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Seville Marathon '10 - REPORT
Friday 26th February 2010
The pavement pounders are at it again – another squad, another
distance, another venue: this time is was a full marathon – the
XXVI Maraton Ciodad de Sevilla – located less than 80km (50
miles) from the Gulf of Cadiz in southern Spain where the
weather currently is just into double figures.
Rain is every-present but the event went off in
relatively dry conditions.
Tash, Graham, Ana and Ian show off their
Marathon gongs
3,124 stamina merchants completed the Seville Marathon on Valentine’s Day and amongst them, testing their winter training away from the spotlight now that the “London” is only weeks away, were four wearing the Southend colours.
The intrepid troops were Ana Ockendon, Tash
Lagden, Graham Hilbery and Ian Glover.
The spread was thin – after 26 miles (and
385 yards) there was just over half an hour between all four of
them – a little over a minute a mile between first and fourth.
Ana pulped her previous best (the Amsterdam
in 2008) by 18 minutes and now has a best time of 3,23.50.
Tash Lagden’s improvement was even better –
up 21 minutes from her London run last year to a new best of
3,28.16.
5 seconds per mile were all that separated
Graham Hilbery’s two fastest ever Marathons –
the 2007 London which he covered in 3,41.58
and the Seville, so more-or-less at an equally fast pace and a
splendid result for him.
Completing the squad, Road Coach Ian
Glover’s plan was to become a sub-4 marathoner.
With 4,06.55 under his belt from last year’s London, he
was looking for a 15 second a mile lift in his speed; in the end
he’d upped his pace by 21 seconds with the
result that he brought his time down by 9 full minutes, breaking
the 4 hour barrier by 3 minutes in the process.
Without doubt, a delighted quartet.
The quartet enjoying a relaxing drink or
six
The London on Sunday April 25th is just 10
weeks away.
Sunday 31st January 2010
With injury and other commitments keeping several of the
distance specialists away, it was left to the super six to
tackle the multi-terrain of the Benfleet 15, an interesting
course run over a whole variety of surfaces. It is a race to
test the strength, fitness and stamina to the limit as those who
dropped out before the finish will testify (although none from
Southend fell by the wayside).
There were two members of the Club's Women's section facing the
starter and a cracking run from the youngest there gave the
delighted Sarah Jeffery a richly-earned 7th place in the Women's
race with a superb 1h55.17. At just over a minute a mile slower
than Sarah, Fiona Hawkins representing the Veteran 35-44 group
finished in a very respectable 2h18.00 for 47th place. Sarah
and Fiona were respectively 113 and 310 overall. Sterling
performances in a total field of 627 men and women finishers.
The 41st fastest time of the day (1h44.39) went to the youngest
of the Club Men, Terry Craven who has enjoyed an impressive
season since joining the Seaside crew only a few months ago.
Greg Jarvis (V40-49) wasn't too far behind though, claiming 65th
spot with 1h52.23. In the same age-group Stuart Payne and
Mathew Gillard were 240th and 402nd with times of 2h10.37 and
2h28.15.
A good team effort.
But they were not the only Southenders to turn out on Sunday.
In the U15 race run over 2 1/2 miles, young Edward
Cooper thought he'd show everyone how to run the shorter
distance - and with a nippy 17m 05 under his belt, promptly
romped home in 2nd place - and he's only 11 ! The quality of
this performance cannot be understated: he's currently 2nd in
the Club's All-Time list for this distance.
June
27.01.2010
Photographs courtesy of Ana Ockendon.
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Essex Cross Country League - FINAL ROUND
Friday 15th January 2010
The two Senior groups grab 3rd while the
Under 15 Boys are outright Champs!
The Senior Men brought out all the big guns
at the weekend, mostly Under 20s, and as a result left the
eventual season’s top 2, Chelmsford and Orion 10 and 160 points
adrift. If only Saturday’s strength had been maintained
throughout the season, a thumping win would surely have been on
the cards.
With the first four men home finishing in
the top 12 in a field of 160, it was relying on the 5th and 6th
finishers to be well-placed and indeed the final placings of 1,
3, 11, 12, 17th and 40th were all Southend needed on this
occasion to head the leader board. Basildon finished their squad
of 5 in the top 19 and were left rueing the absence of a 6th man
who inevitably would have caused Southend some problems.
