August 31st, 2010 by News Desk
Ashford AC training partners, Ashley Cochran and George Huxley, travelled to Crawley on the Bank Holiday Monday, to compete in the Tom Linterne Medal meeting at the K2 sports complex.
Both had competed in the Julie Rose Open on Saturday, with much success; Ashley gaining pb’s in the 100m (3rd in 11.87s) and 200m (3rd in 23.71s, just ahead of George’s 4th in 23.76s) and George gaining first place in the U17 men’s 100m Hurdles with a new pb of 15.94s.
Another of their training partners, Tom Chambers, took second place in the 200m with a massive improvement to his pb of 22.86s.
Both Ashley and George decided to compete in the 400m at Crawley, hoping that they had enough form left to attack their best times. Ashley took silver in the U20 men’s race with a time of 52.15s, just off his best. George came fifth in the U17 men’s race in 54.26s, just under a second off his best.
In both races, the strong wind was following in the home straight, but equally unhelpful in the back straight. They now will look for other suitable open races, before winter training starts.
Tags: personal best
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August 28th, 2010 by News Desk
ASHFORD Athletic Club’s rising young star Kayleigh Miller-Leslie took an excellent bronze medal in the 75m hurdles in the England AAA’s championships at Bedford with a personal best 11.61 seconds.
She competed well above herself, beating all the girls except those ranked number 1 and 3 in the country.
She qualified in the heat as a fastest loser and went into the final with the fourth fastest time on the day.
After a slower start than in her heat she finished strongly to take third place and she also took fifth in the long jump with 5.07m.
Lauren Bamford and Max Reeves also competed in the hurdles both gaining personal best times with Lauren recording 12.04 and Max 12.32.
In the U17 5000m walk Kate Funnell came third clocking a best ever time of 29:47.88 and in the U15 walk Rebecca Roddy was an a fine second with a huge personal best clocking 17:17.80 over 3000m.
James Phillips just missed qualifying in the U23 800m heats with 1:54.70 and Gareth Morris recorded 55.99 in his 400m hurdles heat while in the U15 javelin Kirsten Hooten threw 28.07m.
Former Ashford star Jack Green claimed the national U20 400m hurdles title with a superb 51.54.
Tags: All-time best, Gareth Morris, Kayleigh Miller-Leslie, Lauren Bamford
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August 16th, 2010 by News Desk
FIVE members of Ashford AC took part in the Rye Summer Classic series 5k race with Warren Uden proving to be fastest on the night by running 17 minutes 42 seconds to finish in 18th place, just beating Ashford AC road running manager Matthew Hogben who recorded a time of 17:46 to secure 20th place. Kevin Williams, Darrel Rand and Timothy Forsythe all followed in quick succession finishing in 24th, 27th and 29th receptively.
Ashford AC is subsidising the cost of entry into the Rye Summer Classic series for all first claim members, as part of the road running development initiative.
The third race in the series is another 5k on September 19.
Tags: Road race
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