Track and Field
The 2023 YDL Upper season began on Sunday at the Costello Stadium in Hull. City of York attended with very strong teams across the U17 and U20 age groups with athletes showing tremendous commitment and excellent early-season form.
Despite the changeable weather and blustery wind, athletes coped with the conditions very well and PB’s were frequent throughout the day.
City of York had an outstanding day, scoring over 1000 points and finishing top of the table. The next closest team (Gateshead) were almost 400 points behind. A great start to the season!
The next fixture is at York in less than 4 weeks – Sunday 28th May.
Road Running
The first race in the York 10k road race league took place on a cool evening at Tadcaster in perfect running conditions. Jason Reubenheimer led the club home in his first race for the club in 36.41 for 19th place. Chrissie Dover came 6th and first vet 35 in the women’s race with 40.18. Karen Wood came first Vet 55 in 45.11 with Steve Wright being 2nd Vet 60 in 41.07. A depleted men’s team came 7th whilst the women didn’t have enough runner to complete a team.
James Tucker ran the 3rd fastest road 5k ever by a City of York runner as he ran 14.39 in the Mid Cheshire 5k. Adam Bateman also ran 15.20 in the same event. Mark Bolland-Cage won the Leeds University 5k in a time of 15.59 as he won by 4 seconds from Sunderland’s Craig Gunn.
In his first ever 10k road race Charlie Wright came 2nd in the Kirkbymoorside 10k in 35.56. Dave Lancaster, who has run many more 10k road races than Charlie, was the 2nd Vet 65 in the Melmerby 10k in 41.43.
The club had 23 runners at parkrun on Saturday with William Keens winning Easingwold in a personal best time of 17.00 and Karen Wood coming 3rd at Heslington in 21.48. The club also had 5 runners doing the York junior parkrun on Sunday with Emily Rycroft (7.34), Hannah Lovett (7.37) and Josh Reid (8.18) being the first 3 runners across the line.