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 “New to Running” group here. A new group has just started, see here and is full but further groups will be arranged. Also find details of our easy-going 5k/10k road running group on the Training page. However, we regret that for prospective new members under the age of 18, inductions have to be postponed until at least January 2021 due to the impact of corona virus on our courses.

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

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Two new training sessions at the track:
Steve long jump: Thursdays at 6 – 7pm
Ken’s sprints: Thursdays at 7:15 – 8:15pm

With nights drawing in, our sessions at the Discovery Centre have now ceased. For more on training see below and our training page.

UPDATE on CORONA VIRUS:
All league matches have been cancelled this year. However, track training is being re-instated, see below.
The latest advice from England Athletics can be found here.
Specific Braintree 5 Race information is given on our Braintree 5 webpage as well as on the race Facebook.
Our Awards Evening, postponed from Saturday 28th March to Saturday 26th September has had to be cancelled. If you have a ticket, then we will refund you the entry fee if you bring your ticket up to the track.
If you have entered either of the County Championship meetings, the Essex AA will contact you regarding the fees you have paid.
When anything changes, we will update this page as well as our Facebook Page.

TRAINING:
Thank you all for your patience as we get 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 into the position that we can now start offering limited training. Please click here for important information about the sessions we are currently running, together with the rules we need to follow with regards site entry / exit and signing in.
BEFORE YOU ATTEND your first session since they were suspended, print and complete the ‘General Information Form COVID19’ form (click here). You will need this with you to be admitted.
We are only able to accommodate 12 people per session, and the coaches have been inviting athletes to join their groups. If they have any spaces they will ask more people from their lists until they are full again.
As more coaches are able to return we will be able to open up the club to more athletes; again initially this will be by invite only. Please do NOT attend until you have been invited by your coach, excepting Tuesday night road running sessions (contact Stuart Phillips or Philip Wood) and Thursday night endurance sessions (contact Ross Boyer).

Please bear with us as we try to get the whole Club able to train, and hopefully we will have some idea of any competitions for next season.

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.

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: