‘Bambi on ice’ Plummer slides to second place(29/01/2012)
Opting for smooth soled lightweight racing shoes instead of
more grippy footwear designed for the purpose, Salisbury Athletic
Club’s star runner Simon Plummer slipped and slithered his way to second place in a 9mile multi terrain race near Chippenham.
The
Slaughterford Valley course, described by the organisers as steeply
undulating countryside, also featured deep mud and a river crossing.
Like a thoroughbred racehorse let loose on a cross country hack, Plummer was out ahead more than once but each time was then overhauled by slower runners better able to keep their footing.
“Others warned me beforehand that I needed different shoes - I didn’t believe them but they were right,” said a bemused Plummer at the finish. “I must have looked like Bambi on ice for much of the distance. However it was a great workout.”
The club’s Jon Rich was not far behind in 14th place.
In the Romsey 5mile race through the Broadlands Estate, Aaron Wilson took fifth spot with a speedy 27min 37sec, followed by Michael Brewster 27.44 for sixth place and first vet award, and Ben Brewster tenth with 28.10, the trio taking second team prize. Southampton won the team race, with Winchester third.
Other Salisbury finishers were Lewis Fuller with 28.54, Keith Champion 28.59, Katherine Bleakley 34.26 and an improving Rod Smith 35.16.
This
weekend a big group of the club’s road runners take on the rigours of
the Ryde hilly 10mile race on the Isle of Wight, the latest fixture in
the Hampshire league series in which Salisbury men’s A team currently
stands an excellent fourth and the ladies team 6th.
Lizzie hones her hurdling with 60m personal
best(24/01/2012)
City of Salisbury’s
Lizzie Clifford gave a good account of herself in the
ultra fast 60metre hurdles event on the Lee Valley indoor track at the
South East athletics championships.
Even in the first round among the under-17s, where she was clearly
dissatisfied with her race, she qualified easily for the semi-final and
went very close to her best ever time. Then in the semi-final, with
very little distance separating the field, she clocked a well-deserved
personal best of 9.37sec but narrowly failed to make the final.

Her coach at the Salisbury club, Lee Ness, commented: “As this is not
Lizzie's main event - she is only doing this to improve her 300m
hurdles - she is performing fantastically well against the specialist
sprint hurdlers.”
Jake
Ness, Abbey
Babatunde and Andrew
Pryde all competed in the U17 200m. Babatunde achieved
an indoor pb in the first heat with 25.02 sec and Andrew
Pryde also clocked a pb in his heat with 24.26s. Both were
excellent performances but not enough to progress to semi finals.
Jake
Ness also achieved a pb with 23.88s which gained a semi
final place, but after a stumble at the final corner he could not
secure a place in the final.
At an even higher standard, against two GB internationals, Richard Holt
performed admirably just outside his pb with 23.26 ft in a tough and
extended long jump competition.
Stuart’s fast 10k gives him league seventh (17/01/2012)
Stuart
Holloway of City of Salisbury Athletics Club produced a
cracking performance in the Hampshire League 10k at Stubbington,
beating his previous best at the distance and leading the club to a
good overall team performance.
Against some high quality competition from across the south, Holloway
defied a blustery 30mph headwind on parts of the course along the
Solent to record a fine 33min 59sec for seventh place from an entry of
1800.

(Stuart Holloway pictured centre)
Next Salisbury finisher was Kevin
Tilley who ran well for 37.17 and he was followed by Keith Champion with
38.20 and Andy Budgell
who broke 40minutes for the first time with an excellent 39.32 to
complete the A team.
The club’s B squad was led out by a superb 40.08 from young Sam Rogers who used
his track speed to good effect, then came Will Grant in 42.11,
Mel
Holloway 42.17 and John
Gorham with 44.27.
Steve
Philp continued his encouraging return from injury with
44.42, then came John
Ruskin with 45.00 to win his age group, Rod Smith 46.36, Andy Walker 50.59, Colin Martin 53.21
and Bob Witt 59.27.
Among the club’s ladies, the success story of the day came from Sarah Kemp whose
pace judgement came good and produced a first class new pb of 43.43.
She was followed by Jane
Whiteley in a promising 50.36, Judy Flint 55.02 and
Jeanette
Hardiman with 58.19 in her 10k debut.
Over slower terrain in the ‘Rough and Tumble’ 10mile race near Swindon,
Jon
Rich showed how well his marathon training when he clocked
a rapid 78min 55sec despite a course boasting hills, mud and rough
tracks. Then came Martin
Phillips in 98.25, Katie
Clements 98.48, Linda
Robson 111.22, Hilary
Webber 115.53, Kathryn
Waterworth 123.50 and Mary
Clements 124.27.
Salisbury Athletics Club Awards (16/01/2012)
City of Salisbury Athletics and Running Club celebrated another good
year when top performers received their awards at the annual dinner and
presentation at the White Hart Hotel.
“In the fields of track and field athletics, cross country and road
running, and with the commitment of some talented coaches and other
enthusiasts, the club continues to build its reputation at all levels
and across the age spectrum,” said club chairman Simon Adlard.
He announced the award winners for 2011 as:
Best track and field athlete, lady – Ann-Marie Hazzard
Best track and field athlete – Richard
Holt
Most improved female – Sally
Greenslade
Most improved male – Christopher
Panks
Best club volunteer – Tom
Bradley
Top team – Men’s A team,
road running
Top lady athlete – Katie
West
Top male athlete – Chris
Southern
Salisbury trio tested on the boards (15/01/2012)
A trio of City of Salisbury young athletes took to the boards for the
South of England Indoor Championships at Lee Valley in London.
Jake
Ness, 14, was competing for the first time among
under-17's in the 400m and clocked a creditable 52.69sec indoor
personal best to get into the semi-finals, but against classy
competition was just edged out of a place in the final. Abbey Babatunde, a
triple jumper and occasional short sprinter, showed his mettle in
stepping up to the 400m and found it tough going, progressing no
further than the heats. The club's track athlete of the year Richard Holt made
the semi-final in a competitive senior men's category, scoring a good
pb on the way, but on this occasion could reach no further.

Picture shows (l to r) Abbey Babatunde, Richard Holt and Jake Ness
Outdoors
and in the Hampshire cross country league fixture at Bournemouth,
Salisbury athletes braved the cold wind to clock some impressive
performances, writes Chris Panks.
Alex
Mundell’s
consistent form continued as she finished second in the girls' under-17
race, just three seconds behind the winner, to take her tally for the
season to one win and three second places, a magnificent achievement
going into the final fixture.
In the boys' under-13 race Jaymee
Domoney sustained his journey back to form, finishing 11th
leading home team mates Jack
Bennett in 36th and Josh Davies in 59th. In the girl’s
race, Maisie Grant showed
further evidence of her steady progress coming home 19th ahead of Heidi Porter in
37th. Sole club competitor in the boys' under-15 race, Adam Bradburn, was
inside the top 50, in 47th place.
The standout performance in the senior races was Hannah Drewitt who
finished an excellent run with a deserved 18th place. Elsewhere,
sidelined Marilyn Hunt,
a regular competitor, watched as Lin
New came in 46th and Sue
Hazzard finished 64th.
William
Grant capped his debut for City of Salisbury ARC over the
country leading home the men in 123rd, just ahead of Lewis Fuller, who
blew up with a bad stitch on the final lap, in 125th and Nikki Hazzard
in 127th. Gary Domoney wrapped
up affairs for Salisbury in 168th.
John Gorham leads home Salisbury athletes at
Somerley (02/01/2012)
On the muddy tracks and slippery grassland of the Somerley 10k, John Gorham
of City of Salisbury Athletics and Running Club made light of the
conditions underfoot to clock a good 47min 20sec in his first
competitive outing of 2012.
John
Turley was not far behind, in 47.41, just getting the
better of Nick Willetts’
47.44. Jane Whiteley
was quickest of the Salisbury ladies, her 51.46 narrowly holding off Chrissy Gorham with
51.47. Then came Colin
Martin in 52.57 and Hilary
Webber 56.32.
In the Broadstone quarter marathon, Hannah
Drewett did well to record 44.56 which put her well up in
the field of nearly 300.
At the endurance end of running, Andy
Gillespie
took on the Pembrokeshire Coastal Challenge which comprises three
consecutive marathons on truly testing terrain. Clocking 5hours 30mins
for the first, 5.45 for the next and 6.20 for the final he improved
almost two hours on his performance last year and in one of the sport’s
most demanding events was placed a highly creditable 26th overall.
Simon wins Plain Crazy race with sensible
run
(27/12/2011)
City of Salisbury’s top athlete
Simon Plummer ran a sensible race to win the Warminster
Plain Crazy 12mile race over the normally-closed roads and tank tracks
of Salisbury Plain around the deserted village of Imber.
From the gun he sprinted to an early lead, increased it up the first of
several long climbs, and held on to more than a minute’s advantage over
the high ground without needing to dig into his reserves.
“I just wanted to test the legs today after restarting my training
regime following a marathon in Spain last month,” Plummer said at the
finish. “It’s good to be back in competition, and of course I enjoyed
the win which helps put a couple of recent racing disappointments into
the past.”
  
Maintaining the military theme of the event, he was presented with a
three bullet trophy for his winning time of 64min 24sec on a course
that had to be shortened on the day because of unexploded shells found
near part of the intended route.
Andy
Budgell was the club’s next finisher, 25th of the near-200
strong field with 76.01. Then came Rithy
Hy 32nd in 77.37, John
Ruskin 81st in 87.57, Craig
Murphy 88th in 89.28 and Steve Lomas 101st in
91.56. Sally Greenslade,
Salisbury’s only lady competitor, produced another fine run to take
44th place overall in 81.19.
  
Meanwhile in the Round the Lakes 10k at Poole, Jo Wadsworth was
another sole representative and clocked a good 45min 50sec.
http://www.warminsterbritishlegion.co.uk/PlainCrazyResults2011.pdf
http://www.pooleac.co.uk/infopage.asp?infoid=273
Salisbury runners take the cream in
Christmas Pud 10k
(18/12/2011)
Fast running and personal bests may not be normal festive fare but two
City of Salisbury athletes defied convention when they sliced chunks of
time off their previous bests for 10k at the Christmas Pudding race in
Christchurch.
Despite the tough headwind finish, Andy
Budgell improved his time for the 6.2mile distance and was
second quickest of the Salisbury squad on the day with 40min 44sec. Sally Greenslade, who
has improved her racing performances consistently throughout this
season, was less than two minutes back with 42.33, another
good personal best to add to her growing collection.
Keith
Champion went quicker still, his fine 38.38 placing him
well up the field even though he has previously gone faster.
Other club runners were John
Gorham with 44.57, Katie
Clements 46.22 and Christine
Gorham 50.59. Every finisher received a well-earned
Christmas pudding.
In the Portsmouth Coastal marathon, among a hardy field of nearly 700
who ran the daunting distance of 26.2miles rather than facing the even
more rigorous challenge of Christmas shopping on Sunday, Rithy Hy recorded a
highly creditable 3hours 19min 25sec and the indefatigable John Gorham 4.10.54.

Pictures: With new personal bests, Andy Budgell and Sally Greenslade
Salisbury athletes on track with indoor
bests
(11/12/2011)
City of Salisbury track
athlete Lizzie Clifford made
a great debut on the ultra modern indoor
track complex at Lee Valley in north London at the weekend. One of
the club’s large squad of young track performers in the making, she
promptly achieved the qualifying time for the national championships
when she clocked 9.53sec in the under-17’s 60m hurdles, taking
third place overall.
Among a raft of good
60m results, Freya Espir
in the same age group then went even
quicker to win her heat in a new personal best of 8.56sec. Also
setting new bests, Andrew Pryde clocked 7.61sec in the under 17’s
60m, Alice Smith 8.79sec, Jake Ness 7.71sec, Aby Babatunde 7.63sec
and Seb Rowe with the same time.
In the 200m, the
Salisbury trio of Jake
Ness with 24.26sec, Andrew
Pryde 24.6 and Seb
Rowe 25.07 all notched indoor bests. Other results
included: Dean
Hodgson 29.43, Alice
Smith 29.04, Millie
Laidlaw 29.25, Megan
Price
31.45, Freya Espir
28.4, Lizzie Clifford
28.42 and Danielle Scott
29.18. Danielle Scott
was third overall in the under-17’s pole
vault with 2.74m, and Rich
Holt took second in the long jump with
6.31m.
Another
of Salisbury’s
rising stars, Alex
Mundell shone in the Wiltshire cross country
championships at Bath, taking first place in the ladies under-17’s,
ably supported by a good run from Flo
Powell in third. Maisie
Grant
won her race too, in the under-13’s, with Heidi Grant sixth. Jaymee
Domoney was second in the under-13 boys, Anna Lever ninth in
the
under-15’s and Adam
Bradburn seventh in the under-15’s.
Over even rougher
terrain, senior Katie
West (pictured) took on the ‘Grim Challenge’
8.5mile assault course at Aldershot. Billed as a run, wade and crawl
event it’s designed to live up to its title, despite which Katie
produced an excellent 62min 13 sec to finish second lady in a field
of hundreds.
Chris Panks tried
out
the fast-growing new concept in mass participation 5k parkruns with a
useful 22min 30sec debut over playing fields at Eastleigh, to finish
in the top 50.
Salisbury athletes team up for growing
success
(04/12/2011)
City of Salisbury athletes are celebrating some of their best team
performances in years, their strength in depth reflecting the club’s
continuing growth.
In the Hampshire cross country league match near Basingstoke at the
weekend, the club’s bright prospect Alex
Mundell finished second just a
few seconds away from top spot. Her great form was rewarded by a third
podium position in the last three fixtures and with Florence Powell in
thirteenth and Emma
Clarke next in the under 17’s race, the team
clinched third place overall for Salisbury.

Claudia
Downie was 20th in the under 13’s followed by Masie Grant 21st
and Heidi Porter in 27th. Jaymee
Domoney retired with an ankle injury
in the boys’ equivalent race, but his father Gary worked hard in his
men’s senior debut to finish 180th behind a strong Salisbury contingent
of Elliott Haimes
in 30th, Chris Southern
40th and Lewis Fuller
continuing his strong form placing 113th in a formidable field of over
200.
