The weekend’s action saw two big performances at the Derby HM. Gurmit came 11th (2nd V40) in a time of 1.19.25 and Mike was 52nd in 1.26.41, which is a 2 minute PB. I can also now reveal that Gummi’s bronze medal in the BMAF Champs, the week before, came in the 1500m.

Not really a race, but Valerie, Vijay, Usha and Ross completed the 13.5 mile Foxton Trot.

On the parkrun front, Mo came within 4 seconds of his PB (and course record) and there was a welcome return from injury for Haseeb in a very respectable sub-22 time. While Harry kept it relatively local (Hastings High School), Sarah Richards hit Newcastle, our parkrun correspondent Mat was in Wrexham and Lee trumped them both with Jersey.

The following County Standards were earned at Swithland: Platinum (Mo and John McD), Gold (Jackie, Mike, Dave L), Silver (Kathryn, Mark and Sam J), Bronze (Adele, Anna, Charly, Chris W, David W, Harry, Steve W and Terry), Copper (Dave Bu, Julian, Martin W and Neil), Pewter (Brian, Cath, Grace, John D, Lee, Marcus and Tom), Tungsten (Charlotte T and Mat J).

After race 3 of the LRRL series, our men are 2/8 (Div 2), ladies 5/8 (Div 1), vet men 4/8 (Div 1), vet ladies 5/8 (Div 1) and mixed 8/8 (Div 1).