Nine Halton & Frodsham Harriers took part in the Cheshire County Athletics Association Championships at the Victoria Park track, hosted by Warrington Athletics Club.

Fifteen county medals were brought home by the athletes, including nine golds as the athletes won the title of County Champion for the year.

Some club members may already have seen this, but England Athletics has recently sent out the following email in relation to cardiac screening for young people taking part in athletics. In the light of recent well publicised cases, such as Fabrice Muamba, this may be of interest.

England Athletics, UKA and the other home country governing bodies are alert to our responsibilities to all participants in athletics in respect of all aspects of health and safety. One particular area that young athletes and their parents must be aware of is the risk of cardiac problems.
There have been instances of young athletes suffering potentially fatal heart conditions without being aware that they are at risk.
England Athletics would like to make you aware of a piece of work that has been undertaken by UKA. UKA has worked with Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) for several years, providing a screening service to athletes on the World Class Performance Programme. UKA and CRY are now seeking to encourage more athletes to use CRY’s screening service to help to identify any cardiac problems that may be otherwise hidden.
CRY is a charity that was established to raise awareness of conditions that can lead to the sudden cardiac death of young people. They operate a screening programme at a number of clinics around the UK and support this with mobile units that travel to other locations.
Full information about CRY and their services can be found on their website at www.c-r-y.org.uk. Young people between the age of 14 and 35 who would like to have cardiac testing can go to www.testmyheart.org.
You can also see www.uka.org.uk/governance/health-safety/cardiac-screening-for-athletes/ for information on work being done by UKA in this area.

This weekend, Harriers step up into the Young Athletes League "Northern 1 South West" division, competing against Liverpool Pembroke Sefton, Macclesfield Harriers, Menai, Salford Mets and Warrington. After a great season last year, winning the division and securing promotion, this year will no doubt be a tough test!

The competition is for U13, U15 and U17 athletes. Most athletes have already been in touch with team managers about the weekend, but if you are available please get in touch.

The season opener takes place at the Salford Mets track (postcode M30 8HY). Athletes should arrive for 10.45pm at the very latest so that registrations can be completed.

Good luck to all taking part!

Results for the Deeside Cheshire T&F are now available on the powerof10 website here.

At first glance, there seem to be some issues with the results linking the right names with the right individuals, but athletes and parents can log into the site and notify powerof10 of amendments if you want the profiles of athletes to be properly updated.

The first meeting of the year is always a little chaotic, and Gary in particular did a fantastic job of coordinating 3 boys, 2 girls, one men's and one ladies' team entries on the day!