Sole representative in the under 15’s girls race was Anna Lever who
finished 30th for a creditable result; Adam Bradburn came
44th in the
boys’ race, and Ed Naish
claimed 37th in the under 17’s boys.
The fixture was capped with the senior women who all finished in the
top 100: Aly Sloane
was 55th, Sue Hazzard
68th and Marilyn Hunt
83rd.
On the road, City of Salisbury’s men’s A team have now been confirmed
in third place in the Hampshire League’s division one, the club’s best
ever showing in the region’s premier road running competition.
“We only gained promotion from division two a couple of seasons ago,”
said team manager Rod
Smith, “so our current position in the road
league is outstanding. “Our ladies’ team is also excelling itself, with
Katie West in the individual top ten and a fantastic second place in
the team event last time out in the Gosport half marathon. Next road
fixture in the league is the Stubbington 10k in January when all the
region’s top teams will be in action – ours included.”
The club’s track and field squad too, currently deep in winter
training, is looking forward to a notable season next year with several
young athletes knocking at the door of national recognition.
Simon’s grit gets him through Spanish
marathon test
(27/11/2011)
Showing the grit that has won him international success over shorter
distances, City of Salisbury’s Simon
Plummer fought his way to the finish of the Valencia
marathon even after ‘hitting the wall’ with 10k to go.
On
schedule to beat 2hours 30mins, he passed the 20mile point in 1.55, but
then endured every marathon runner’s nightmare, running out of steam
and reduced to jogging ever slower in the final miles. As targets and
the chance of a pb evaporated in the Spanish sunshine, he still
salvaged a time of 2.38.20, but the Salisbury star has now to
recalibrate his ambitions for 2012.
Closer to home in the Luton marathon, new club signing Stuart Fallon
produced an excellent debut with a personal best 2.55.53 and a
well-earned place in the top 20.
Over the half marathon distance, at Downton, Rithy Hy earned the
club’s only personal best with a determined 1.27.27. Michael Brewster was
in great form to clinch third place overall in 1.21.09,
narrowly holding off sixth placed Ben
Brewster’s 1.23.41. Then came Jon Rich in 1.29.56,
John
Gorham 1.42.54, Craig
Murphy 1.46.10,
Lizzie Clapp 1.48.24, Tracey
Badham 1.54.48 and Chrissie
Gorham 1.55.21.
In the Hell Runner trail challenge near Liphook, Keith Champion led
the club’s bravehearts, completing the tough 10mile course in 1.15.39
and he was followed by Katie
Clements 1.32.38, Mary
Clements 2.04.52, Linda
Robson 2.06.01 and Alison
Watson 2.06.28.
The Boscombe 5k saw Jon
Rich clock 18.29 and Simon
Wiltshire 19.12; and Aly
Sloane took to the bridle paths of Westbury to record
39.46 in the White Horse Gallop 5miles.
Salisbury Gosport Success and Simon wins
Swindon 10k(20/11/2011)
City of Salisbury’s star athlete Simon
Plummer
notched another first place when he ran the Swindon 10k – but his mind
was far away, on the greater challenge of a big marathon in Spain this
Sunday (27th).
In the Wiltshire race, on a twisty and undulating
course largely on farm roads, he clocked a very respectable 32min
21sec. This though was merely a final workout and a gauge on
recent months of long distance training.
“I was alone from the
start and pulled out just over one minute on the next runner. But it
was great to be back racing and to go straight back in at the top is
encouraging, so my sights are now very much on the international
26miler in Valencia.”
No fewer than 26 other Salisbury club
runners faced the starter in the Hampshire League’s Gosport
half-marathon and many made the most of the sunny and cool conditions
on dry, fast roads.
Stuart
Holloway recorded a personal best 76.03 to lead the
men’s A team, this a fine run that put him in the top twenty of the
2,000 strong field. Next scorer was Aaron
Wilson with 77.06, just pipping Chris Southern who
slowed in the final couple of miles but still clocked a pb 77.10. Kevin Tilley
completed the A squad with 82.55.
Dave West led the way for the B team, clocking 87.21, then
came Jon Rich
87.24, Ian Shelley a
pb 88.11 and Clive Smith,
also with a pb 88.44.
In the ladies event, the on-form Katie West was first for the A team
with 86.31, supported by Fiona
Ross-Russell 92.18 and Sally
Greenslade with a pb 94.45.
The ladies B team comprised Sarah
Kemp 107.27, Jane
Whiteley 110.22, and Kathy
Bleakley 111.09.
Other Salisbury results: Rithy
Hy 89.15, Andy
Budgell 89.35pb, Adrian
Berlie 91.47, James
Regan 98.44, John
Gorham 99.54, Rod
Smith 104.05, Giles
Lewis
114.42, Colin Martin 115.32 pb, Hannah Chappell 117.42, Ali Theobald
120.2 pb, Liz Roberts 120.59 pb, and Mary Clements 125.50.
jr
Alex on good form at Goodwood Cross Country(13/11/2011)
The
stand out performers at the second fixture of the Hampshire cross
country league, at Goodwood circuit in Chichester, are both christened
Alex – Mundell in under 17’s girls and Van Dyck in the male equivalent
event.
City of Salisbury Athletics and Running
Club star Alex Mundell,
the victor in the first fixture of the season
at Farley Mount in Winchester, was pipped by Charlotte Chalwin of
Basingstoke in a role reversal of that race in Winchester where Chalwin
finished behind Mundell. Emma
Clarke followed Mundell home for her best
finish of the series in 10th, Florence Powell was in the top 20
finishing 18th just before Danielle Scott capped a strong City
of Salisbury display in 24th.
In the boys race, Alex Van Dyck finished
fourth ahead of Sam Rogers in 20th and Ed Naish in
31st to cap a great team performance.
Earlier in the day, Maisie Grant kicked
off the fixture with a great performance in only her second race
finishing 9th in the under 13 girls race in front of Heidi
Porter in 33rd.
Jaymee Domoney, who had an injury imposed
three week break before this fixture, made a welcome return finishing
17th in the under 15 boys race. Domoney’s return was matched
by performances in the same race by Jack Bennett in 38th, Gavin Martin
in 45th, Alvin Martin in 56th and Josh Davies who was 65th.
In the highly competitive senior field,
Elliott Haimes led home a strong male contingent in 29th, followed by
star road racer Chris Southern in 35th, Lewis Fuller in
127th and track sprinter Richard Holt 149th.
In
what was a family affair, the senior ladies were led home by Linda New
in 59th before Sue Hazzard in 80th and daughter
Ann-Marie just inside the top 100, in 99th.
Sadly, there were some withdrawals over
the course of the fixture – Claudia Downie turned an ankle and had to
pull out of the under 13s race while Aly Sloane was unable to finish
her senior ladies race with an ankle problem.
Chris and Katie the stars at Lordshill
league 10mile (06/11/2011)
Athletes Chris Southern
and Katie West
and were the stars of a big City of Salisbury squad at
the Lordshill 10mile Hampshire League road race near Southampton at
the weekend.
Southern produced his
best run so far for the club to take sixth place overall with a
cracking 56min 58sec personal best at the distance to lead the men’s
A team.
Aaron Wilson did
well
too, beating the hour again and improving his best with a 58.20
clocking. Lewis Fuller
with 63.43 and Rithy Hy
with a pb 63.48
completed the team.
Dave West with
64.11
led out the B team, Dave’s run being only just good enough to hold
off his back-on-form wife Katie’s 64.25 - another of the morning’s
pb’s which missed first place in the ladies’ vet 35 category by
just a few yards. Then came Ian
Shelley with 64.50, followed by
Clive
Smith’s pb 66.58 and Andy
Budgell’s pb 67.29 to complete
the B string.
Second place in the
ladies A team went to the ever quicker Sally Greenslade who
recorded
71.58 and Kathy Bleakley
in her first run at the distance was third
counter with 78.35.
Other Salisbury
finishers were: John
Gorham 72.23, John
Ruskin 74.55, Steve
Lomas pb
78.05, Rod Smith
78.30, Christine Gorham
82.15, club chairman Simon
Adlard a pb 85.30, Hannah
Chappell 87.58 and Liz
Roberts a pb 88.52.
On the cobbled streets
of the Porto marathon in Portugal, John
Peters produced a super pb
4hours 1min 10sec, while in the New York City marathon Charlotte
Harris did even better to cross the line in 3.34.42,
followed by
clubmate Tracey Badham
in 4.17.35
OMM 2011 Report By Rod Smith (30/10/2011)
The Omm (Original mountain marathon) this year was held in
Perthshire on the hills between Loch Earn and Loch Tay.There were over
2000 competitors competing in 8 different events. 5 events
consisted of a set number of control points around which competitors
have to navigate in order.
The other 3 events are score events where competitors have to navigate
between a start and finish within a time limit scoring points by
finding the maximum number of controls.There are higher scores for more
difficult control locations.
All events are spread over 2 days with competitors camping out in the
wild. Competitors take part in pairs and have to carry all their
camping equipment and food etc.
 
Our members took part in the Score events. Results as follows;
Medium Score (6 hour limit 1st day,5 hour limit 2nd day)
Day 1 Philip
Smith Stuart Holloway Time 3hrs 50 02
Points 100 177th
Day 2 Time 4hrs 54 03 Points 100 123rd
Final overall 100th
Short Score (5 hour limit 1st day, 4hour limit 23nd day)
Day 1 Rod Smith Mel
Holloway Time 4hrs 50 06 Points Plus
120 62nd
Day 2 Time 4hrs 19 44 Points Minus18
83rd overall 76th
(27th vets- 9th last year)
Day 1 Pete
& Katie Clements Time
3 hrs 39 09 Points Plus
80 96th
Day 2 Time 4 hrs 34 46 Points Minus
40 92nd
Minus points are 2 per minute outside time limit.
It rained all day on Sunday. Difficult to navigate in the mist, and had
to
erect tents in the rain.
Phil got hypthermia on day one and had to finish early.
Wilson wins a Portsmouth pb at 10miles
(30/10/2011)
Spurred on by a 10mile
world record attempt by the eventual winner, Kenyan Leonard Komon at
the Great South Run, the Salisbury athlete Aaron Wilson pounded
the
Portsmouth tarmac to good effect in his wake. Komon came out overall
winner but missed the record by two minutes: Wilson achieved his own
target by clinching an excellent personal best.
Dipping well below the
six minute miling standard despite a strength-sapping final two miles
into a blustery wind along the seafront, Wilson’s fastest ever
10mile performance marked his growing potential this season and gave
him a time of 59min 9sec.
Next City of Salisbury
finisher was Jon Rich
with 65.35, then came John
Gorham 72.15,
Christine
Gorham 82.26, Andy
Walker 90.28, Ali
Theobald 91.34, Liz
Roberts 93.35 and Tracey
Webb just outside two hours.
On considerably slower
and muddier tracks, the Stickler 10.1 mile event near Blandford saw
the club’s Martin
Phillips complete the tough course in 94mins
12sec, and he was followed by Steve
Lomas with 97.44 and Hilary
Webber 108.02.
This Sunday the club’s
road running focus switches to the Lordshill 10mile race at
Southampton in the highly competitive Hampshire league series.
Committee meeting notes
(29/10/2011)
Running safe
All road and track
athletes who run with the club are reminded of the importance of
wearing high visibility tops as soon as the evening
darkness approaches. For our Wednesday night runs around the city,
it’s imperative. It’s important for the club and it’s important
for you – please remember to equip yourself safely so you can see
and be seen.
London
marathon
The biggest and best
mass participation marathon in the world, the London in mid-April
2012 is only months away and the draw for the club’s four
guaranteed places was made at Five Rivers by club chairman Simon
Adlard. Lucky winners of the coveted places on the start line were:
Colin Martin, Tracey Badham, Alison Watson and Katie Clements and
first reserve place went to Elizabeth Roberts.
Weekly gym
The club’s Monday
night gym sessions are just underway again for the winter season.
Held at Bishop Wordsworth School and with excellent facilities, the
sessions are a great way to build strength and fitness – contact
Simon Adlard for details on how to join the group.
Stuart’s Stinger gets second again
(23/10/2011)
Just one minute separated City of Salisbury athlete Stuart Holloway from
the race win he covets when he took another second place at the
weekend, this one in the New Forest’s Minstead Stinger nine mile event.
On
a testing multi terrain course near Fritham that included crossing a
stream and a couple of stiles for good measure, times were never going
to be fast and Holloway’s 56min 47sec was one of only four runners to
beat the hour barrier on the day.
Stephen
Philp was next Salisbury vest to finish, clocking 73.59, John Gorham was
close behind in 75.00 and Christine
Gorham was well inside the top hundred with 83.15.
Meanwhile at Fleet on an undulating 10k two lap Peter Driver Memorial
event, Andy Budgell
confirmed his recent return to fitness with a good personal best of
41min 25sec for a place in the top 50 among a field of over 500.
Salisbury
athletes take top three places on hills of Broad Chalke
(16/10/2011)
City
of Salisbury runners starred on the hilly 10k course of the Broad
Chalke Challenge, taking the top three places and filling the results
board with a raft of other good performances.
Mike
Brewster was overall winner with a gravity-defying 36min
51sec which
put him almost a minute and a half clear of Kevin Tilley’s
38.12.
In third spot was Ian Stott with 38.54, then came Rob Lomas in 39.33.
Next
Salisbury athlete was Katie
West, back to racing after a spell out
with injury and clearly back in form with 39.57 for 10th
overall and second place in the ladies’ competition.
Rithy
Hy put in a good 40.18, then came Jon Dowling 41.24, Mark Cole 42.17,
Graham
Lomas 43.50, Katie
Clements with an excellent pb 46.34, Nick
Willetts another pb 47.03, Steve Lomas 47.46, Sue Clements 52.58,
Mike
Trowbridge making an overdue return with a good 55.19 to
take
the over-70 award, Clare
Bartlett 58.35 and Viv
Grant 63.20.
