Indoor Track and Field
A number of club athletes competed in the British Universities Indoor Championships at Sheffield. The biggest indoor event of the year, 1250 athletes entered, and 20 hours of competition. Track events had heats, semi final, final. Field events had qualifying pools.
The club had 4 finalists, a great achievement from such a big entry. Tommy Shaw finished 3rd in the 1500 – 3 races in 3 days, and an indoor pb of 3m 52 in the Final.
Frances Hogg finished 5th in the 400m, with an overall pb of 55.82
Rosie Hickling finished 7th in the hurdles, and William Reid 8th in the long jump with an overall pb of 7.06m. Rosie followed this up by being part of the 3rd placed team in Sheffield Hallam’s 4 x 200m relay team.
In the heats, Lucas Stabler set a big pb of 4m 03 in the 1500, 15th fastest of 50 runners.
Alex Botterill finished 3rd in the 1000m in the Birmingham Indoor Meeting.
Road Racing
Angus McMillan took one second off his own club record for 5k on the roads as he ran 13.56 in the Armagh 5k on Thursday night. Running for Scotland Angus placed 17th in a very high standard race. James Tucker ran 14.54 to finish 138th in the same race.
The first race in the York University 5k series took place on Friday night. Six runners from the club ran PBs because many of our runners have improved in the three months since the last race in the 2024 5k series took place last November. Ellie Rainbow took 27 seconds off her PB as she won the female race in 17.45. James Bastow took a massive 31 seconds off his PB as he was the first male runner home from the club in 17.11. Jodie Bemand (18.52), Hannah Lovett (19.00), Marianne Lowson a fine 19.35 on debut, Imogen Brown a 10 second PB (19.44), Nick Lovett (20.44), Julie Mastrolonardo the best age grade from the club (20.55), Harriet Brown a 21 second PB (21.29), Carys Briggs (21.40), Ava Carter a 22 second PB (23.10) and Bethany Ellerker a 47 second PB (23.35) all ran well.
Parkrun
15 runners from the club did parkrun on Saturday. Simon and Mark Bolland-Cage were 1st and 2nd on the Knavesmire in 15.47 and 15.57 respectively. William Keens was again too fast for the rest at Easingwold in 17.10 with Lucy Davey coming 2nd at Keswick in 19.14. There were veteran age group wins for Jon Blake, Dave Lancaster and Steve Wright with a junior age group wins for Wilson Moisey-Smith and Eve Standen.