On a glorious afternoon in Grangemouth when not even the timekeepers (always in the shade of the stand at Grangemouth) were chilly, the club athletes performed well. Unfotunately the team was short handed because of illness, injury, holidays and reluctance of distance runners to support the club. Mark Doris made a welcome return to competition and doubled with Johnathan Farrell in the 100 and 200 metres races where they finished in the top half of the field every time. The wind which had been absent for the 800's suddenly sprung into action for the 100's and they had to face a headwind. Johnathan clocked 11.93 for the A race and Mark 13.3 for the B race. In the 200's, they were third and third in 23.6 and 24.8. Ross Cannon ran well to be third in the A 400 and Kevin Cornes ran inside two minutes for the 800 metres. Peter Bowman who should have been B string in both had injured himself playing f**tb*ll. Paul Carroll was the only club runner in the 1500 where he ran a pb of 4:54 and in the 5000 where in a day not at all suited to endurance running was timed at approximately 18:13. The only field event for which I have results was the long jump where Mark Doris and Kevin Cornes both cleared 4.70 and gained valuable points for the club. Then came the relays where the team of Ross Cannon, Mark Doris, Johnathan Farrell and Andrew Cusick was fourth in the 4 x 100 metres and Johnathan Farrell, Ross Cannon, Kevin Cornes and Mark Doris was third.
It was a good day and everyone enjoyed it - let's hope that the turnout will be better for the next match.
Sunday, 31 May 2009
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Just like to echo Brian's comments and say Yes,everyone enjoyed our day's racing at Grangemouth and the support we gave one another was very uplifting.Hopefully we can get a better turnout at the next league match and get much needed points for our club.Sunday 12th July is the date for the guys to mark in our diary's.
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