Off
road, Stuart Holloway
produced another good run for second place in
the Broughton Bounder 9mile trail race, and he was supported by Phil
Smith in 17th
and Mel Holloway in 29th
to complete the Salisbury’s second placed team.
Aaron
Wilson continued his improving trend with a personal best
of 77min
04sec in the Cardiff half marathon, giving him a top-50 spot among
the field of 2,000.
In
the Amsterdam marathon, Clive Smith found the flat and fast roads to
his liking as shown by his 3hour 13min 37sec clocking. Ali Theobald
ran the linked half marathon and recorded 2.03.27.
Athletes run 5k in memory of Lewis
(11/10/2011)
Fifty five Salisbury
athletes and tri-athletes who were clubmates and friends of the late
Lewis Andrews ran a special tribute 5k race on the Five Rivers track
this week in his memory. Lewis was tragically killed in a road
accident at High Post in August, the day after competing for
Salisbury on the same track.
Winner on the night was Adam
McCulloch (16:34) who took an early lead
and ran strongly throughout, second place went to Alex van Dyke
(16:44), and third was Steve
Herring (16:58).The
first lady was Hanna
Drewitt (14th place) in 19:55.
City of Salisbury
Athletics Club chairman Simon Adlard paid tribute to Lewis following
the race, before presenting the winners with prizes of baked beans
and a bottle of beer – particular favourites of Lewis who would
without doubt have enjoyed the occasion had he been there.
Photographs from the event, courtesy of Lee
Ness.,
Chris third, Aaron ninth in half marathon
(09/10/2011)
Aaron Wilson took a
well-earned ninth spot in the Hampshire road race league’s Solent
half marathon near Hythe, with a cracking 1.20.12 PB clocking, closely
followed by Michael
Brewster making his club debut in 1.21.54, Rithy
Hy 1.27.39 PB and David
West 1.30.15 to complete the men’s A team.
The club’s B team was
led by Andy Budgell
with 1.32.34, then Mel
Holloway 1.38.44, a
welcome return from John
Gorham in 1.40.24 and Rod
Smith 1.45.28.
Colin
Martin clocked 1.55.49.
Sarah Kemp produced
a
good 1.45.20 and Christine
Gorham marked her welcome return from
injury with 1.54.28, but the pair were left ruing the absence of a
third team counter to help the club’s league standings.
Chris Southern
posted
an impressive third place in the Salisbury half marathon, clocking a
rapid 1.21.42 on the local course that includes the long climb to
High Post at halfway. Next was Phil
Smith in 1.37.24, then came John
Peters 1.49.53, Katherine
Bleakley with a promising 1.50.55, James
Regan 1.50.56 and Liz
Roberts 2.08.31.
The club’s Sally
Greenslade chose the Chester marathon for her first ever
attempt at
the 26.2 mile distance and was rewarded for all her months of training
with an excellent debut timing of 3hours 51min 22sec that marks clear
potential over the longer distances.
Sue
Hazzard completed the tough Leicester marathon in 3hours
51min 29sec,
and in the half marathon, Judy
Flint was timed at 2hours 1min and
Mary
Clements 2.17.
Mundell puts the win in Winchester
(08/10/2011)
City Of Salisbury
Athletics and Running Club starlet Alex
Mundell emphatically romped
to victory in the first of the Hampshire Cross Country League
fixtures of the season, on Saturday. Looking comfortable after one
lap of the course in Farley Mount, near Winchester, Mundell
(pictured) pushed on to win with a comfortable advantage over her
nearest competitor in the under-17’s race, in 22:06. Danielle
Scott, who bravely competed alongside Alex despite being
thrown from
her horse the previous day, ran a great 22:14 to finish in 11th
place.
Jaymee Domoney
produced
a superb performance, worthy of his fifth place in the boys
under-13’s race, backed by a strong Salisbury contingent of Jack
Bennett (37th), Gavin
Martin (56th) and Josh
Davies (74th). Earlier
in the day, in the girls under-13’s race, Maisie Grant marked
an
impressive debut run clocking 13:49 for 21st position.
The men’s seniors
were led home by Elliot
Haimes who finished 26th followed by Rithy
Hy, just inside the century in 99th position. Mark Cole (112th),
Lewis
Fuller (127th) and Graham
Bath (139th) followed their lead,
while Christopher Panks
(161st) and Martin
Phillips (180th) saw the
group in.
Hannah Drewett
gallantly battled a migrane to a top 50 finish, crossing the line
48th. Linda New (72nd), closely followed by Aly Sloane (81st)
completed the A team, while Marilyn Hunt was 114th.
In the under 15’s
races, Anna Lever pushed to 30th position while in the boy’s,
team-mates Adam Bradburn and Alvin Martin were difficult to separate
with 48th and 51st positions respectively.
Photos
courtesy of Incrediboy
images
Salisbury runners on distance shores
(02/10/2011)
Six
hundred miles north of his usual racing terrain, City of Salisbury
Athletics and Running Club’s
Adrian Berlie
produced a great performance in the Loch Ness marathon, clipping more
than two minutes off his previous best at the 26.2 mile distance.
Making the most of autumnal conditions many degrees cooler
than in the south of England over the weekend, Berlie reached the
finish line in Inverness well up among the field of over 2,000 to
record a fine 3hours 17min 25sec.
Similarly distant from their Wiltshire base, Salisbury runners Kathryn Waterworth
and Ruth Thom
competed in Cornwall’s Athlantic Challenge from Padstow to Land’s End.
On the rugged and hilly south west coastal path, and in unhelpfully hot
sun, they coped well with the rigours of the day to finish together in
7hours 20mins 51sec.
Plummer disappointed in Oxford
(25/09/2011)
City
of Salisbury Athletics and Running Club’s star athlete, Simon Plummer, was
left disappointed with his performance in the South’s newest half
marathon, hosted by 'the city of dreaming spires', Oxford.

Continuing in his quest for the marathon
qualification time to compete in the London Olympics next summer,
Plummer set off strongly, leading from the start to the four mile mark,
before a meddlesome stitch blighted his pace. After six miles, the
chasing pack had recovered the deficit and when Plummer was unwell
eight miles in, he dug in to finish the 13.1 miles fifth overall in
74:58.
“I
didn’t ease off on training for this
but, by my own high standards, it was a disappointing result,” Plummer
said afterwards, “however, I’ll do what I always do – take my medicine,
have a good long run tomorrow and focus on the Great South Run in five
weeks.”
Over the same distance, albeit with
challenging off-road conditions in the New Forest, four strong
performances were registered by City of Salisbury athletes.
Another convincing performance by Kate
Mansfield saw her lead the club's contingent in a chip
time of 1:44:06 followed by a strong debut by Samantha Hargreaves,
in 1:57:44. Also inside the two-hour barrier was Colin Martin on
1:59:35 and Liz Roberts
finished in a creditable 2:05:28.
Elsewhere, in the multi-terrain 10km race,
in Hursley, Mel Holloway
crossed the line in a
bright time of 47:07.
Salisbury road runners shine at Portsmouth
(18/09/2011)
A
hat-trick of fast times by the City of Salisbury men’s A team gave
the running club a flying start in the Victory 5mile road league race
on a cool and breezy day at Portsmouth.
Stuart
Holloway was first Salisbury finisher in a notably quick
personal
best 27min 16sec, just ahead of Chris
Southern in a fine pb 27.19;
then came Aaron Wilson
with a pb 27.57 and Kevin
Tilley, unusually
relegated to fourth team counter by the quality of his team mates’
runs, with 29.10.
“To
have our first three men all producing 27minute runs was outstanding
and it augurs well for us in other Hampshire road league races this
season,” said manager Rod
Smith. “Our ladies’ team shone too,
and with only about a minute separating their top trio we can look
forward to more good team results.”
Salisbury
ladies were led home by the ever-improving Mish Marlow-Graham
in a pb
33.44, followed by an excellent 34.27pb from Sally Greenslade and
the
trio was completed by Aly
Sloane with 34.53.
The
men’s B team was fronted by Ian
Shelley with 30.49; then came three
more personal bests from Rithy
Hy in 31.07, Chris
Panks 33.04 and
Andy
Budgell 33.30.
Other
Salisbury times were: Rod
Smith 35.58, John
Ruskin 36.59, Jane
Whiteley 39.38, Simon
Adlard 40.35, Colin Martin 41.21, Samantha Cox
pb 41.42, Rosemary
Adlard pb 41.43, and Judy
Flint pb 41.54.
The
club’s growing track sprint squad this week started its training
build-up for the indoor track season through the winter months and an
even better outdoor season next year, having grown in size and
reputation this summer. “The current team holds 26 club records at
present, plus three county records and three national championship
medals,” said Salisbury head coach Lee
Ness.
Star run from Fiona in Dingle marathon
(11/09/2011)
City
of Salisbury ace distance runner Fiona
Ross-Russell
showed why she is rated number one across the UK at 20miles for her
50plus age group when she put up a top performance at Dingle in south
west Ireland.
In the region’s famous race on strength-sapping,
switchback roads over the full marathon distance along the Atlantic
coast, she finished second lady with 3hours 19min 32sec, behind a more
junior rival.
The local GP’s time represented a 15minute
improvement on her performance in the Salisbury marathon, on easier
terrain, just three weeks before.
In the annual Great Wishford multi-terrain 10k, staged over a muddy and
rolling course, Keith
Champion produced an excellent winning time of 42min
33sec. He was followed by a trio of Salisbury ladies: Mish Barlow Graham
in 50.23, Aly Sloane
51.15 and Katie Clements
51.34.
Then came Nick Willetts
with 52.16, John Thurley
53.33, Paul Woodhouse
54.03, Steve Lomas
54.13, John Peters
54.48, Tom Bradley
56.45, Liz Roberts
66.22, Claire Bartlett
66.27 and Jeanette
Hardiman 74.22.
Over the 3k course, Alex
Mundell took first place in 13.51 and her 10year-old
sister Tash Mundell,
not to be outdone, clocked a promising 17.23.
Two other Salisbury athletes were in action in half marathons: Sue Hazzard recorded
1.49.55 at Chippenham and the improving Rithy Hy a 1.27.57
personal best at Bristol.
Southern
runs to top ten league spot
(05/09/2011)
Chris
Southern made a flying start to City of Salisbury running
club’s
campaign in the first fixture of the Hampshire Road Race League’s new
season at Overton. In his best performance for months, he clocked 27min
57sec for the 5mile event to take 10th place overall among 420
finishers. Race winner was Chris Powner of Winchester and District with
24.24.
Next for the Salisbury club came Aaron
Wilson in 29.03, followed by
Kevin
Tilley 29.31 and Rithy
Hy whose personal best 31.41 completed the
A squad for sixth place in the team competition.

The improving Chris Panks
was timed at 34.46, then came Aly
Sloane
35.57, evergreen Rod
Smith whose 36.35 won him the 65’s age group
award, Katie Clements 36.40, Jane Whiteley with a personal best 42.44,
Colin Martin 43.58, and Judy Flint 44.09. The ladies’ team of Aly,
Katie and Jane were eighth overall.
Next road league match is the Victory 5mile race on Sept 18th at
Portsmouth.
In the Pewsey half marathon, Katharine
Bleakley finished in 1hour 53min
45sec, and Andrew Walker
1.56.25.
Meanwhile on the track in the British Milers’ Club meeting at Exeter,
Alex
Mundell lopped a massive five seconds off her pb for the
1500m
with 4min 43.64sec in the under 17’s race, and Matt Smith improved
his
best at 800m with 2min 11.51sec in the under 15’s boys’race.
Alex too fast for men’s 800m field
(30/08/2011)
Running
in the senior graded championships at Oxford, City of Salisbury’s Alex
Mundell found that she was the only female athlete among
a field of 10
men contesting the 800m A race. But unfazed by either that or the
fiercely blustery wind, she ran a clever tactical race to take the lead
200m from the finish and narrowly hold on to the finish line to win in
2min 15sec.
Within
an hour she was back on the track competing in the 300 metres. Going
into the race she was seeded fifth fastest of six but her strength in
powering through the wind set her apart from the rest of the race and
she won comfortably from a number of sprint specialists in a new
personal best time.
Alex
decided to dedicate both her winner’s medals to the memory of Lewis
Andrews, the clubmate who sadly died in a car crash the
week before.
Amy
Jaramazovic continued her excellent form in her first
overseas
competition at the international Antwerp athletics gala in Belgium.
Moving down to 200m from her preferred 300m, Amy stepped up her
performance to win her heat in a new personal best of 26.81sec. She
clinched fourth overall in a mixed age group of U17s upwards, another
superb performance considering she has only just turned 15.
Jake and Amy on track for success
(21/08/2011)
Two
of Salisbury Athletics Club’s brightest young prospects took to the
track in the under 15-17 national championships at Bedford at the
weekend.
Amy
Jaramazovic turned 15 only two months ago but competed
well as the youngest by far in the under-17’s 300m against a strong
field of older runners. Despite a brave run, her time of 41.96sec was
just 0.2sec outside the qualifying time for the final. But if she can
maintain her current progress she will be running faster still by next
year when she will be in the same age group.
A hamstring injury in the lead up to the championships blighted the
400m prospects of Jake
Ness but after progressing through to the final, he still
battled his way to fifth place with a fine 51.85sec. The title went to
the current English Schools national champion where the event’s top
quality was underlined by a new championship record of 49.97sec. 
The final meeting of the Southern Athletics league was hosted by the
Salisbury club at the Five Rivers track where the home team produced
their best collective performance of the season to finish in second
place behind Peterborough.
Star among a host of good performances came from Alex Mundell who won
her 400m in 60.8sec, then the 800m in 2min 22sec followed by the 1500m
in 5min 12.3sec. Lizzie
Clifford took first place in the 400m hurdles in 67.1sec
and Emma Clarke
did equally well to win the 3000m in 11min 50.1sec.
Among the men, Richard
Holt won the long jump with 6.2m, and the triple jump
with 12.83m, and for good measure took second place in the pole vault
with 2.0m and the high jump with 1.55m.