1.Paul Whittaker 25.38; Ben Hunter 26.30;
11 Tom Frith 27.32; 12 Steven Whittaker Snr 27.41; 17 Adam
Hickey Snr 27.57; 40 Peter Smale Snr 29.54; 51 Alan
Millar 30.23; [67 P Doyle – SAC guest 31.24] 77 Terry
Craven Snr 31.59; 85 Josh Crompton 32.26; 86 Kyle
Aldridge 32.27; 88 Peter Binns V60 32.35; 109 Greg Jarvis
34.23; 120 Jim Longhurst V40 35.13; 133 Gareth Crompton V40
37.27; 140 Jim Ling V40 38.19; 146 Matt Gillard V40 39.18.
The final placings for the season were 1
Chelmsford; 2 Orion; 3 Southend and in the individual
competition, Tom Frith showed highest in the rankings in an
impressive 4th place with Steven Whittaker 19th, brothers David
and Peter Smale 28th and 31st respectively; Alan Millar was
35th, and Terry Craven 44th. Peter Binns, in keeping with his
County Championship performance, led the V60 field beating many
a younger man in the process. Frith is effectively 3rd Essex
(one runner is West Suffolk) besides being the fastest in his
age group (U20).
Senior Women - a field of 61 women, half of
whom were Veteran athletes (35+), set out on the final run of
the season and Kerry Holland (a Senior) led the Southend
contingent home in 9th place in 25.39. Natasha Lagden followed
her in, just over a minute later in 18th place. Sarah Jeffery’s
27.15 gave her 23rd place with Melanie Ling closing the scoring
line-up in 32nd place with 28.51. Benfleet with their 38 points
could not be headed and Southend finished 5th just 6 points
behind Havering. Nonetheless, the standard of their team
performances throughout the series has seen them finish in 3rd
place on 19 points, behind Colchester & Tendring and Benfleet
who both finished on 13 points. Holland’s consistent
running gave her a seasonal 6th place followed closely by Sarah
Jaffery in 11th and Natasha Lagden in 14th. Melanie Ling
who has also been a consistent team member finished 20th, and
Ana Ockendon was 27th. Beyond that Lagden was 3rd W35
while Ling was runner-up in the W45 category.
Despite being a combined age group, the
U17/U20 Women’s race was a modest affair with only 3 complete
teams, and 22 finishers just two of whom were from
Southend – Holly Gillard who finished 15th and Alice Ling just
behind her. Although there could be no full-team
placing overall our determined duo 6th in the “team” result and
6th overall while individually they finished 14th and 17th for
the season.
The field for the Under 17 Men’s race was
not much bigger – 28 completed the course of whom 4 – Sam Brown,
a creditable 2nd, Rhys Gillard (9th), Charlie Parker (17th) and
Harris Foster-Carter (22nd) were the sole seaside
representatives at the weekend. Their combined effort resulted
in a close finish – Thurrock 42 pts, Havering 47 pts, Southend
50 pts. The seasonal team finish was even closer: Thurrock 7,
Havering 11 and Southend 13! Individually Brown was 4th overall,
Gillard 9th, Parker, Max Knight and Foster-Carter 13th, 14th and
18th.
The All-Stars once again with the Under 15
Boys – with 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 9th they made it a problem for
other teams, ultimately scoring just 21 points with Colchester &
Tendring 2nd on 47 pts. Up the front Oliver Kyriakides and
Jonathan Kerridge set up their own battle to try and head off
Thurrock’s Tom Richardson who won with a 5 second margin;
Kyriakides and Kerridge finished in that order behind him. Then
a small time-gap was followed by 6 athletes finishing in 17
seconds, amongst them Alex Masterson who was 7th, then Rob Frith
and Ashley Capel in 9th and 10th. Capel led in the “B” team who,
had they been allowed to score would have found the
contributions of Ben Franklin (19th), Steven Hancock (23rd) and
Joe Beard (24th) with a 3rd team placing such is the strength in
depth of this age group! Tate Baron, in at 25th and Josh
Hegarty, 27th, just missed the cut here. Despite the U15s
suffering a heavy defeat in the 2nd match where they finished
6th, their other match finishes where they finished 1st, 2nd and
2nd, together with this win were just sufficient to give them
victory (12 points) over Chelmsford and Havering, both on 14.
