All England Schools' Championships , Birmingham.
Congratulations to Matt Tunbull and Jorden Best, selected as part of the Bedfordshire and Luton Schools' team for the All England Schools' Championships.  This competition is known as the mini Olympics, with tomorrow's internationals amongst the competitors.  Also going to compete are Lauren Ambrose and Kay Brown who are 2nd claim members for Biggleswade - both Kay and Lauren were on the podium last year.
- late news - Jordan Best came 4th overall in combined events
- further details next month

Southern Mens  Luton 21st May
Biggleswade came 2nd out of 4 with 124 points, Met police were 1st with 130 points.   This position puts Biggleswade in equal 3rd place with Southend. Top 3 are promoted, Southend are the opposition on 25th June again at Luton.

In a match with the top 3 clubs in the league against each other, Biggleswade AC needed to win or come second to be get promotion at the end of the season

As the meeting progressed with the match scores being announced periodically, Biggleswade Athletic Club were keeping a fine margin in 1st position in front of Met Police, with Luton loosing ground in 3rd and London AC in distant 4th.  Unfortunately for London AC members of their team were involved in a car accident on the way to Luton and suffered whiplash injuries so never made it.

With 3 events to go, Biggleswade had a 6 point advantage over Met Police.  Because of this Roy and Tim volunteered for the steeple chase; Met police got 10 points , Biggleswade 8 points , advantage now 4 points.  Before the steeplechase, Tim had 1 attempt in the Discus (no throw), Tim then returned to the Discus on round 6 (final round) all he had to do was plant one down the middle to get another 3 more throws there were only 7 in the competition so only 1 would be eliminated, unfortunately no throw, Biggleswade advantage now gone Met Police 10 points Biggleswade 4 points.  In the final event 4 x 400 m Biggleswade had to win hoping that Met police would have a disaster, and finish last.  In leg one David kept us in second place 1 stride behind Met Police, in the 2nd leg Ross attacked with 300 m to go and took a 5 yd advantage until the final 100 when Met Police had some reserve with Ross tiring,  In the 3rd leg Craig's tactic, with his arm hurting, was to hold onto the Met police and attack in the last 50, giving Zack a chance over the final leg, which he did and so did Zack.  Over the last 50 Zack was putting pressure on Met Police, but Met Police had just enough.  In the end, Met Police were 1st and Biggleswade 2nd by a stride and breaking 4 mins for the first time in 3 years.

400m Hurdles A	David Brown	1st	69.3 secs
400m Hurdles B	Kieran Best	2nd	74.8 secs
100m A	Ross Cockcroft	3rd	13.2 secs
100m B	Stuart Goodwin	3rd	14.2 secs
800m A	David Brown	2nd	2.20.7 mins
800m B	Stuart Goodwin	3rd	3.18.1 mins
5000m	Roy Steven	2nd	18.24.3 mins
400m A	Craig Morse	3rd	56.9 secs
400m B	Ross Cockcroft	2nd	63.4 secs
110 m Hurdles	David Brown	1st	23.1 secs
200m A	Zack Morrison	2nd	24.1 secs
200m B	Keiran Best	2nd	25.0 secs
1500m A	David Brown	2nd	5.06.3 mins
1500m B	Roy Steven	2nd	5.21.1 mins
4 x 100m	Biggleswade	2nd
3000 m S/chaseA	Roy Steven	2nd	14.08.9 mins
3000 m S/Chase B	Tim Huxtable	2nd	16.10.6 mins
4 x 400 m	Biggleswade	2nd
Long Jump A	Zack Morrison	1st	5.86 m
Long Jump B	Craig Morse	1st	5.79 m
High Jump A	Zack Morrison	1st	1.75 m
High Jump B	David Brown	1st	1.30 m
Triple Jump A	Craig Morse	1st	12.24 m	PB CR
Triple Jump B	Stuart Goodwin	1st	9.34 m
Hammer A	Tim Huxtable	4th	18.71 m
Hammer B	Justin Best	1st	16.11 m
Javelin A	Tim Huxtable	3rd	27.75 m
Javelin B	Justin Best	2nd	19.57 m
Shot A	Tim Huxtable	2nd	8.39 m
Shot B	Justin Best	1st	7.94 m
Discus	Justin Best	4th	22.18 m	PB CR

County Schools' Championships , 14th June
Many of our young athletes were at the Bedfordshire and Luton Schools' Championships, those with qualifying results would be considered for selection for the English Schools Championships (ESC) being held in Birmingham 7/8/9/ July.