On tracks of a more undulating nature in the 32mile Dorset Doddle, Phil Smith continued
his mile-eating diet when he completed the Jurassic Coast event from
Weymouth to Swanage in 6hours 51mins.
Salisbury’s Fiona wins acclaim for five
rivers marathon
(14/08/2011)
Salisbury’s
supervet runner Fiona
Ross-Russell earned the acclaim of clubmates at the City’s
5-4-3-2-1 marathon organised by the fire station. She completed the
multi-terrain round of five rivers, four hills, three large country
estates, two castles and the cathedral in 3hours 30min 58sec, a time
that few of her contemporaries would get anywhere near even on a fast
all-road marathon course.
Other City of Salisbury finishers at the 42k distance were Adrian Berlie with a
good 3.40.21, Ian Leaver
4.17.13 and Nicole Crofts
5.25.06.
Tracy
Badham led the club squad competing in the 20k version of
the event, her 2.11.25 putting her just ahead of Hannah Chappell’s
2.12.47. Then came Andy
Walker with 2.19.36, Judy
Flint 2.27.06, Steve
O’Reilly 2.27.08, Tamzin
Ewers 2.29.57, Andrea
Bathurst 2.30.18, and Louise
Badham 3.11.05.
Nicholas
Willetts was the club’s only participant in the 10k, and
he finished in 50.30.
In the 30k, quickest performance came from Tom Peters with
2.25.34, followed by Clive
Smith 2.32.38, Adrian
Webb 2.33.56, Sally
Greenslade 2.48.55 and Katie
Clements 3.13.33.
Two of the Salisbury club’s ladies opted for the 50k – five miles
longer than a marathon: Ruth
Thom finished in 6.15.53 and Kathryn Waterworth
in 6.16.20.
Distance running on a different plane saw the club’s leading endurance
runner Phil Smith
finish the daunting North Downs Centurion 100 mile race, complete with
more than 10,000ft of climbing. His time of 26hours 35min 40sec placed
him well up the field and officially qualifies him for a long rest.
All in a day’s training, Simon Plummer
clocks another win
(03/08/2011)
Running
on tired legs, City of Salisbury star Simon Plummer still
turned in a winning performance at the
Pewsey 5mile race where his
26min 45sec put him well over a minute clear of the rest
of the field
and gave him his fifth top spot in the event.
With
his eye on bigger races later in the year, and unlike most of his
competitors,
he is maintaining a hard training schedule even
immediately before he dons his club racing vest for local fixtures. “I
did train twice the day before and added in a five miler on the day of
the Pewsey race, but it’s all part of getting used to a heavier
workload,” said Simon. “It meant I was 90 seconds off my own course
record in the end, but it was a useful experiment to have had a good
workout even before the start.
“However it does take its toll and it’s not something I plan to do
prior to any of the big races to come.
But
if you want to succeed at a higher level you have to put yourself up
there and race with the best – that’s what I’m aiming to do in the
weeks ahead,” he added.
Plummer’s
main target for the autumn is to clinch a fast marathon time to improve
his chances of future international selection, and for that he has
chosen the highly competitive 26mile race in Valencia on the
Mediterranean coast of Spain in late November. He has two half
marathons in his schedule before that to gauge his fitness along the
way.
Salisbury athletes’ work rate wins track
league success
(01/08/2011)
Salisbury
athletes won due reward for their extra high work-rate in the southern
track and field league meet at Winchester where they made up for the
holiday absence of clubmates by each competing in extra events.
The
day’s outstanding efforts came from Darren Clissold who
scored points in no fewer than nine different disciplines, ranging from
the 400m hurdles and 3,000m steeplechase to the pole vault.
Richard Holt set a new
personal best of 11.5sec in the 100m and followed that with an
excellent 400m in 50.6sec before going on to tackle a further four
events.
Not
to be outdone, Rithy
Hy
produced good runs in the 400m, 800m, 1500m and 3,000m and Nikki Hazzard competed in
the javelin, shot put and discus before setting a new personal best in
the hammer throw.
Sam Rogers made a
promising debut for the club, taking second place in the 3,000m in
10min 18.4sec; Chris
Panks
also made his track debut with runs in the 800m and 1500m. Matt Smith, only 14, ran
as a guest and set a pb of 2min 11.7sec for third place in the men’s
800.
Alex Mundell easily won
her 800m in 2min 17sec before going on to equal her best time
of 59.7sec for second place in the 400m.
Danielle Scott won the B
string 400m in 63.0sec, won the pole vault with 2.7m and then set a new
club record for the 2,000m steeplechase in which she was second. Sue Hazzard took third
in the 3,000 and went one better for second in the 1500m.
To
round off City of Salisbury’s demonstration of multi-skilling, Amy Jaramazovics and Freya Espir both did well
in the 100m and 200m and then with Alex
and Danielle
won the 4 x 400m relay.
In the Wellingborough 5mile event, John Gorham clocked a creditable
35min 42sec and Chrissy Gorham 40.32
Wiltshire 10k win for Simon Plummer after
hecomes second
(18/07/2011)
Simon
Plummer from City of Salisbury Athletic and Running
Club crossed the finish line in an unusual second place in the
Wiltshire 10k
championships at Castle Combe – but was then awarded this year’s
title because the runner ahead of him, from Bristol and West , had
started without an obligatory chip timing device.
Clocking
33min 16sec on the undulating course, Simon was content with his
performance to add to his string of wins in recent months.
Salisbury’s
only other representative, Rithy
Hy notched yet another fine personal
best at the distance, with 39.30.
A
less predictable win for the club came in the Chichester 25k, Stuart
Holloway getting the better of the difficult
multi-terrain course to
clock 2hours 8min 16sec for first place. Mel Holloway
recorded
2.32.13.
In
the Swanage half marathon, Matthew
Cross was among the first 100,
finishing in 1hour 37min10sec, supported by Andy Gillespie with
1.49.37.
Representing
Wiltshire in the south west inter-counties track championships, a
squad of Salisbury’s young athletes put up some good performances
at Exeter, despite wet and windy conditions.
Jamie
Poulton won the under-17 high jump with an
excellent1.9metres; Jake
Ness won the under-15 400m in 52.8sec; Geo Downie took
third place in
the under-17 800m with 2min 7.7sec and his sister Claudia improved
her best in the under-13 800m with 2min 40.4sec, closely followed by
Heidi
Porter making her debut for the county.
Dean
Holdsworth and Jaymee
Domoney were part of the winning Wiltshire
junior sprint relay team; Emma
Clarke took second place with a
30second improvement in the 3,000m clocking 11min 25.9sec; and the
award for the day’s busiest athlete went to Richard Holt who
took
fifth in the senior 200m with 22.9sec, then was second in the triple
jump and finished off with third in the long jump competition.
Summer BBQ and Disco goes down a treat!
(16/07/2011)
The
club took time out last Saturday from training and competition to stage
a celebratory summer barbecue for its members and their families and
friends.
Held
at Salisbury rugby club and organised by Clive Smith and Jon Rich, with
additional support from John and Sylvia Fry and Sue and Anne-Marie
Hazzard, the event raised a total of £500 which club chairman Simon
Adlard announced will be donated to Salisbury Hospice.
"It was great for members and friends to get together socially like
this as a contrast to the pressures of training and racing, and we felt
it entirely appropriate to make this donation afterwards to such a
highly regarded part of the Salisbury community," said Simon.
Salisbury’s Simon Plummer back in winning
form
(13/07/2011)
City
of Salisbury’s star athlete Simon Plummer notched
another win on Sunday during his continuing ‘tick-over’ phase before he
restarts training in earnest next month in time for a big autumn
marathon that he hopes will warrant international selection.
This latest success at local level came in the New Forest 10mile race,
staged mainly over woodland tracks, and despite the comparatively slow
going he still clocked 54.58 for a resounding first place in the field
of 900.
Next Salisbury runner was John Gorham who had cause
for satisfaction with his 75.24, and he was followed by Chrissie
Gorham with 83.16, Keith Gibson 87.34, Charlene
Gibson 88.50, Andrew Bennett 90.32, Jane
Whiteley 93.46, Colin Martin 93.47 and
Diana
Charnley 107.23.
On
the track in a Southern Athletics division 2 league match, City of
Salisbury were placed fourth behind Andover and Overton, Vale of
Aylesbury, and Serpentine.
Winners in the women’s
squad were Amy
Jaramazovic in the under-17’s 400metres A with 60.0sec;
Alex
Mundell with 59.7sec in the B race and then in the 800m
with
2.16.6sec and to complete her hat-trick of wins, first in the under
17’s 1500m too.
Lizzie
Clifford took the
400m hurdles A race in 68.4sec; Emma
Clarke the 1500m steeplechase in
6min 7.1sec; Danielle
Scott the under-17 pole vault with 2.6m; and
Lizzie
Clifford the long jump with 4.78m.
Among
the men’s events, Darren
Clissold won the pole vault with 3.2m.
Click
here for Full league results (.xls)
Jake runs ever faster for English Schools
400m bronze
(06/07/2011)
City
of Salisbury’s young athlete Jake Ness was the
club’s success story at the English Schools championships at Gateshead.
Running
in the juniors’ 400m, he first produced a significant personal best of
51.79sec in the heats among the country’s best opponents in his age
group.
Then
in the final, undaunted by the pressure of the occasion, he lopped a
further fifth of a second off that time to an excellent 51.57sec which
gave him third place and a well-deserved national medal. Less than two
seconds separated him from gold.
In
the 4 x 100m relay that followed Jake took another bronze with the
county team in a photo-finish that rounded off a fine trip to the north
east.
Three
other rising stars among the club’s young athletes also produced good
performances. Lizzie
Clifford couldn’t repeat her
form from the regional championships’ intermediate 300m hurdles but
still achieved fourth place in her heat; Danielle Scott
was 19th; and in the high jump Jamie
Poulton recorded 1.77m,
rather below his best but still 21st in the listings.
Notable
absentee was Alex Mundell in her first year as an
under-17 in the 800m but age groupings mean her chance to make her mark
comes in this event next year.

Salisbury's
track athletes win 13 county titles (28/06/2011)
City of Salisbury young
track athletes scooped no fewer than a baker’s dozen of wins in the
Wiltshire County championships at Tidworth where star performances
from Alex Mundell
and Jake Ness
also set two new championship
records.
Alex’s win came in
the under-17’s 800metres where she headed the field with a rapid
2min 16.3sec run that made the most of the fine conditions to take
gold.
Then in the under-15’s 400
metres, Jake Ness again
showed fine form to record 52.8sec and
put his name on the championship record lists.
Lizzie Clifford scored
an excellent winning double, taking the under-17’s 300m hurdles in
46.7sec and the 80m hurdles in 13.1sec.
Other championship
winners from Salisbury were: Dean
Hodgson in the under-13 100m in
14.2sec; Alice Smith
in the under-15 200m in 27.7sec; Seb
Rowe in the
under-17 long jump with 5.54m; Callum
Hodge in the under-15 high jump
with 1.51m; Thomas Hughes
in the under-13 javelin with 24.39m; Jamie
Poulton in the under-17 high jump with 1.85m; Florence Powell in
the
under-17 1500m in 5min 34.3sec; Emma
Clarke in the under-17 3,000m
with 11min 55.6sec and Jordan
Donaldson in the under-15 javelin with
31.14m.
To round off a
barnstorming day, the under-13’s 4 x 100m relay squad of Jaymee
Domoney, Kieran
Saul, Thomas
Hughes and Dean
Hodgson took gold with
58.2sec. Similar success then rewarded the under-17’s team of Alice
Smith, Amy
Jaramazovic, Freya
Espir and Alex
Mundell who completed
their sprint relay win in 54.9sec.
Overall
Medals
Gold:
12
Silver:
14
Bronze:
8
We
had 2 championship records on the day:
Alex Mundell U17W
800m 2'16.3sec
Jake Ness U15B 400m
52.80 sec
Rest
of the performances:
Lizzie Clifford U17W
300m Hurdles 46.7 secs and 80m Hurdles 13.1 secs 1st
Imogen Edwards U13G
100m 15.3 3rd
Dean Hodgson U13B
100m 14.2 1st and 200m 28.70 2nd
Kieran Saul U13B
15.4 secs and High Jump 1.33m 2nd
Alice Smith U15G
100m 13.80 4th And 200m 27.7 1st
Marie Clark U15G
100m 15.70 6th and Long Jump 4.08 3rd
Jake Ness U15B 100m
12.20 2nd and 400m 52.80 1st
Freya Espir U17W
100m 13.60 2nd and 200m 27.80 3rd
Seb Rowe U17M 100m
5th 12.40 and Long Jump 5.54 1st
Joe Willicome U17M
100m 12.00 2nd and 200m 24.40 2nd
Andrew Pryde U17M
100m 12.20 3rd and 200m 24.70 4th and Long Jump 5.05 2nd
Callum Hodge U15B
800m 2'29.5 3rd and High Jump 1.51m 1st
Troy Cooper U13B
100m 15.9 5th
Thomas Hughes U13B
Discus 16.33 and Javelin 24.39m 1st
Heidi Porter U13G
800m 2'53.4 2nd
Anna Lever U 15G
800m 2'32.6 3rd and 200m 30.0 2nd
Matt Smith U15B
800m 2'15.6 2nd and Long Jump 4.79 4th
Alex Mundell U17W
800m 2'16.3 1st and 200m 27.4 2nd
Edward Cook U13B
200m 29.8 5th
Jamie Poulton High
Jump U17M 1.85m 1st
Ethan Ness U11B Quad
Kids 7th
Tash Mundell U11G
Quad Kids 5th
Amy Jaramazovic U17W
300m 41.90 2nd
Florence Powell U17W
1500m 5'34.30 1st
Emma Clarke U17W
1500m 5'40.8 3rd
Jaymee Domoney U13B
Javelin 13.27 5th and 800m 2nd time tbc
Jordan Donaldson
U15B Javelin 31.14 1st
Relays
U13B
58.20 1st Jaymee
Domoney, Kieran Saul, Thomas Hughes, Dean Hodgson
U17W
54.90 1st Alice Smith,
Amy Jaramazovic, Freya Espir, Alex Mundell
U17M
48.70 2nd Andrew Pryde,
Callum Hodge! Jake Ness, Joe Willicome
Wiltshire
Junior Championships (23/06/2011)
The
Wiltshire Junior County Championships for Under 17, U15 and U13 age
groups will be taking place this Sunday at Tidworth Oval.
