Well, it has finally got a bit warmer (I wish this global warming would get a bit of a shufty on!) and we can at last think about the track season, which has been going to some extend for about a month.

The league match season gets going about this time of year, so frantic team managers will be phoning around their athletes trying to get them out and maybe to take on just that one extra event for the team!  A couple of years back yours truly ended up doing 38 events in 5 matches we were so short at my club - hammer and shot not being my particularly specialities (in fact there was a danger of them dropping on my foot as opposed to the grass....).

Elite athletes are either away warm weather training or have just got back, having sampled the delights of running in warm (or hot) conditions and are hoping the recent warm weather holds so they don't have to step their training back to allow for that.

The BUSA Championships are next weekend as the universities roll into gear to get their top athletes out, in excess of a thousand athletes will descend on Bedford to take part in this event.

Then the second weekend of May is one of the traditional highlights of the season - the County Championships.  All 50odd counties in the country hold their championships on the same weekend with thousands of enthausiastic athletes taking part in them, some counties being extremely strong and other where one person will go home with half a dozen gold medals due to the weaker fields.

So, athletes, coaches, team managers, officials, parents and all the others involved in the sport get out your summer clothes and sun-tan lotion and get ready for a great summer.