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Dean Lacy won the race for the 2nd year in a row and in doing so also won the Kent Half Marathon Championships. Dean led from start to finish and his time of 1:11:33 was quicker than his winning time from last year. Next harrier home was Lauris Rackikis in 25th with a time of 1:24:14 he was followed closely by Clem Dixon in 29th with a time of 1:25:31 to secure the trio 2nd place in the Open Team event. A special congratulations must go to Dave Fisher who has competed in every Dartford Half Marathon in its 35 year history. Other athletes competing on the day where

89th Marcello Burbante 1:33:33
127th Gerard McCann 1:36:30
144th Martin Hawkins 1:37:53
170th Dave Richards 1:39:33
250th Wole Odele 1:44:07
484th Doug Cullern 2:01:00
523rd Gerald Reeves 2:04:11
524th Alex Hall 2:04:11
525th James Collis 2:04:11
526th Dave Steele 2:04:12
527th Dave Fisher 2:04:12
551st Steve Perfect 2:06:19

On wet Wednesday evening Dean Lacy travelled to Hove for the Inaugural Phoenix 10K.
By the time the gun went the rain had stopped and the flat straight out and back course looked set to give athletes the opportunity to run some quick times. By the first 1km Dean had taken up the lead and was only followed by 2 athletes from the host club Phoenix (Ian Leitch & Josh Guilmant) The group of three were still together at halfway but just after the turn point Dean put in a surge that Guilmant couldn‘t go quite go with and he just had Leitch for company. Dean continued to put in surges to shake his rival for the rest of the race but to no avail and with 400m to go Leitch kicked for home but the gap was only a few metres. With 60m left Dean kicked past his rival to take the win with a new lifetime best of 30:22. “I kept trying to get rid of him but he was really strong” Dean explains. “I felt strong throughout but just couldn’t maintain the pace needed to drop him. I’m really pleased with the victory and the pb and hopefully I’ll get close to a sub 30 by the end of the season”

Craig Lacy went into these senior championships full of confidence after a recent run of pbs that have seen him move up to 5th in the U23 UK rankings and 15th in the seniors. In his last competition Craig had his best series of throws ever with all 6 of them over 60m and 4 of them over his old pb. Craig felt that his 67.01 might just be good enough for a medal on saturday and it nearly was! Going into the final round Craig was lying 3rd after another fantastic pb of 68.46! But eventually had to settle for 4th after a pb from another athlete. Craig has now been invited to UK Championship and World Trials in Birmingham at the end of the month. We wish hime the best of luck .

Daryll Neita competed for the England Schools Team in the Aviva SIAB Schools U17 track and field international at the Cardiff International Sports Stadium. The event brings together the top 300 under 17 (years 10 & 11) athletes from the schools associations of England, All-Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The teams arriving at the stadium at 9 am must have thought that they were in for a rain-affected competition, but conditions improved as the day wore on though the wind – gusting up to 9 metres per second in one field event – made things difficult for athletes in some events. Competing in the 100m Daryll finished 2nd in 11.97 just outside her personal best. Helping England to win the girls competition and the overall competition.

On Saturday 16 June on a wet and miserable morning, 20 morphs descended upon the Brighton park run feeling slightly worse for wear after a late night on the tiles. The occasion was Cambridge Harriers member Rob Shearer's stag trip and what had sounded like a good idea in February seemed much less so as the alarm went off at 8am and rain was lashing the windows!

Somehow 6 taxis were gathered together and the last morphs made it to the start line with seconds to spare. The gun went and the morphs were off on one small lap and two big laps of Hove Park. After taking a while to settle down Rob's brother Ben hit the front at about the 1.5km point and managed to stay there, running 16.30 to win. The race was a great success for Team Morph with 4 finishers in the top 10 out of a field of 280, with the following times:

Ben Shearer 16.30
Nick Morgan 17.39
Rob Shearer 19.24
Mitch Dann 19.24

Others including the non runners also clocked impressive times with two more under 21 mins and six more under 25 mins. Times were some way down on respective PBs but not too bad given the sleep deprivation, weather and attire! After the race Team Morph retired to the community cafe for a well earned hot drink and a chat with the extremely friendly regular local runners.

Another Club Record For Heather

Heather Butcher set a new U15 Girls club record for 2000 metres walk of 9:48.7 in Shrewsbury. Heather tells us more "I have been working on pacing with Noel and this time I got it right. The walkers in front off me went of 10 seconds faster for the first lap but I'd caught them up by half way. Getting the pacing right means I'm less tired which helps with technique and times. I had hoped to go sub 10mins and was really pleased. It also makes me more confident that I can achieve sub 15mins for 3k, which is my target for this year"

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A small team of sprinters and hurdles made up the womens team for the 3rd Southern Athletics League fixture at Peterborough on 9 July. Athletes who made the commitment were rewarded with several PBs, wins in all sprints and hurdles events and long, high and triple jump. Melissa Owusa Ansah recorded a PB of 25.6 in 200m and wins in 100m and shot, Kate Laidlow recorded PBs 0f 4.85m in the long jump, 10.00m in the triple jump and 56.7 in 400m, Gaby Onojobi ran a seasons best in 400m hurdles and won 100m hurdles convincingly plus won the high jump, Ruth Onyekwe won 100m, long jump and high jump and H. ran a pb in 400m hurdles of 67.8 won 100 hurdles plus scored crucial points in the discus which helped the team finish in 3rd place, 2.5 points ahead of 4th. Bpth relays teams also won to round off the match. Special mention to dads Patrick and Peter who supported the team by helping with the field events. Throwers and middle distance runners are needed to back up the sprinters in the next two fixtures and to get the team into the top half of the league.

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Saturday 9th July

Ben Shearer, set a new course record at Greenwich parkrun saturday morning. His time was 16:21 taking 21 seconds off the previous best time.
 

While fans of Harry Potter queued in London for the premier of the latest film, a bit of magic fell on the Greenwich Peninsula on Thursday 7th July asCambridge Harriers scored an historic (well almost) clean-sweep at the mid-week Assembly League. Dean Lacy, Ben Louch and Ben Shearer, running his first Assembly League, took the first three individual placesin the fourth race of the series. Mark Penny also finished in the top ten to ensure the club dominated the team result. Mark Cross finished high enough up the field to maintain his M50 place in the series.