With the upgraded amber weather alert for Storm Floris, please keep an eye on our website, Facebook and Teams App ahead of Monday evening’s training session.
We hate cancelling training but please check for updates before travelling.
Our annual Club Competition will take place on Thursday 28st August from 6.00pm till 9.00pm at Dalkeith Campus. This is open to all members of Lasswade Athletics Club from U11s to U17s and is free to enter and is not restricted to athletes who only train on Thursdays.
*** Please complete the online entry form here before Friday 23rd August 5pm ***
Events
Under 11s: 3 events from 75m, 150m, 600m, Shot Putt, Long Jump, Javelin and High Jump
(Athletes must be at least 9 on the day of competition).
Under 13s to Under 17s: 3 events from 100m, 200, 800m*, 1500m*, Shot Putt, Long Jump, Javelin and High Jump
* restricted to 800m or 1500m (not both).
Athletes can do 2 track and 1 field event or 1 track and 2 field events.
There will also be mixed relays for Under 11s to Under 17s.
Medals are awarded to winners of each event. This year, points will be awarded for performances in the same vein as a multi-events competition (rather than points being awarded based on finishing positions) and trophies will be awarded to the overall winner in each age group in the U11s and above for both the male and females.
We are hoping that older athletes will be able to help with officiating and other duties as there will be no training that evening. Any parents/carers who would like to get involved will be very welcome too as it takes a lot of people to run a competition.
If you are available to help please let Ruth or Keith know as soon as possible so that duties can be allocated. We cannot run events like this without the goodwill of our supporters so thank you in advance of a positive response. Please email Ruth if you can assist.
Note: Timetable is provisional until the number of entries is known. The running order for track events will remain the same but times may vary. The field events order may change depending upon the number of entries in each age group.
The final timetable will be confirmed once entries close on Friday 22nd August 5pm.
It might be holiday time, but there are still plenty of competitions to keep you going.
Friday 18th July
Team East Lothian Open (Self Entry) – Meadowmill – All Ages
https://data.opentrack.run/en-gb/x/2025/GBR/tel-july/
Wednesday 23rd July
Falkirk Victoria Harriers Open Graded (Self Entry) – Grangemouth – All Ages
https://data.opentrack.run/en-gb/x/2025/GBR/fvh-og-242/
Sunday 27th July
Scottish National Athletics League – Grangemouth – U17s and above
Timetable
Sign up here by 16th July
Friday 1st August
Livingston Open Graded (Self Entry) – Livingston – All Ages
https://data.opentrack.run/en-gb/x/2025/GBR/lac-open-3/
Saturday 9th August
Forth Valley League – Grangemouth – U11 to U15
Timetable
Sign up here by 1st August
Sunday 10th August
CSSAL League – Crownpoint – U11 to Master
Timetable
Sign up here by 1st August
Scottish National Age Group Championships take place in Aberdeen on 16th/17th for U13, U15 & U20 and at Grangemouth on 23rd/24th August for U17 & Sen.
To enter any of these visit here then copy/paste the relevant title below into the search bar.
4J scottishathletics Under 13 Track and Field Championships
4J scottishathletics Under 15 Track and Field Championships
4J scottishathletics Under 20 Track and Field Championships
4J 132nd scottishathletics Senior and Under 17 Track and Field Championships
A few of our coaches and volunteers will be taking a break in July and combined with maintenance at Dalkeith campus, there will unfortunately be some interruption to the training sessions during July.
Multi-Events: There are no sessions (Monday or Thursday) from 10th July to 21st July inclusive.
Monday Jumps: There will not be sessions on 14th or 21st July
Thursday Throws: No sessions on 3rd, 10th or 17th July but please keep an eye on the Teams App as Stacey may be putting some alternative training in place. Throwers may also join ME (7pm) or Junior Sprints (6:30pm) on the 3rd July.
Junior Sprints: There will be no sessions between 10th and 24th July inclusive.
Endurance and Senior Sprints will continue as normal.
Note that there is no access to the campus buildings for the week commencing 21st July (and therefore no toilet access).
The National Track Relays take place on Sunday 22nd June in Dundee.
Anyone interested in competing should email chair@lasswade-ac.org.uk by the 9th June so we can determine if we have sufficient numbers to make up teams. More details of the available relay races can be found here. Please indicate which events you would be willing to take part in.
Note that 4×100 relays are for Under 15s and above. Under 13s are restricted to a medley relay which is 600m/200m/600m/200m.
?There are a limited number of team places available so the sooner people get in touch we can try and ensure that are entries are submitted before the places are taken up.
As part of National Volunteers’ Week, from June 2nd to the 8th Lasswade AC want to thank each and every one of our brilliant team of amazing volunteers who give up their time to MAKE IT HAPPEN.
