Cotswold Hilly 100 is almost here
Missing those miles? we’re still looking for adventurous folk to run up some hills. You can book on through ClubSpark
Warwickshire Road Race League
Below, you will see a list of the races which will make up this year’s Warwickshire Road Race League (WRRL). The programme for 2022 is made up of 10 races :- 18th April Massey ‘s Tractor 10k at the NAC at Stoneleigh Massey Ferguson RC 19th May Ryton 5m at Ryton Pools near Bubbenhall Spa Striders 8th June Sphinx 5m Sphinx AC 12th June Two Castles 10k Leamington C&AC 19th June Arden 9m Knowle&Dorridge RC 10th July Northbrook 10k Northbrook AC 20th August Stratford Summer 6 Stratford Upon Avon AC 11th September Kenilworth Half Marathon Kenilworth Runners 18th September Balsall Common 10k Balsall Common RC 9th October (tbc) Rugby 10m Rugby&Northampton AC You can get more details on the Club web sites or the Two castles web site. Massey’s Tractor 10k To enter use this linkhttps://www.eventrac.co.uk/e/the-massey-ferguson-rc-tractor-10k-4144 Spa Striders 5m Entries are open now https://www.eventrac.co.uk/e/ryton-5-7977 Thursday 19th May 2020 at 7:30pm…
Cotswold Hilly 100
BRAT Club is looking for runners for the Cotswold Hilly 100, a 100-mile road relay race over 10 legs.
BRAT Men’s XC team set new record
The BRAT men’s XC team continued their marvellous season with another impressive performance at Warley Woods last Saturday, in the third race of the Birmingham League. With 40 BRAT finishers this was by some margin the biggest Club turnout we have ever seen in a senior XC race, and it made for an amazing atmosphere on the day; before, during and after the race. No other club had anywhere near this turnout, in fact 4 of the clubs didn’t finish B teams.Results on the day saw the BRAT A team finish 5th and we now lie 4th overall out of 16 teams. We are only 25 points off third place so all to play for in the final race at Leamington. The B team finished an impressive 4th on the day and also lie 4th overall. Full results are at https://www.birminghamccleague.co.uk/images/stories/bdccl/articlepdfs/XC_League_Archive/2021-22/2022-01-15-M1.pdf Many thanks to all who turned out to run or support, there seemed to be BRAT…
BRAT JUNIORS – ANOTHER STRONG XC PERFORMANCE
Well done team! Here are the totals after 4 of the 5 league cross-countries: Lots more stats and results here. As you can see, we are in 5th place after 4 events. This is something that we can be proud of, especially given the calibre and history of some of the teams below us. Everyone involved plays a part, so thank you to the coaches, team managers, parents….and of course the athletes themselves. A big shout out to Darcey who managed to lose a shoe at some point on the course and keep going until the end! It may be a tough task for us to catch 4th place overall in our next league XC, but let’s give it everything we’ve got! Bookmark the date in your diary, let’s aim for a record turnout to finish the season! Keep strong, keep training! Individual results as follows can be found below. Note that these…
Another amazing BRAT junior XC performance!
Before I go into how well you all did (yes, you did well!), I want to mention about how you, and we as a team can be even better. This isn’t to take anything away from anyone’s performance, but rather, it’s a sign of how far the team has come. We are challenging the best teams, there’s no reason why we can’t break into the top 3 at the next event. You have 6 weeks until the next league race in Walsall (16th January). 6 weeks is a decent amount of time to put in some consistent training, and maybe add in a few additional races too. With regards to training, you know the drill. Keep consistent and work hard. It will pay off. Talk to the coaches if you want a specific training strategy. All of the coaches bring a wealth of experience and have all run cross-country, we…
Men’s XC team shine at Northampton
By: Martin Ludford (XC Team Manager – Men) What an amazing result the Birmingham XC League at Northampton on Saturday 4th December. Following our very encouraging start to the season in race 1 last month, BRAT recorded their best ever result, taking 2nd place in race 2, behind only Birmingham University, and beating all other local rivals in the process. Inspired running by our 24 BRATs meant we had our six A team scorers (Adam Peacock, Henry Brocklehurst, Chris Pickering, Karl Welborn, Dan Robinson, John Stolberg) all home inside the top 40, and our score of 130 put us well clear of Tipton in 3rd place 1 University of Birmingham 3 4 6 8 12 15 48 2 BRAT Club 5 13 19 20 35 38 130 3 Tipton Harriers 16 23 26 31 53 54 203 4 Loughborough Students 7 18 45 49 58 60…
Tuff Un 2021
The Action Heart ‘Tuff-Un’ returned after a year or two’s hiatus. The race is off-road and takes in 6 miles of mud, sweat and tiers within in the confines of Baggeridge Country Park. The course has a bit of everything with single tracks, hills, a little mud and a shallow stream crossing. As is traditional BRAT turned up in force and took the award for the most participants from one club, an award we have taken since it’s inception. November provided us perfect weather for the event, with bright sunshine and just cold enough to make the ‘water feature’ a bit of a challenge. In spite of the lack of rain recently the clay pit was as muddy as ever with a few people losing footwear. Here are the standout performances for BRAT:Dan Shepherd won overallAmy Brammar came in 2nd femaleHelen Pike came in 3rd female.Adele Raiment was the fastest…
BRATs at London Marathon 2021
Great results from BRATs at this years London Marathon.
Seniors Midland Road Relay’s
Midland road relay results were excellent for both our men and women.
BRAT Juniors @ The Midland Road Relays
A slight preamble before getting into how the BRAT juniors got on… Personally, I have ran a few variations of the seniors road relays over the past few years, and when I heard about the junior road relays, I was under the impression that the junior route wouldn’t be in any way similar to the senior route, alas! THAT HILL! Yes, THAT HILL! After a lovely 100m of downhill from the start, you are essentially faced with a climb that goes on for the best part of a kilometer. Another thing to mention here, the juniors, all age groups (right down to our 11 year olds) run 3.88km, it really is quite a challenge. My view is that the organizers enjoy pain, and enjoy inflicting pain, and enjoy watching everyone run hard on the endless undulations, with a nice bit of lactic acid already in the legs after the first…
Action Heart ‘Tuff-Un’
Join us at the Action Heart ‘Tuff-Un’ in Baggeridge Country Park for an undulating trail run.