We’ll start this week’s update with a little bit of tidying up from the track & field county championships. Although there is still nothing recorded on either Power of 10 or Entry 4 Sport for the Worcestershire County Championships, I’m not convinced anyone from the club did this but it would be nice to check, the Warwickshire County Championships results are now available. Joshua-Kayin Welford placed 1st in his semi-final, and second fastest overall, in the U20 100 in 11.06, he went on to place 2nd in the final running 11.19. And to make a slight correction to last week’s round up, we listed Jolyon Davis as a Wolves & Bilston athlete as winner of the javelin in the Staffs Champs as the results had him listed as one of ours, he isn’t, he’s one of Telford AC’s. Thanks to one of our coaches for pointing out the error in the results.
Now we’ll get on to this week’s action. We’ll start with the Caradoc Classic, another of Mercia Fell Runners midweek races, this one involving 268 metres of total ascent over its 5.6k distance. Paul Dean carried on where he left off last week with another good performance, placing 21st in 29.22. There was a 2nd place finish for Adam Soley over another lumpy course in the Merrell Cannock Chase Trail Half Marathon, running the whole race solo Adam took the runners up spot in 1.29.37.
There was an afternoon of top-class action in the Shrewsbury 5k Festival. The races were split into 5 separate waves and included a masters international match between England and Wales, the opportunity for those with qualifying times to pull on their country’s colours. Darren Owen-Jones was first back for the club in the open race coming home in 13th place in 20.38, Dave Norman placed 15th in 20.45, Mark Illidge was 24th in 21.32. Dylan Illidge placed 2nd in the sub 19 minutes race crossing the line in 17.18, Steve Newman was 8th in 17.44, Tony Cheema clocked 18.15 for 19th place and Andy Horton stopped the clock in 19.24 for 32nd. Jon Hart claimed England recognition racing in the England v Wales placing 5th overall and 1st M45 in a rapid 15.07. And in the final race of the day, the sub 17 minutes race, there was a 2nd place finish for Jonny Morris in 15.08, Luke Maskew was 8th in 16.12, Oliver Cresswell went off like a rocket and finished well in 16.43 to take 12th and Ben Foster was in 17.04 in 21st.
There was the first track & field action for the seniors on Saturday as they opened their season at Northwood Stadium in Stoke where the club finished 5th on the day out of the 8 competing clubs. Psalm Roberts-Nash was 2nd in the 200 A in 11.5, Mulgrave Hutchinson Arrai was 4th in the B/C race in 12.2 and Kofi Ocran was a place behind in 5th in 13.1. Psalm also bagged the runners up spot in the 200 A in 22.8, Mulgrave was 4th in 35.4 and Kofi 5th in 26.3 in the B/C race. Over 800 there was a 3rdplace finish for Tom Pryor in 2.00.9, Gary Worrall clocked 2.06.7 and Serge Guy recorded 2.27.1 in the B/C race. In the throws Dave Baggott recorded 7.45 for 5th place in the A string shot competition, Craig Hancock recorded 5.28 in the B/C event for 7th place. In the discus Matt Sutton threw 27.14 to take 4th in the A comp, with Dave recording 15.71 for 4th place in the B/C event. Matt claimed a win in the A hammer with 53.01, Dave was runner up in the B/C with 25.51 and Craig took 4th with an 8.54 throw. Dave also claimed 5th spot with an 18.89 distance in the A javelin, Craig recording 10.71 for 4th in the B/C competition.
In the ladies events there was a 6th place finish for Louise Webster in the 100A with a time of 14.9. Millie Williams was 3rd in 2.27.5 in the ladies A 800. Louise ran 5.53.7 to take 3rd place in the 1500 B/C race. In the jumps there was a 7th place finish with a leap of 2.76 in the long jump for Amelia Hancock, And in the throws Louise Webster was 1st in the A shot with 9.52, Amelia Hancock placed 6thin the B/C event with 6.28, Amelia was 5th in the A discus with 21.49, Louise placing 5th in the B/C with 16.65, Louise was 3rd in the A hammer with 37.41, Amelia won the B/C hammer with a throw of 37.08 metres, Louise won the A javelin with 25.92, Amelia placing 3rd in the B/C comp with 13.50
And possibly guilty of leaving the best until last, Isobelle Jones received a call up to compete in the Loughborough International meeting and she made the most of the opportunity finishing runner up over a mile in 4.47.38 in a stacked field with Jess Warner-Judd in her wake.
Dave Norman
