The Shropshire Summer Hill Race Series has continued with the staging of the Wrekin Streak and Batch Bash Fell races. At the Wrekin, Haydn Jones finished 50^th and 3^rd Veteran Over 55 in 24/00, Gill Evans 110^th and 1^st Lady Veteran Over 55 in 30/53 and Bethany Pinches 113^th and 2nd Under 19 Girl in 33/02. At the Batch Bash, James Hickinbottom finished 19^th in 30/30 and Gill Evans 100^th and 1^st Lady Veteran Over 55 in 40/46. Four Club athletes were selected to compete for Shropshire at the Inter Counties Fell Race Championships in Derbyshire, where Matt Hall finished 140^th in 50/00 and Paul Jones 196^th in 51/51 in the Men's Race and Sara Willhoit finished 143^rd in 40/18 and Lauren Morley 223^rd in 43/07 in the Women's Race.

The Club was strongly represented at two popular road races. In the Christleton 5K at Chester, Matt Hall was first home for the Club in 15^th place in a personal best time of 15/38, with Paul Jones 19^th and 3^rd Veteran Over 45 in 15/44, Steve Waters 69^th in 16/50, Connor Middleton 77^th in 16/55, Richard McKenna 93^rd in 17/11 and Grant Lloyd 189^th in 18/52. In the Market Drayton 10K, Richard Mckenna was 72^nd in 39/56, Sara Willhoit 82^nd and 5^th Lady in 40/13, Mike Thomas 271^st in 45/35 and Pete Savill 283^rd and 1^st Veteran Over 65 in 45/50. In other races, Pete Middleton was 41^st in the Great Birmingham 10K in 35/05, Kevin Francis was 18^th and 1^st Veteran Over 50 in the Uttoxeter Half Marathon in 1/29/41 and Lauren Morley 22^nd and 2^nd Lady in the Llangollen Trail 10K in 45/29.

Three runners competed in the Phoenix Flyer 5K race, the second race in the Telford Sexarathon Series, with Pete Savill 112^th and 1^st Veteran Over 65 in 20/54, Gill Evans 202^nd and 2^nd Lady Veteran Over 55 in 24/03 and Alison Wilson 265^th and 2^nd Lady Veteran Over 60 in 26/18.

Relay races tend to bring out the best in athletes, and this year's Attingham Park Relays were no exception. The excellently organised event played host to 423 athletes in 141 teams. With races the day before and the day after some club members chose not to take part in the relays though this didn't stop both teams returning excellent performances. Run over 3 x 2 mile legs on the parkland and trails around Attingham Park Shrewsbury AC 'A' team were 3^rd All Male team behind strong competition from Oswestry Olympians and Shropshire Shufflers in a time of 34:15 (Glen Speake – 11:49, 4^th Male Over 40, Rob Fox – 10:57, 1^st Male Over 35, Nick Bradley – 11:29, 8^th Senior Man). Shrewsbury AC 'B' team came home 4^th Mixed Gender team in 38:43 (Andy Lewis – 13:20, 2^nd Male Over 60, Lauren Morley – 13:09, 4^th Senior Lady, Robert Lisney – 12:14, 15^th Senior Man).

Club veteran Andy Lewis competed in a British Milers Club Regional Track Meeting at Tipton and came away with a new post transplant personal best time of 5 minutes 30.32 seconds in the 1500 metre race.

Photo. SAC 'A' team. L to R - Nick Bradley, Glen Speake, Rob Fox.