In the Junior Boys category (U15's ) we had Matt Turnbull in the Shot and Discus, Jorden Best in the Hurdles and High Jump, Nick Gilbert in the 800 m.  Matt won both Discus and Shot, putting him in a dilemma, you can only compete in one event in the ESC, and he qualified in both. - Matt has opted for the Shot.  Jorden also had a dilemma, having jumped a PB in the high jump he was also wanted in the hurdles, having taken advice he left the hurdles.  His second problem - he also had qualified in both events , Jorden has opted for the Hurdles.  Nick was 4th in the 800 m close to his season's best.  In the Intermediate Boys, Craig Morse also took the County Schools title in the Long Jump, but a little below par.  Also in this age group was Charlie Jones in the Javelin where he took 3rd place only a little below the 1st and 2nd.

In the Junior Girls, we had Sophie Dyer in the Javelin.  Sophie was a little below par and came 4th.  In the Intermediate Girls age group (U17's), Frankie Birch was taking a welcome break from her GCSE exams and was up for revenge from the county Champs in May where she came 3rd in the hammer.  This time Frankie was ecstatic with her victory and County Title and medal.  Also in this age group was Alice Middleton in the 1500 m - Alice was just below the qualifying time before this race, so was planning an assault on the time.  From the beginning Sarah Simpson a former national, regional and Inter counties champion over cross country took off leaving a large gap so Alice changed her tactics and stayed with the pack until a lap to go.  Alice came home a comfortable second, but not the time she wanted.  Also in this age group was Sammy Freeman, coming back after a layoff and Sammy once again showed her promise by winning in the javelin, with a distance that puts her as No. 1 in the county.

Eastern Young Athletes League  St Ives 19th June Biggleswade finished 6th out of 7 - the usual story plenty of good performances but far too many holes in the team.  We had so few children that we only managed to finish one relay team out of the six age/gender categories.  If we had not had six juniors from Riverside to join us, it would hardly have been worth going.  It did clash with the Heart of the East and Fathers' day and it was extremely hot but we are struggling for numbers at the moment.  The next round is in two weeks at Milton Keynes.  Our chances of making a plate final this year look slim.

Conner Best had a good day, finishing 2nd in the long jump and high jump and 3rd in the hurdles.  Billy Balaam went one better by winning both the discus and shot.  Thomas Bruce was 2nd in the B string for both.  In the U15 age group, Matt Turnbull was close to a clean sweep in the throws, winning the discus and javelin but was 13 cm off the winning shot putt distance.  Unusually, Jorden Best had to settle for two 3rd places, in the hurdles and high jump.  Another not used to being beaten was Craig Morse (2nd triple jump, 3rd long jump and 4th 1500m).

The U13 girls had one winner, Jasmin Coughtrey in the shot, backed up by Katie Bland's 2nd in the discus with Chloe Best winning the B string.  Laura Gilbert and Francesca Gray were 2nd and 3rd, respectively, in the 800m. The under 13 girls did manage to finish a relay team.  The under 15 girls struggled for points and Hannah Hutchinson and Alice Gommershall (3rd A and 2nd B) in the 1500m scored three quarters of them.  The under 17 girls were represented by stalwarts Frankie Birch (1st shot, 3rd B discus and 4th javelin) and Joe Goodyear (3rd shot, 3rd discus and 2nd B javelin).

