David Holland and Nathan Bible were our runners in this match, despite competing just 2 days before David secured 2 new personal bests in 200m he ran 28.1s PB, in the 800m 2:23.0 PB also racing in the 3000m. Nathan in his first Masters competition secured 2 great wins in both the 800m in 2:09.5 and 3000m in 9:41.2.
Melanie and Jenna both took on the long jump with 2.67m and 2.95m respectively. Melanie went on to throw 12.95m in the discus and secured 12.68m a new PB in the javelin, she was joined by Jayne Baldock who threw 17.97m in javelin and 19.75m in the discus taking first place in both these events. Jayne also took on the pole vault securing maximum points in her age category with 1.20m. On the track Deb Read raced the 200m in 37s, Carly Hopkins ran 200m in 30.8s and the 800m in 2:33.2, with Sonnii Pine running 3:00.9 for the 800m.
The evening always finishes with the relay races, this time a mixed 4 x 200m relay where Carly, David, Sonnii and Nathan each completed a 200m leg in 2:01.4 a really fun end to a fantastic and friendly event!
Also competing on Monday at the Invicta East Kent Open in the Hammer were Charlie Irwin throw 24m securing 1st place for the boys, Lily Manning threw 21.28m and Elsie Harmer finished with a best of 16.72m.
The U15's took part in the second match of the Sussex League at Withdean Stadium in Brighton on Friday evening and what a match, some great wins, 2 meeting records broken and lots of PB's, the kids were on top form!
Our sole competitor in the boys events was Aiden Larkin racing the 800m in 2:17.3 PB and jumped 3.82m in the long jump securing a second PB in this match. For the girls in the long jump Olivia Henham jumped 4.22m and Scarlett Dixon 3.59m, Lily Manning threw 22.13m in the hammer, in the Javelin Ava Morrissy threw 21.62m setting herself a new PB and Olivia Collins 19.81m, both securing 2nd place in A and B strings respectively. Sophie Smith and Antalia Cole both took on the 100m and 200m sprints, Sophie ran 13.5s in the 100m and 28.2s in the 200m, with Antalia 13.2s PB in the 100m and 27.2s PB in the 200m, Olivia Henham ran 44.0 with a new PB in the 300m. The 800m A scoring race was taken on by Isabella Buchanan who not only secured a personal best of 2.15.4 set a new meeting record, finishing 10 clear second ahead of second place! In the second 800m race Mia Lennard and Kitty Morgan battled it out for 1st place, with Mia just taking the win, both securing new PB's by over 4 seconds with the same time of 2:27 dead, in the same race Olivia Collins ran a time of 2:38.1 and Ava Morrissy 2:44.9.
In the 1500m Scarlett Dixon secured 2nd place in 4:55.6 PB and Florence Tewksbury taking the first spot for the B string in 5:02.7. The 4 x 100m of Sophie Smith, Katie Cole, Olivia Henham and Antalia Cole took the win in the scoring race setting a new meeting record of 51.1s in an incredibly exciting race, with Mia Lennard, Kitty Morgan, Olivia Collins and Ava Morrissy in the non scoring race.
Friday night also saw David Ervine and Imogen Matthews take to the track at the Battersea Comeback 5000m in this highly competitive race athletes are seeded based on their previous bests, Imogen set a new PB of 17.04 minutes and improvement of 43 seconds from just 2 weeks ago when she took gold in this event at the Sussex Championships, David Ervine ran 16.00 minutes a 15 second PB.
Saturday was the Eastbourne Mile, when we arrived it was apparent that strong winds as you entered the back straight may hamper any PB chances, however all gave it their best shot. There were 13 seeded races starting with the slower predicted times and ending with the fastest in race 13. Jason Johnstone was the first HY athlete to take on the mile in race 2 securing a time of 8:19.16 minutes. Sonnii Pine was next in race 5 and despite the strong winds secured a personal best of 6:33.44, an improvement of 20 seconds on last years time. Kitty Morgan was in race 9 with a time of 5:55.82 although a few seconds off her PB she won the fastest U20 Female prize and trophy. Alfie Johnstone was next up in race 10, powering through to finish at the front he gained a PB of 5:08.71, in race 11 David Holland finished in 2nd also with a PB of 5:09.59.
This weekend Charlie Burns took on the London 2 Brighton Ultra Challenge, a 100km race starting at Old Deer Park in London and finishing at Brighton Racecourse , not for the fainthearted this course takes on over 1500m of elevation, with Charlie completing this impressive feat in 13 hours 05 minutes and 52 seconds!
Nathan Bible took to Folkestone for the Folkestone Coastal 10k on Sunday, this is an out and back along the promenade and of course it was windy! Despite heading into the wind for the first 5km the wind was on his side on the homeward stretch and Nathan secured 9th place in an outstanding time of 35:48 minutes another personal best!
HY sprinters Olivia Henham, Katie Cole and Mike West competed at the NEB open in Newham, all competing over 100m. Olivia smashes her PB in the first round in 13.00s only to improve this in her second round race breaking the 13 second mark with an amazing time of 12.94 seconds. Katie also ran very well with 13.81s in her first round with 13.93s in the second round. Mike West ran 11.77s in the first round and 11.92s in his second, Mike also coaches Lenny Cole (2nd claim HY AC) who running in his first claim club colours also secured 11.92s in his second round race and a new PB.