Having missed a week this will be a bumper edition as we go through about 10 days’ worth of action.
We’ll start on the track in Loughborough where Garry Palmer took part in the BMC 1500 E race finishing in 4.48.22 to take 11th place. There was more track action in Birmingham in the England Athletics U20 and Senior Championships where Miguel Francis took 1st place in his 100 heat in 10.81, he lowered that time to 10.44 taking 1st place in the semi final before bagging the runners up spot in the final in a time of 10.46 to take silver. Tammy Saunders was also competing over 100 placing 5th in 12.75 in her heat in the seniors competition. In the U23 event La-Taunya Samuels was 6th over 100 in 12.74 in her heat. Tammy also competed over 200 coming 5th in her heat in the seniors event in a time of 24.89. And in the throws Amelia Hancock was 9th in the U20 discus with a throw of 41.51.
There was more action on the Birmingham track in the England Athletics U15 & U17 Championships which also included the U20 & Senior open combined events championships. Joshua Welford raced in the U17 200 placing 8th in 23.83,
At the other end of the age scale there was action at Derby in the BMAF Track & field Championships where Gary Worrall placed 5th over 1500 in 4.26.98, Gary was also 4th over 800 in 2.07.32.
And going into further extremes Rich Amor-Wilkes completed the Montane Lakeland 100, yes that’s 100 miles, around the lake District passing through Coniston, Seathwaite, Wasdale Head, Buttermere, Braithwaite, Blencathra, Kentmere, Ambleside and back to Coniston climbing 22493 feet in the process. Rich finished this epic journey in 31.05.14.
Finally, there was some action on the tarmac on a hot Saturday afternoon in Shrewsbury in the Shrewsbury 5k festival where athletes raced over five one kilometre laps in three races based on expected finishing time and then were lumped together in the overall results. Great for spectators as runners were whizzing past every couple of minutes, not so great for runners who were going dizzy. There were plenty of PBs about with Luke Maskew coming home fastest for the club in 22nd place in 16.12, Ben Foster was 37th in 17.05, there was a great race between Derrick Milligan, who was 53rd in 17.57, Alex Kelly who smashed his PB in the process of taking 54th place in 17.59 and Tony Cheema who was 56th in 18.03. Lucie Tait- Harris missed the start and was chasing the pack from the off but still bagged 2nd F50, 11th fastest female and 75th overall in 19.07, Sabrina Thomas was 84th in 20.19, Paul Clarke was 91st in 21.04, Mark Illidge was 92nd in 21.16, Stu Whitehouse place 94th in 21.31, Serge Guy was 95th in 21.38 and a very proud Adam Guy was 96th in 21.43 and Dave Norman made a return from a torn hamstring and a fractured pelvis to finish in a pain free 22.19 in 101st place.
Dave Norman