Team Manager Donald MacLeod and his Men's Team went all the way to Edinburgh on Sunday for the first fixture of the season. A very young team produced the best performance for some time in ideal conditions. In the 100 metres A String Johnathan Farrell was fourth A string in 11.8 seconds and Alan McColl was fourth B string in 12.83 with Under 17 Cameron MacLeod second in the Guest race in 12.25 to the winner's 12.24 seconds. The sprinters moved up to the 200 with Johnathan sixth in a fiercely competitive A Race and A Newman was fourth in the B race in 24.25. Newman was third in the A 400 metres in 52.5 seconds.
In the first of the, 800 metres races Under 20 Ryan Savage was sixth in the first race in 2:05.27 which was a pb while Under 17 Peter Bowman was second in the B race in 2:03.67. In the 1500 metres Iain Robertson was fourth in 4:15 with Kevin Cornes second B runner in 4:09.
The relay teams really were the stars of the show and I don't think anyone would quibble about that. The 4 x 100 team was a very close up second in a time of 46.73 and the 4 x 400 team also second in 3:33.08. The heroes in the sprint relay were Cameron Macleod, Ryan Savage, Alan McColl and Johnathan Farrell - the oldest one there was second year senior McColl. The 1600 metres squad was A Newman, Peter Bowman, Kevin Cornes and Ryan Savage. Again it was a very young team. And did you note that Ryan S ran in both relays?
There is also room for improvement - the 5000 metres had no runner from the club because of work commitments and injuries and that is bound to improve. The Jumps are also bound to improve since we only had one jump registered and that was by Paul Doherty who was third with 5.71 metres. He injured himself warming up for the high jump but there will be no slip ups next time and the field events will be fully covered for the next match at Grangemouth.
It was undoubtedly the best performance from the track runners as a group for several years - long may it continue and well done boys!
Monday, 20 April 2009
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2 comments:
Glad to see the boys performed very well at the meeting.
Sadly i was working as id would have raced in the 5k but hopefully should make the next one.
Undoubtedly we have stars in the making and as the season progresses we should see a lot of PB's on the track.
Well done the 'young team' but the oldies are after ya !
Great effort by everyone who competed on Sunday the future of the club is looking promising with the younger athletes now coming through the ranks.
Keep it going lads!
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