Scottish Schools Indoor Championships

Peter Bowman had a good day at the Scottish Schools Indoor Championships in Kelvin Hall on Thursday, 5th February. Running in the 800 metres he qualified for the Final where he was fourth in 2:06 exactly. The Schools Indoor Championship is open to every secondary school in Scotland and Schools can enter two athletes per event. To make it even half manageable, they only have two age groups: Under 16 and Over 16 so most athletes are competing against older pupils. First year runners (who can be as young as 11) race others who can be as old as 15 years 11 months! Peter is just 16 so he was racing guys of 17 and 18 as well as his usual opposition.

He was clocked at 2:05.3 in his Heat and then went into the Final where the finish was very close with the three in front of him having times of 2:02 (winner), 2:03 and 2:04. The winner was considerably older than Peter. His strength has always been his strength but Coach Dolan (American terminology - does it sound right?) has had him doing some sharpening up work over the past couple of weeks to get him ready. It was a good day for him and how he runs on Sunday in the Indoor League will be interesting.