Track and Field
The inaugural Yorkshire Indoor Athletics meeting took place at Sheffield last Sunday. A handful of our members too part.
Off Track Distance Running
The club’s senior men’s team finished a very creditable 26th in the National Road Relays that took place today at Sutton Park in Birmingham. The club was the 7th club from the north and 4th from Yorkshire. Angus McMillan ran a very good leg of 17.16 for the 5.85k leg to come 4th on the 1st leg. The club then dropped back on the next leg as James Tucker ran 18.22. It was great to see 1.46 800m runner Alex Botterill back running for the club as he stepped up in distance to run 188.29 for leg 3. The club’s position in the mid 20s was then consolidated by Mark Bolland-Cage (19.13), Tommy Shaw (18.49) and Tim Stratton (18.54) on the last 3 legs.
The juniors from the club ran very well in the opening race in the West Yorkshire Cross Country League at Guiseley in nice weather and benign under foot conditions. The club won four team events with another coming 2nd as we dominated the junior races. The winning teams were the under 17 women’s team, both under 15 teams and the under 13 boy’s team with the under 13 girl’s team coming 2nd. Individually there was a win for Ollie Wright (U13 Boys), 2nd places for Isaac Stabler (U15 Boys) and Aimee Keefe (U13 Girls) with 3rd places for Lottie Langan (U17 Women), Lucas Stabler (U17 men) and William Keens (U15 Boys). In the senior women’s race Chrissie Dover came 6th overall and 2nd Vet 40 whilst Therese Jansson was 2nd Vet 35.
On Sunday Dave Lancaster was 2nd Vet 60 in the hilly Richmond 10k in a time of 44.01. James Richardson ran 1.41.34 in the Manchester Half Marathon.
Due to the Cross Country races starting the club only had 9 runners doing parkrun over the weekend. Alice Gilday came 3rd at Goole in 23.15. Steve Asquith was the fastest male parkrunner from the club with 17.54 at Heslington.