Ivanhoe Robins-

Club/Community Partnership award winners 2009

Junior Club of the Year 2008

Newsletter: April 2010

Chairman: Paul Cox                                        

                                      Website: www.ivanhoerobins.co.uk

Robins run for Charity

Thankyou to those Robins who entered the Sport Relief runs on 23rd March.

 George Roberts bravely ran the six mile race to keep his dad going and had to complete the course (and the hills) twice.

On the same day, Matthew Cox ran his first 10k in the Beacon Bunny run for Alzheimer’s and despite taking the running relatively easy having raced the day before, and going up the Beacon twice during the race, crossed the line in joint first place in under 45 minutes.

Loughborough Beacon Rotary is hoping to stage this event again next year and it would definitely be worth taking part (you can do 3k or even the Easter Egg hunt!). Hopefully there won’t be so many events clashing next time.

Robins out and about…….

Elliot Kind and Rhiannon Woolerton completed the Derby runner series of races over the winter. Elliot came second in his age group and Rhiannon came fourth in hers. Well done to you both.

Congratulations to Lucy Arkinstall, Sam Moore and Hannah Cox for their selection for the Leicestershire inter-counties cross country teams on 13^th March. Unfortunately, both Sam and Lucy were injured during their races and couldn’t finish, but the Leicestershire U13 girls’ team came in bronze medal position.

Harriet Roberts, Lucy Fielding, Gemma Holland, George Roberts, Adam Smith, Nathan Lewis, Oliver Evans and Holly Drake took part in the county final of the school Sportshall competition. The year 7 girls won their final and will go to the regional final in April. Good luck girls!

Zach Meakin, Sam Moore and Hannah Cox all took part in the mini marathon trials on 7^th March. Hannah successfully qualified for the East Midlands team to go to London on April 25^th.

Sam also qualified for the English Schools’ race on 20^th March in Manchester.

Amy Shaw, Elise Hall-Dryden, Daisy Tyers, Millie Shaw, Amber Stevens, Isobel Armstrong, Holly Powell and Daniel Edgecombe all ran in the Leicestershire Primary schools county final at Rutland water on 13^th March.  Amber and Isobel came in the top 10 for their age group, a fantastic achievement. Along with Ben Clarke, Daisy, Amy, Millie, Isobel and Holly also took part in the small schools final on 20^th March.

Winter Grand Prix

The last two remaining winter grand prix events have taken place:

March 7^th 2010 - Centurion 2k fun run

A good turn out at Solihul, the Robins produced some great running, with Matthew Cox breaking his own record for the 2k, with Jake Shaw setting a new PB - and Abby Williamson and Harriet Roberts breaking the 8 minute barrier for the first time in a convincing performance by both girls as well as fantastic results for all the robins who took part.

1^st Matthew Cox 6 min 56 (first overall)

2^nd Jake Shaw 7 min 24

3^rd Abby Williamson 7 min 48 (first female)

4^th Harriet Roberts 7 min 57

5^th Sam Shepherd 8 min 33

6^th Ben Clarke 8 min 28

7^th Ellie Shaw 8 min 32

8^th Lucy Roberts 8 min 34

9^th Amber Stevens 8 min 37

10^th Zoe Harris 8 min 43

11^th Michael Harris 8 min 53

12^th Isobel Armstrong 8 min 54

13^th James Foster 8 min 55

14^th Isobel Hughes 9 min 02

15^th Dominic Brown 9 min 04

16^th Paige Brown 9 min 13

17^th Amy Shaw 9 min 19

18^th Samuel Ehlen 9 min 21

19^th Millie Shaw 9 min 32

20^th Leah Smith 9 min 46

21^st Mia Rawlings 10 min 36

22^nd Rhiannon Woolerton 11 min 15

March 20^th 2010 – Thrussington Fun Run

for the last three years this has always had glorious sunny weather – of course not this year - and the younger Robins had to run through a downpour leaving the ground particularly muddy for the older ones. However it was still good fun and everyone who went enjoyed the haybales and streams of a proper mini cross country course. Also at least 7 of the older runners beat the times of the coaches who ran in the adult race!! Robins results as follows:

Race year 3 to year 6: Year 7 and above:

1^st Jordan Meakin                                 1^st Matthew Cox

2^nd Isobel Armstrong                            2^nd Hannah Cox

3^rd Isobel Hughes                                  3^rd Zach Meakin

4^th Daisy Tyers                                       4^th Jake Shaw

5^th Amy Shaw                                         5^th Abby Williamson

6^th Sam Ehlen                                        6^th George Roberts

7^th Millie Shaw                                      7^th Harriet Roberts

                                                                8^th Lucy Roberts

                                                                9^th Holly Drake

                                                                10^th Ellie Shaw

Presentations for the Winter Grand Prix

These will take place on Saturday 10th April 2010 at 10.50am until 11.10am (ie between the two sessions). Therefore please be prepared to stay a little longer if you are in the first session, or come early for the second session.

Trip to Oxford 30^th May 2010

Please let us know if you would like to go to Oxford this year. Don’t forget you have to enter beforehand – see past newsletters on the website for more information. A coach has been booked for the trip.

If you wish to register an interest in tickets for the 2012 Olympic games in London, you should sign up at www.tickets.london2012.com so that you are informed when they go on sale next year.

Athletics Open Meeting – Charnwood AC 18^th April

County Championships 8^th/9^th May 2010 – see www.lraa.org.uk for details