Road Running
The club’s senior men’s team came a very creditable 7th in Sunday’s North of England Road Relays Championships that were held in Birkenhead. Angus McMillan came home first on the 5k opening leg in a time of 14.15. Angus’ time was the 3rd fastest of the day and was only beaten by European U23 10000m champion, Rory Leonard and International marathon runner Johnny Mellor. Tommy Shaw then held onto first place on the next leg as he ran 14.58. James Tucker (15.13), Gianluca Mastrolonardo (15.25), Mark Bolland-Cage (16.08) and Adam Bateman (15.57) then completed a very good team performance on the later legs. Sadly, the senior women’s team was incomplete as two runners dropped out the day before, however, Katy Wood did run the 10th fastest time of the day on the 1st leg with a time of 17.08.
The under 17 boy’s team won silver medals in their event as they missed out on gold in a sprint finish. Isaac Stabler came 6th on the 3.8k 1st leg in 12.03 with Cole McAndrew (12.09) giving the club a 50 metre lead after leg 2. However, there were six teams within 30 seconds so Beau Jamieson-Wannell had to pull out all the stops on the last leg as he ran a superb 12.00 time to narrowly miss out on gold but finish comfortably ahead of the rest. The B team of Will Hardy (12.35), Sam Dickinson (13.11) and Isaac Bastow (13.14) came a creditable 18th.
Peter Hanson came 26th in the Sutton on Forest 10k multi terrain run in a time of 43.16.
14 runners from the club did parkrun with Alice Gilday coming 2nd at Goole in 21.03. There were also junior age group wins for Bethany Ellerker, Josh Reid, Imogen Brown and Liv Hardy whilst Steve Wright, Dave Lancaster, Jon Blake and Allan Scott got veteran age group wins. Brodie Barrow came 1st at the York Junior parkrun in 8.33 with Jaxon Marshall coming 3rd in 8.06.
Track and Field
Throws coach John Moreland won the Over 65 Discus in the European Masters Championships in italy, he also finished 6th in the Hammer (just 5cm behind 4th).
Craig Pounder finished 3rd in the Over 45 Decathlon, including winning the 400m.
Juliette Macquin-Jones finished 2nd, just one point in 2200 behind the winner, in the Under 13 pentathlon at Peterborough. She improved 50 points on her total from Jarrow last week, and is 8th in UK on Po10.
There were good runs for some of our juniors in the Leeds Track Mile races on Saturday. Led by Will Hardy, who won the junior race in 4m 52.8 which was faster than a couple of the Senior A race. Ollie Wright had a well judged run to finish 3rd in this race 5m 01 against some much older athletes. James Bastow had an excellent run, not put off by the older faster ones in the race, to run 5m 33 which is a faster pace than his 1200m pb. Miles Watson 5m 07 and Hannah Lovett 5m 47 also good runs.