Race Report 15th August 2023

We saw another bumper packed week of racing from the guys and girls of Team Blizard covering a variety of distances and events.

 

Kicking the week off on Monday and Tuesday saw Leeds athlete Jonathan Stewart run a season's best over 800m on the BMC Leeds track race and Sheffield runner Seth Kirby in the Run Throw and Jump meeting in Sheffield over the 1 mile distance running a new personal best but more from Seth later in the report!

 

Moving onto the road and  the next two races to report from were over the 5k distance.

On Friday we saw the next round of the Even Splits 5k race at York cycle track where Freddie Fearn continued with his great form with an excellent run just ahead of coached athlete Rome Doisneau who is coming back to full fitness after his recent illness.

These guys were chased down by Aaron Lowery who had a fine run just ahead of the newly married Elle Warren!

 

 

The following day and a long drive from York saw the running of the Home Nations 5k in Cardiff.

Making the long journey worthwhile and running a brand new personal best less than 24hrs since his run in York was Scarboro’ athlete Rome Doisneau and he was placed just in front of Scott Burrell who had a solid race just a few seconds behind.

 

A lot nearer to home saw the Newark half marathon take place and fresh from his recent holiday’s saw Robbo Roberts claim a fine 2nd place in the V50.

 

 

However, the “Run of the Week” goes to coached athlete Seth Kirby with his 76.56mins effort to earn himself a new personal best.

When Seth first came to the clinic for his initial lactate threshold test back in 2019 his personal best for the half marathon stood at 93.08mins.

He quickly began working with Dave as one of his coached athletes and Sunday saw an amazing improvement of 17 minutes since that first test not too long ago and you will not meet a more popular member of the team who always has time for others offering help and advice.

Well done that man!

Until next week………keep training!