Welcome to Braintree & District Athletic Club

Braintree & District Athletic Club provides a wide range of Athletics Training and Competition for both new and experienced athletes in the Braintree Area. This includes track, field (jumping and throwing), multi event, road running, trail running and cross country.

The club has seen remarkable growth in the last few years, more than doubling in size, with growth seen particularly in the junior sections, endurance, and road running. We compete and train throughout the year with training nights on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Braintree Track.

Find out more about Membership or about becoming a Volunteer

New to Running? If 18 or over, read about our “All Abilities” group here. For under 18’s we are now processing applications again. See the Membership page.

AAA Standards. The club subscribes to the AAA Standards Scheme. You can find details of the scheme and a list of our athletes who have qualified here.

Announcements

General Data Protection Regulation: See Membership Privacy Notice here.

CORONA VIRUS: All Athletes are now welcome back to training and the club is now back to full capacity. Thank you all for you patience and understanding. Please check that you have read the updated Covid Fact sheet (28th March 2021) for information on how the club is operating during government restrictions due to Covid. The information on sessions and rules for Covid have been updated; see our Training page. The latest advice from England Athletics can be found here.

The track & field league match fixture list for 2021 can be accessed via our Activities – Track & Field page. NOTE: two locations have been swapped over.
There are still several dates on which you can enter track and field events at The Chelmsford Sports and Athletics Centre. See them here.

TRAINING:
Thank you all for your patience as we have been getting the Club back up and running in a Covid secure way. Special thanks to all the Coaches, Committee, Helpers and Facebook / Website admins who have got us to where we are. Please see the details on our Training page, updated 12th July 2021.

News

All of our news can be found on our Facebook and Twitter feeds. See links at the bottom of this page. Here is a snippet or two.

Congratulations Lewis Thorn who broke his own 400m Club record to become the South Of England Champion on 13th June, only to break it again with 48.44 on 17 July in the Semi Final of the England Athletics Senior Championships.

CULHAM BREAKS CLUB MARATHON RECORD.

Congratulations to 21year old Braintree athlete and coach Conor Culham. At Dorney Lake Marathon today he has broken the 7 year old Senior Men marathon record of 2:44:03, in a fantastic time of 2:42.49.

Marathon training can’t be taken lightly, and today’s performance was following 11 years of hard work and dedication to endurance training in all weather conditions. Outstanding performance Conor!


Taylor Gooding won the Under 14 Girls Junior Fell Race at the Dufton Show, Cumbria on Saturday 31st August 2019 on a very wet & windy day. In doing so she won her age category for the fourth year in a row. One of the fields contained some stampeding cows so the race organisers made a last minute change to the race route. Fortunately she was able to quickly recce part of the route just beforehand.	Congratulations to Rose Sheppad who won the under 17 girls fell race at the Malham Show in the Yorkshire Dales on 24th August. Approx 2.5 miles with 500 ft total climb.

Here is our team at the Essex Road Relays, Harwich on 16th March 2019: