlon previously held by our Olympic medallist Katherine Merry. MADJA now has four athletes ranked in the UK top
30 (see www.thepowerof10.info). Ben Davies is ranked #28, Lucy Averill #20,
Joe Williamson #8, and Amy Cooper #10. See the article at http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk. |
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SEASON UPDATE We
have had a very successful season (possibly our best ever) with a 3rd place finish
in Wessex League and 4th in NATYAL. Great credit due to all team managers.
Our U15B team were virtually unbeatable, and U13B ended the season with a
very strong team, but we got the above league positions because we filled
slots with willing athletes across all age groups. Well done all. A
HUGE thank you to everyone who was able to come down to the track on the 6
September to join us for our end of season Club Championship, lunch and
awards. It was fabulous to see so many people, and to enjoy the unexpected
sunshine. The atmosphere was amazing,
and everyone enjoyed themselves. Log
on to http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk
and read the article reporting the day – if you saw the paper version we had
some great photos printed as well! |
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U15 Boys Win Wessex League!!!!!! Wessex League Table – http://www.wessexleaguetandf.co.uk/league_table.htm |
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March 2009 Newsletter
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