City of York Athletics Club - Endurance events

Hi all, these below are all the dates and venues for upcoming XC and road relays, XC leagues and national championships.

Northern road relays- Sports City, Manchester 16/9/17
National road relays- Sutton park, 7/10/17
Northern XC relays- Graves Park, Sheffield 21/10/17
National XC relays- Berry Hill, Mansfield 4/11/17

West Yorkshire League
Wakefield- 14/10/17
Nunroyd Park- 29/10/17
Spenborough- 19/11/17
Keighley- 9/12/17

British Cross Challenge
Cardiff- 14/10/17
Milton Keynes- 11/11/17
Liverpool- 25/11/17
Antrim- 6/2/17
Loughbrough- 10/3/17

Yorkshire XC championships- Light water valley, Ripon 6/1/17
Northern XC championships- Harewood House, Leeds 27/1/17
English National XC championships- Parliament Hill, 24/02/17
Inter Counties XC championships (British Cross Challenge final)- Loughborough 10/3/17

Monday endurance team training session will be at 11am, meeting in the main car park tomorrow, sorry for the late notice! Steady run planned

Summer is nearly over with the autumn road and cross country season about to begin. The club is keen to ensure a good turnout in a busy programme of road and cross country races throughout the autumn and with a wide variety of events from relays to league fixtures there is something there for all runners.

The northern and national road relays are on September 16th and October 7th respectively with the equivalent relays for cross country being held on October 21st and November 4th.

The fixtures for the West Yorkshire Cross Country League are: October 14th (Wakefield), October 29th (Guiseley), November 19th (Spenborough) and December 9th (Keighley).

Please can seniors let Mike Raynes know if they want to be entered for any of the above races/relays whilst juniors should contact Garry Dickinson.

Monday session next week is on the 22 acres, meet at the cricket pavilion
COYAC

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Sunday runs for the next couple of months:
23rd April Outgang
30th April YDL Hull (track)
7th May Coneysthorpe
14th May Yearsley
21st May Millington
28th May YDL Darlington
4th June Outgang
11th June Welburn
18th June Thixendale
25th June YDL York
2nd July Coneysthorpe

Sunday Runs!

5th Feb Coneysthorpe
12th Feb Millington
19th Feb Outgangs
26th Feb Yearsley
5th March Thixendale
12th March Welburn
19th March Outgangs
2nd April Coneysthorpe

Merry Christmas everybody

Everyone has been asking about training over the holidays :) How about we do Tues 27th and Friday 30th that week – starting 11am at the York Uni car park – maybe do a hill session on one day.

It’s the relays on the Saturday 31st at the Knavesmire, so see you there too

Long run on New Year’s Day (location to be confirmed) - again 11 am to give people a chance to get over NYE.

Monday 2nd January at 11 am at 22 acres or we could do a fartlek around golf course, white house farm etc

Best regards
YCAC

After Christmas we will reach the business end of the season as the cross country championships take place. As a club we encourage our runners to take part in Yorkshire, North of England and National championships in order earn a county vest, to test themselves against the best runners in the country or simply to rub shoulders with the next Mo Farah. These events actually cater for a broad standard of club runners with almost 2,000 runners doing the senior men’s cross country championships so they are not just for elite runners. There are also team events in all age groups and races and it would be good to complete as many teams as possible.

Mike Raynes [email protected] will be organising the entries for seniors and under 20s with Garry Dickinson [email protected] organising the entries for juniors. We will be doing club entries all three championships so please can runners let us know whether they want to be entered and can they please pay us the entry fee by the closing dates given below.

The Yorkshire Cross Country Championships take place on Saturday January 7th at Lightwater Valley. The closing date for club entries for this championship is Friday 9th December. Here is a link to the prospectus. http://www.northernathletics.org.uk/news/yorkshire-news-page/

The North of England Championships take place on Saturday January 28th at Knowsley Safari Park. The closing date for club entries for this championship is Friday 6th January. Here is a link to the prospectus: http://www.northernathletics.org.uk/events/northern-athletics-cross-country-championships/

The National Championships take place on Saturday February 25th at Wollaton Park, Nottingham. The closing date for club entries is Friday 6th January which is the same date as for the North of England event. Here is a link to the website. http://www.englishcrosscountry.co.uk/

Yorkshire News Page - Northern Athletics UK CAU Cross Country Championships 2016 The Yorkshire Cross Country Team recently competed in the UK CAU Cross Country Championships on Saturday 12th March in Birmingham. All age groups performed superbly well, whether winning medals or not, on a rare sunny and warm day in the cross country calendar...

City of York Athletic Club had five teams competing in last Saturday’s Northern Cross Country Relays at Sheffield. The under 15 boys team were the highest finishing of the club’s teams coming home in 5th place. Finnian Hutchinson finished the first leg in12th position which was then improved by Thomas Hayes to 9th on the second leg before Josh Dickinson ran the 4th quickest time overall on the anchor leg. The under 17 boys team also finished in the top ten to place 7th. Angus McMillan ran his normal strong opening leg which put him in the top ten fastest times of the day. This was then consolidated by Luca Parker and Nathan Smith on the final two legs.

The club completed two other teams in the junior age groups with the under 15 girls team coming 24th and the under 11 boys teams came 19th. The club also had two runners in both the under 13 and under 11 girls teams which were one runner short of completing a team.

Josh Schofield and Tyler Hutchinson ran strong legs in the senior relay on the opening two legs with Mike Raynes and Mark Cage completing the team as it finished in 39th place overall.

Meanwhile in local road running news Stephen Kirk finished in an excellent 5th place in the Whixley 10k road race in a time of 37.24.