Author name: Amelia Darnell

Thankfully the thunderstorm was replaced by bright sunshine by the time we ran. The Woman ran first. Unfortunately, just like last year, we only had 3 runners and so failed to complete a full but they were classified as being 48th compared to 55th last year. Our Men’s ‘A’ team also finished much higher than […]

Christina Cowles placed 32nd overall (3rd SW30-34) with 20:45, beating her PB by 25 seconds and moving from 10th to 9th in the club all-time rankings.  Since last Saturday, Christina has improved by 62 seconds.

David Riley improved his best from 29:36 down to 28:11 to go from 14th to 6th in the club all-time rankings. 5M TT Top Places (Final) Oct 2023 – Sep 2024 1st Sam Speariett 2nd Steph Ward 3rd Joe Kerins

Discus1 Steve Burke M50 31.25 G2 Bob Ellingham M60 31.20 S (35th M60 national rankings)3 Toby Carroll U20M 30.69 G4 Bob Ellingham M60 25.44 2kg5 Anjola Opaleye U15G 19.02 G (PB by 2.03m)6 Jessica Waterworth U15G 14.70 S7 Chloe Hayes U15G 14.24 B PB8 Amelia Darnell SW 13.18 G (PB by 1.03m)Hammer1 Steve Burke M50 41.49

Two Hunts runners made the journey to this event, which was postponed in Feb due to the course being waterlogged. Thomas Richards finished 85th in the U15 Boys’ race and Joseph Reindel was 55th U20M.

Storey’s Field 7th Simon Mead 16:50 (1st M50-54) 11th Ty Farrer 17:33 (2nd M50-54) 22nd George Connell 18:42 (PB by 10 secs; 1st JM11-14; 24th club all-time rankings) 35th Rosie Mead 19:52 (1st SW18-19) 125th Yvonne Nelson 23:30 (PB by 29 secs; 2nd VW55-59; 19th to 16th in club all-time rankings) Ferry Meadows 32nd Christina Cowles 21:10 (PB by 37 secs; 1st SW30-34; 10th club all-time rankings)

Mile R2:  6th Summer Brocklebank 7:28.8 PB Mile R4: 1st Martin Amos 4:44.8, 3rd Chris Parson 5:02.7

1st Dave Hudson 54:14.9 (13th M40 national rankings) 2nd Mark Sampson 55:02.8 (PB by 2:47; 90th M35 national rankings) 6th Ty Farrer 59:01.8 (1st M50; 24th M50 national rankings) 7th Simon Mead 59:15.4 (2nd M50; 26th M50 national rankings) 16th Christopher Parson 61:46.6 (3rd M40) 56th Rosie Mead 71:42.0 (Club U20W Record, beating Emma Garwood 88:57 2005; 6th U20W national rankings) 69th Jess Williams 73:56.7 82nd Harrison Evans 77:02.4 92nd Christina Cowles

At Storey’s Field Parkrun, 11-year-old Alastair Reddish placed 53rd with 20:05 which improved his PB by 26 seconds and moved him from 32nd to 30th in the club all-time rankings.

Congratulations to our EAL Final athletes. Our final positions: U13G – 2nd U17W – 3rd U15B – 3rd eq. U17M – 5th U15G – 7th U13B – 7th SM – 7th Of the 17 clubs in the East Anglian League, 13 clubs had representation in at least one age group in the final. Adding all