Blackheath & Bromley Harriers AC Summer Open, Norman Park (Tue. 30th July)
There were a number of excellent performances by club athletes at the latest B & B Summer Open in warm conditions at Norman Park, with a number of athletes securing personal bests.
Sprints: Celia Allen (U15) dipped under 14 seconds over 100 metres with a PB of 13.81s. In the 200m Ephraim Akinlolu (U17) ran a PB of 23.74s and Joe White (U15) clocked a PB of 42.99s over 300m.
Middle Distance: Aniket Iyengar (U17) and Callum Pattyson (U13) reduced their 800m bests by seven and four seconds respectively recording 2:04.47s and 2:53.47s. Alex Van den Berg-Hows (U15) reduced his best 1500m time to 4:48.71s.
Hammer: Sophie Fenner added 88cm to her life time best with a throw of 38.41m.
Dartford Road Runners - Joydens Wood 5km (Wed. 31st July)
The popular Dartford RR summer series concluded last Wednesday in Joydens Wood, with thirteen club runners taking part. The club's highest place finisher in fourth place was Liam Carr (18:38), with Luke Ford (19:05) and Mark Penny (20:33) in 7th and 12th. Catherine Gonzalez finished 21st overall and second lady in 22:04. Susan Dixon was first W55 with a time of 23:07. Results can be viewed here.
Assembly League, Victoria Park, Hackney (3.5 miles) (Thur. 1st Aug.)
Eleven club runners made the trip to Victoria Park, Hackney for the penultimate 2024 Assembly League race with Brett Baker taking a fine second place with a time of 18:11. The team comprising Brett, Kyle Hurst (7th - 18:54), Jonathan Sargent (24th - 19:50) and James Macdonald (29th - 22:03), finished 2nd behind host club Victoria Park H&THAC. Results can be viewed here.
Borrowdale Fell Race, Rosthwaite (Sat. 3rd Aug.)
The Borrowdale Fell Race is one of the "classic" Lakeland fell races, starting and finishing in Rosthwaite, the route initially heads over Bessyboot before climbing England's highest summit, Scafell Pike. Great Gable is then scaled before a descent to Honister Pass and a final climb up Dale Head. The distance is approximately 17 miles (27 kilometres) and the route has around 6,500 feet (2,000 metres) of ascent.
Although a firm fixture in the club’s fell running calendar, only I made it up to the lakes this year, writes Christian Poulton.
Considering the recent amount of rain that we have experienced this summer, the weather was fairly good with dry conditions, light winds and largely cloud free summits, at least on the lower levels.
Although the conditions on the day were good, the ground underfoot was quite wet with no abatement to the boggy areas that we had to traverse. The climb up to Betsy Boot was as steep and lung busting as ever but at least the run over to Check Point 2, Esk Hause Shelter was cloud free so we could see where we were going. Dodging walkers, we climbed up Scarfell Pike and then a sharp right to descend via the scree of the Corridor route. The scree this year was saturated and made an already difficult descent even harder. Most runners ended up partly running / sliding down 50% on their legs and 50% on their bottoms.
Up and over Great Gable, I took a miss-step skirting the summit of Green Gable, slipping on a wet rock and rolled my right ankle slightly. From then onwards I had to unfortunately slow jog / walk to Honister Hause, up to Dale Head summit and then the steep decent back to the finish. A slight navigational mishap on the decent off Dale Head added to my slowest time ever however, I was still comfortably within the race cut-offs.
Result: 188th Christian Poulton 5:14:59 (49th M50).
Derek Crookes U13 Inter Counties, Walton-on-Thames (Sun. 4th Aug.)
Miya Cook and Lizzie Sanders were selected to represent Kent at the U13 Inter-Counties match on Sunday. Miya secured bronze medals in the 70m hurdles (12.34s) and javelin (30.76m). Lizzie recorded a time of 2:39.64s over 800m.
Bedford Autodrome Marathon (Sun. 4th Aug.)
Stephen Thompson tackled the Bedford Autodrome Marathon on Sunday which consisted of eight laps of the Bedford Autodrome designed by former F1 driver Jonathan Palmer. Stephen finished in 3:00:28 for 22nd place overall and 4th M45.
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