Seventeen-year-old Ryan Palmer reinforced his claim as the club’s fastest-ever sprinter in its 45-year history by setting four club records over the 60m sprint in just one day, culminating with a 7.00-sec clocking and a 5th-place finish in the South of England Under 20 Championships. Starting off with a win in his heat, Ryan’s time of 7.01 secs removed a significant 0.15 secs from his personal best set last season. This performance beat his own Hunts AC senior and junior records. Ryan finished second in his semi-final in his fastest time of the day (7.00) which again beat his two records set earlier in the day. His time of 7.03 in the final was just 0.04 secs from the bronze medal and currently ranks him 12th in the country. In the heats, 18-year-old Hugh Thorogood reduced his best from 7.57 down to 7.53 secs when placing sixth in his heat.

In muddy conditions at Milton Park, Dave Connell ran out a comfortable 5-second winner in the weekly 5k parkrun, finishing ahead of 319 runners.

1 Dave Connell 17:03, 28 Geoff Brewster 20:24, 142 Karen Cameron 25:38, 200 Wayne DuBose 28:32

After previously waiting almost 3 years to record a further 2nd place finish in a Frostbite race, managing this in the December race at Hinchingbrooke, the Seniors repeated the feat in the very next race, today at March. Provisional results show that this success elevates the Seniors to 2nd place in the league overall (highest point the writer can recall us achieving).

However, one disappointing aspect of today was that we had our lowest turnout of runners this season - just 22. We had 26 at the previous race at Hinchingbrooke, which we organised and marshaled! It was a great day for running today so it was a shame to see a fall off in club members representing their club. The highest [possible turnout in the races is our first priority so, hopefully, we will see a significant improvement at the next race, in just 3 weeks time, at Bourne Woods.

Very well done to our young junior team who fielded 18 runners and finished a superb 4th on the day, for a current 5th place in the league. A special mention to Francesca Worrall, Amelia Darnell and Charlotte Smith (as well as to Eleanor Smith in the Senior race), who all competed y'day in the County Schools XC but lined up today again to support the team, and, thus, earned this year's "Tough Girl Award".   

More details to follow when available.

Photos - http://huntsac.zenfolio.com/p45810590

Event Website/Results:http://www.frostbiteleague.org.uk/

Posted by Andy Richardson on 16/01/2012 08:53:48

Derek reports:

• Minor Girls: Francesca Worrall, 13th; Charlotte Smith, 43rd
• Junior Girls: Amelia Darnell, 30th
• Intermediate Girls: Rebecca Pedley, 14th; Eloise Webb, 18th; Annabel McKenzie, 22nd
• Senior Girls: Eleanor Smith, 3rd

Eleanor Smith and James Downing (DNR today due to injury) have been selected to represent the County in their respective age group teams at the Anglian Schools XC. Good runs from everyone, with Francesca (U13) and Rebecca (U17) getting very close to the qualifying/selection positions (first 12) in their respective races.

Event Website/Results:http://www.cambsathletics.org.uk/page10.htm

Posted by Wayne Dubose on 25/01/2012 12:37:11

While newcomer Pippa Woodford led the field by well over two minutes, Karen Gracey gave herself a birthday present (next day) by knocking over half a minute from her personal best set in 2010 and moving up in the all-time rankings from 24th to 20th.

1st Pippa Woodford 53:04 (47:35)
2nd Lucy Horton-Hiron 55:31 (45:08)
3rd Alex Smith 59:08 (31:56)
4th Karen Gracey 59:13 (38:28)
5th Louise Elliott 59:26 (40:43)
6th Richard Simpson 59:45 (36:13)
7th Jon Hiron 59:45 (39:14)
8th Gill Luff 59:49 (42:45)
9th Bob Hudson 59:55 (39:37)
10th Pauline Stocker 60:12 (43:31)
11th Peter German 60:14 (36:44)
12th Hilary McConville 60:36 (43:25)
13th Pauline Green 60:37 (40:11)
14th Karen Cameron 61:25 (42:08)
15th David Hetherington 61:28 (42:14)
16th Sam Lowings 62:21 (44:50)
(Actual times in brackets)

Veteran runner Shane Hunt was top of the Hunts AC pile as he picked up the silver medal in the M50 Cambridgeshire cross country championship race. Shane teamed up with Steve Church and Ian Day to win bronze in the Veterans team event. In addition, 16-year-old Eleanor Smith and 15-year-old James Downing finished 4th and 6th in their respective races to qualify for the Inter-Counties Championships in two months time.

Under 11 Girls: 12 Franny Chapman 8:59
Under 11 Boys: 8 Andrew Worrall 7:27, 11 Harvey Bullin 7:34, 22 Seb Darnell 7:59, 34 Fraser Kerr 8:45, 37 Barnaby Smith 9:16
Under 13 Girls: 19 Francesca Worrall 12:38, 21 Amelia Darnell 12:49, 32 Ellen Chapman 13:40, 33 Charlotte Smith 13:49, 35 CC Hime 13:53, 46 Chloe Wilson 15:43, 47 Megan Wilson 15:58
Under 13 Boys: 15 Oliver Pocklington 11:57, 29 George Youngs 13:04, 35 Thomas Lynn 13:37
Under 15 Girls: 9 Polly Smith 19:47, 13 Annabel McKenzie 20:45, 19 Eloise Webb 22:35
Under 17 Women: 4 Eleanor Smith 21:07
Under 17 Men: 6 James Downing 20:18
U20/Senior/Veteran Women: 26 Caroline Saunders 26:22, 37 Karen Cameron 28:32, 51 Sarah Smith 32:52
Under 20/Senior/Veteran Men: 36 Ian Day 40:57, 48 Steve Church 42:28, 52 Shane Hunt 43:11, 54 Sean Barker 43:17, 55 Martin Rowe 43:19, 74 Derek Darnell 45:45; 88 Andrew Enticknap 48:10, 95 John Smith 49:30, 105 Mark Chapman 53:56

Event Website/Results:http://www.cambsathletics.org.uk/

Posted by Wayne Dubose on 10/01/2012 18:00:02