The Under 15 Girls must be feeling pleased
with themselves – despite losing one of their team earlier this
season, they still managed to finish a very creditable 3rd with
Chloe Williams, displaying the consistency with which she has
been performing this winter, in 5th place; however Emily Crowe,
making great strides was just three seconds behind her in 7th
place with Sarah Imbush and Alex Morgan fighting it out for 12th
place, Imbush gaining the edge by just 2 seconds. Sophie
Jarvis finished in a creditable 25th place. 1st Chelmsford 20;
2nd Basildon 36; 3rd Southend 37. Individual end-of season
standings show: 4th Williams, 6th Crowe, 7th Imbush, 10th Morgan
and 20th Jarvis.
The Under 13 Boys team, who suffered a
shortage of numbers at the beginning of the season, pulled
themselves up to finish a very creditable 2nd with 13 points,
just ahead of Havering (14) and Orion (16). Josh
Mann, finishing 5th, led the troops home, followed shortly by
Adam Jordan (12th). Edward Cooper’s 26th and Edward Morgan’s
32nd gave them the total for 3rd team place on the day, tying on
points with Havering in 2nd place. Morgan, the only boy
there to complete the required four races finished the League
season in 16th place. Zach Inwood who competed in the first four
races, finished 8th.
The Under 13 Girls completed their season
in 5th place, courtesy of some well-placed early season team
efforts. Unfortunately, however, the last match was down to the
efforts of just two girls – 14th placed Emma Jarvis and Lucy
Kidwell who finished 16tth, giving them respectively = 15th and
12th in the final standings.
This forthcoming weekend was to have been
the County Cross Country Championships at Hadleigh. Despite the
course still being in good racing condition, the County’s
Referee has decided to call it off, most likely due to the
anticipated travelling and transport difficulties. The County
Championships will now NOT be rescheduled and selection for
Essex representation at the Inter Counties is likely to be based
on performances at the Essex Cross Country League matches which
have just finished.
June Cork, Press Officer, 10.01.2010
Boxing Day Pier Race - REPORT
Saturday 3rd January 2010
The Southend-on-Sea Athletic Club Boxing Day Pier Handicap Race
has been running now for well over half a Century. Its
implementation in the early 50s lays firmly in the hands
of Life Member John Tyler who himself (quite reasonably) won the
maiden race and it quickly became established as one of the
Club’s regular Fixtures.
This year there were 29 entries - two who
had entered turned up too late to run and two others obviously
couldn’t pull themselves from their beds!!! (Let’s
hope it wasn’t down to over-indulgence the day before!)
The traditional entry fee for this event is
a wrapped present donated by each entrant and as the runners
return from their efforts they are invited to choose their
“prize”.
First
Fastest Woman: Senior Kerry Holland
Despite his age group (Under 13) Josh Mann
continues to eat up the ground and produced an awesome 15
minutes performance, giving him an impressive 7th place, in a
race dominated by U17s and U20s. At a little over a minute
behind Roy, however, Alex Masterson who has just recently turned
15 and Rhys Gillard, just a few months older, put up most
impressive performance with their 13m38 and 13m45s clockings.
Kerry Holland continues to dominate the Women's distance section
finishing 5th overall with a nippy 14m35s. The Mini race for the
Under 11s was won by J Gillard; W Gillard was 2nd and J Haiser
(a grandson of the Bullocks) was third.
