Meet the triathlete – January 2020 – Nick Haigh
January’s ‘Meet the Triathlete’ catches up with the winner of Best Long Course Male and Most Improved Male at the BRAT Awards last year. Meet the BRAT who just loves to go long, Nick Haigh!
Midland T&F League
These are the dates to keep free for the four senior T&F League Fixtures.As you can see we have a home fixture at the University Track on Sunday 12th July. Help will be required to host this match – more details to follow. Sunday 17th May – AbingdonSunday 7th June – CoventrySunday 12th July – BRATSunday 9th August – Stoke
Heart of England T&F League
More dates to start filling in the blanks in the 2020 diary.There will be three fixtures in the Junior HoE T&F League. Sunday 3rd May – BanburySunday 5th July – CorbySaturday 25th July – Kidderminster and Stourport
Diary Dates
Some general dates for the diary for 2020 21st March – Midland Road Relays Men 12x, Ladies 6x and Juniors 3x University Open Track Meets6th May10th June8th July29th July
Meet the Triathlete – December 2019 – James Wright
Meet the Triathlete – Decemeber 2019 edition – James Wright. Top tips and info on James’ Triathlon experiences so far.
It’s social time!!
The two main events in the BRAT Social Calendar are just around the corner: BRAT Awards Evening – 23rd November – Harborne Golf Club BRAT Christmas Ball – Black tie event at The Cube in the city centre, with three course Christmas Dinner and featuring a live band! These events are both excellent opportunities to share in the club’s achievements across the year, and to enjoy a sociable get together. Tickets for the Awards evening are available in the website shop. Tickets for the Ball can be bought direct from Chris Davy. Email chairman@bratclub.co.uk or chrisdavy@hotmail.co.uk – alternatively contact him on Facebook.
Midlands Road relays
On a lovely and pleasant Saturday,….if anyone can remember what that is ! BRATS were there in force; dominant over all others in numbers having with six teams, and a strong A team to boot. The B team were looking a real potential force to qualify, but illness hit their team making qualification it a tall order. The six stage when compared with the twelve in Spring; has always been more difficult for us to shine, however, we are not traditionalists. The best of the Midlands all in our sights. First leg, just like an “old man’s” particular seat in a pub had Dan’s name on it (He is a veteran, so appropriate). There were four athletes away: Bath, Bristol, Bath, Newcastle and Dan; who took on the lead on the way down to the lake. A great performance and pb putting us into 4th position. Karl was flying, overhauling…
Friday Night Circuits are Back
Work on that S&C and build up your core strength and stability. Starting this Friday 4th October at St Thomas Aquinas school gymWychall Lane B38 8AP 7 to 8pm. £3.00 per session Any queries contact Nigel Clegg.
BRAT Summerfield Smash 5k – Results
Provisional results for the BRAT Summerfield Smash 5k.
Tooth and Claw at Div. 2!
A frantic final day relegation fight between BRAT athletes and the Wolves resulted in success for us… Sunday 4th August saw the final meeting of the Midland Senior Athletics League season at Wolverhampton & Bilston. After the first three meetings Gloucester and Rugby were all but assured of promotion to division one, whilst Coventry were safe in mid-table and Cheltenham had already been relegated. So it came down to a straight fight between BRAT and the Wolves. In what turned out to be a tense affair, Wolves taking an early lead, we somehow managed to overhaul their total with some excellent individual performances and a great overall team effort to finish on an impressive 341 points, just a single point behind Gloucester (342), one ahead of Rugby (340) and most importantly ahead of Wolves on 290. Making BRAT debuts were Rosalie and Rosette Nyanguile, Nicole Travasso, plus Ben Beaumont and…
Silver For Lily at Midlands
A silver medal was the reward for BRAT under 13 athlete Lily Smith in the Quadrathlon event at this weekend’s Midland Championships. After running 13.50 in the 100m and throwing a pb of 6.72m in the shot, Lily put herself into medal contention. Another pb in the 600m of 1.50.28 and a leap of 4.88m in the long jump put her just 200 points behind the eventual winner – a great achievement all round, especially considering the size of the task given the height advantage the girls in first and third place had over Lily – See pic ! Her score of 3586pts was a club record, surpassing the previous held by Josie Williams by nearly 500 points. This was Lily’s 11th club record this year, a magnificent achievement. Also breaking the club record was U13 Boy Jamie Callaghan in the boys quadrathlon with a score of 1342points, recording 3.36m…
Concrete Cows and PB Fest
Yesterday afternoon a veritable small army of BRATs headed south to not so sunny Milton Keynes. Not only is MK the host of the (in)famous concrete cows but is also the host of the MK 5000m PB Special Open Meeting. The scorchio conditions from earlier in the week had relented and the rain from earlier in the day had passed, leaving cool calm conditions ideal for distance running. The meeting kicked off at 15:15 with the first of 12 consecutive paced and graded 5000m races culminating with the ladies and men’s elite races which included the England Athletics Champs. The meeting lived up to its name with a flurry of BRAT PB’s or SB’s. 19:48.68 Rachel Farquhar (PB)19:43.69 Eloise Lee (PB)19:39.38 Rob Dowse (SB)19:15.50 Anne Kenchington (PB)18:24.64 Damian Cartland (PB)17:25.83 Chris Burrows (PB)16:46.26 Thanos Tsolakis (PB)16:26.63 Abayomi Adedimeji (PB)16:20.51 Steve Dunsby (SB)15:30.36 Mark Ince (PB)15:15.81 Dan Robinson (PB) Despite feeling unwell Molly…