Tickner
scorches to victory – May 2010
Despite the
steady rain, Wells City Harrier’s Ben Tickner ran away from the field at the
Yeovilton 5km road race last Wednesday when he won in a convincing 15.02. This
makes it two victories out of two in this summer series. Team-mate Jon James
came home in 2nd place with 15.35 for first veteran home. Matthew
Lewis completed the Harriers in the first ten with his nippy 17.32 for 10th
place.
The first two
women home were also Harriers with Jenny Moore, fresh from her sub-3 hour marathon
effort running 18.40 here and followed in by Katerina Prior running close to
her lifetime best with 19.43. As usual there was also some great running by
juniors at the races with pick of the bunch for the Harriers being Abigail
Gibbons stepping up to the distance with her debut 19.50 here.
Other good
times at the Yeovilton 5km race were by Paul Chadwick, 20.08; Gary Tubridy
20.27; Rex Whitcombe 20.37; Mike Rusca 20.46; Lily Hawkins 20.55; Simon Carr
21.27; Carol Buckland 21.48; Becky Lee 22.38’ Callum Moir 22.42; Esme Sheridan
22.45; Gary Sheridan 22.46;Marcus Gibbons 28.05; Clive Gibbons 28.17; Kay
Franklin 29.35.
At the
weekend there were again some good performances on the track. Three of the
seniors were in action on Saturday at the Southern Men’s League fixture and
helped the joint Yeovil & Wells team finish 2nd at the meeting. Simon
Prior and John Rowe ran even paced races in the 5000m to score good points. Simon
in18.26 and John 18.36. They then also competed for the first time ever in the 3000m
steeplechase and ran in together in a time in a time of 13min. Also
running as a guest in the steeplechase was Pete Darton who was unable to count for
the team here as he turned out in the Club’s National League team last year.
He ran a keen time off 11.28.
On the Sunday
there were also a number of the juniors at the Young Athletes League meeting at