Finishing order before adjustment for handicaps:
Gareth Crompton 16.27; Rob Scott 15.36;
Rhys Gillard 13.45; Greg Jarvis 14.51; Julia Jarvis 20.09; Alex
Masterson 13.38; Sue Crompton 18.28; Sarah Jeffery 15.03; Kerry
Holland 14.35; Fi Hawkins 17.38; G Morgan 16.40; Matt Gillard
16.34; Roy Scott 12.20; Josh Crompton 14.18; Josh Mann 15.00;
John Cornwell 17.06; Sarah Imbush 15.40; Emma Jarvis 17.08;
Alexandra Morgan 17.01; Hollie Gillard 16.50; Greg Goodrem
15.17; Sophie Jarvis 18.44; Ed Morgan 17.37; John Brown 26.15;
Mike Jeffery 25.06.
Inevitably Scott, winner of the Jimmy Lowen
London Marathon cup this year, was “awarded” the heaviest
handicap of all – 10m30s meaning he started last, but by the
finish he had picked up no fewer than 12 places.
The organisers for this event once again
were Marion and Tony Bullock, Michael Seaman (who framed the
handicaps very cleverly as ever) and John Tyler the initiator of
the event over half a century ago. The race was timed by Brian
Cox and recorded by Club Chairman Ray Pearce, and Life Members
Derek Woods and June Cork.
The Official Line-up: Graham Payne, multiple Record Holder; Ray Pearce (Chairman);
John Tyler (Initiator) Derek
Woods (Life Member) Mike Seaman (co-Organiser and Life Member);
We would like to thank First Aider Matthew
Wood who was in attendance in case of misadventures: fortunately
there were no accidents for him to attend to, and also all the
spectators who turned up to support the various participants.
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Name
Finish time
Handicap
Running time Trophy 1.
Roy Scott
22.50
10.30
12.20
Fastest Man 2.
Alex Masterson
22.18
8.40
13.38
2nd Man 3.
Rhys Gillard
22.05
8.20
13.45
3rd Man 4.
Joshua Crompton
22.58
8.40
14.18 5.
Kerry Holland
22.35
8.00
14.35
Fastest Woman 6.
Gregory Jarvis
22.06
7.15
14.51 7.
Joshua Mann
23.00
8.00
15.00 8.
Sarah Jeffery
22.33
7.30
15.03
2nd Woman 9.
Gregory Goodrem
24.27
9.10
15.17 10. Robert Scott
21.36
6.00
15.36
11. Sarah Imbush
23.10
7.30
15.40
3rd Woman 12. Gareth
Crompton
19.07
2.40
16.27
1st Home
13. Matthew
Gillard
22.49
6.15
16.34 14. G Morgan
22.40
6.00
16.40 15. Hollie
Gillard
24.05
7.15
16.50
4th Woman 16. Alexandra
Morgan
24.01
7.00
17.01
5th Woman 17. Graham?
Cornwel
23.06
6.00
17.06
18. Emma Jarvis
23.53
6.45
17.08
6th Woman 19. Edward Morgan
25.07
7.30
17.37 20. Fiona Hawkins
V
22.38
5.00
17.38
7th Woman 21. Susan
Crompton V
22.28
4.00
18.28
8th Woman 22. Sophie Jarvis
22.44
6.00
18.44
9th Woman 23. Julia Jarvis
V
22.09
2.00
20.09
10th Woman 24. Michael
Jeffery V
27.06
2.00
25.06
25. John Brown V
26.15
0.00
26.1
June Cork, Press Officer, 27.12.09 |
Essex Cross Country League - R1 REPORT
A trio of outstanding team performances
kick-started this season’s Cross Country programme for the
seaside club. The All-Stars on this occasion were the Under
15 Boys, Under 15 Girls and Under 17 Men.
The Under 15 Boys have set out their
stall early on with a delighted Oliver Kyriakides taking the
race apart and finishing with a 15 second lead; the Club’s
Age best 800m runner, Jon Kerridge finished, also with 15
seconds to spare over the next boy in. Next in, Robbie Frith
won the neck and neck for 9th place; Alex Masterson
completed the scoring line-up in 12th place to give the team
a convincing 32 point lead over the 2nd team. The
Club’s “2nd team” this time round would have finished 5th
with their splendid piece of group-work: Richard Stennett
(16th); Steven Hancock, Tate Baron and Ben Franklin in 19th,
20th and 21st places while excellent support came from
Ashley Capel, Lewis Williams and Josh Hegarty.
