Read All About It – Weekly Update 18/10/26 

 

Weather

The forecast suggests cooler weather with more showers or longer periods of rain although still some sunny periods. The week will start with light easterly wind but then change to moderate westerly, there will be a period of fresher breeze on Wednesday and strong winds on Friday but hopefully dying down to light for the Muddle on Sunday. Maximum temperatures 12 to 15, minimum temperatures 8 to 11. 

 

Road race results

Sunday saw 5 club members take part in four of the marathons taking place this weekend.

 

Simon Hall ran the Amsterdam marathon finishing in a new pb of 2.59.02 rewarding the hard training put in over the summer.

Alice Smith and Andy Pitts ran the Abingdon marathon. No official results yet but Alice finished in 3hrs10 mins and Andy in 4.08.02 (Strava times)

Rob Robertson took part in the Eden Project marathon running a total of 26.8 miles. Rob finished an excellent 4th overall and 1st SM finishing in 3.24.10

Barry Hall took part in the Phoenix South Wales event commemorating the Aberfan disaster. Barry finished 8 loops of the 3.3 mile circuit for the marathon distance in 4.35.52.

 

Susan Duncan took part in the Great South run amongst a field of over 20,000 entrants. Susan finished 4th V45 in 1.06.34.

 

3 WAC members took part in the Lightning Bolt 10k at Chippenham. Kevin Bale followed up his run and win at the weston 10k with a 2nd place and a time at Chippenham of 33.34 for an official new pb. Chris Beers was close behind as 1st V35 in 34.23 and Ian Connock 4th V35 in 34.56.

 

Helen and Stuart Diamond took part amongst a field of over 1000 entrants in the 5th of final running of the Tamar 10k which crosses the bridge twice. Stuart finished 2nd V55 in 42.49 and Helen 4th V55 in 52.31

 

Multi Event Results

 

Sunday saw Minehead sprint tri organised by Channel events take place. The race included a 750m sea swim, followed by a 20k out and back cycle finished with a 5k road and trail run. Maria Davidson completed the swim in 21.51, cycle in 55.21 and run in 30.47 for 1 hour 53.25 total. Maree Doyle finished in 2.21.20 (no splits available)

 

Off-Road race results

 

No results that we are aware of this week.

 

 

Information and help needed

 

 

October Prom runs Thursday 22/10/26

 

Entries for the 5 mile prom run  this week will close at 9.00pm on Tuesday 20/10 and for the 1 mile race at 5.00pm on Wednesday 21/10

 

 

Gwent League Cross Country

 

The dates and locations of the first 3 meetings have now been released. The club will again be paying the entry fee for these races, and it would be great to see our numbers attending increase this season. The results are now chip timed and due to the additional cost of the numbers they will only be allocated for members definitely intending to travel to the event. Please let us know if you plan to take part in the second race on the 8th of November in Cardiff.

 

League Fixtures Before Christmas

 

Sunday 8th November   – Cardiff

Saturday 5th December – Blaise Castle

 

Provisional 2027 Fixtures

Fixtures will be confirmed, with venues to be

announced.)

13th February 2027

6th March 2027

 

 

WAC Club races now open for entries

 

Entries are now open for the autumn club races on Race Nation. The prom series and mile races with the second races on the 22/10, Mendip Muddle 25/10 and the Xmas Cracker 13/12. 

 

Next Championship races

The races for October and November are :

25/10  Mendip Muddle                            Trail              10k

11/11  Wells                                                Road             5k

29/11  Herepath half                               Trail             13.1 Miles

 

Note change of date for the Herepath 

 

TWAC

 

The Monday evening TWAC session this week 19/10 is ‘BH or not BH’

Two loops, one includes BH the other is an easier route. You decide how hard you want to work. Suitable for all paces and abilities.
There will be a TWALKing group too.

Meet-at NT car park at the far end of Sand Bay

What Three Words ///kidney.king.tubes

Time-18:50

Kit-clothes suitable for weather, trail shoes, and head torch.

Pub-The New Inn, Kewstoke.

 

 

Tuesday Reps/Intervals – 20/10/26  – NOTE START 6.30 DUE TO LIGHT

 

Location: shelter right side of the tropicana

Time : start 6:30pm

Aim : Building speed endurance

Focus : maintaining form under fatigue

Warm up

Followed by ‘Ramp up the pace’

10 x 3 mins variable speeds every minute (90secs rolling recovery)

 

Cool down

 

 

Wednesday Night Swim Sessions

 

Swim on Wednesday 21st October.

 

Swim restarted on Wednesday 9th September.

 

If you want to see if there is any space left, please email triathlon@westonac.co.uk

You must be a fully paid up member of Weston Athletic Club to access these sessions.

 

 

 

SportsShoes Code

 

We have the October code for the discount and free postage on orders from Sportsshoes. Please note, as of 01/10/26 the code is valid on AW26 products only and will give you 15% off  (exclusions apply, including but not limited to Brooks, Coros, Garmin, Maurten and Shokz), valid until 01/11/26.

 

This code is on the WAC members social fb page for WAC member use only. Please ask Ness, Jim, Helen, or Julia if you do not access fb and wish to put in an order with them.

 

 

This week’s schedule:

 

The Monday evening TWAC session this week 19/10/26 is ‘BH or not BH’

Meet : 6:50 pm at NT car park at the far end of Sand Bay

What Three Words ///kidney.king.tubes

 

Tuesday Reps/Intervals 20/10/26

Location : Meet at shelter right side of the Tropicana for 6.30 pm start

 

Wednesday – Swim sessions restarted on 16/9/26 details regarding payment above.

Swim sessions are only available to fully paid up members of Weston Athletic Club.

 

Thursday  22/10/26 – October prom runs on seafront

No Group runs from Hutton Moor on Prom run nights

 

Saturday 8AM Rep/Interval session – See WAC social for confirmation of meeting place and time later in the week.