Piasecki sensational in Seville, McColgan runs British File

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There could have been stormy climate, however that has not detracted from one other week filled with excellent performances. Let me run you thru a few of the highlights.

File Breaking at RAK

Final week, I began the spherical up by lamenting the climate and bringing you information of Eilish McColgan’s exploits on the roads in Dubai. It’s a case of déjà vu, as I do precisely the identical this week. While Storm Eunice has been enjoying havoc with racing and travelling plans of many at house (extra of that to return), Eilish McColgan has been persevering with to indicate her record-breaking kind with a 65:26 on the RAK Half Marathon.

The occasion, held in Ras Al Khaimah within the United Arab Emirates, is a notoriously quick course and Saturday’s race was no exception, with Eilish considerably enhancing on her debut not less than yr’s Nice North Run and taking 21 seconds off Paula Radcliffe’s British File within the course of (it’s price noting Paula ran 65:40 on the Nice North Run, however its elevation profile and point-to-point nature imply the course just isn’t eligible for report functions).

The Scot’s intermediate splits are equally spectacular, passing via 5k and 10k in 15:40 and 31:27 respectively.  That 10k cut up is a time solely Eilish, Jess Piasecki (31:19) and Gemma Metal (31:26) have bettered in a standalone 10k race since Paula Radcliffe set the British File in 2003.

Regardless of the distinctive efficiency, that point was solely adequate for sixth. Forward of her, Girmawit Gebrzihair Gebru, took the win in 64:14 in her half marathon debut, adopted by Hellen Obiri (64:22) and Sheila Chepkirui (64:36). These instances place the trio in fourth, fifth and seventh on the all-time record respectively.

World File holder Jacob Kiplimo took victory within the males’s race in 57:56, a time that solely Kiplimo, Kibiwott Kandie and Rhonex Kipruto have bettered. Such is Jacob’s rising dominance within the occasion, he owns three of the six sub-58:00 performances in historical past.

Speedy Seville

Eilish was not the one athlete racing overseas chasing a quick time; a plethora of Brits took to the streets of southern Spain in quest of qualifying instances for the World Championships, Commonwealth Video games and European Championships on the Seville Marathon.

The spotlight of the motion got here from Jess Piasecki, who obliterated her lifetime greatest with 2:22:27, a time that elevates her above Mara Yamauchi to second on the British all-time record; solely Paula Radcliffe has run faster. It was a effectively judged run from Jess, passing via midway in 70:33, who has had a incredible 12 months together with PBs at 10k, 10 miles and half marathon, and naturally her debut Olympics.

Behind her, Rose Harvey continued her magnificent rise over the gap, enhancing to 2:27:20 to be the tenth quickest Brit in historical past. That point can also be a World Championships qualifier, a mark 5 girls have now bettered. After operating alongside her clubmate and coaching companion for the early phases, Steph Davis had a troublesome final third and completed in 2:37.41.

There have been glorious debuts on the distance for Philippa Bowden (2:34:30), Sally Ratcliffe (2:39:32) and Victoria Kenny (2:41:28).

The boys have been in equally spectacular kind. Josh Griffiths (2:11:27) and Andy Davies (2:14:23) each ran PBs alongside European Championship and Commonwealth Video games requirements, the latter enhancing his personal M40 British File. Mo Aadan (2:12:37) was the second Brit throughout the road, ending simply 17 seconds shy of his greatest from final yr’s Olympic trials at Kew Gardens.

debut noticed Adam Clarke end in 2:15:37, with Ross Braden coming house in 2:16:50 and taking up two minutes off his PB.

Birmingham is Again

Saturday noticed a welcome return of top-tier indoor athletics within the UK with the Muller Indoor GP Birmingham, the following cease of the World Indoor Tour Gold. With a promote out crowd and a bunch of excellent athletes competing, it was moderately particular to be there in individual, no extra so than to listen to the noise for Keely Hodgkinson’s final lap over 800m as she broke the British Indoor File (1:57.20).

That point places her sixth on the all-time record indoors and isn’t solely the quickest OF her life, however the quickest IN her life, as nobody has run quicker because the exact day she was born – when the World File was set.

Again to the outcomes. One other good outing for Elliot Giles see him end second within the 800m along with his quickest time of the season (1:45.42), with Man Learmonth operating an indoor PB and World Indoor Championships qualifier (1:46.46) behind.

After the withdrawal of Laura Muir resulting from harm, the ladies’s 1000m discipline was left extra open, and Issy Boffey, operating simply down the street from her coaching base on the College of Birmingham, recorded one in all her greatest senior race victories with 2:38.25 in her debut on the distance. Jemma Reekie had led for a lot of the race, however light within the final lap to complete second (2:39.74). Georgie Hartigan was seventh with a brand new Irish File (2:40.01).

