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Littledown Five, New Half Heights For Habgood & opportunist track 10000m win

*15/9/09 Steve's first race in five months yields new best - Steve Way and Jon Sharkey both set personal bests at the Littledown Five in a race that showed the importance of all the club’s members supporting Dorset League races.

Paul Consani, Ian Graham and Juan-Pedro Lopez-Cascante made up the remainder of the five scoring runners taking the club’s unmatched run of consecutive full teams in Dorset League races to 46. Up next is the Weymouth Ten on Saturday 24 October and with unavailability likely to again hit numbers, support from club members will play its part in maintaining this record.

The battle to reach the scoring team was a close affair with five runners within a minute of each other and BAC cross country runner Carley Rose making a sixth. Improving Joe Price and Dave ‘Ron Hill’ Parsons were the two who narrowly missed out.

Littledown Five, BAC Results (links to Garmin Connect race data):
 2 Steve Way 25:18, 6 Jon Sharkey 26:24, 22 Graeme Miller 30:21 (n/s for DRRL), 50 Paul Consani 33:06, 52 Carley Rose (2nd claim) 33:11, 54 Ian Graham 33:16, 57 Juan-Pedro Lopez-Cascante 33:36, 59 Joe Price 33:39, 67 Dave Parsons 34:03, 158 James Price 41:01, 183 Will Price 43:08.

With the Dorset League title sewn up at Sturminster Newton, Ian Habgood missed Littledown and went to Nottingham in search of a long overdue sub 75 minute run over the Half Marathon distance. Unsurprisingly Ian knocked over a minute off that mark clocking 73:56 and qualifying for the AAA start at the 2010 London Marathon.

Just four hours after finishing the Littledown Five Jon Sharkey limbered up for the Dorset County 10000m championships. Whilst it would have been easy to jog 25 laps as the sole contestant, Jon set a target of sub 35 minutes and set a clockwork tempo running all bar the second and fifth laps within one second of each other. More a hard tempo run than race, a time of 34:50 gave Jon a fourth county title in ten months and means BAC athletes have won this particular event in three of the last four years.


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