"WHAT'S HAPPENED"

The winter season is now over and the so called summer season is underway.
Devon took teams up to the UK Inter Counties in March held at Nottingham and firstly congratulations go to U17 Jessica Burns who run a well judged race to take the Gold medal and become UK Inter County champion.  Well done to all those who run and a sincere thank you to our team managers especially Jackie Crang and Derek Smith, sadly Jackie is standing down and we are looking for a new manager for the U17 men and women covering Cross Country and Track and Field.  On the downside it is disappointing for Devon County AA that we go to great lengths in arranging transport and end up with less than 30 athletes on the coach, resulting in a considerable loss to the counties finances.
In Sports Hall indoor athletics the season ended on a high for the young athletes with many receiving overall awards, congratulations go to Plymouth Schools in retaining the overall team championship.  In the regional finals Devon teams did well but for the first time in many years missed out on a trip to Birmingham for the National Finals.  After more years than he cares to remember Tom Childs is standing down from Sports Hall organiser but fortunately for Devon is carrying on as regional team manager for the U13/U15 teams.  This means we need a volunteer for the role of Sports Hall organiser.
On the road the Plymouth Hoe 10 hosted the challenge trophy between Devon and Cornwall with Devon taking the men’s title and Cornwall the women’s.  As usual there are many changes happening on the road running scene and our thanks go to Paul Ross for keeping everyone updated.

“WHAT'S HAPPENING”

The Track and Field season is underway be it in more winter like weather than summer.  For the county the first major meeting is the Devon County AA championships being held at Exeter Arena on Saturday 10th May and Sunday 11th May, entry forms and details are available on this web site and have also been sent out to all clubs.
This meeting is followed by the joint Devon County Schools and Devon County AA Combined events championships on 17th May and 18th May again at Exeter Arena, forms are available on this web site.
By the time you read this the first of the Devon Open Series fixtures will have taken place at North Devon track Braunton on Sunday 27th April, see link to Tavistock  web site for all the details.  The main change this season is we have introduced for all U11(8 – 10 y.o.) a multi event format called “QuadKids” the events are 75m sprint, 600m distance, Long jump and Vortex throw, they do all four events and score points in accordance with the scoring tables.
The other dates for the Devon Open series are June 22nd Braunton, July 13th Exeter and August 17th Plymouth.
The road running scene will be as busy as ever with the two city half marathons Great West on Sunday 4th May and Plymouth half on Sunday 25th May

A GOOD SUMMER OF RUNNING TO YOU ALL WITH MANY PB’s