Welcome to the Track & Field section of Huntingdonshire Athletics Club

07/03/2010  Frostbite League Race 6  details
The Frostbite Friendly League season came to a conclusion today in Huntingdon with 129 Juniors and 406 Seniors completing the respective final races in excellect conditions.
Our Juniors fielded a team of 15 and once again finished in second place and so sealing second place in the league overall.
Despite having only 23 runners, its lowest of the season, the Senior team still managed to finish in fifth place on the day which meant a final league placing of fifth, being beaten to fourth only on running points after finiahing equal fourth on league points.
A slightly disappointing end of season, therefore, for the Seniors but, of course, well done to all runners, both Junior and Senior, who did represent the Club today and, as ever, a big thank you to all our supporters.
Full results will be available via the League website link below, when it is back up and running.

Finally, particular congratulations go to James Downing and to Katie Scholey, who received awards as our Junior Runners of the Series.

The Senior Runner(s?) will be announced at the Frostbite Presentation Evening on 27 March.

07/03/2010  Bath Half Marathon  details
10858 runners completed the Bath half marathon, including Club member, Adie Woolvern who finished 188th. Adie recorded a time of 1:22:57 for a new PB.
Well done Adie!

Results currently available via the link below.

20/02/2010  Indoor Track Meets  details
With the road and cross country runners taking a break, attention turned to indoor athletics with Christian Roberts representing Cambridge University in the traditional Varsity Relays against Oxford University at Lea Valley in London. Called in as a last-minute replacement, Roberts still ran a personal best of 7.40 secs to place 4th in the 60m sprint. He later led off for Cambridge in the 4x200m with his team securing the victory. Roberts joins illustrious company in this event with the name of Harold Abrahams engraved on the trophy as a previous winner. Abrahams won gold for Britain in the 1924 Olympics and is immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire. Further north in Birmingham, Matt Leadbitter took part in the Midland Counties open meet with impressive results. In the 200m, Leadbitter surprised with a fine 2nd place in 23.31 secs. This time beats his personal best of 23.50 set four years ago and places him in the top ten in the Eastern Counties. Later in the day, Leadbitter ran the whole way from the front to easily win his 800m race by over eight seconds in 2:04.18.

07/02/2010  Frostbite League Race 5  details
A revised course in Bourne Woods meant that the going was more muddy than in past races but the underfoot conditions did not stop our Junior and Senior teams from recording fine performances.
40 Club runners took part in the two races - 16 Juniors (4 boys/12 girls) in a field of 122 and 24 Seniors (17 boys and 7 girls) in a field of 413.
Our Juniors once again finished second to strengthen their hold on second place in the league overall (out of 13 teams).
Our Seniors bettered their performance in the previous race by finishing fourth. This means that the team is joint third in the league on league points but fourth overall (out of 17 teams) due to having having a higher race points total.
So, it is all to play for in the final races in four weeks time, which will take place on our doorstep in Huntingdon - here's hoping for a fantastic turnout to end the season.
Finally, thanks as ever to all our supporters.

06/02/2010  Birmingham Games  details
With the vast majority of Hunts AC athletes slogging it out through muddy fields, Matt Leadbitter was the club’s sole representative on the indoor circuit at the Birmingham Games. Matt did not let down as he sliced a quarter of a second from his personal best in the Senior Men’s 400m to finish 3rd in 50.70 secs behind Richard Buck who has competed at World Championship level. Matt’s time rates him as the second-fastest 400m runner in the Eastern Counties.

24/01/2010  Midland Counties Indoor Open Meet - Birmingham  details
16-year-old Hakeem Duckworth-Porter travelled to Birmingham to test his winter’s training progress over the 60m sprint race at the Midland Counties Indoor Open Meet. He didn’t disappoint as he won his U17M race in 7.75.