To each, and every one, of our brilliant volunteers, whether it’s our coaches, officials, committee, admin, publicity, social media………. we are extremely grateful and want to say THANK YOU!
When members attend training this week we invite them to thank their coach or any other volunteer personally, this can be by handshake, fist bump or simply saying thanks.
Why not take a look at some of the great backstories from our amazing volunteers which you can view here. (It’s interesting to note how many had no athletics background when they started their journey!)
We would love to recruit more volunteers. So, to see what is involved, how you will be supported, where we need your help and who to contact please see here
We’re starting to collate interest for our next two competitions in June…
Scottish National Athletics League – Sunday 8th June at Grangemouth. This is for all athletes from Under 17 to Seniors/Masters and athletes are limited to doing 2 events on the track (plus field events). Please check the timetable for the available events and sign up here by 29th May.
Forth Valley League on Sunday 15th June AM at Grangemouth. This is for athletes in the U11 to U15 age groups. Sign up here by 5th June.
There was lots of action up and down the country at the weekend with Lasswade athletes taking part in the London Marathon, the opening fixture of the Forth Valley League for young athletes, the 4J Studios Scottish Athletics National Outdoor Open and the Scottish Athletics Junior Hill Running League.
Alec Miller was the sole Lasswade athlete at Linwood for the National Outdoor Open. His 1.91m in the high jump was good enough for 2nd place and was also a new PB.
In the London Marathon, Amy Frankland, winner of our VMH Solicitors Lasswade 10 Mile Road Race in March clocked a fantastic time of 2:55:37. Gareth Fleming was our other representative in London and completed the course in 3:25:58.
We also had two young athletes representing Scotland in the London Mini-Marathon races. Freya was 1st Scottish girl home (11th overall) and Cerys 4th Scot (23rd overall) and helped Scotland win the team bronze.
Francis and Rowan took part in the 2nd fixture of the Scottish Junior Hill Running League at Lomonds of Fife. Francis, having won the 1st fixture in the under 15s age group, finished first again. Rowan made it a double for Lasswade by winning the under 20s age race.
To round of a great weekend for Lasswade, our young athletes took first place in the first match on the Forth Valley League Division 2 competition.
1st: Lasswade – 504.5
2nd: Falkirk Victoria Harriers – 470.5
3rd: Cumbernauld- 463.5
4th: Central – 461.5
5th: Harmeny B – 338
6th: Haddington – 258
Thank you to our officials: Ruth, Linden, Alison, Susan, Harry, John and our parent helpers: Ed, Ainslie, Louise, Jo, Fiona, Scott.
Provisional results: https://data.opentrack.run/en-gb/x/2025/GBR/fvl-m1-d2/event/
More photos from the league competition here.
This year’s heat of the SUPERteams will take place on Saturday, May 24th at Meadowbank Stadium.
SUPERteams is a competition open to athletes born in 2014, 2015 or 2016. It’s a great event to get started in athletics competitions. All athletes will take part in the 75m, Standing Long Jump and Turbo Javelin events. All results are converted into points to decide the overall winner and team placings. Teams are comprised of 2 boys and 2 girls – last year we were only able to form 1 complete team due to the small number of boys who had entered so it would be good to get more boys signing up for this competition so that we can have more teams completed.
Our solitary team finished 4th in the heat at Saughton last year and qualified for the grand final where they finished 13th out of 35 teams.
Click here to sign-up by 14th May.
Last Sunday saw Lasswade’s U17, U20s and Seniors compete in the Scottish National Athletics League – our first official participation in the league since it started a couple of seasons back. The competition format is similar to an open-graded competition with athletes drawn against other athletes of similar abilities in the track races.
There was a strong blustery headwind on the home-straight which meant the sprinters had difficulty matching the times from the previous week’s competition at Linwood in the glorious Spring sunshine. Still, it was good to see some Lasswade athletes take up the opportunity to compete – it’s still early in the season and hopefully more U17 athletes and above will sign-up for the other matches this season.
SNAL – Match 1 Results
Match 2 takes place on Sunday 18th May at Aberdeen Sports Village. Anyone interested should complete the sign-up form by Monday 5th May and also be aware that as per the league requirements, each club will need to provide 3 officials/helpers so parents may be asked to assist.
Our friends at Edinburgh Athletics Club have kindly offered us spaces on their coach which will leave Meadowbank at 7 am with a pick up at 7.20 at Lidl on Glasgow Road. Any athletes, coaches or spectators are welcome to travel on the coach at no cost but a token contribution is welcome. If you are interested in getting a space on the coach, please add this to the comments section of the sign-up form. Spaces will be limited so if you are interested, sign-up soon.
