Three Morpeth Harriers were in action at the BMC Grand Prix
Meeting in Solihull on the evening of Saturday 9th July 2016. Olympic bound Laura Weightman finished eighth in the fastest of the Women’s 800m events, posting a time of 2m05.60s, in one of her last competitive events before heading off for pre Olympic preparations. Josie Cram clocked a new lifetime personal best of 2m15.20s, when finishing sixth in the fourth fastest Women’s 800m event. In the Men’s fourth fastest 5000m event, Adie Whitwam clocked 15m23.13s, when finishing sixth. Morpeths Ian Harding missed out by nine seconds to claim victory in the annual Tynedale 10k on the evening of Wednesday 6th July 2016. He was very much locked into a head to head battle with Saltwell Harriers Abraham Tewelde until the later stages, and the Eritrean managed to cross the finish line in Wylam just a little in front in 31m20s, a personal best for him. Meanwhile Harding managed to hold on to second place ahead of Tyne Bridge’s Marc Fenwick, who clocked 32m24s. Second home for Morpeth Harriers in 20th place overall was Matthew Boyle, who posted a finishing time of 35m57s. Morpeth Harriers did however have a winner in Gemma Floyd, who won the Women’s event when crossing the finish line in 44th place overall, posting a personal best finishing time of 38m38s, and was also first Over 35 Veteran Woman. Second Woman finisher was Andrea Banner of Elswick, who finished 83rd overall in 41m03s. Other Morpeth Harriers finishers on the night were as follows Paul Banks (73rd) (8th O/45 Man) 40m17s, Norman Clark (204th) (3rd O/65 Man) 47m58s, Claire Walker (264th) (62nd Woman) (7th O/35 Woman) 52m32s, Carol Parry (298th) (81st Woman) (11th O/45 Woman) 55m26s, and Jacinta Wake (299th) (82nd Woman) (12th O/45 Woman) 55m26s. The event had 379 finishers. Morpeths Thomas Straughan was just edged out for victory in Darlington Harriers Pitstop 10k, held at Croft Autodrome on Wednesday 6th July 2016. Posting a finishing time of 32m26s, a personal best by two seconds, he was also just two seconds adrift of Durham City Harrier James Askew. The annual Bridges of Tyne 5 mile Road Race, which attracted 376 finishers
to the Newcastle Quayside course on Tuesday 5th July 2016, was won by Tipton’s former Elswick Harrier Ryan McLeod, who posted a finishing time of 25m13s, which gave him a thirty second margin of victory over Gateshead’s Under 20 athlete Jed Marshall, with Jarrow and Hebburn’s Andy Burn just slightly adrift in third place. Fourth place and posting a time of 25m44s was Morpeth Harrier Sam Hancox, who led a sextet of athletes’ home from the club. Next home for Morpeth was Jake Masterman, who finished 13th in 27m45s, and was second Under 20 Man. The Women’s race was won by Emma Holt of Morpeth Harriers, who finished 21st overall in 28m51s, and was eighty seconds clear of second placed Woman Stephanie MacLean Dan of North Shields Poly. Next home for Morpeth was Rob Hancox, who finished 27th in 29m21s, and was first Over 50 Male finisher. Finishing 65th overall in 32m33s, fellow Over 50 Man Jim Alder was next home for Morpeth, and was fifth in his category. Completing the Morpeth results was Over 60 Veteran Man Archie Jenkins, who was 176th overall in 38m17s, and was third in his category. Six Morpeth Harriers were in action at the fourth meeting of the
BMC Regional series of fixtures, held at Chester Le Street’s Riverside Track on Monday 4th July 2016. Andy Wiles won the fastest 1500m event of the night, posting a time of 3m56.8s. Fellow Morpeth Harrier Kevin Calvert finished behind him in sixth place, clocking 4m07.3s. However Rhiannon Hedley was one of the clubs brightest stars of the night when she finished fourth in a mixed gender and age group F race, posting a brand new personal best time of 5m00.7s, which now puts her four seconds clear of her nearest rival Erin Keeler-Clarke of Durham City in the North East rankings. Keeler-Clarke also finished three places and over seven seconds adrift of Hedley on the night in the same race. Hedley is also fourteenth in the UK Rankings for 1500m. Hedley is also currently second regionally in 800m, and 41st in the UK. Karl Taylor and Jordan Scott of Morpeth Harriers finished second and fifth respectively in the second fastest 1500m of the night, posting times of 4m11.6s and 4m12.9s. Morpeth’s Ross Charlton finished sixth in the mixed age and gender D race, posting a time of 4m46.6s. |
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