|
Age Group |
Position |
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|
U13 Girls |
3 |
Southend |
|
U13 Boys |
4 |
Southend |
|
U15 Girls |
1 |
Southend |
|
U15 Boys |
1 |
Southend |
|
U17 Men |
1 |
Southend |
|
U17/U20W |
4 |
Southend |
|
SW |
5 |
Southend |
|
SM |
3 |
Southend |
The lead wasn’t quite so commanding for
the Under 15 Girls; nonetheless they put on a formidable
display of packing. With Aimee Garnett
leading the troops home in 3rd place,
the other three members of the squad – Chloe Williams, Emily
Crowe and new recruit Sarah Imbush arrived at the funnel in
7th, 8th and 9th places.Not far behind were the “2nd team”
who, like the boys would have finished 5th if they could
have scored: Jordan Lacey and Alexandra Morgan fought it out
for 12th and 13th while Jessica Mead, Kelsie Mongahan (in
her first race for the Club) and Sophie Jarvis completed
their runs in 19th, 22nd and 24th respectively.
We have become accustomed to the Under
17 Men flying the Club’s colours wherever they race and on
this occasion they did not disappoint. Although there were
no individual honours their amassing of just 39 points was
attributable to the superb finishing of Sam Brown (4th),
George Moxon (10th), Rhys Gillard (12th) and Harry Grose
(13th). The “B” squad didn’t fare so badly either: Max
Knight was 16th, Charlie Parker followed him home in 17th
and Harris Foster-Carter 23rd left a huge gap
between himself and the rest who followed.
At one time seven women representing a
variety of clubs would have lined up for the Senior Women’s
race: now 7 represent just our Club. Impressively 12 full
teams completed the course this time round; Southend,
building up their strength again were just 3 points adrift
of 4th place. The three seniors (Kerry Holland, Joanne
Bradford and Sarah Jeffery) took the Club’s 15th, 17th and
19th positions while W35 Natasha Lagden completed the
scoring side in 27th place. Melony Ling (W45), Ana Ockendon
(W35) and Sue Crompton (55th) more than ably completed the
line-up.
The Under 13 squads finished 4th (Boys)
and 3rd (Girls). The Under 13 Boys have struggled throughout
the season to make up teams, but for the first league match
there were, encouragingly, more than enough for a team. Zak
Inwood stepped up to the mark and finished an impressive
5th, supported by four relative newcomers to the Club: Aaron
Broomfield was next back in 22nd place while Ben Cockrill,
Edward Morgan and Mason Gill ran in one behind the other in
35th, 36th and 37th giving them a very positive 4th team
place.
Top runner for the Under 13 Girls was
Lucy Kidwell 12th with Emma Jarvis 14th, Alexa Foster-Carter
24th, Rebecca Dalgarno, Isabelle Hewitt and Rebecca
Rimmington funnelling in 31st, 43rd and 46th. They finished
just 5 points adrift of 2nd place.
There were only three Under 17 Women
who responded to the call to arms at the weekend and
therefore there was no team placing. Camilla Smee was first
home for the seasiders in 7th place, followed by Hollie
Gillard (16th) and Alice Ling (17th).
The Senior Men’s race, on the other
hand, comprising all the age groups from U20 upwards,
produced the Club’s biggest turnout of the day. 16 Men lined
up at the start in a field of 177.
Senior Paul Whittaker stormed to the
lead giving almost a minute to his nearest rival. Tom Frith
(U20) won the battle for 3rd; Howard Clarke (U20) edged out
his nearest opponent to claim 25th; David Smale (U20)
followed 4 places later while his brother Peter (Senior)
finished 38th. Alan Millar (48th) and Steven Whittaker (62nd
– carrying an injury) completed the scoring line-up leaving
them just 9 points behind Chelmsford for 2nd and 3rd places.
New signing Terry Craven impressed with his 75th place in
his first-ever cross country and the Veterans were
represented by Dave Hurley, Greg Jarvis, Gareth Crompton,
Ian Glover and Matthew Gillard for the M40s and James
Longhurst the lone M50. Peter Binns (M60) was first of
an impressive 9 “mature” athletes – some in their 60s and
others in the 70 age category.
