Alison Leonard (Blackburn Harriers) and Dani Christmas (Crawley AC - pictured below) set personal bests in mixed races at an open meeting in Stretford on Tuesday 27 July.  Alison improved her 2008 best by a quarter of a second to 2:01.89 and Dani took another 0.6 seconds from her best with 2:02.55.  This was her fifth personal best of the season and she has improved by a total of 2.5 seconds.

Rachael Thompson (Liverpool Harriers) won the BMC 800m race at the same meeting in 2:08.04 while Chris Smith (Wirral AC) was fifth and David Forrester (St Helens Sutton) eighth in the men’s BMC race in 1:50.10 and 1:50.85 respectively, both season’s bests.  Nikki Maddick (Kingston upon Hull) and Heather Timmins (Warrington AC) clocked season’s bests of 4:30.7 and 4:33.5 respectively in mixed 1500m races.

At the BMC Gold Standard meeting in Watford on Wednesday 28 July, Andrew Osagie (Harlow AC) was just outside his personal best with a time of 1:47.18 in his first race of the outdoor season.  He finished second just behind Joe Thomas who clocked 1:47.07.  Rick Ward (City of Norwich) finished ninth in 1:52.02.  Shelayna Oskan (Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow) was second in the women’s 800m in 2:08.25 behind Karen Harewood’s 2:05.55.  Suzi Boast (Bedford & County) was third in the B 800m race in 2:13.17 and Carolyn Plateau (Radley AC) third in the 1500m in 4:26.30, less than a second outside her personal best.  Ricky Stevenson (New Marske Harriers) was fifth in the men’s 3000m in 8:01.67.

Three OCWK athletes set personal bests in the mixed open races at the same meeting.  Claire Tarplee (Solihull & Small Heath) took nearly two seconds off her PB with a 4:18.10 clocking and she has now improved by eight and half seconds this season.  Stevie Stockton (Vale Royal) improved her 3000m best by eight and a half seconds to 9:12.96 and Charlotte Purdue (Aldershot Farnham & District) took one a half seconds off her best with 9:17.20.


Click on the links below to watch footage from the Watford BMC meeting on www.athleticos.org

Men’s A 800m
Women’s A 800m
Women’s B 800m
Women’s 1500m