Track and Field
City of York AC Coach/athlete Harry Maslen finished a superb second in the UK Athletics Indoor Championship Men’s Heptathlon at the weekend. This followed up his third place finish at the England Athletics Indoor Heptathlon at the start of the year.
Harry had a fairly steady first day which left him in 6th place overnight. However, a really gutsy new personal best in the pole vault (4.74m) catapulted him up into second place, enabling him to secure a podium finish.
This weekend the club had two female athletes in the women’s 400m at the BUCS indoor championships. Charlotte Stamp represented York St John University with Lara Hansen wearing the colours of York University. There was a total of ten heats which then went down to four semis finals before the final. Lara ran 61.71 seconds, which was a PB to come 4th in her heat. Charlotte ran 57.29, a seasons best, to be placed 2nd in her heat, qualifying for the semis. In the semi final Charlotte ran another seasons PB of 57.14secs. for 3rd place.
Off Track Distance Races
On Saturday ten runners from the club travelled to Bolesworth Castle near Chester to take part in the National Cross Country Championship with the fast and flat course suiting runners from the flatlands of York. Lottie Langan was the leading runner from the club in the junior races as she came 25th in the under 17 women’s race. Ollie Wright came close to matching this in the under 13 boy’s race as he came 30th. Other juniors to take part were Nina Hopkins (58th) and Hannah Lovett (126th) in the under 13 girl’s race, Tom Mitchell (254th in the under 13 boys), Samuel Dickinson (186th in the under 15 boy’s race) and Alana Reveley (263rd in the under 15 girl’s race. Three senior men completed the 11.8k course with Tim Stratton (141st) leading home Mike Raynes (859th) and Tim Pattison (981st).
Josh Breen led home eight runners from the club who did the Snake Lane 10 miles race in Pocklington on Sunday morning in a time of 61.40. Alison Deane was the first female runner from the club in 68.04. Karen Wood was 3rd Vet 55 in a time of 75.23 which also broke the club vet 55 club record for 10 miles.
Amy Kennedy came 4th female and 1st under 17 in the Hoppits fell race that was held at Mirfield on Sunday.
The club had four first places at parkrun over the weekend. There was a Mastrolonardo double at Dalby Forest with Gianluca (16.12) and mum Julie (22.02) both coming first. Mark Bolland-Cage came 1st at Goole in 16.11 as he missed partner Simon’s course record by just one second. William Keens again came 1st at Easingwold in 17.37. Worthy of mention is sprinter Scott Michael who ran a very respectable 20.19 at Durham.