BOFRA Races August - September 2002

Gary Bastow of Richmond and Zetland Harriers continued his quest for a medal in the Veteran's section of the BOFRA season with four qualifying races inside a fortnight and is presently in third place with just two more races on their calendar. Flying back from holiday on Saturday 24th August, he knew wouldn't be able to make the start-line for the Malham Show Fell Race so took the shorter journey to West Witton and competed there, finishing 2nd in the Senior's Race. Gary subsequently ran Fell Races on Bank Holiday Monday 26th at Hebden Sports (18th overall & 6th Vet), Wednesday 28th at Reeth Show (13th & 6th Vet), Wednesday 4th September at Muker Show (8th & 4th Vet) and Sunday 8th at the Burnsall Feast (9th & 3rd Vet). His last two outings are at Embsay on Sunday 22nd and the highest and steepest to complete the season at the Wasdale Head Show on Saturday 12th October.

Also competing at West Witton, in the Junior Race, were the Roberts' family with Douglas 2nd, Jessie 4th and Fergus 6th. They followed this with an outing in the East Witton Fell Races on Bank Holiday Monday 26th - in the under 12 boy's race, Douglas was 1st and Fergus 5th whilst elder sister Jessie won the under 16 girl's race.

Open Track & Field Aspatria - Carlisle Sunday 1st September

Carlisle Aspatria AC hosted an Open Medals T&F Meeting at Sheepmount Stadium on Sunday 1st and several Juniors competed, looking for season's best, personal bests or Club records. Sam Stanislaus came closest with two gold medal performances - 1m64 in the high jump and 5m16 in the long jump plus 4th place in the javelin. Philip Fitzpatrick also won gold in the 1500m, running away from his opposition on the last lap to finish in 4:42. Jessica and Scarlett Gray both came home with silver medals; Jessica won hers with a 2:39 clocking in the 800m, Scarlett was 2nd in the 1500m with 5:34 and 4th in the 75m hurdles. The twins then made a composite team together with Samantha Coleby of Durham City and Julie Keenlyside of Elswick and won the 4 x 100m relay gold with a time of 59 seconds.

Autumn Coast Road 5k - New Marske 3rd September

The Autumn Coast Road 5K, the last in the New Marske Harriers 2002 series, was held on Tuesday 3rd and two Senior Harriers took the opportunity to test their road legs. Jon Orange matched his 5th place in the CDBramhall/Darlington 10K with the same place in 15:41 and Club Captain, Shaun Purkiss finished 13th in 16:32.