Diane Baldwin competed for the England Masters F60 Team in the Birmingham 10k. Unfortunately she was overtaken in the latter stages of the race to finish second F60 home, 22 seconds behind the first F60, in 46:53 to finish 284th in a field of 5263 runners.
Following his sixth place in the 6km Cross country Championships, M70 John Skelton contested the 5000m on Sunday, placing fifth in 20:13.71. This is a new M70 record by more than 5 minutes! On Tuesday he contested the Semi-Finals of the 1500m, recording 5:28.10 to qualify third quickest for Thursday’s Final. The 1500m Final was…
Sophia Chapman has been selected to represent South-East England in the London mini-Marathon on 27 April over a course which includes the last mile of the London Marathon along the Mall. Natasha Freeland will represent the East of England at the same event.
The English Schools Cross Country Championships were held at the Ardingly Showgrounds in West Sussex. Fourteen MMK runners were competing for Bucks, Beds or Oxon. The best Buckinghamshire team result came in the Inter Girls where Bucks were fifth. In the Inter Girls, Sophia Chapman was in the leading pack early on but the exertions…
Elle Roche, competing at Mallory Park, where she set her lifetime best for 5km in 2021, was just 10 seconds away from that time, finishing second woman in 16:58. Mallory Park 5k: 31 Elle Roche (2nd FS) 16:58 91 Chris Baldwin (M40) 25:02 93 finished Full results from Mallory Park
Twenty three MMK runners competed in the first race of the East Midlands Grand Prix – a 10km race around the motor racing circuit at Silverstone. One a cool evening with little wind, twelve returned with new lifetime bests. Just 24 hours after his short Marathon, Steve Tuttle was the first MMK runner to finish,…
Ten MMK road runners competed in the Great Eastern Half Marathon at Peterborough in a field of 5755. Personal bests were hard to come by, but Andrew Cowdrill and Jordan Pope both reduced their pbs by more than two minutes. Imogen King was half a minute shy of the pb she set at the Cambridge…