U13 Girls	70 m Hurdles	L Airey	6th	15.2 secs	PB
	100 m	A A Hewitt	5th	15.1 secs
	100 m	B C Scott-Fuff	6th	16.3 secs
	200 m	C Scott-Fuff	6th	32.8 secs
	800 m	L Gilbert	2nd	2.50.3 mins	PB
	800 m	F Gray	3rd	2.53.1 mins	PB
	Long Jump	A Hewitt	3rd	2.74 m
	Long Jump	Chloe Best	3rd	3.33 m	PB
	High Jump	Katie Bland	4th	1.25 m
	Shot	Jasmine Coughtry	1st	7.10 m	PB CR
	Discus	Katie Bland	2nd	17.99 m	PB CR
	Discus	Chloe Best	1st	12.88 m	PB
	4 x 100 m	Biggleswade	6th	62.6 secs
U15 Girls	100 m	L Payne	7th	16.3 secs
	1500 m	H Hutchinson	3rd	5.45.5 mins
	1500 m	Alice Gomersall	2nd	6.10.0 mins
	Long Jump	L Payne	7th	3.32 m
	Discus	??????	5th	15.09 m	PB
U17 Women	Shot	Joe Goodyear	3rd	8.29 m
	Shot	Frankie Birch	1st	8.22 m	PB
	Discus	Joe Goodyear	3rd	18.55 m
	Discus	Frankie Birch	3rd	18.16 m
	Javelin	Frankie Birch	4th	14.74 m
	Javelin	Joe Goodyera	2nd	13.95 m
U13 Boys	75 m Hurdles	Conner Best	3rd	13.6 secs
	1500 m	S Entwhistle	5th	5.44.0 mins
	Long Jump	Conner Best	2nd	4.08 m
	Long Jump	Carl Gorden	5th	3.39 m
	High Jump	Conner Best	2nd	1.35 m
	Shot	Billie Ballam		9.16 m	PB CR
	Shot	Tom Bruce	2nd	5.39 m	PB
	Discus	Billie Ballam	1st	21.67 m	PB
	Discus	Tom Bruce	2nd	14.63 m	PB
U15 Boys	80 m Hurdles	Jorden Best	3rd	12.6 secs
	High Jump	Jorden Best	3rd	1.65 m
	Shot	Matt Turnbull	2nd	11.76 m
	Discus	Matt Turnbull	1st	33.19 m
	Javelin	Matt Turnbull	1st	27.44 m	PB
U 17 Men	100 m	Kieran Best	6th	12.9 secs
	200 m	Kieran Best	5th	25.2 secs
	1500 m	Craig Morse	4th	4.49.0 mins	PB
	Long Jump	Craig Morse	3rd	5.48 m
	Triple Jump	Craig Morse	2nd	12.07 m

Colworth , 17th 18th and 19th June
Three races (5 miles, 8.1 miles, and half-marathon) are run separately on different days, but those running all three are also in the Multi-terrain Marathon Challenge, where the times for all three races are totalled

Colworth 5m	Gavin Elliott	31min 35sec	15th / 355
Colworth 8.1	Gavin Elliott	55 min 50sec	13th / 126
Colworth Half Marathon	Gavin Elliott	1hr 39min 51sec	8th / 121
	Janet Forrester	2hr 7min 9sec	4th in age category.
Marathon Challenge	Gavin Elliott	3hr 7min 16sec	9th

National Duathlon Championships
Trifest 2005, Emberton Park Olney, 12 June

Janet Forrester	10K run	50.03
	40K bike	1.19.29
	5 K run	29.03
	Total	2.41.08	2nd in 50-54 Female age category.

Dunstable 10K , 12th June

Sarah-Geeson-Orsgood

57mins 48 secs.

Everton 3 mile Trail Run , 11th June Riverside Runners took 1st (Alan Turnbull, Senior Male winner) and 3rd (Martyn Blackwell), but Biggleswade took 2nd (Nick Gilbert, Junior Male winner), and Karen Worral at 7th was Senior Female winner.  Another Riverside Runner, Emma Ritchie, was Junior Female winner at 9th.  This table shows the Biggleswade runners, Neil Gregory has fuller results.

Nick Gilbert	2nd	17m 45s	JM	Junior Male Winner
Gavin Elliott	4th	18m 22s	SM
Ken Prior	5th	19m 12s	SM
Karen Worrall	7th	19m 31s	SF	Senior Female Winner
Valerie Kemp	11th	21m 08s	SF
Zoe Dawson	12th	21m 28s	SF
Damien Pitts	13th	21m 37s	SM
Laura Gilbert	14th	21m 52s	JF
Alice Gomersall	17th	23m 33s	JF
Stephanie Bruce	23rd	28m 40s	JF
Yvonne Tatchley	26th	29m 41s	SF

Betty Willet 10K  22nd May

Arthur Mitchell

79th

46m 37s

Dunstable 10K  12th June

Arthur Mitchell	79th	47m 03s	8th MV50
Sarah Geeson-Orsgood	155th	57m 48s