Photos from Essex XC R1 - One Tree Hill - Click Here
June Cork
Press Officer
14th October 2009
Eastern Young & Vets Final - REPORTS
It has proven to be a very busy
end-of-season for the Seasiders – apart from the success
of the Men’s Vet team who progressed through to the
Final, the youngsters also enjoyed a Final placement in
the Eastern Young Athletes’ League.
During the week two members of the
Women’s squad travelled to Watford for one of the Open
Meetings – Jo Bradford ran her second-fastest ever 1500m
of 4,53.2 in an attempt to break the personal best she
set the week before at the Southern Women’s League
match. Distance Kerry Holland focused on the 3000m
where, with all the right conditions, she completely
annihilated her standing best time. A few days later,
the race-aholic young Miss Holland took on the Canvey
Island 10K finishing in 31st place in a combined
Men’s/Women’s race with a nippy time of 42m 47s.
Eastern Young Athletes’ League –
Final – Cambridge – Sunday 13th September 2009
At the other end of the age scale,
the six age groups of the Under 17s had also achieved a
sufficiently high placing during the season to find
themselves competing in the Plate Final at Cambridge.
Everyone pulled together in a
determined effort to win the Plate. This resulted in
many of the youngsters producing life-time best
performances. The Boys’ squads were awash with pbs –
from the little team of just 6 Under 13 Boys, Josh
Prentice collected a hat-trick: 100m/200m/Discus [14,18
and 27.9 for the sprints and a splendid 36.46m bringing
to 15 the number of Age Records broken by the 11-18 year
olds at Southend this season. Ben Cockrill
produced a pair of bests in the 800m (2,35.0) and Long
Jump (3.93m) while Edward Morgan brought his 1500m time
down to 5,54.25. Lewis Saville’s best occurred in the
Long Jump (4.22) while Zach Inwood was the outright
winner of the B Discus and B 800m and putt the shot
5.74m with Josh Mann (3.97m) fresh from his runner-up
finish in the 1500m (5.02.29).
There were only 9 in the Under 15
group, 5 of whom had saved this last meeting for
personal bests: Jon Kerridge 26.07/55.41 in the
200/400m; Oliver Kyriakides 2.60 in the Pole Vault; Paul
McCluskey 3.75m/28.13m in the Long Jump/Javelin, Scott
Tansley in the Discus (16.27m) and Jake Inwood with
1.20m in the High Jump and 16.62m in the Hammer.
The 1500m was a walk-over for Kyriakides and Rob Frith
(4,31.49 & 4,50.78) as was the 800m (Kerridge 2,06.0 and
Alex Masterson (2,11.1) while Tom Watts (10.43m) and
Kyle Marshall (9.05m) made it a 1-2 in the Shot Putt.
Mitchell Turffrey, returning from injury pitched in to
support his team mates in the Discus and Javelin.
The Under 17 Men, despite winning
events right across the timetable, were defeated by lack
of numbers, other activities, illness and injury
decimating their crew. Jake King enjoyed a hat-trick,
winning the 100m and 200m while producing a superb
life-time best in the Long Jump of 6.22m; Tom Jeffs
threw his furthest-ever in the Discus (22.27m), won the
Hammer and putt the Shot while Harry Grose pb’d in both
the Shot and Discus (20.13m); Callum McLean produced his
second fastest performances in the 100m Hurdles (15.76)
and 100m (12.81) but his 34.70 Javelin throw was a
winner, as was George Moxon’s 4,32.5 800m behind A
string Sam Brown (4,31.4); Jon Staines ran close to his
best in the 400m/800m double besides throwing a 2nd
placed 43.37 in the Javelin.
The Under 13 Girls covered every
event but were up against some very tough opposition;
nonetheless Paloma Sanz, Emma Jarvis, Lucy Kidwell,
Gabriella Pearson and Tinashe Mutsure were obliged to
produce best-evers for their points contribution,
Mutsure (28.69) being an outright winner in the 200m as
was Long Jumper Olivia Smith. Abigail Frith (12.4
70m Hurdles), Mutsure (14.13 100m) and Kerry McCrory
(3.37m B Long Jump) collected 5 points-a-piece for the
runners-up positions. The relay team of
Mutsure, Frith, McCrory and Smith clocked 57.11, running
in 2nd.
