Crystal Palace & Tipton 10,000m
Crystal Palace
Lily Partridge came 3rd in the 3,000m on Saturday and ran a personal best even on the supposedly unlucky day of Friday 13th! Lily ran 9:34 only 7 seconds behind the winner, Emilia. Lily said after her race "It wasn't an unlucky day as I came 3rd in a personal best, I missed the break which took two runners so I made a chase and broke away from the chasing pack. I thought I was going to catch the leaders but they managed to hold the gap to the finish".
Ryan McLeod was also racing over 3,000m in the Diamond League race against top class athletes including Mo Farah and Bernard Lagat. The race went through the first kilometre in 2:32, 2nd in 5:11 with Bernard Lagat winning in 7:40. Former RunnersLife 'Guest Runner' Chris Thompson came 6th in 7:43.
LAGAT, Bernard - 7:40
FARAH, Mohammed - 7:40
KIPTOO, Mark Kosgei - 7:41
BIRMINGHAM, Collis - 7:42
RUPP, Galen - 7:43
THOMPSON, Christopher - 7:43
KOGO, Micah Kemboi - 7:45
MOTTRAM, Craig - 7:45
MBISHEI, Titus - 7:47
BLINCOE, Adrian - 7:49
GALA, Mumin - 7:49
CURTIS, Bobby - 8:04
MCLEOD, Ryan - 8:13
BMC 10,000m - Tipton
Dave Norman was again part of the organising team for the BMC 10,000 track race in Birmingham on Saturday night. After helping at the race meeting Dave then raced in the 'A' race and run sub 30minutes, Dave who is in training for the Toronto Marathon said "I achieved my aim of breaking 30mins with a 29:58 clocking for 3rd. Disappointingly, I was 2.5secs shy of my PB but given the windy conditions and the fact I'm in marathon training I'm really happy with my run".
1 165 29:46.27 Paul Martelletti New Zealand
2 168 29:58.41 David Norman Altrinham
3 160 30:19.37 Dewi Griffiths U20 Caramarthen
4 174 30:20.14 Ben Jones Coventry Godiva
5 169 30:22.54 Olfert Molehhuis Netherlands
6 179 30:54.67 James Mcmullen Thh
7 178 30:58.02 John Newsom Central
8 176 31:59.13 Matt Blunden Notts
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