Les Collett passed away peacefully aged 77 after a long illness on Thursday 10 May, ironically the date of the 5K Training Race at which he used to help at the finish.

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Juniors and parents are asked to meet in the club room at the track (immediately left after reception) for a 17:45 start on Thursday 17th May. This is to avoid any clash with a school’s “Quad Kids” athletics event being held at Hillingdon Athletics Track. The event is due to finish by 17:30 but this is the first time the event is being run and over 100 pupils should be taking part.

Results kindly produced by Phil Welch are here.

Congratulations to 17 year old Matthew Fayers for his selection to compete in the 1500m for the Aviva GB & NI junior team at the Loughborough International on 20th May.

He has also been chosen to compete in the Olympic Trials at the end of June.

Club membership fees have been due since 1st April 2012

Thank you to everyone that  has completed the form and either become or renewed their membership.

Details of membership fees and online form are here.

Please can all active club coaches,  life members and “Elite Athlete Award” holders also complete a form this year so the membership secretary is kept up to date with all contact details.

Anyone who has not paid up for membership by now isn’t insured to train or compete with HAC and team managers are reminded not to enter anyone into competitions that aren’t a member. TM’s can get an updated list from the membership secretary.

Use of the clubhouse is also restricted.

If you want to be a member but are unable to afford the fee please contact the membership secretary. Details here.

As some of you may have noticed that, unlike your membership fees, the track fee’s have gone up as of April 1st. If you use the track regularly the cheapest way is to get a pass – ask at reception.

PLEASE INSIST THAT YOU PAY THE CORRECT FEE. Track staff have been charging £3.40 to all adults when these official prices should have been charged.

The cheapest option is to get a 6 month or yearly pass if you use the stadium more than once a week. Details available at the track.

Julia Bleasdale ran under the UK Olympic “A” standard for 10,000 metres on Sunday 29th April in the USA to earn a firm hold of an Olympic place this summer.

Article from The Daily Telegraph.

Julia competed in the Payton Jordan Invitaional meeting in Stanford, California finishing 4th in 31:29.57. That time is 15 seconds inside the “A” standard, ranks her current UK 1 by some margin, 5th on the UK all-time list and the icing on the cake is that she run a club record too. Not a bad afternoons work!

I have been reliably informed that there are no formal UK trials for 10K, so it is a case of seeing if 3 women run faster before the selectors make their decision in July. It would be hard to see her not being the first Hillingdon Athlete at the Olympics since 1984. Fingers crossed.

AW write up here.

Last Saturday saw 4 HAC Race Walkers compete in race 4 of this year’s Enfield League reports Andy Cox. BIG congratulations to Fabian Deuter for his excellent first place and a new HAC club record of 39:20 for 5 miles. Ken Bobbett, Jo Miles and Andy Cox all did season’s best times with Ken posting a veteran pb. Full results here.

The first Alder Valley of 2012 saw the boys facing cold and very wet conditions at Bracknell reports Alison Alford. Unfortunately due to the weather, there were quite a very absentees but it was great to see so many smiling faces and parents cheering the team on.

Harrison Filby (U11) ran an excellent 1000 metres to finish 1^st in 3m 45, followed very closely by Gregor Nordstrum in 3^rd place in 3m 48.  Sam Frazer (U15) winning the 100m in 13.2 and Niall Bowler (U17) setting a new PB in the High Jump of 1.65. In their final year as U17’s Alan Davidson and Connor Feek had a point to prove.  They both won their 200m respectively with also excellent placings in the 100m.  A big thank you to both of them for agreeing to fill the gaps in the 400m and gaining valuable points for the team.  The U17 relay was the last event of the day and we finished in 1^st place.

At such an early stage of the season, it was great to see so many PB’s being set.  These were Oscar Chan (U15’s 100m & LJ), Josh Malyan, (U15 100m & U15 800m), Sebastian Mills (U13, 100m & 1500m), Alex Barker (U17, 200m & LJ), Liam Holbrook (U15, 200m & U15, 800m), Adam Jones (U15, 200m & JT), Tommy Pike (U15, 1500m), Michael How (U13, 75mh), Niall Bowler (U17, HJ & LJ), Kevin Acraman (U17 Discus), Arron Connell (U13 Javelin),

Out of 9 teams, we finished 5^th place with 252 points so a big well done to everyone

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