BOURNEMOUTH AC ROAD AND DISTANCE RUNNING INFORMATION

Here is a a report from a high quality weekend of racing. Click here to go back to our main index page.

Two Individual Wins Plus A Team Gong
*20/10/08 Time trials, Weymouth 10 & Salisbury Half - Ian White and Mark Hargreaves both increased their race win tally in what was a prosperous weekend for Bournemouth AC.

Despite the club sending a team to the National six stage road relays, there was plenty of local action over the course of three days.

Starting on the Friday evening, Ian White romped to victory in the first 5k winter series time trial in a personal best time of 16:01. He was one of eighteen BAC athletes in the race.

Two under 17s clocked, co-incidentally, under 17. Fergus O'Reilly (16:47) and Joe Blackmore (16:58) both claimed top ten finishes while Ali Barnes, Simon Hunt, Daisy Harper-Brown and Ian Graham were all top three in their category.

08/09 Winter Series 5k time trial one: BAC Results
1 Ian White 16:01, 7 Fergus O'Reilly 16:47, 9 Joe Blackmore 16:58, 20 Andy Jennings 17:56, 35 Stuart Murphy 18:27, 36 Ali Barnes 18:28, 41 Steve Butters 18:37, 49 Oliver Teenan 18:47, 51 Simon Hunt 18:54, 63 Daisy Harper-Brown 19:26, 64 Paul Consani 19:26, 87 Michael Cowham 20:26, 107 Ian Graham 20:52, 121 Roy Long 21:20, 168 Jenni Molloy 23:22, 178 Gerald Molloy 23:46, 183 Sian Long 24:05, 256 Rose O'Reilly 30:38.

Mark Hargreaves is no stranger to returning from injury and racing himself back to fitness. His current regime took him to Weymouth on Saturday where an overall win was BAC's third in four years.

A modest 58:09 was enough to see off the Egdon Heath duo of second claim BAC member Ian Habgood and Dave Caddy. Tony Chutter was eighth in 62:07. Click here for full results

On Sunday a hat-trick of individual race wins was thwarted by Chichester's James Baker, but the squad did bring home the award for first team. Having travelled to Birmingham and back and raced the day before times were never going to be quick on this unforgiving course for Jon Sharkey (77:07) or Steve Way (77:37).

Both did enough to see off a podium challenge from two other runners with Jon second and Steve third. Steve competes in the New York Marathon in two weeks time. Further back Robin Copestick in eighth secured the team title while Ian Graham's currently unconfirmed time could be enough to lift his club championship score.

The only other performance this weekend that effected the current standings was Matt Kiernan's 41:30 PB at the Croydon 10k.

At the Milford Five Andy Jennings went top of the 2008 Running Tree series with a PB 29:11 for seventh place. Joe Price (44th, 34:54) and Will Price (114th, 42:11) also ran.

The 2008 photo album has been added to with a few pictures from the weekend with the Weymouth shots courtesy of Egdon Heath Harriers.

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