Weekend Action 18th-19th April

Juniors
There was an excellent turn out by the club at one of the first track events of the season, the Anne Marie Memorial Meeting at Shildon.

In the sprints, U11 Scott Armstrong won both the sprint events with 23:50 in the 150m and 9:40 in the 60m and Katie Savory was 4th in the U11 60m final. In the U13 sprints, Henry Johnson won the 200m in 29:00, Daniel Jukes was 2nd in the 100m with a time of 14:70 and Charlotte Cummings recorded 33:50 in the 200m. Meanwhile, in the U15 girls Anna Smith recorded 13:50 to take 3rd place in the 100m and Caitlin Smith ran in both the 100 and 200m in the U17 age group recording times of 13:90 and 29:40 respectively. U15 sprinter Jason Rumley was 4th in 14:20 in the 100m whilst the older athletes Jordon Keenan (U17) and Scott Markwell (U20 competing in SM) both ran in the 100 and the 200. Their times were: Jordan: 12:70 and 26:70, Scott 11:90 and 24:20.

In the middle distances, Henry Johnson and Joe Armstrong claimed 2nd and 3rd places in the U13 800m with 2:25 and 2:32 respectively. In the U15 boys, Tom Goulding recorded a superb new PB of 2:23:10 for the 800m, taking 11 seconds of his best. Chris Peverley set a new PB in the U15 3000m when finishing 2nd in 9:53.6 whilst Callum Morgan also testing himself over the longer race finished 5th in 9:52. Finally, U20 athlete Owen McArdle competed in the Senior 400m and recorded a good season opener of 54:00.

In the field events U11 Katie Savory won two events including the long jump (3.50m) and the cricket ball throw. She threw 28.65m which was 9m further than her nearest rival. Daniel Jukes finished a creditable 4th in the U13 boys shot putt recording 4.71m. Finally, in the long jump Charlotte Cummings (U13 girls - 3.28), Anna Smith (U15 girls - 4.08m) and Jason Rumley (U15 boys - 4:03) all finished in 3rd spot and U20 Scot Markwell jumped one better to claim 2nd in the senior mens with 5.75m.

Full results: http://www.shildonrunning.co.uk/

Seniors
On a weekend when illness and injury prevented the club for winning a potential medal at the National Road Relays, it was a rather busy race weekend.

Unavailable for the relays from the outset, Freya Murray managed to get herself to Ireland amid the volcanic ash disruption to successfully win the the Great Ireland 10km in 32:30, a frustrating 2 seconds outside of her best but ahead of Jo Pavey and Benita Willis. Meanwhile, triathlete Lisa Tweddle started her tri season with a sprint distance race in Skipton. Secretary James Raven also did a bit of biking finishing a creditable 15th in his Duathlon debut in a field of 110. James led the field home on the first 5km run before dropping back on the bike and then overtaking a further 6 competitors on the 2nd run.

Two of the team members disappointed not to race the relays found alternative races closer to home to highlight their current form. Tracy Laws tackled the Middlesbrough parkrun and finished 1st lady in a PB (10secs off previous time) of 17:16 whilst Max put on her track spikes to race the Shildon Memorial 3km and win in 10:09, equalling her PB.

Meanwhile, in Scotland, Sarah Wilkinson ran a solid 5km in 18:00 to win the Strathclyde Parkrun and Claire Simpson comfortably won the Wallsend multi-terrain 5 mile race in 30:14.

Sorry to anyone who has been missed off or any typos.