Author Archives: Mike Raynes

Over 25 City of York AC athletes descended on Woodburn Road, Sheffield for this Bank Holiday Monday athletics competition. With green and black vests everywhere, a local coach remarked that this felt like a York home match! The weather at … Continue reading →

The club turned the York University Cycle Circuit green and black in last Friday’s 5k road race as the club’s juniors, seniors and even committee members put in a series of great performances. It was great to see so many … Continue reading →

Angus McMillan set a club record time of 14.29m in the Middlesbrough 5k that took place last Sunday. In a rare appearance on the roads Angus took 9 seconds from Robbie Brown’s previous mark in the fast event that took … Continue reading →

The club’s distance runners went PB crazy as racing resumed this evening at the York University Cycle Circuit. We had 19 runners taking part in the 5k race with ten members running PBs and another four having their first race over … Continue reading →

England Athletics Yorkshire & Humberside Regional Volunteers Awards. Congratulations to Paul Wilson, winner of the Coach of the Year Award, And Rachel Ayrton, winner of Young Volunteer of the Year Award. Paul was nominated by a group of his athletes, and … Continue reading →

No real races recently of course. The York Virtual Run Group had a 10k (as a pair doing 5k each), which James Tucker “won” as a solo doing 2 fast 5ks in the week, 16.30 and 16.25. Some of our … Continue reading →

21 athletes travelled to Prestwold, Leicestershire, for a big Open Cross Country – one of the test events – which attracted an entry from a wide area though numbers fell as those living in Tier 3 were not able to … Continue reading →

11 runners from the club took part in last Thursday night’s 5k on the York University Cycle Circuit. The 5 lap course was fast and was a bit like running on a very large running track so people’s times were … Continue reading →

10 runners from the club took part in the socially distanced road races that took place on Sunday at Elvington airfield. Runners set off in groups of 8 every 15 seconds for race distances from 5k up to the full … Continue reading →

Last weekend we held our second Valhalla Virtual Throws Competition. Once again we had entries from across the World including Costa Rica, Namibia, Sweden and other countries. We also held the Best of Britain going head to head in a … Continue reading →