YDL Upper 3rd Meeting
The club’s YDL Upper squad stormed to their third consecutive victory at Doncaster on Sunday. The squad have now earned their place in the National Finals which will be contested at the Manchester Regional Arena on Sunday 3rd September.
It was a depleted squad at Doncaster due to illness, injury and a host of athletes performing at the ESAA Combined-Events Champs at Cleckheaton. However, with 34 personal bests recorded on the day, the athletes pulled together to achieve another great win.
Thank you to all athletes, parents, officials and coaches for your continued commitment throughout this season.
Good luck to the YDL Lower squad in their 3rd match of the season on Saturday 8th July.
Middle Distance Track and Road Racing
The 5th race in the York 10k Road Race League took place last Tuesday on the hardest course of the series at Bugthorpe near Stamford Bridge. A mile long climb in the 2nd mile and a few inclines on the descent and in the final stages meant that runner’s times were significantly slower in this race than in previous races in the series. Chrissie Dover was the 2nd Vet 35 and 7th overall in a time of 43.07. Chrissie is assured of a top 3 position in the Vet 35 age group but could still be caught by Selby’s Emma Winter for 2nd place for the overall series title in the age group. Tim Pattison is slowly getting back to previous levels of fitness as he led home the men’s team in 40.26 with Allan Scott (41.10) overhauling Mike Raynes (41.19) in the later stages to be next home from the club. A very depleted men’s team only just completed a team in 7th place. Dave Lancaster was 2nd vet 60 in 42.48 but needs to beat Tadcaster’s Allan Jackson in the last race to come an outright 2nd in the overall series for the age group.
Angus McMillan ran 3.46.73 at the Loughborough Open on Wednesday whilst Tommy Shaw ran 8.32 for Birmingham University over 3000m in an Ivy meeting against various American Universities.
In a weekend where GB international Andrew Butchart broke the world parkrun record with 13.45 at Edinburgh, Juliet Horne came 2nd at Heslington in 21.50 and Julie Mastrolonardo came 3rd on a grass course on the Knavesmire in 21.44. Allan Scott was the fastest male parkrunner from the club with 18.54 at Heslington.