The
aim of
this competition is to enable young athletes across the County to
participate in the event of their choice for both development and as a
stepping stone to a higher level of competition. The Wiltshire Athletic
Association work hard to produce an event that is enjoyable and
entertaining and at the same time of a quality that ensures that all
results are deemed viable for higher competition due to the presence of
qualified athletics officials.
Unfortunately
the number of qualified
officials in the County is dwindling(mainly due to age) and we are
struggling to provide enough officials for our event on Sunday. Why not
try your hand at officiating on Sunday.
Please
contact me if you would
be prepared to help out (if only for 1 hour) We need help with Track
Judging (beady eyes), Time Keeping(quick fingers), Field Events (brave)
and Results Recording(computer savvy).You will be supervised by
qualified officials at all times. We intend to hold officials courses
in the County early next year . Wiltshire Athletics Association will
subsidise all applications. Please contact me if you are prepared to
help.
Details of the event can be found at www.wiltshire-athletics.org
Salisbury’s
Lizzie hurdles to UK top
ten place
(20/06/2011)
City
of Salisbury’s young track athlete Lizzie Clifford
was the weekend’s star performer at the schools’ inter-county
championships in Exeter where her personal best to win the under-17
300m hurdles pushed her up to seventh in her age group across the UK at
the distance.
For good measure, she clocked her best ever time for third place in the
80m hurdles too. With another full season ahead in her age group these
runs show real potential.
In the schools’ 400m Jake Ness
ran a solid 53.1sec for another in his series of wins.
Meanwhile at Marlborough, more event winners from the talented
Salisbury squad included in the under 13s Imogen
Edwards with 15.4sec in the 100m; Dean
Hodgson 28.4sec in the 200m; and Heidi
Porter 2.49sec in the 800m.
Among the under-15s, Alice Smith
won the 100m in 14.0sec; and Jake Ness
took the 300m in 37.8sec for seventh in the UK all-time list for this
age group, and first in the UK this season.
Charlie Patrick
won the under 17/20 100m in 11.4sec; Alex Mundell
took the 300m in 43.7sec; Sammy Miller
won the boys’ 300m in 39.0sec; and Jamie Poulton
won the high jump with 1.85m.
photo
shows Lizzie Clifford at the Exeter combined events meeting
Summer
barbecue
(16/06/2011)
A
date for the diary:
City of Salisbury Athletic and Running Club has set the date of its
summer barbecue organised by road runner Clive Smith, to which all 250
members are cordially invited.
It will be held on Saturday 16th July at Salisbury Rugby Club and
tickets are available from Clive Smith or Sylvia Fry on Tuesday and
Thursday evening at the track sessions or Wednesday evening at the 5
rivers leisure centre road run. Tickets priced £10 for adults and £5
for juniors
Welsh
cap for mountain runner Matt
(13/06/2011)
Matt
Fortes who joined City of Salisbury Athletic and
Running Club at the age of twelve has just won his first international
cap.
Now 34 and still well known and highly regarded in Salisbury running
circles, Matt has been selected to run for Wales in the gruelling
alpine marathon championship in Slovenia next Saturday. Organised by
the World Mountain Running Association, the race features more than
5,000m – well over half the elevation of Everest – of lung-bursting
climbs and steep descents. It is widely regarded in the sport as one of
the toughest of mountain marathons.
Matt now lives in north Wales where he competes most weeks in the
fell-running races for which in recent years he has discovered a
growing talent. The race, near Ljubljana, is part of a championship
series of mountain running events.
On the road Simon Plummer
clocked up another win in the Melksham 5k, his 15min 33sec giving him
more than a half minute’s margin; in the same race Aly Sloane won her
age category with 21.35.
In other road races, a delighted Mish Barlow-Graham
scooped first place in the Alresford 10k ladies’ event, her 42min 31sec
rating as her best race yet despite wind and rain that slowed most of
the 200 finishers. In the men’s event Rithy Hy
also ran well for 39.52, just ahead of Andy Budgell’s
41.20.
The Braishfield 5mile saw Stewart Holloway
also defy the conditions to take 7th place with a pb 28.11, followed by
Mel Holloway
35.16, Rod Smith 36.38, Liz
Roberts 44.0 and Val Knight
45.0.
At the Yeovilton 5K, Chris Southern
was fourth in 16.43, followed by Simon Wiltshire
18.26 and Aly Sloane 21.19.
On the track in the Wiltshire schools championships, Amy
Jaramazovic was second in the intermediate 300m
with 42.2sec; Joe Willicome took
third in the intermediate 200m with 24.2 sec; Rosie
Tabor was second in the junior 100m with 13.2 secs
followed by Alice Smith, 5th
with 13.8sec and Rosie won the 200m in a pb 26.7 sec; Jaymee
Domoney was second in the junior 800m with 2min
31.4 and second in the 1500m with a new pb of 5min 8sec.
Salisbury’s Jake Ness was second
in the Hampshire junior 400m with a pb 52.6 seconds, to be rewarded
with a county vest for the forthcoming English Schools championships in
Gateshead.
left
photo shows Matt Fortes in action on the fells, photo coutesy of
Al Tye
right photo shows Andy Budgell, Rithy Hy an Mish Barlow-Graham at
Alresford
Simon
Plummer back in the saddle with 10mile record win
(06/06/2011)
City
of Salisbury athlete Simon Plummer
put his recent marathon disappointment behind him when he broke his own
course record by nearly two minutes to win the tough Warminster
multi-terrain 10mile race. Leaving the rest of the field behind from
the start, he powered round to finish in 54min 19sec.
“That’s just what I needed,” he said. “I’ve analysed what went wrong in
the marathon two weeks ago and with my coach I’ve reset my sights on to
an autumn 26miler to give me the quick time I need for international
selection. I’ll run just a few races like this to keep ticking over
before starting the big build-up again in August.”
The problem he identified was low blood sugar levels when he embarked
on the marathon in Edinburgh. He’d run a 10mile race followed by a fast
10k in the days before the main event, and he simply hadn’t recharged
his reserves sufficiently. He had been going well to 17miles but it was
at that point that he had used up the last of his energy reserves,
reducing him to a walk. However, he sees it as a lesson learnt and it’s
not a mistake he’s likely to repeat.
Taking consolation from the Warminster race, he added: “When you fall
out of the saddle, you’ve just got to get right back in it again.”
In the Needles cross country half marathon on the Isle of Wight,
Salisbury’s Sally Greenslade
crowned a series of steady improvements this season to take third place
in the ladies' section with an outstanding 1.44.30 on the rolling
downland course.
Next came Colin Martin in
2.3.09, followed by Charlene Gibson
with 2.3.25, Linda Robson
2.3.42, Keith Gibson 2.10.44 and
Naomi Flower
2.19.21.
Elsewhere, in the Kennet Kanter 10mile, Lewis Fuller
took 6th place with a good 63.19 and Rithy Hy
67.04; at Portsmouth in the D-Day 10k Martin Phillips
clocked 44.20, and in the Poole 10k Michael Brewster
clocked 47.47.
Salisbury’s
Phil Smith runs from Birmingham to London
(30/05/2011)
City
of Salisbury and Athletic Club’s remarkable long distance runner Phil
Smith took on a race at the weekend that even he
found challenging. Billed as Britain’s ‘longest, toughest non-stop
running race,’ the Grand Union Canal event is fought out on a tow path
all the way from Birmingham to London. Phil covered the cool and windy
145miles, equivalent to more than five consecutive marathons, in
35hours 1minute, for 15th place and what must be one of his best
results in the endurance race calendar.
At the other end of the distance spectrum, in the young athletes’ open
event at Andover, Salisbury’s Amy Jaramazovic
took gold in the under 17’s 300m and bronze in long jump. She was
supported by Jaymee Domoney
with bronze in the under 13’s 800m and Rosie Tabor
with bronze in both the under 15’s 100m and the 200m. Dean
Hodgson won both the under 13’s 100m and 200m
with a pb in the 100m, Ethan Ness
made his debut for the club in the under 11’s 80m, 600m and long jump
competing above his age for the first time and Tash
Mundell took bronze in the under 11’s 600m.
On the road, Rithy Hy
continued his good form with 40min 8sec for 14th overall in the Ropley
10k and he was followed by John Gorham
in 45.04 and Chrissy Gorham
with 50.49.
Meanwhile the Hampshire road race league programme for the coming
season has been announced:
Sept 3 Overton 5ml, Sept 18 Victory 5ml, Oct 9 Solent Half Marathon,
Nov 6 Lordshill 10ml, Nov 20 Gosport Half Marathon, Jan 15 Stubbington
10k, Feb 5 Ryde 10ml, Feb 19 Bramley 20ml, Mar 11 Salisbury 10ml, Mar
25 Eastleigh 10k, May 6 Alton 10ml, May 13 Netley 10k.
Simon
hits the buffers in hard Edinburgh marathon
(24/05/2011)
Huge
disappointment was City of Salisbury athlete Simon
Plummer’s reaction after his bid for a fast
marathon, in Edinburgh, continued to elude him. He has now joined the
growing number of the UK’s leading prospects who so far this year have
been floored by this supreme test of athletic endurance.
With his heart set on a performance that would catch the eye of
selectors looking to fill international slots at the 26.2mile distance,
he looked set fair for a good performance as he reached the half-way
point in 69min 02sec in fourth place. That was perfect for a 2.20
result that would have satisfied his ambitions given that the Edinburgh
course is several minutes slower than many.
But the marathon is notoriously difficult to gauge and by mile 17 he’d
slipped out of contention at the front, being reduced to walking by
mile 17. When all chance of success was gone, he did well to jog to the
finish, and he stopped the clock at 2.40.10 for 15th overall – eight
minutes slower than his previous best and way off his true potential.
The winner, Phil Nichols from Tipton AC, clocked 2.19.
“I felt I just couldn’t run any more. I had no energy,” said a
disconsolate Simon. “All my races this season in the build-up to this
have been brilliant, with strong performances at all distances from 10k
all the way up to 20miles. I’ll have to review this in the hard light
of day and will probably refocus for another crack at the distance in
the autumn. The talent I know I have should mean I’m in line for Great
Britain selection but first I have to nail a top result.”
Also running at Edinburgh, Fiona Ross-Russell
confirmed her remarkable status as current UK number one at 20miles in
her age group when she clocked a fine 3.20.31. Sue
Hazzard too did well, finishing in 3.47.51.
Jon Rich
produced a good 3.10.29, and Andy Budgell
likewise with a personal best 3.26.26, matching the pb run of Ruth
Thom with 4.27.15.
In the Marwell 10k Stuart Holloway
was 6th in 36.24, and he was followed by Adrian
Berlie with 40.26, John Gorham
44.50 and Chrissy Gorham a neat
50.00mins.
Clissold
and Holt shine in the sun at Swindon
(22/05/2011)
With
a large number of absentees for the second Southern Athletic League
fixture of the season it was always going to be an uphill struggle for
the remaining athletes. But in Darren Clissold
and Richard Holt the club
possess two very dedicated multi events who were determined to leave
very few gaps on the team declaration sheet.
Richard competed in 8 individual and 2 relay events. Amongst all these
energy sapping events he also had a personal best and a new club record
in the 'A' string triple jump with 13.53 for 1st place and maximum
points. The jump moves Richard to 20th in the u23 national rankings for
the season.
Darren competed in no less than 10 individual events with his best
being a solid 30.42 for 2nd in the 'A' string Hammer.
Debut appearances from Chris Southern and Rithy Hy
also proved an inspired team selection with both competing well in a
number of track events.
Considering there were only four women available to compete for the
club those that did so acquitted themselves extremely well. Emma
Clarke still only 15 won her first ever 400m and
also did very well in the 800m and 1500m too with Laura
Allen, Linda New and Jo Norbury all providing
good backup. Linda’s 9:05.8 in the 2000m steeplechase will no doubt
figure highly in the national age rankings for the event this season.
Full results from Swindon can be found here:
http://www.southernathletics.org.uk/assets/files/results/11sal22swindonresults.htm
Excellent
Club Runs at Netley 10k
(16/05/2011)
The
Hampshire Road Race series came to an end on Sunday 15 May with the
last race in the series held over 10k at Netley in Southampton.
With Simon Plummer competing in
the Bristol 10k on the same day top runner for City of Salisbury was Stuart
Hollaway with a fine 35-03 for 8th place overall.
Next came Aaron Wilson with
35-42 for 15th place, followed by Kevin Tilley
38th 36-38, Ian Shelley 41st
38-08, Jon Rich 67th 39-21, then
Adrian Berlie
80th 39-59, Clive Smith 102nd
41-23.
The Club’s women runners were led home by Faye Parker
in an super 11th place in 41-58 closely followed by another excellent
run from Mish Barlow-Graham 12th
in 42-16.
Other Salisbury runners were John Gorham
134, 43-32, Sally Greenslade for
4th in her age group with 43-53, Christ Panks
44-59, Emma Willcox 45-01, Rod
Smith 45-14, Christine Gorham
48-53, Jane Whiteley 49-53, Colin
Martin 51-12, Judy Flint
54-29, Alison Theobald 55-11 in
what was a very good turnout from the club’s road runners.
The final standing for the 2010-11 series can be found on the HRRL
website.
For the A teams the ladies finished in a superb 4th place overall in
Divsion 1 and the men an equally impressive 6th. For the B team the
positions were reversed with the ladies finishing 6th place overall in
Dvision 1 and the men in 4th.
Top club lady for the series was Sarah Kemp
in 24th and top man was Aaron Wilson
in 12th.
Meanwhile Simon Plummer was
honing his preparation for next week’s marathon by setting a new PB of
30:09 for 10K in the company of an international field. Simon was very
pleased to run such an excellent time in such windy conditions.
