Sunday 27 January 2008The Woodie’s DIY Indoor Championships of Ireland which were taking place this weekend in Belfast, Northern Ireland, witnessed a record breaking spree of results. The championships got off to the best possible start on Saturday (26) when Robert Heffernan from Togher took a second off his own national indoor Race walk 5000m [...]
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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Jan 25
Paquillo to compete in the first 2008 IAAF Challenge event in Chihuahua
Spain’s Francisco Javier “Paquillo” Fernandez is one of the main competitors to participate in the 20 miles as part of the first date of the Race Walking Challenge to be held in Chihuahua capital from 7 to 9 March. . Translated version of http://www.tiempo.com.mx/not_detalle.php?id_n=42655 Blogged with Flock Tags: Francisco Fernandez
Jan 22
Swedish walkers train at Leeds Met – Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education
The Swedish National Race Walking Squad is staging a training camp at Leeds Carnegie University, making use of the class facilities to both train and analyse their performance. The camp comes in the same week as Leeds met hosted the ISPAS (International Society for Performance Analysis in Sport) conference, which also looked at analysis and [...]
Jan 15
Paquillo wants to sing on the rostrum
After decades of humming along to the national anthem or bellowing “ta ta ta” from soccer stands, Spaniards finally have the missing ingredient: words. The proposed new lyrics were written by an unemployed 52-year-old man and were chosen from more than 7,000 entries in a contest announced last June by the Spanish Olympic Committee. Paquillo [...]
Jan 11
Race Walking Record published
Click on the cover to downlaod the pdf version – password required which can be received if you subscribe.
Jan 10
RWA Championships, 2008
RWA – The following dates and venues have been fixed for the coming year’s National Championships. Fuller information will in due course be available via the Fixtures Page: 16th February 10 miles Queen Elizabeth Stadium, Enfield 5th April 20k Battersea Park, London 27th April 50k Ropner Park, Stockton-on-Tees 4th May Y.A.G. [...]
Jan 10
HSBC Securities Services Open Meeting
One of the highlights of the athletics year for both race walkers and 10k runners will take place on Saturday 1st March 2008. This is the Manx Harriers Open Meeting, to be held on the perimeter road at the National Sports Centre in Douglas. This meeting always attracts many top-class race walkers from the UK, [...]
Jan 06
Redcar Race Walking Club hosting 2008 National 50km
Redcar RWC – The National 50km sponsored by Ken Munro, Stockton Council and SABIC Petrochemicals UK will be held in Ropner Park, Stockton-On-Tees on Sunday 27th April 2008 at 11am. The course is a loop around a splendidly restored park and has the potential for fast times.Top of the range changing and presentation facilities have [...]