McMurray runs Lee Valley stadium report of three:57.60 as global M50 and M60 data additionally fall
3 athletes broke 4 mins headed through James McMurray’s stadium report 3:57.60 however that used to be arguably crowned through 3 masters global data, Steve Smythe stories.
Since turning 50, Kojo Kyereme has set a British 3000m report of 8:41.06 and right here he centered the M50 800m mark.
An previous take a look at within the South of England Championships failed after too rapid a get started however right here he paced completely. He used to be simply within 59 seconds at 400m and round 88 seconds at 600m. The usage of the energy that noticed him run a 2:21:28 marathon, he held directly to run 1:58.80 to raised the arena mark of one:59.30 through American Mark Williams ultimate 12 months.
M60 Rob McHarg has had some very close to misses at his perfect match the 800m however right here he succeeded on the mile surviving a handy guide a rough begin to run 4:50.22 to raised American Nolan Shaheed’s 4:50.95 from 2012.That report had lasted 13 years however McHarg’s used to be best to ultimate lower than 10 mins as within the very subsequent race global masters champion Andrew Ridley advanced to 4:45.16.
Even though Ridley have been having a couple of harm issues of overdue, he completed strongly with nice improve from McHarg but it surely used to be a pity the 2 weren’t drawn in the similar race.
Remaining 12 months Ridley received the arena masters out of doors 800m and 1500m titles with McHarg successful medals in each and Ridley additionally bettered the out of doors M60 800m mark however used to be not able to get it ratified because of a photograph end failing however he did wreck the out of doors mile report with 4:41.81.
Kojo Kyereme has set an international M50 800m report of one:58.80 at Lee Valley 👏
The British athlete is third for lots of the ultimate lap right here ⬇️ percent.twitter.com/FLi2thgtkj
There used to be additionally a British W40 mile report for Scot Laura Haggarty who ran 5:02.79 to wreck Zoe Doyle’s report of five:03.96.
There used to be a close to leave out in one of the crucial different mile races for W60 Clare Elms. Had she no longer been balked at the ultimate lap she would have bettered the indexed global mark of five:30.73 however needed to be content material with 5:31.69.
A couple of days previous she have been on for improving her personal global 1500m report when a fellow competitor fell closely in entrance of her and she or he harm her ankle hurdling him.
The lads’s elite mile used to be a thrilling race with Callum Elson appearing excellent shape in his first monitor race since his unhealthy harm on the International Indoor Championships in Glasgow.
He led into the ultimate lap and used to be forward at the ultimate bend however James McMurray edged previous to win in 3:57.60 to three:57.82 with Alex Mellon a detailed 3rd in 3:58.42.
McMurray had received the Leeds Abbey Sprint 10km over the iciness in 29:00 and this used to be an outright mile PB.
Sarah Astin with Jorjia March (left) and Emily Lowery (proper) (Graham Smith)
The ladies’s elite mile lacked the boys’s intensity however did function a runaway win for the 2023 English Nationwide cross-country champion Sarah Astin in a PB 4:42.84.
Jorjia March who received the under-13 race when Astin received the senior name at Bolesworth Fortress, used to be 3rd in 4:52.33.
Within the BMC 800m races the pick out of the senior performances used to be Grace Vehicles Agnew’s solo 2:02.81 which used to be an indoor PB.
In 3rd position Holly Generators, the previous global indoor heptathlon fourth-placer, set an outright PB of two:07.79 to raised her earlier PB set in Gotzis in her PB ranking of 6200 in 2022.
International under-20 finalist Charlotte Henrich set an indoor 400m PB of 53.94.
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