The ladies’s 1500m noticed sturdy runs by 3000m European Indoor Champion Amy Eloise Markovc (4:08.68 PB) and Erin Wallace (4:08.90 PB), the duo turning into the primary athletes to run the World Indoors commonplace this yr. The boys’s race over the identical distance had been touted as an assault at Peter Elliot’s longstanding British File; nevertheless, it didn’t fairly reside as much as its billing and the report lives to see one other day. George Mills, nevertheless, continued his high-quality begin to 2022 with a fourth positioned end (3:36.03), taking nearly three seconds off his PB set final weekend, with a PB additionally for Piers Copeland in fifth (3:36.12). Additionally competing have been Charlie Grice (3:39.59), Archie Davis (3:44.32) and Neil Gourley (3:52.08), while Jake Wightman didn’t end.

File Breaking

Two days earlier, the World Indoor Tour Gold stopped in Lievin in France and the Assembly Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais. Elliot Giles ran over 800m (1:46.50), however the spotlight of the night was Jakob Ingebritsen taking nearly half a second off the 1500m WR (3:30.60).

To the Mud (Actually)

This weekend was the standard end-of-leagues weekend, because the cross nation season seems in the direction of subsequent weekend’s Nationals at Parliament Hill. Sadly, nevertheless, numerous cross nation fixtures have been victims of Storm Eunice, with the Met League, Kent Health League, Derby Runner League and a few races within the Surrey Leagueall affected by cancellation.

One fixture that was not cancelled however was topic to a considerably surreal set of circumstances was the Chiltern League. We hear that the landowners ordered the course be cleared swiftly mid-way via the senior males’s race, or the police could be referred to as. Certain sufficient, the police have been referred to as, and a few athletes have been pressured to both abandon their runs, keep away from landowners in golf buggies or not begin in any respect. Actually weird.

There aren’t any outcomes for the senior girls’s race in consequence, though Strava exhibits some girls did run not less than a part of the race. Jack Goodwin took the honours within the senior males’s race forward of Richard Slade and Ben Cumberland.

All of the drama from our reporter reside on the scene

Croydon Harriers’s Dominic Nolan took his third victory in as many races in Division 2 of the Surrey League at a house fixture at Lloyd Park, serving to to safe Croydon’s promotion to Division 1 subsequent season. The Division 1 fixture at Effingham Frequent didn’t happen, neither did the women races.

George Beardmore was victorious within the senior males’s race on the Birmingham League (for which girls’s races don’t seem to have taken place this weekend), while Elena Carey took the honours within the mixed senior, veteran and U20 girls’s race on the Hampshire League forward of Pippa Roessler and Charlotte Calwin. Some outcome queries imply the lads’s outcomes will not be revealed on the time of writing.

John Gilbert and Salford’s Ruth Jones crossed the road first on the Manchester Space League within the respective senior races held in Heaton Park.

Home Highway Races Too

The stormy climate didn’t cease athletes taking to the numerous 10k races throughout the nation. One of many quickest races of the weekend was the Watersons Hale 10k, the place victories went to Sophie Wooden (35:25), crossing the road over two and a half minutes forward of the following feminine finisher, and London Olympian Ross Millington (30:56), the one entrant to run below 31 minutes.

An in depth end and simply 5 seconds separated the highest three on the Fortress Combe Chilly 10K, with Ethan Pierce (34:44) getting the higher of Timothy Swinn (34:48) and Daniel Giles (34:49). The margin of victory was clearer for Chelsea Baker (38:54), ending over half a minute forward of Nicole Avery (39:38) and Aine Halton-Hanley (39:50).

The following fixture of the Tempo Winter Collection in Ilmington supplied Donna Allen (46:41) and Andy Lawrence (37:43) with wins, while Shaun Hughes had a wonderful run on the Ruthin 10k, ending over three minutes earlier than the following within the discipline. Llinos Griffith (45:31) was the primary girls house.

George King (32:54) and Louise Hooker (39:36) took the honours on the Winchester 10k. Lastly, the Chertsey Home 10k noticed Thierry Le Cheminant (33:31) and Natalie Whitty (39:08) cross the road first.

On the time of writing, outcomes for the Tunbridge Wells Half Marathon and Deal Half Marathon, each of which occurred on Sunday morning, weren’t accessible on-line, while the Village Bakery Wrexham Half Marathon and Run Nation’s Run London Victoria Park Half Marathon (plus 10k and 5k races) have been sadly cancelled as a result of climate.

One half marathon which did happen, nevertheless, was Sunday’s Nice North West Half Marathon, the place Josh Corridor-Brown (77:34) and Ffion Williams (90:30) took wins over the Blackpool course.