Salisbury team
photo from Netley. Picture by Benjamin Dunk
Simon
Plummer bounces back with big win at Alton 10mile
(09/05/2011)
City
of Salisbury’s star athlete Simon Plummer
returned from two months’ injury-enforced absence from competition with
a resounding win in the Alton 10mile road race. Part of the Hampshire
road race league series, the event was a test of Simon’s form – and he
came through with flying colours, winning by four minutes with 52min
14sec.
His classy run came despite blustery conditions and a gruelling past
four weeks in the build-up towards one of his main targets for the
year: a marathon at Edinburgh good enough to put him in the national
standings. “I’m training faster and better than three months ago so
things are coming together well for the big race on May 22,” he said.
Simon’s win gave the Salisbury club a boost that was reflected in other
good runs. Best of the bunch was Aaron Wilson
with 60.43, and with Lewis Fuller
65.10 and Adrian Berlie great
new pb of 65.20 the A team finished fourth overall in the league
contest. Ian Shelley 66.08, Clive
Smith 70.01 were the counters for another good
result for the club’s B team.
Andy Budgell
clocked 71.18, Mel Holloway 73.50,
John Gorham 76.22, Steve Lomas
80.09, Simon Adlard a pb 85.35
and Colin Martin also with a pb
90.43.
Despite injuries keeping three of the club’s ladies on the sidelines,
some outstanding performances by newer members kept the Salisbury name
to the fore. Mish Barlow-Graham
, one of the club’s finds of the season was best, finishing in 73.24 to
lead Sally Greenslade 74.51 and
Kate Mansfield
78.35 to a notable team result. Not to be outdone, Kate’s mother
Ali Theobald improved her pb at the distance by
eight minutes to 92.48. Chrissie Gorham
finished in 83.18 and Katie Clements
84.24.
A new form of competition for young club athletes was trialled on
Tuesday evening at Salisbury’s home track at Five Rivers. The format of
the Wiltshire ‘Super8’ league has teams comprising eight boys and eight
girls, each of who competes once on the track, in a field event and in
a relay. City of Salisbury were up against Team Bath and Marlborough,
with teams of under-13s, under 15s and under-17/20.
Best Salisbury performances on the night were Thomas
Hughes winning his field event and the 200m in the
youngest age group with 31.3sec; Jake Ness
winning both the long jump (5.25m) and the 300m in the under-15s with
39.7sec; Rosie Tabor winning the
under-15 100m in 13.5sec; and Nathan Coburn
taking the seniors’ 100m in 11.7sec.
Salisbury
athletes jump to it in Eastbourne sand
(02/05/2011)
City
of Salisbury track athletes made a flying start to the newly
formed Southern League when the team took second place overall at
Eastbourne.
The long-jump pit was the scene of some of the day’s best performances,
Richard Holt
winning the A event by almost a metre with 6.64metres and clubmate Joe
Willicome top in the B event with 5.17m. In ladies’
A event Lizzie Clifford was
winner with an excellent 4.82m and in the B series, Amy
Jaramazovic used her sprinting speed to win with
4.51m.
A strong easterly wind in the home straight meant it was no day for the
sprinters. But among the longer events, Salisbury’s versatile
multi-eventer Linda New put up
the bravest showing of the day in the1500m steeplechase where she was
beaten by a younger rival by less than a second.
Other results included: Charlie Patrick
2nd in the 100m and 200m with 11.8sec and 23.5sec; Martin
Phillips 3rd in the 400m with 61.7sec; Patrick
Batin 1st in the 400m hurdles with 65.2; Darren
Clissold 2nd in the pole vault with 3.0m; Amy
Jaramazovic 2nd in the ladies’ 400m with 62.8; Danielle
Scott 1st in the 400m with 65.4 and 1st in the pole
vault with 2.4m; Alex Mundell
1st in the 800m with 2.29; Freya Espir
2nd in the shot putt with 7.63m; and among the ladies’ seniors, Aly
Sloane 2nd in the A 1500m with 5.57.5 and 2nd in
the A 3,000m with 12.24.4; and Sue Hazzard
1st in the B 1500m 6.33.6 and 1st also in the B 3,000 with
13.06.9.There was also an encouraging debut PB of 2:16.8 by Sam
Rogers the youngest member of the team
Full team results and league table from Eastbourne are here:
http://www.southernathletics.org.uk/division-two.html
Individual results from Eastbourne are here:
http://www.thepowerof10.info/results/results.aspx?meetingid=50580
Meanwhile on the road in similarly hot and windy conditions, Rithy
Hy produced a great run in May Day’s North Dorset
Village marathon at Sturminster Newton, defying the strength-sapping
sunshine with 3hours 21min 37sec. John and Chrissie
Gorham ran the 26.2miles together, finishing in
4.13.43.
In the Corsham 10k, Stephen Halligan
clocked 48.01 to finish comfortably in the top third of the field.
Mark
Cole is Salisbury’s best at Boscombe
(27/04/2011)
Following
a clutch of recent endurance runs, several of the City of Salisbury’s
top road runners took a break over the Easter weekend to recuperate.
Meanwhile Mark Cole was the
club’s best placed runner in the Boscombe Rotary quarter marathon, his
42min 59sec placing him just outside the top two dozen finishers among
a field of 300. John Gorham
was some five minutes behind with 48.37, and Chrissie
Gorham not far back with 52.57.
At Yeovil in the traditional Easter Monday 10k, Lewis
Fuller was Salisbury’s sole representative,
working off any Easter excess with a respectable 39.25.
Salisbury’s
Aaron Wilson breaks 3hour barrier in London marathon
(19/04/2011)
City
of Salisbury’s steadily improving athlete Aaron
Wilson put down a marker for the future in Sunday’s
London marathon when he beat three hours – for club runners one of the
real barriers in endurance racing – to clock an excellent 2hours 56min
15sec. This came just a month after he’d beaten another such barrier –
the hour - for the first time over ten miles in his own club’s league
race in the Woodford Valley.
One of ten Salisbury runners in the London field of 35,000, he went
through the half way point in 1hour 22min before starting to feel the
heat and the distance, but he held on for a fine performance and
clearly has still quicker times to come.
Kathy Dudman
defied an enforced shortage of recent racing to clock an excellent
personal best 3.25.59, confirming her return to form after starting a
family.
Next was Andy Gillespie with a
good 3.27.36...beating his long-held London ambition to get inside 3.30
- and it was only his 21st attempt! Then came Sarah
Kemp 3.39.05, Kate Mansfield
3.49.50, Louise Webber 4.14.36, Becky
Fortes 4.17.40, Ruth Thom
4.29.18, Nicole Crofts 4.44.54
and Mark Williams 5.09.06.
Also in London for the three mile mini marathon which preceded the main
event, Alex Mundell ran for the
south west region and finished well up among the under-15s despite this
being six times over her preferred distance of 800m.
As though the 26.2miles of the London marathon were not enough of a
challenge, Phil Smith ran three
times as far in the 78mile Jurassic Coast cross country race from
Studland to Lyme Regis, finishing in a creditable but staggering
20hours 12mins.
Amy
leads Salisbury sprinters to pb spree
(18/04/2011)
City
of Salisbury’s Amy Jaramazovic
produced the club’s performance of the day when she took first place in
the Havant Athletic Club open meeting’s 300m.
Competing in the under-17’s category and making the best of good
conditions, she ran faster than she has ever done before at the
distance, clocking a rapid 43.6sec to lead Salisbury’s up and coming
track squad to another good set of results that included no fewer than
10 personal bests.
Jake Ness
scored a winning PB double in the under-15’s 100m and 200m, equalling
the club record in the longer event with 24.0sec. Dean
Hodgson, an under-13, did almost as well with two
second places in the sprint double.
Richard Holt
won the senior men’s 400m in 51.4 and clocked 23.5 in the 200m; Anna
Lever 2min 36.9 in the 800m; Heidi
Porter 2min 55.8 for a pb third in the 800m, Danielle
Scott 45.5 for a pb second place in the 300m, Joe
Willicome 12.3sec for a pb third in the 100m, and
24.8sec pb also for third in the 200m, Patrick Ba-Tin
12.9sec pb in the 100m and 58.9sec pb in the 400m, Andrew
Pryde 12.4sec pb in the 100m and 25sec in the 200m,
and Nathan Cobern 11.8sec on the
100m and 23.9sec in the 200.
Jake
at 13 beats 400m seniors for new Salisbury club record
(12/04/2011)
City
of Salisbury’s 13 year-old rising star athlete Jake
Ness produced the club’s top performance at the Lee
Valley track meeting when he scorched round the 400m track to beat all
but one of a field of 20 year-olds to set a new club age group record
of 52.8sec.
He was among eight Salisbury athletes of the 11 competing there who
made the most of the warm, fast conditions to notch personal bests, all
evidence of the track squad’s growing stature.
Richard Holt
too was on top form, winning at 100m 11.64 and scoring a pb of 50.55sec
when coming second in a 400m, looking ever more capable of sub
50seconds later in the season. Amy Jaramazovic
clocked 61.47 at age 14 in her first full 400m which puts her well up
the national rankings for the best of the country’s under 17s, a
further remarkable achievement.
Evie Cummings
was another to record a pb at 400m 62.57; Freya
Espir 13.74 , Rosie Tabor
13.46 , Andrew Pryde12.42 (and
24.79 for 200m) and Dean Hodgson
13.86 (and 28.33 for 200m) all produced pb’s in their respective 100m
races and Alice Smith 13.80 was
only fractionally outside hers. In the 800m Alex
Mundell controlled the race throughout to win in
2min 18sec.
At the other extreme, City of Salisbury’s distance guru
Phil Smith made light of the hilly cross country
Bath Beat marathon, clocking 4hours 55min 13sec on Saturday and next
day defied both fatigue and logic to complete another cross country
marathon, at Pewsey, in a quicker 4.32.25.
In other marathons affected by the hot conditions,
Rithy Hy produced an excellent 3.14.41 in the Great
Welsh coastal run at Gower and Clive Smith
3.36.38 in Paris where the hopes of many in the huge field of 32,000
wilted in the sun.
Mish
makes her mark at Taunton half marathon
(05/04/2011)
City
of Salisbury Athletic Club rookie road runner Mish
Barlow-Graham made her mark in the Taunton half
marathon when she sliced 20minutes off her previous best to record a
remarkable 94min 33sec.
In a field of over 1200, she took ninth place in the under-35 age
category and was 15th lady to cross the line. Having donned a Salisbury
vest for the first time only weeks ago, she clearly has real potential
on the road..
Another fine performance at Taunton came in the full marathon, where Rob
Lomas completed his first attempt in 3hours 21min
44sec to finish well up. Similarly well-placed in the Combe Gibbet to
Overton 16mile cross country over rolling hills, Sue
Hazzard clocked 2.14.16..
Martin Phillips
was first Salisbury runner home in the Figsbury Challenge 5k, another
hill-race, when he finished in 19min 19sec to almost match his time of
last year. Next was John Thurley
with 21.46, Charlene Gibson
22.20 for first place in her age group, Keith Gibson
23.18, Jane Whiteley 23.30, Ethan
Ness 24.17 who was paced by his elder brother Jacob
Ness.
Meanwhile on the track at Basingstoke, Alex Mundell
ran in her first 1500m of the new season in the under-17 category and
took silver in 4min 51sec. Dean Hodgson ran well in both the under-13
100m and 200m, just missing a place in each of the finals in his first
racing outdoors for some months..
And at the Bournemouth open meeting, in unsuitably cold and blustery
conditions, Alex – because of her fast pb at 800m – was put in the
men’s race but still came second overall as well as winning her age
group..
Lizzie Clifford,
a multi-eventer also in the under-17’s took first in the 300m with
44.5sec and cleared 1.40m in the high jump, good performances in her
first competition of the year. Anna Leaver
set two excellent pb’s in the under-15 200m (29sec) and 800m (2.35),
despite little recovery time between them and younger brother Tom
Leaver made the top six in the four-event Quad Kids
for under-11s.
The club AGM is to be held
at the Salisbury City FC at 7.30pm this Thursday 7 April.
Dean
Hodgson takes indoor silvers with two personal bests
(01/04/2011)
City
of Salisbury athlete Dean Hodgson
rounded off the indoor season with two silver medal placings in the Lee
Valley U13/U15 open meeting in London. Running at U13 in both the 60m
and the 200m, Hodgson delivered two personal bests and only the current
UK number one came between him and two wins.
All the sprint team will be in action at the same venue for their first
outdoor event of the season on April 9th.
Three intrepid Salisbury runners took on the Jurassic Challenge
marathon along the switchback Dorset coast. The trio of Linda
Robson, Charlene Gibson and Peter Clements survived
the tough hilly course and completed the distance one minute under six
hours, a good performance given the gradients.
The slightly more forgiving multi-terrain 10k at Downton saw City of
Salisbury’s Rithy Hy finish in a
very creditable 40min 51sec and Sally Greenslade
in 58.57.
Salisbury
road runners score team successes at Eastleigh 10k
(31/03/2011)
Aaron
Wilson produced his best run yet for the City of
Salisbury Athletics and Running Club when he set a sparkling new
personal best of 34min 50sec in the Eastleigh 10k road race, part of
the keenly contested Hampshire League series.
His continuing improvement set the tone for two fine Salisbury men’s
team performances. Kevin Tilley
also found the warm conditions and flat course to his liking with a
‘faster than for a long time’ 35.39, and good personal bests from both Keith
Champion in 37.28 and Lewis
Fuller 38.17 put the A team well up the result
board. This came despite the absence of injury-hit Simon
Plummer, who still leads the league individual
standings overall.
Salisbury’s strength in depth on the road shone through in the B team,
where four runs inside 40mins made it their best league result of the
season. Ian Shelley led the way
with 38.37, followed by Simon Wiltshire
39.06, Adrian Berlie 39.37 and Jon
Rich 39.46.
Back on form Sarah Kemp ran a
good 44.16 to head the ladies team, and she was supported by Katie
Clements in 46.52 and consistent
Chrissy Gorham with 50.12.
