BOURNEMOUTH AC ROAD AND DISTANCE RUNNING INFORMATION

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New Forest 10
*8/7/07 One Small Step For Sharkey, One Giant Leap For Wells - In almost perfect conditions for July two BAC athletes managed to set new 10 mile PBs on the flat although mildly testing New Forest 10. The trail route, featuring six miles off road action, provided the course for Duncan Wells to mark his best run yet in a BAC vest. And by far; in any vest!

Even his rapid improvements in other distances didn't prepare him for this major breakthrough. Wells knocked over three minutes off his previous best (set this year) to set a time under 59 minutes and claim a top ten finish.

Jon Sharkey (5th, 57:45) also secured a new best time although in modest circumstances when compared with Duncan's sterling effort. The trail section nearly lost it for him, but a hard and determined last mile helped to shave five seconds from his previous best.

Rob McTaggart turned up for a jolly having not run for a couple of weeks! It turns out a free bar on an Egypt holiday resort isn't the recipe to running success. Tag finished 12th narrowly over the hour mark, but give it a couple of weeks and we'll literally be seeing the back of him again!

Veteran Pete Gaze made up a scoring quartet and we'll provide full club results when they are published. Southampton RC won with 101 points despite BAC's 26 points from three scorers although it was good to make up a team without specifically putting one together; each of the four athletes entered on their own pretences.

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