Armagh International Road Races, Armagh, Northern Ireland (Thu. 13th Feb.)
Holly Dixon donned her third England vest this winter, this time for the Armagh International Road Races. Despite contracting a cold at the beginning of the week Holly had a fine run over 3k to finish in fourth place (2nd Team England) with a time of 9:15. Team England took the team honours.
Ayo Falola Dream Mile, Lee Valley (Wed. 12th Feb.)
Meredith Cummins and Delilah Lester made their debut indoors over 1 mile, recording times of 5:35.70s and 5:59.28s respectively.
RunThrough Battersea Park 10k (Sat. 15th Feb.)
Liam Carr (U20) reduced his 10k personal best by almost two minutes to 34:45 for 13th place overall and second U20.
Sutcliffe Indoor 60 Hurdles & Indoor 60s (Sat. 15th & Sun. 16th Feb.)
A bumper entry for the flat 60’s with over 200 entries last Sunday made for a busy day for our excellent team of officials, reports Mick Bond. There were over 30 club entrants with Doyin Aderinto leading the way on the women’s side with a season’s best of 7.76s whilst Dayne Douglas was the fastest of the men with a PB of 7.13s.
The final set of races are over the weekend of March 1st and 2nd two weeks before the Kent Indoor Championships at Lee Valley.
Split Marathon, Croatia (Sun. 16th Feb.)
Those new to the marathon struggle with knowing what pace to target: go off too fast and it will all end badly, but show the distance too much respect and you won't reach your potential, reports Clem Dixon. I'm not new to it but after 18 months away where at first it seemed that I might not run again, let alone a marathon, it was as if I was. So here are some pointers: Half x 2.085, 10k x 4.6, 5k x 9.59. Also a chap called Yasso reckons that if you do a track session of 10 x 800, your average 800 time in minutes and seconds is your marathon potential in hours and minutes. These indicators only work if you have been doing the long runs in training (and I mean long!), but I had been and Yasso and parkrun were both signalling 3.30 so off I went, at least the sums are easy for that one: 8 minute miles, 5 minute kilometres. And it turned out about right, not quite a negative split (in Split!) but I hung on for 3:27:52 (88th and 2nd M60).
What of the marathon? low key but well organised. A rocky off road section through the ruins of the Roman city of Salona was a bit bonkers but a lap of the athletics track round the pitch in the Hajduk Split stadium was a nice touch.
England Masters AA Indoor Track & Field Challenge, Lee Valley (Sun. 16th Feb.)
A number of the clubs masters represented their masters clubs at the EMAA Indoor Track & Field Challenge at Lee Valley on Sunday. Chris Loudon, representing Scottish Masters won the M35-49 1500m by eleven seconds, with a time of 5:05.05s, to go to the top of the M35 rankings for 2025. Tim Carter (VAC) recorded M70 wins in the long jump, where he equalled his season's best with 3.87m, and in the 400m, clocking 1:14.30s.
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