Fastest of the club’s other runners was John Gorham
in 43.43, then came Tom Woodhouse
44.17, John Ruskin 44.57, Rod
Smith 46.53, Simon Adlard
49.06, Andrea Bathurst 53.58, Laurence
Bathurst 56.02 and Mark Williams
61.31.
Meanwhile in the season’s opening track event at Bracknell, Alex
Mundell took a win in her first showing in the
under-17 age group, clocking 2min 21sec with a late sprint. This came
after winning gold for the fastest lap in the last of the season’s
school cross country relays at Canford Park.
Salisbury
athletes change gear to aim for road league win
(23/03/2011)
Four
City of Salisbury Athletic Club’s mud-running enthusiasts took the
challenge of tough terrain featuring three waist deep bogs, long
stretches of energy-sapping pebble beach and some steep climbs in the
Grizzly ‘Valley of the Bogs’ 20mile race at Seaton in East Devon.
Among a field of 2,000 competitors, first Salisbury runner was Kathryn
Waterworth in a creditable 4hours 56min 59sec, just
ahead of Ruth Thom in 4.57.00, Charlene
Gibson 4.58.10 and Keith Gibson
5.08.00.
The Fleet half marathon was dominated by Winchester AC’s Toby Lambert,
winner of last week’s Salisbury 10mile road race, who took first place
again with 66min 20sec. Well up among the 2,300 finishers, James
Crichton was City of Salisbury’s leader in 1.38.50,
and he was followed by Andrew Walker
with 1.46.09, Giles Lewis
1.52.59 and Laura Allen 1.54.35.
Also at the 13.1mile distance, at the Reading mass participation event,
Sarah Kemp
defied a recent injury lay-off to clock an encouraging 1.43.51 in her
build-up towards the London marathon next month.
In the Exbury 10k John Gorham
clocked 44.12, and Chrissy Gorham
49.07 for fourth in the ladies' race and second in
her age category.
This Sunday the club resumes its season-long campaign in the Hampshire
Road Race League, with more than 20 Salisbury runners due to face the
starter in the always competitive Eastleigh 10k. Race favourite is
Salisbury’s Simon Plummer who
is looking to seal the individual title in the league
overall, and looking forward to giving his clubmates a strong lead in
the men’s team competition.
City of Salisbury young athlete Alex Mundell
took a notable third place in the Wiltshire Life magazine annual
‘sports personality’ awards, the final round of which was staged at
Marlborough.
Winner was Mike Buss won who has broken 14 world records and run 100
marathons in 100 days. Second was an army officer who had his foot
wrenched off in an accident on the Cresta Run and although it was sewn
back on, he later opted for amputation so he could continue his
sporting activities, running a marathon and sailing the Atlantic.
Back in running mode, Alex starts her new track season on Saturday with
an opening 800m at Bracknell.
Salisbury team
photo from Ryde
Runner
Simon rues 10mile absence but looks to marathon
(20/03/2011)
City
of Salisbury Athletics and Running Club’s star Simon
Plummer reports that he is now fully recovered from
the calf injury that kept him out of the Salisbury 10mile last weekend.
He has just resumed full training, with just a month to go before he
lines up for his first major target for the year: the Virgin London
Marathon.
“In total I had to miss seven days running,” Simon said. “So I had an
unplanned rest: not what I wanted and it was really disappointing to
miss my own club’s big road race of the year. But I now know that if
I’d run with the injury, I’d have torn more tissue and would probably
have ended up being sidelined for much longer.
“What it does show is just how ‘on the edge’ we all are as athletes.
One minute you are up and flying - the next it can turn. But the
enforced rest may, I hope, turn out to be a blessing in disguise by
providing some extra recovery time.
“I’m not doing the Reading half marathon on Sunday but will be at the
Eastleigh10k on Mar 27th for the Hampshire road race league series.
Then it’s time for final preparations for the big one, the London.”
Salisbury
10mile sees record turnout but no there’s no holding
Winchester
(13/03/2011)
A
record number of 41 runners from City of Salisbury Athletics Club took
to the start line in the keenly awaited 10mile road race along the
Woodford Valley but, without their star Simon Plummer
ruled out by injury just two days beforehand - they were unable to
prevent a Winchester AC whitewash at the head of the 650-strong field.
On a bright, dry spring morning with a rising breeze from the half way
point, Toby Lambert scored his fourth consecutive win in the event with
an impressive 51min 20sec that he managed to make look deceptively
easy. Leading from the gun, his closest challenger after the first mile
was his own Winchester clubmate Chris Powner, and Lambert running
easily just outside 5min mile pace maintained a 30second lead all the
way to the finish. Winchester’s other top counters were placed 13th and
14th, leaving no doubt about the outcome of the men’s team event.
Women’s winner was Cassie Thorp of City of Portsmouth in 62.11.
Not to be outdone, the home club put up a number of fine performances
in the slightly lower order. Salisbury’s lead runner was Aaron
Wilson who set a cracking pace in the closing miles
to notch a two minute improvement on his previous best, with 59.14 for
24th place. Kevin Tilley stopped
the clock just two seconds outside the hour, then came Rob
Lomas in 62.11 and Lewis Fuller
with 62.53, to complete a tightly grouped A team for a good showing.
Fiona Ross Russell
led the Salisbury Ladies’ A team with a steady 70.29. She was followed
by one of the highlight performances of the day, a debut 72.28 from a
delighted Mish Barlow-Graham who
signed for the club only last week, and third team counter was Sally
Greenslade with 74.55. Faye
Parker clocked 75.01 for first place in the Ladies’
B team, and she was closely followed by Kate
Mansfield with 75.10 and Chrissie
Gorham 82.33. Team scorers in the men’s B squad
were Ian Shelly 63.58, Jon
Rich 64.55, Mark Shepherd
65.30 and Adrian Berlie 66.02.
Next came Rithy Hy with 66.46, Clive
Smith 67.43, John Leeman
69.24, Chris Mingo 72.38,
Matthew Cross 73.05, Mel Holloway
73.33, Martin Phillips 76.03, Steve
Halligan 76.20, David Cox
77.22, Christopher Panks 77.42, Craig
Murphy 78.26, Steve Lomas
79.31, John Pelton 80.10, Andrew
Walker 81.37, Becky Fortes
82.46, George Atkinson 83.24, Emma
Wilcox 83.46, Phil Smith
85.43, Matthew Harris 86.18, Andrew
Bennett 88.50, Michael Scott
89.51, William Barker-Wyatt
89.56, Tom Peters 91.40, Nicola
Harrington 94.42, Bridget Colloby
95.29, Andy Budgell 104.40 and Sam
Fielding 104.41.
The 10mile race was sponsored by Westover Nissan, Alton Sports and
Sport4Salisbury. The Hampshire road race league, of which this race is
a key part, have now published updated league tables reflecting the
results above.
Photos of the event can be
found on the seemeinaction website
Injured
Simon Plummer pulls out of 10mile road race
(11/03/2011)
Simon
Plummer, City of Salisbury's star athlete, has had
to pull out of Sunday's big 10mile road race being promoted by his own
club, because of injury. A calf strain he picked up in last weekend's
rapid half marathon at Bath has failed to repair during the week and
has forced him to withdraw just two days before the region's major
league race, which he was tipped by many to win.
"I'm so disappointed to be unable to run," said Simon. "But I have
everything to lose if I worsen the injury - despite really wanting to
race, I wouldn't forgive myself if it meant it I was still on the
sidelines for the London marathon next month. I've taken top advice
and, hard as it is to turn down the Salisbury race, I have no
alternative. Deep down I know it's the right call and I'll just have to
make sure I win it in style next year."
Plummer's withdrawal leaves the way clear for last year's winner, Toby
Lambert of Winchester AC, to notch another victory.
Grants
to help Salisbury athletics prospects
(10/03/2011)
Two
rising stars at Salisbury Athletics and Running Club have had their
potential recognised by grants from one of the region’s sports
scholarship organisations.
Fifteen year-old Evie Cummings
is one of the club’s sprint squad and has competed at the English
schools and south west regional championships, improving steadily
during the season. Her grant will enable her to receive specialist
coaching from a sports scientist.
Another of the club’s 15 year-olds, record-breaker Alex
Mundell is a middle distance athlete who has also
competed in both English schools and south west regional championships.
The grant she receives will contribute to the costs of attending a
residential summer camp for athletes at Brunel university, where she’ll
hear from top class athletes such as Mo Farah and Sally Gunnell and get
advice on nutrition, physiology and sports psychology.
Now in its 15th year, the Mike Slade sports scholarship fund was set up
in memory of Cllr Mike Slade to help young sports stars in south
Wiltshire with coaching and expenses. A keen sportsman himself, he
strongly believed in the benefits of the scholarship which is funded by
the Slade family, Wiltshire Council and Salisbury Area Sport.
Simon
Plummer clocks his best half marathon
(07/03/2011)
City
of Salisbury’s star athlete Simon Plummer
continued his high quality build-up towards the London marathon next
month when he clocked a new personal best for 13.1miles in the
international Bath half marathon among a field of over 12,000.
His time of 66min 7sec knocked more than two and a half minutes – half
a mile at this pace – off his previous best at the distance, set last
year, and marks his relentless upward progress.
After clocking 49.42 for 10miles, itself quicker than he has ever
recorded even when breaking the course record in his own club’s
Salisbury 10 a year ago, he looked set for an even better result.
In the final mile a lack of top flight competition during the past
several months started to show, but he still finished in a highly
creditable seventh place behind the super-quick Kenyan Edwin Kipkorir’s
64.20.
Simon said afterwards that he hadn’t been tested like that for some
time and though he was disappointed to have been tailed off at the very
end, he knows that a race like this is the best possible preparation
for the London marathon in April.
On Sunday the Salisbury club promotes its annual 10mile road race
starting at 10.30am from Five Rivers leisure centre. The course takes
the field of several hundred runners northwards up the Woodford Valley,
crosses the River Avon and retraces to Salisbury, finishing on the
leisure centre track. If conditions are good, Simon Plummer is clearly
one of the hot favourites and in his current form he could threaten the
sub-50minute barrier.
*The mini London marathon will also have representation from the
Salisbury club. Alex Mundell has
just been selected to run for the south west region’s team of six in
the three mile junior event. It covers the course taken later in the
day by the main marathon’s final stages, finishing in The Mall close to
Buckingham Palace. .
City of Salisbury's Alex Mundell
ran to a convincing win in the Wessex cross country league race at
Bournemouth, where she reached the finish line almost a full minute
clear of her nearest challenger. And keeping success in the family,
little sister Tasha aged 10
pulled on a club vest and ran well in the under-11's race, coming home
in her age group's top 10 - clearly one to watch for the future
Salisbury’s
Jake Ness takes UK bronze and breaks 30 year-old record
(01/03/2011)
City
of Salisbury athlete Jake Ness
smashed a 30 year-old club record in a stunning 400m final at the UK
indoor championships in Birmingham. His time of 53.28sec in the
under-15 age group lopped two seconds - a huge margin at this level -
off his previous best and earned him a superb bronze medal position.
Jake and Nathan Cobern were
Salisbury's only representatives at the National Indoor Arena meet, the
culmination of the indoor season. Both had achieved much by beating the
qualifying standards, and even so were at first slightly overwhelmed by
the event and surroundings. They each also ran the 60m sprint in their
age groups: nerves took their toll though and neither progressed beyond
the first round. But then came the performance that crowned Jake's
season on the track, marking him out as a real prospect for the future.
In the tough off-road Pewsey Terminator 11mile event on the hills
around the White Horse, Ian Shelley
used his strength to place first of the Salisbury team in a time of
1hour 33min 33sec with Martin Phillips
second in 1.59.11 Katie Clements
led the ladies team with a fine 2.02.34, and she was followed by Kate
Mansfield in 2.07.45, Naomi
Flower 2.25.02, Hilary Webber
2.32.28 and Mary Clements
2.48.09.
More mud was on the menu at the equally hilly Meon Valley 20miler,
where Charlene Gibson came out
best Salisbury runner in 4hours 2mins 24sec, followed by Linda
Robson in 4.21.35, Kathryn
Waterworth 4.25.35 and Keith
Gibson 4.40.24. Still off-road, Rithy
Hy clocked 1.40.51 on the tracks of the New Forest
Heartbreak half marathon, and Sally Greenslade
finished in 1.58.57.
On the road, in the Winchester 10k, Andrew Walker
improved his personal best to 40min 07sec, and he was followed by Duncan
Housden with 55.57 and Katie
Philpotts 56.31.
Photo of Jake
Ness with his Championship medal
Simon
Plummer leads the way on Bramley road to marathon
(21/02/2011)
City
of Salisbury's Simon Plummer
notched up another good victory on the road, his third in three weeks,
to lead the club to a fine set of performances in the Bramley 20mile
race in the Hampshire league which he looks ever more likely to win
overall in a few weeks' time.
In this latest stage of his remorseless build-up towards a big marathon
showing in the spring, Simon powered away from his only challenger
after the first seven miles to go through the half-way point in under
53mins. With no competitors in sight, he slowed slightly in the second
half but still clocked a rapid 1hour 48min 19sec, four minutes ahead of
second place.
"It was great to run in company for those first few miles," said Simon,
"because of course that's how it's going to be for the elite races I'm
preparing for. The tougher tests are drawing closer now and I'm happy
with this solid foundation."
His winning pace would have produced a marathon time of around 2hours
20min, a massive 12minute improvement on his personal best set in
Rotterdam last year.
Next of the Salisbury team to finish was Aaron Wilson,
49th in the field of over 850, with a time of 2.07.57. Then came Jon
Rich in 2.17.32, Rithy Hy
2.19.54, Fiona Ross-Russell
2.22.50, Clive Smith 2.29.09, Kate
Mansfield 2.37.02, Nicole Crofts
3.02.50, Louise Webber 3.06.15, Chrissy
and John Gorham 3.06.43, Mark
Williams 3.07.08, Jane Whiteley
3.15.17 and Colin Martin
3.15.18.
