BUCS Cross Country Championships – January 31st
These were held at Stanmer Park in Brighton and featured three Races – the Senior Mens Race – the Senior Men’s ‘B’ Race and the Women’s Senior Race.
Full Results HERE
Karl Billington (St Mary’s) ran in the Men’s Senior ‘B’ Race and finished a strong 18th in a field of 443 athletes. Karl also finished as part of the Bronze Medal winning Team of St Mary’s and was pleased as this was his second medal of the New Year, having won a Team Gold at the County Championships in Blackburn on January 3rd when the Harriers beat Salford into second place. After the Race Karl told the Club that ““I finished 18th at BUCS yesterday and managed to pick up a bronze team medal. I had a really bad 4/5 minute spell which cost me a few places. I managed to finish strong on the last lap I got the last counter spot for the team“.
Beckie Taylor (Bangor) went in the Women’s Senior Race and finished 126th out of a field of 497 athletes, even bigger than the Men’s Races. Beckie said that“It wasn’t my best race and the course was very tough but there was a great atmosphere and it was exciting to go away with the team for the weekend and I hope I get the opportunity to compete in the BUCS cross country again”.
Rob Warner (Loughborough) also ran in the Men’s ‘B’ Race but sadly, as with a number of other athletes over the recent period, got struck down with illness telling us“I wasn’t able to finish the race yesterday at bucs. I got quite ill on Friday night and was sick quite a lot during the night and didn’t feel very well on the day of the race either. I thought I’d still give it a go seeing as I was there but just had nothing and was way off the pace from the start and was just going backwards”.
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Northern Athletics U13 / U15 Championships – February 1st
Full Results HERE
Nicholas Massey (U15) had a great day at the Northern Championships winning a Bronze Medal in the 60m Hurdles with a time of 9.20 and a seasons best. His Coach – Bob Groves – was delighted and commented “Nick came 3rd in the Northern on Sunday, in the highest quality of races. The winner leads the UK rankings, The guy who was 2nd is ranked 3rd, Nick is 7th with the guy who was 4th 8th in the UK. Nick could make the final of the nationals”.
U15 Charlotte Williams contested three events at the Championships – Shot Putt (3kg) – Long Jump and 60m Hurdles. In the SP Charlotte was a bit outside her PB when finishing 17th out of 26 Throwers with a distance of 8.32m. In the 60m Hurdles Charlotte placed 5th with a time of 10.75sec, four tenths outside her PB. But she made up for that in the Long Jump which had an amazing 45 competitors, finishing 26th with a new PB of 4.29m.
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Sportscity Indoor Series
Full Results HERE
Archie Braysford (U17) went to Sportscity to try and get the qualifying time for the National Indoor Championships and did it comfortably, winning his Race in 7.34sec. Oliver Aspden who has suffered with a really bad illness and missed a lot of training, was back in action in the 200m winning his Race in a time of 23.15. Paul Coffey took on the 60m (4th) in 7.58 and 200m finishing 3rd in the 200m with 23.98.
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Welcome Tavern 10k
Full Results HERE
Three Blackburn Harriers turned out at this Race which proved to be a little controversial in that the 293 athletes were sent round the course in such a way as to add extra distance to the length of the Race making it 6.6miles and not 10k. This was particularly irritating for Samantha McCreadie who had run a PB at the correct 10k marker and was 3rd Woman overall in 28th place. So to be credited with a time of 41.39 wasn’t what she wanted to see on the Result Sheet. Laura Hesketh was 4th Woman and 33rd overall with a time of 42.43 and V60 Evan Cook won the V60 1st Prize placing 36th in 43.08.
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U11’s North West Regional Fun in Athletics Festival
at Sports City on Sunday 18 January.
Fantastic day for the three athletes from Blackburn Harriers who all performed really well for Lancashire and were a credit to the Club and the Lancashire Team on the day. Nikki Charnley who was there on the day told us that “The boys finished 3rd overall 1point behind 2nd place and 20 points behind 1st place. Girls finished 1st place overall. Myah Booth worked very hard in her relays allowing Lancashire to gain valuable points. Eleesha Charnley won first place in her long jump with a distance of 209 cm and first place in her heat for high stepper. Both Kieran Carroll and Eleesha performed in the Grand Prix relay and both ran really well“.
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