News Archive

With summer on the horizon, the social team are pleased to announce an extended programme of WAC Special Summer Socials - some new and hopefully fun challenges, camping weekends and an international event! to compliment the ever present grind of championship races.

The events and calendar section now contains the following events which will be organised if sufficient interest is shown:

25th - 26th June: Crudwell Lemans 24 hour bike race
Join team WAC for the 24 hours of Crudwell - a fun charity cycling / camping event where a team of cyclists take on as many laps of a flat(ish!) 7 mile cycling loop as they can in the 24 hours - yes this involves cycling through the night as well. Camping, BBQ, live entertainment and lots of fun are guaranteed at this event which is now in its 18th year. Open to all standards of cyclist from Tour de France wannabes to kids of all ages and even unicyclists! (a whole team of them last year!)
[ Further details | Events Page - Sign up here please]

2nd - 3rd July: Charmouth Challenge
The traditional club camping trip down to the seaside to take on a fell race in the afternoon and then bingo and drinking games in the evening!
[Events Page - Sign up here please]

30th - 31st July: Adidas Thunder Run
Another 24 hour challenge for teams of 2 - 8 (we suggest 8 unless members of the WAC Ultra Section are interested?) running around a 10k cross country course, Camping, hot showers and food vendors all included in what is fast becoming a popular team challenge event. [Further details | Events Page - Sign up here please]

20th - 21st August: Mystery Camping weekend
Too early to reveal the full details of this years second camping trip, maybe it will be relaxing at Wimbleball again? maybe a spot of surf training in North Devon? possibly sandcastles in South Wales? - sign up and watch this space for further details.
[ Events Page - Sign up here please]

15th - 16th October: Amsterdam Marathon / Half Marathon / 7.5k
Simple formula, book up with EasyJet from Bristol and then hand over to Running Crazy to handle the rest of the arrangements, stay in a 4* hotel in the centre of Amsterdam (B&B basis) and pick your chosen race distance. Make your stay as long or short as you want in order to sample the many delights? that Amsterdam has to offer.
[Events Page - Sign up here please]

The above events all require a degree of organisation which means we need people to commit via the "Count me in" feature of the social events pages on the website. In some cases a deposit will be required to secure places.

The events cannot run without your support, so please do get involved, sign up and come and enjoy the fun! Any further questions, please drop the social team an email or give me a shout on training / race days.

Cheers
Dave B (Disco's tours!)

Congratulations to Marc Bostock who completed the VO2 Jurassic Coast Challenge between 25th and 27th March. This event requires you to complete three trail marathons in three days. A link to the results is below. There were 145 finishers.

Men :
Day 1 - 5h 06m 53s
Day 2 - 5h 04m 33s
Day 3 - 5h 15m 56s
Total = 15h 27m 22s

Marc finished in 42nd position. Well done indeed!

[ Results ]

Congratulations to Bryan Morley who completed the CTS Sussex Marathon on Saturday 26th March. A link to the results is below. There were 118 finishers.

Men :
1st - Bryan Morley - 4h 37m 19s - 16th overall

[ Results ]

Congratulations to all the WAC finishers of the Forest of Dean Trails Half Marathon on 27th March. A link to the results is below. There were 1834 finishers.

Apologies if I have missed anyone from the results. The results website for this race doesn't allow you to search by club so I had to wade through 92 pages of results. Get your violins out!

Men :
1st - Neale Jarrett - 1h 29m 59s - 75th overall
2nd - Adrian Noble - 1h 31m 18s - 95th overall
3rd - Steve Baxter - 1h 37m 12s - 219th overall

Ladies :
1st - Nicola Fulstow - 1h 49m 06s - 617th overall
2nd - Geraldine Hope - 1h 49m 20s - 622nd overall
3rd - Rachael Vincent - 1h 53m 30s - 762nd overall

[ Results | WAC Times ]

Congratulations to the current and former WAC finishers of the first Peaky Freaky duathlon on Sunday 20th March. This race involved running up and down Brent Knoll, Brean Down and Crook Peak and cycling in between making a total of about 45 miles. A link to the results is below. There were 21 finishers.

Men :
1st - Bryan Morley - 3h 26m 54s - 9th overall
2nd - Shaun Callaghan - 3h 29m 36s - 10th overall

[ Results ]

Please note that Claudine is now sending out Club membership renewals, along with the AGM notification. If for some reason you fail to receive this letter in the next week or so you can always refer to the "Membership" page on this website to renew online or download a membership form.

Please extend a warm welcome to Kevin Hodge who has just joined the club.

Dear Club Members

It is only after considerable thought that I have decided not to stand for re election at this years AGM. As many of you will know I have been Chairman of Weston AC for some considerable time but following my move away from Weston I feel that this role would now be better suited to someone who will have more contact with the club. I sincerely hope that there will be a number of club members who will be interested in putting themselves forward for election and, if this is the case, anyone would like to talk to me about the role then I will be only to happy to do so.