In the penultimate 5k road race of the six event Boscombe series,
noteworthy performances came from father and son duo of Gordon
Wiltshire with 29min 14sec for second place in the
M70 category and Simon 18.34 for
11th overall and an excellent first place in the M40 group.
Photo of Simon
Plummer at the recent Club Awards Dinner
Holt
and Ness strike Gold in South West champs
(15/02/2011)
Seven
talented athletes from City of Salisbury Athletic Club’s up-and –coming
sprint group took to the track in a regional championships meet at the
National Indoor Arena in Birmingham and came away with a quite
outstanding haul of seven personal best performances.
Richard Holt (top
photograph) took gold as South West champion in the
senior men’s 200m, reducing his best to a blistering 22.89sec – despite
being a 400m specialist; Jake Ness (bottom
photograph) won overall gold as Midland and South
West champion in U15 boys 400m with a superb 55.1sec; and in the U15
60m, making her debut for Salisbury, Rosie Tabor
overcame her nerves to battle through to the final where she took
silver in the South West championship with a new best of 8.49sec.
Four other indoor pb’s came from the quartet of Nathan
Cobern in the U20 mens 200m; Andrew
Pryde in the U17 mens 60m; Amy
Jaramazovic with 43.5sec for the U17 women’s 300m
which only just missed a place in the final; and in the same event, Evie
Cummings.
“All seven athletes achieved what their hard work over the winter
deserved,” said the Salisbury club’s sprint coach Lee
Ness.
Another 10mile road race in tough windy conditions produced another win
for the consistently classy City of Salisbury runner Simon
Plummer in the Wiltshire county championship at
Melksham. His time of 52min 26sec again defied the conditions and gave
him a huge winning margin of half a mile. “I went ahead solo from the
start and that was the way it stayed until the finish,” said Simon.
“But I felt great again and winning like this always breeds confidence,
which can only help for the future. No complacency though: I know I
have to continue to step it up and keep improving.”
Aaron Wilson
was Salisbury’s only other runner, and he produced a good 59.23 as one
of only ten to beat the magic one hour standard.
Next fixture on Simon’s race plan is Sunday’s Bramley 20mile near
Reading in the Hampshire road race league which he leads.
Steve
Herring lands second in cross country vets race
(14/02/2011)
Bright
skies and good conditions underfoot greeted competitors in the final
Hampshire cross country league fixture at Hudson?s Field, with some
good performances from among the City of Salisbury squad.
Steve Herring
picked up second place in the veteran category of the senior men?s
race, and 11th overall, with Simon Wiltshire 54th,
Ian Shelley 68th, Mark Cole 77th, Rithy Hy 96th, Martin Phillips 116th
and J Rilley 130th. Salisbury won the division 2
event.
In the senior women?s race, Linda New was 26th, Aly
Sloane 38th, Sue Hazzard 48th, Charlene Gibson 52nd, Becky Fortes 56th
and Marilyn Hunt 61st.
Highest-placed Salisbury runner in the U15 girls was Alex
Mundell, slightly below par in 9th on the day but
picking up 4th overall for the season. Danielle Scott
was 17th.
Heidi Porter,
making her debut for the club in the U13s was 39th, while in the U13
boys, Adam Bradburn produced his
best performance so far in the league with 25th place, followed by Tyler
Fairclough in a debut 33rd, and fellow newcomer Alvin
Martin 36th.
Salisbury
runners on 5k form at Boscombe
(01/02/2011)
Five
City of Salisbury athletes put in good performances at the Boscombe 5k
in race four of the six event series. Fastest of the group was Lewis
Fuller, whose 17min 18sec was a fine run on the
night and earned him 8th place. Then came Simon
Wiltshire, just four places behind with 17.50 to
win the 40-44 age group; Hannah Drewett
19.25 for third place in the under 20s; Marilyn Hunt
25.46 for first place in her age group, and Gordon
Wiltshire steadily recovering his form with 27.19
for second place in his age group too.
This weekend the club returns to its road race campaign in the
Hampshire league, with a big contingent making the trip to Ryde on the
Isle of Wight where a hilly 10mile circuit awaits them. Both the men's
and ladies' teams hold 7th position in the 'A' team league tables and
team manager Rod Smith is keen
to see them moving higher. "We have real strength in depth for this
event," he said, "and if our best runners put in the performances they
are capable of, Salisbury should be able to reap the rewards. Alton are
only just ahead in the ladies' table and Denmead Striders are within
reach in the men's, so our prospects look good."
For any City of Salisbury
runners intending to travel to Ryde on Feb 6th, there are still a
handful of places available on the team buses which leave Five Rivers
at 0745 - contact Rod Smith on 01722 324154 for details.
Indoor
track and outdoor park results
(30/01/2011)
City
of Salisbury Athletics and Running Club were again represented at the
2nd weekend of the South of England Indoor Championships recently. Richard
Holt competed in the Long Jump and earned a
creditable 9th place in a strong field. Holt was some way off his
personal best however and may have been in medal contention if he could
have hit his stride, but the drawn out nature of the competition which
lasted almost 2 hours didn't suit Holt's preparation. Nathan
Cobern competed in the 200m but went out in the
first round after a slow first 50m. Cobern picked up the pace in the
middle portion of the race but in such a strong field it was
unfortunately too late.
Jacob Ness
continued his successful indoor campaign by taking a significant chunk
off his personal best in the semi final of the 200m and then improved
on this again in a very tough final, which saw the championship record
broken, to take a Bronze Medal.
All the Salisbury Sprint team continue to prepare for the Midlands and
South West Indoor Championships at the National Indoor Arena,
Birmingham in February and Holt and Cobern will be refining their
preparations at the London games at the end of January.
Short distance park runs were the target for City of Salisbury club
road runners last weekend. In the Romsey 5 mile, based on three scenic
laps of the Broadlands estate at Romsey, The promising Lewis
Fuller was only just outside six minute mile pace
with a 30min 14sec run that was just quick enough to hold off the
challenge of Keith Champion who
finished in 30.23, three places down. Then came Rod
Smith with 36.19 and Katie
Clements with a well earned personal best 37.57 for
a place among the top two dozen in a field of 160.
The club's sole representative in the Eastleigh 5k parkrun was John
Ruskin who clocked 21.47.
Runner-up
Simon goes top in road league
(18/01/2011)
 |
 |
Simon
Plummer of City of Salisbury Athletics Club ran his
way into the Hampshire Road Race League's top spot on Sunday even
though he was narrowly edged out of a win in a hard-fought Stubbington
Green 10k race near Fareham. But it was a fine run that proved the
benefit of hundreds of training miles.
His slower than expected time of 32min 11sec reflected the tough,
blustery conditions along the Solent coast and only Simon's lack of
recent racing allowed James Ellis, from Newham and Essex, a guest
runner from outside the league, to open up a six second advantage in
the final 400m.
The club turned out in force in support and 20 more Salisbury runners
faced the starter among the 1600 entrants. Fastest after Simon's classy
lead-out was Kevin Tilley with
36min 58sec, and with Aaron Wilson's
37.16 and a resurgent Simon Wiltshire's
38.32, the A team moves up the league table.
The fast-improving duo of Lewis Fuller
with 39.07 and Rithy Hi a pb
41.49, followed by Adrian Berlie
42.06 and John Gorham with a
creditable 43.45 completed a good B team performance resulting in their
moving up the table too. Recent signing John Leeman
was one of few others to clock a personal best in 44.02, followed by Rod
Smith 44.09, John Ruskin
45.42, Sarah Kemp leading the
ladies' team with 45.54, Andy Walker
another pb 48.07, Simon Adlard
51.49, Laura Allen 51.57, Linda
Robson 52.43, Jane Whiteley
53.09, Colin Martin 53.43, Louise
Webber 53.44, Judy Flint
with a pb 54.32 and Gordon Wiltshire
56.52.
The equally competitive Hampshire cross country league event at Reading
saw a smaller Salisbury presence, with Anna Leaver
the sole club representative in the under-13s where she scored 19th
place, Jaymee Dolomey in the
boys taking 14th and Adam Bradburn
33rd. Alex Mundell and Emma
Clarke again did well in the under-15s finishing
fourth and 16th respectively. In the seniors, Sue
Hazzard was 57th and Marilyn Hunt
63rd, while in the men's race father and son Paul
and Tom Woodhouse were 133rd and 64th respectively.
In the Pewsey Vale Rough and Tumble 10mile cross country featuring mud,
water and hills Ian Shelley with
1.16.14, Keith Champion 1.21.19
and Ian Leaver 1.27.58 all
finished in the top hundred.
|
Running
club celebrates a vintage
year
(17/01/2011)
City
of Salisbury Athletics and Running Club celebrated a vintage year when
it held its annual gala dinner and prize presentation at the White Hart
Hotel in Salisbury on Saturday, attended by more than a hundred
members, family and friends.
Guest speaker was Mike Turner,
former sports editor of the Salisbury Journal and now managing director
of the popular local website Sport4Salisbury. He spoke highly of the
club's continuing success and focussed on how broadly based were its
top performers, with top athletes in their mid-teens to those in their
70s. Mike praised the club for its role in the community and, familiar
with its progress as he has been for many years of his own professional
life, stressed the importance to the area of a strong athletics and
running club.
With club chairman Simon Adlard, Mike Turner
then presented awards to:
Sarah Kemp
for most improved lady athlete of the year; Rithy Hi
(pictured right) for most improved male athlete; Simon
Plummer, Kevin Tilley, Adrian Berlie, Jon Rich and
road racing manager Rod Smith
for team of the year; Nathan Cobern
for best male track and field athlete; Fiona
Ross-Russell (pictured left) for best lady athlete;
Simon Plummer
for best male athlete; and John Ruskin
for best volunteer.
Plummer
ready for big challenge at league 10k
(11/01/2011)
Six
young athletes from City of Salisbury Running Club donned Wiltshire
colours to compete in the south west intercounties cross country
championships at a frost-coated Bicton in Devon, and among the
under-15s Alex Mundelltook fifth
place, Emma Clarke 23rd and Lizzie
Clifford not far behind, for a well-earned team
bronze medal. A tough, muddy and steep course made for great racing,
and in his first year in the under-13s category, Jaymee
Domoney found conditions to his liking for 20th,
with clubmate Adam Bradburn two
minutes back. Anna Lever
represented the club alone in the under 13s and performed well to take
24th spot. Wiltshire were fourth overall in both Anna's event and in
the under-13 boys' race.
For the seniors, the Somerley 10k was the traditional New Year
pipe-opener over two laps of muddy tracks near Ringwood. Quickest of
the big Salisbury group was Keith Champion
with 41min 4sec, just holding off Mark Cole
in 41.17. Then came Tom Woodhouse
in 42.43, Rithy Hy 44.43, Edward
Woodhouse 47.38, John Ruskin
49.18, Katie Clements 49.42, Steve
Lomas 50.02, Paul Woodhouse
50.35, John and Chrissie Gorham
53.58, Colin Martin 54.22, Jane
Whiteley 54.24, Mike Trowbridge
55.27, Mark Williams 56.57, Judy
Flint 58.09, Naomi Flower
59.36, and Mary Clements 59.51.
Four young sprinters travelled to London to compete at the first day
of the South East England Indoor Championships. All the athletes can be
very pleased with their performances. Jake Ness
(u15) won the silver medal in his debut over 400m with 55.51, a
tremendously encouraging result for both himself and his coach and
father Lee Ness. Richard Holt
(u23) reached the semi final of the 400m with a PB of 51.24, Amy
Jaramazovic (u17) also reached the semis of the
300m in a new PB of 44.6. Evie Cummings
(u17) was unlucky to be disqualified after putting a foot on the line
in her 300m heat in which she would otherwise have qualified for the
semis also. The performances are a real reward for all the hard winter
training and with several more indoor competitions to come over the
next few weeks we can perhaps look forward to more excellent results.
This weekend the club's focus returns to serious road running with an
exciting 10k fixture at Stubbington, where the Salisbury club will be
looking to improve on their 7th place standings in both the men's and
ladies' A tables. Salisbury's international Simon
Plummer resumes his battle for supremacy in this
premier road race competition but he faces top class opposition from
Winchester AC's Toby Lambert.
The rivalry between the two top men is likely to produce a winning time
close to the 30min 10sec set by Lambert to take the same race five
years ago. To beat him, Plummer may need to dip below the 30minute
barrier. With an ultra-fast personal best at the distance of 29.32 set
last year, some 45 seconds faster than Plummer's, the Winchester man is
the slight favourite - but Salisbury's star will be drawing on his
track-racing pedigree to counter that and is relishing the prospect.
Coaching
award for Salisbury's Dave Amey
(04/01/2011)
City
of Salisbury Athletics and Running club coach Dave
Amey has received well-earned recognition from
national body England Athletics during a special ceremony at Exeter for
50 years’ service to the sport. After joining the Salisbury club in
1957 he started coaching 30 years ago and has mentored and motivated a
long list of athletes ever since. After making a huge contribution to
the club's success over the years, Dave is highly respected by sports
professionals and enthusiasts throughout the region and his award as
the South West’s top coaching volunteer has been warmly welcomed by all
his clubmates in Salisbury.
Picture shows Dave Amey (left) receiving his volunteering award from
Nigel Rowe, chairman of England Athletics' south west region.
Meanwhile a handful of City of Salisbury athletes worked off the
excesses of the Christmas break by running in the Broadstone quarter
marathon at Poole - an unusual fixture on the club calendar.
Straight back into his racing stride was road running manager Rod
Smith, who overcame the course's three sharp climbs
to finish to the six and a half miles in 47min 29sec, a good run in the
cold. Just half a minute back was Andy Gillespie
with 47.59, followed by John Gorham
with 49.10 and Chrissie Gorham
warming up for an unseasonal swim in the sea later in the day with
54.07.
It was not only Chrissie who raised eyebrows. Phil
Smith defied mud, hills, slush, snow and an icy
wind in the Imber village area of Salisbury Plain to complete the aptly
named Warminster Plain Crazy 14mile race in 1hour 14min 43 sec as a
prelude to the New Year: 2011 must get easier after that.
|