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NYSD Track & Field Meeting - Darlington 5th July 2005
Richmond and Zetland Harriers had a good turnout at Eastbourne Sports Complex, Darlington on Tuesday 5th for the fourth NYSD T&F League meeting with 23 athletes competing in the 34 event programme and came away with 10 winners. On the track, the females got the best of the 200m with new girl Rachel Holloway making her NYSD debut with a win in the U13G, Leanne Shaw and Ruth Hill claiming a one/two in the U15G and Sophie Broadway winning the U17W before Jon Orange and Nick Zissler made it a one/two in the U20/S/VM 1500m. In the field, Paul Kilsby started things rolling with two wins, in the U15B long jump and the javelin, Scott Goodrum won the U17M long jump, Nikki Priestley and Katie Roberts were one/two in the U17W triple jump and in the javelin, Brogan Fraser and Lindsey Johnson won the U15G and U17W categories respectively. RZH results: 200m - U13G Rachel Holloway 31.8; U13B Thomas Allen 31.3, Marc Scott 32.6 & Rob Scott 33.3; U15G Leanne Shaw 27.3, Ruth Hill 27.8, Brogan Fraser 29.0 & Jane Thornton 30.6; U15B Paul Kilsby 27.5; U17W Sophie Broadway 27.3; U17M Scott Goodrum 24.4; 400m - U20/S/VM Matt Prosser (U20) 55.6 & Nick Zissler (U20) 56.4; 1500m - U13B Marc Scott 5:06.9 & Thomas Allen 5:19.9; U15G Rosie Adams 5:29.4, Avril Hunter 6:05.0 & Jane Thornton 6:05.9; U17W Jessie Roberts 5:09.3; U20/S/VW Erica Moks (U20) 5:48.3 & Jenny Fenwick (U20) 6:45.2; U20/S/VM Jon Orange (M40) 4:12.0, Nick Zissler 4:19.8 & Ray Robson 5:28.6; long jump - U13B Rob Scott 3m52; U15B Paul Kilsby 4m91; U17M Scott Goodrum 5m89; high jump - U15G Avril Hunter 1m20; triple jump - U17W Nikki Priestley 10m38 & Katie Roberts 8m05; U20/S/VW Erica Moks (U20) 7m16; javelin - U15G Brogan Fraser 12m70 & Jane Thornton 9m46; U15B Paul Kilsby 26m61; U17W Lindsey Johnson 30m92. Both the male and female halves of the Club finished 3rd on the night, behind Billingham and M&C but remain in 4th place overall although the gap to Darlington has closed to a single point.
Harrogate Road Race League - Harrogate 5th July 2005
In a congested race week with four events in two days, the fifth race in the Harrogate & District Summer Road Race League was on the same night, and several Harriers opted-out of the Road Race with unforeseen but disastrous consequence. Having implemented a new scoring system to count the best four results from five races, it was only realised when the final scores were tallied that this was for teams as well as individuals and the Club had missed the opportunity to win the Veteran Men’s trophy and bring the Bill Atkinson Shield back home. Nonetheless, it was a good, long race over a new course, 5.9 miles on a fine night, well organised by host Club Harrogate with a fine spread to fit the occasion. Ian Fisher was the race winner again and has kept the individual Men’s trophy and, with seven in eleven, Otley did more than enough to win both the Open and Elite team trophies. Top Harrier on the night was Rachel Ross Russell who made sure of the individual Woman’s trophy with her fourth consecutive win, finishing 17th overall, 28 places and more than 2 minutes ahead of the runner-up Erika Johnson of Swaledale, and leading the Women’s team to 2nd on the night, less than 23 points behind the winners, Ilkley. RZH results 17th (& 1st Woman) Rachel Ross Russell 34:40, 53rd (& 3rd Woman) Andrea Woodvine 37:31, 67th Taff Rogers 38:44, 102nd Sarah Gregory 42:03, 110th Neil Piper 42:36, 121st Paula Copeland 43:42 & 169th Louise Foster 49:47 from 211 finishers. The overall results show the Harriers finishing runners-up in both the Veteran Men’s and Elite teams and 6th in the Women’s team, all improvements on last year’s endeavour, but only 7th in the Open team category.
10K Road Race - Croft 6th July 2005
Shaun - Jon - Paul
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The following night, with a 10K road race at Croft and a 5K at New Marske, the choice was relatively simple and five Harriers lined-up for the Pit Stop 10K. Jon Orange was the class act in the 94 strong field, his runaway victory in damp and breezy conditions made it four wins in five days - the previous Saturday he did a 1500m/5000m double in the NSL and he shaved 4/10ths of a second off his season’s best 1500m time in winning his NYSD race the night before. RZH results: 1st Jon Orange 32:31, 5th Shaun Purkiss 37:16, 9th Paul Roberts 38:35, 13th (& 2nd M55) Mike Brooks 39:06 & 47th Ian Hepworth 46:01. The result of the team race caused a considerable amount of discussion as both RZH and Darlington finished with 15 points and, contrary to UK Athletics rules, the Harrier’s third finisher was not wearing a Club vest, but the host Club were magnanimous and awarded the prize to the Harriers on countback.
English Schools Track & Field Championships - Birmingham 8th-9th July 2005
The English Schools T&F Championships were at The Alexander Stadium, Birmingham for two days starting on Friday 8th and the two Harriers selected to represent North Yorkshire were both rewarded for their hard work. Lindsey Johnson competed in the Inter Girls javelin and finished 8th – that’s eighth best in the whole of England! with a best throw of 34m99, just 51cm down on her PB in less than ideal conditions. Leanne Shaw ran in the Junior Girls 200m and although she finished 5th in her heat and didn’t progress, she ran 26.17, a PB and a new Club record!
Highland Games Fell Race - Alva
Highlands - Where is Gary?
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Gary Bastow rounds-off this week’s results with a magnificent 8th place finish in the Fell Race at the Highland Games at Alva, Clackmannanshire. Injury had curtailed the start of his British Open Fell Runners Association (BOFRA) season and this was only his second race. Gary writes “the Highland Games themselves are a brilliant day out and so is the race, it is so steep…I don't know what I was doing (setting off so quickly) and was just hanging-in, behind the leaders and was 7th at the top, ahead of Bashir Hussain of Stockport and he’s got a GB vest…thankfully, he didn't have the know-how on descending and, although I lost one place on the way down, I ended-up knocking 2½ minutes off my time.” Gary now leads the M45 category in the BOFRA and is hoping his injury problems are behind him, as he needs to complete all the remaining races.
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