The Team East Lothian Back to Track Squad is for athletes who had been active in sport, potentially in track and field, and have had a break. Whether that break was due to university or college, work commitments, having a family, travelling the world, or any other reason, if you are now looking for a way to get back onto the track, or onto the track for the first time, and train with potentially a view to competition at U23, senior or masters levels, then the Back to Track Squad provides that opportunity.
Training is specifically tailored to regaining as much fitness, flexibility and agility as possible. As with all Team East Lothian performance athletics, there is a good focus on physical literacy and strength and conditioning to minimise injury and maximise consistency in training. Squad membership provides participants with access to all the Team East Lothian event group coaches and the opportunity to focus on rebuilding or gaining technical skills in throws, jumps, sprinting, hurdling and track-based endurance running.
If you’d like to learn more, arrange a trial training session, or sign up, then get in contact via teammanager@teameastlothian.org.uk.
The squad is primarily coached by experienced coach, and former Scotland and GB international 400m hurdler, Fiona Macaulay, who herself made a famous comeback as reported at the time by the Glasgow Herald;
Herald Scotland – 6th July 1992Fiona Laing and Carol Sharp between them have five children and a combined age of 70, but both came within a stride of winning titles at Meadowbank on Saturday.
Dundee Hawkhill’s Lorna Silver won the 400 metres hurdles with 61.13secs, breaking the Scottish junior record. In second place was Laing, now 34, and who, as Fiona Macaulay set that record in 1975. After having won the 100m hurdles, then the Scottish one-lap hurdles crown in 1978, the former British internationalist retired in 1982.
Now, three children later, Mrs Laing, talked back to the track in a chance pub meeting this year and no longer even a member of a club, may even be named to compete for Scotland in Athens the weekend after next. So, too, could Mrs Sharp, who won the 800m crown in 1982 — the year her husband, Cameron, beat Allan Wells for the 200m title. She has not contested the championships since, and made a brave bid to regain the two-lap crown a day before her thirty-sixth birthday, only to be denied in the last five strides by an inspired run from by clubmate Jan Stewart who surged from fourth with 150m left.