The Under 15 Girls also produced a
full side and although there was just one victorious
double with Aimee Garnett (5,13.1) and Jordan Lacey
(5,20.4) in the 1500m, there were no fewer than 8
personal bests – from Beckey Withams (Hurdles/Long
Jump), Tyla Shaw (Hurdles), Hannah Maslen (200m), Chloe
Williams (Discus) and a pair from Sophie Jarvis (300m
and Shot). As ever, there was encouraging support
from Emily Crow and Sunisa Saengon.
Then there were the Under 17 Women.
There wasn’t a single last place amongst them;
conversely they found double winning ways in the Hurdles
(Eleanor Evans and Felicity Clarke (12.8 and pb 12.9)
and 800m (Camilla Smee and Jess Mead (2,25.0/2,28.9), a
1-2 from the Evans and Smee combination in the High
Jump, a 2-1 in the 200m (Sian McCrory and Alex Dean) 2-2
from McCrory and twin sister Leanne in the 300m and 2nd
home in the sprint relay with Evans, Dean, L McCrory and
S McCrory. Holly Gillard ran her best-ever 1500m
(5,31.3); Mollie Short produced a 2-2 of her own in the
Shot and Discus. Amelia Kyriakides and Meg Kelly
completed the squad – the very happy, successful squad
as soon as they realised that they had won the Women’s
Under 17 Shield for 2009.
Eastern Veterans’ League - Final –
Bedford – Sunday 13th September 2009
The journey to Bedford for the
Final of the Eastern Vets Athletic League was undertaken
by just six of the Men Veterans of the Club and thus any
chance of a medal placing was never going to be on the
agenda.
Having a Decathlete in the squad
helped enormously to reduce any feeling of a lost cause,
and Paul Ffrench gamely took on a heptathlon of
disciplines: 110m Hurdles (3rd in 21.0), 400m Hurdles
(4th in 74.2), two of the throws (Shot and Hammer) and
three of the jumps – 1.45 in the High Jump where he
finished 3rd and a dominance in both the horizontal
jumps – 5.20m in the Long and 11.03m in the Triple.
Keith Palmer ran his 2nd fastest times of the season in
both the 100m and 200m (12.8 and 25.1) for 3rd and 2nd
respectively but had to content himself with 4th in the
400m despite producing his fastest of the season – 58.7.
Tony Hyde’s excellent 2,24.6 earned him a runner-up spot
in the 800m. The Club’s 2009 multiple
Club Champion and leading Walker Chris Cattano,
ran a useful 10,55.5 for the 3000m where he finished
3rd, then ventured over to the Pole Vault and
Javelin for much needed points, and completed his
efforts by claiming victory in his speciality the 2000m
Walk in a nippy 9,40.9. Between them
amazingly, the four stalwarts covered the V40 programme.
For the V50 group, only two
athletes were available so John Brock opted for the two
longest events on the schedule – the 3000m and the 2000m
Walk (12,57.0) and star Hammer thrower, Malcolm Fenton
neatly demolished the field when he launched the 16lb
implement a massive 52.18m, one of his seasonal best
performances.
The Medley Relay team produced
their season’s best of 3m 17.0 with the combined efforts
of Cattano (400m), Brock (200m), Palmer (200m) and
Ffrench on the 400m anchor leg.
Notwithstanding the lack of
numbers, by the end of the afternoon the mini-squad had
amassed no fewer than 106 points beating Peterborough,
West Norfolk and Ryston to 5th place of the 8 teams.
Next season the Club is hopeful of
re-entering the Women Vets in the League.
Result - Team
Bedford – 290.5;
Milton Keynes 257.5;
Loughton 189.5=Chelmsford 189.5
Southend 106;
Peterborough 95;
West Norfolk 91;
Ryston 59.
June Cork, Press Officer
Reminder!
- Fixutres 2010.
Warmup meetings are now open for entry, as well as the fixtures for league meetings are out now!
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