Finally I would like to say what and honour and privilege it has been to serve the club and look forward to watching to go from strength to strength.

Robert Morgan

Congratulations to Dave Broadbent who completed the Rome Marathon last weekend in a time of 3h 49m 17s in 4145th position. Well done indeed!

Congratulations to all the WAC finishers of the Butleigh Multi-Terrain race on 20th March. A link to the results is below. There were 100 finishers.

Men :
1st - Neale Jarrett - 51m 20s - 16th overall
2nd - Adrian Noble - 53m 55s - 24th overall
3rd - Chris Gough - 55m 39s - 29th overall

Ladies :
1st - Rachael Vincent - 1h 06m 05s - 62nd overall

[ Results | WAC Times ]

Congratulations to all the finishers of the March Prom Run. A link to the updated provisional results is below. If you have any queries about these results please send an email using the link below. There were 231 finishers.

Men :
1st - Mikael Ekvall - Stromstadd Loparklubb - 24m 30s
2nd - Matt Ellis - Westbury Harriers - 26m 08s
3rd - Ben Morley - GWR - 26m 17s

Ladies :
1st - Sophie Voller - Westbury Harriers - 30m 23s
2nd - Tamsin Chick - Westbury Harriers - 32m 15s
3rd - Aileen Brown - GWR - 33m 39s

Rhinos :
1st - Tobias Hinchcliffe - Weston AC - 47m 22s

[ Provisional Results | E-mail race results queries | WAC Times ]

Please extend a warm welcome to Chris Lintern who has just joined the club.

Please see below a link to the March 2011 Prom Volunteer List. Please check this list to ensure you know where you are stationed for the race on Thursday 17th March. Any problems, please drop Lesley an e-mail using the link below or call her on 07540 823017.
[ Mar 2011 Prom Volunteers | E-mail Lesley ]

Congratulations to all the WAC finishers of the Cub race on 13th March. A link to the results is below. There were 364 finishers.

Men :
1st - Neale Jarrett - 1h 14m 26s - 14th overall

Ladies :
1st - Geraldine Hope - 1h 29m 38s - 57th overall

[ Provisional Results ]

Congratulations to all the WAC finishers of the Grizzly race on 13th March. A link to the results is below. There were 1675 finishers.

Men :
1st - Josh Harris - 3h 18m 55s - 146th overall
2nd - Michael Reep ?? - 3h ??m ??s - ???th overall (not listed on results!
3rd - Bryan Morley - 3h 25m 57s - 192nd overall

Ladies :
1st - Cheryl Valentine - 3h 51m 29s - 472nd overall
2nd - Nicola Fulstow - 4h 13m 40s - 778th overall
3rd - Sarah Styles - 4h 40m 52s - 1122nd overall

[ Provisional Results | WAC Times ]

Congratulations to all the WAC finishers of the Gloucester 20 on 13th March. A link to the results is below. There were 301 finishers.

Men :
1st - Simon Lund - 2h 18m 24s - 33rd overall
2nd - Neil Aycliffe - 2h 28m 43s - 62nd overall
3rd - Steve Baxter - 2h 30m 30s - 69th overall

Ladies :
No WAC ladies participated.

[ Results | WAC Times ]

Congratulations to all the WAC finishers of the Bideford Half Marathon on 6th March. A link to the results is below. There were 1054 finishers.

Men :
1st - Peter Clark - 1h 18m 48s - 21st overall
2nd - Josh Harris - 1h 29m 34s - 125th overall
3rd - Gareth Hiscock - 1h 48m 56s - 500th overall

Ladies :
1st - Lesley Cowell - 1h 50m 07s - 544th overall

[ Results | WAC Times ]

Congratulations to all the WAC finishers of the Street 5k on 9th March. A link to the results is below. There were 74 finishers.

Men :
1st - Pete Clark - 17m 30s - 6th overall
2nd - Dominic Taylor-Jones - 18m 14s - 10th overall
3rd - Jamie Tottle - 19m 38s - 26th overall

Ladies :
No WAC ladies participated.

[ Results | WAC Times ]

Well done to all the members who turned up to run the March 5k handicap run. Details of the course, and the Apr 2011 positions are below.
[ Notes and Course | Results & Handicap Positions for Apr 2011 ]

Please extend a warm welcome to Steve Baker who has just joined the club.

Congratulations to all the WAC finishers of the Burnham 5k race on Thursday 3rd March. A link to the results is below. There were 70 finishers.

Men :
1st - Bryan Morley- 19m 41s - 21st overall
2nd - Dave Baxter - 19m 47s - 22th overall - PB
3rd - Chris Gough - 19m 56s - 23rd overall - PB
4th - Tobias Hincliffe - 20m 12s - 27th overall - PB
5th - John Hincliffe - 20m 53s - 36th overall
6th - Chris Dachtler - 21m 17s - 40th overall

Ladies :
1st - Kira Thorpe - 20m 51s - 35th overall

[ Results ]

Exciting opportunities available to all club members. Click on the link below for more details!

[ Exciting Opportunities ]