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Thirteen SNHAC Athletes finished the Track and Field season at Peterborough on the 25th September.

Competing at the Eastern Athletic Association and Hertfordshire Pentathlon Championships U17 Bobby Pitman finished a long and successful season, winning Gold in both the Eastern and Hertfordshire Pentathlons. A total point score of 2550 points for the 5 events – LJ, JT, 200m, DT and 1500m included a 3m personal best in the Javelin – 37m97. Team-mate Adam Bungay came second. In the U15 Boys event Harrison Lund came second in the Hertfordshire Championships with Aubrey Murray third (1880 and 1506 points respectively). Harrison had PB performances in the 80H, LJ, SP and 800m and equalled his PB in the HJ. Aubrey had PB performances in the LJ, SP and 800m. U13 Sam Trott came second in the Hertfordshire Championships with PB performances in the 75H, SP, HJ and 800m.

In the Girls Competition U15s Fran Hart and Lily Cotter came second and third in the Hertfordshire Championships (1667 and 1559 points respectively). Fran recorded PB’s in the 75H and SP, while Lily had PB’s in the 75H, LJ, HJ and 800m, also competing was Abigail Tongue who had PB’s in the 75H, LJ, SP and 800m. U13’s Edythe Oughton and Connie Dykes came second and third in the Hertfordshire Championships (1855 and 1756 points respectively) Edythe’s PB came in the HJ, while Connie’s came in the SP and HJ, also competing in the age group were Eleanor Roberts – PBs in the 70H, SP and HJ, Rachel Berry – PBs in the 70H, LJ, SP and 800m and Suzy Tonge – PBs in LJ, SP, HJ and 800m.

Full results on the website.

Trevor Mason completed the London Marathon yesterday in a time of 3 hours 54 minutes.

Christopher Westcott finished his last set of races as a V40 with some strong results. In the excellent Garden City Runners 5k series, he clocked 16:53 in race 1 (10th position), 17:12 in race 2 (12th) and 16:50 in race 3 (9th). Runners needed to complete all 3 races to be eligible for a series prize (best 2 times) and Christopher won the V40-49 category.

In the Stevenage 10k, Christopher managed a 6th place finish in 36:00 and was 2nd V40-49 in the Herts County Championships.

Finally at the ever popular Standalone 10k, Christopher improved slightly from the week before, running 35:50 for 15th overall and 3rd V40-49

The English Schools Combined Events Championships at Bedford over the weekend saw two SNHAC Athletes in action. Lewis Price was competing in the Junior Boys Pentathlon on Saturday and Bobby Pitman in the Intermediate Boys Octathlon over the two days.

Lewis registered personal best performances in his first three events 12.66 80H, 1m62 HJ, 9m40 SP and followed this with 5m55 in the long jump and 2.31.02 in the 800m, for a total point score of 2369 and 11th place out of the 36 starters.

Bobby’s weekend started off with a disappointing long jump (5m19), this was followed by a fantastic discus PB of 40m98 and a javelin PB on 34m80. The last event of the day was the 400m run in gusty winds and Bobby was disappointed with a time of 55.95. A great start to Day 2 came in the 100m hurdles with a 15.06 PB. Disaster followed in the high jump with a 1m38 clearance, this was followed by a great SP PB of 10m39. A 5.22.98 1500m ended the weekend, leading to a point score of 3963 and 24th place out of 36 starters.

For those who knew him we now have the details of Don Powell's funeral.Margaret and her family invite friends and associates to the funeral and reception for Don.

The cremation service will take place on 11th October, 12 noon at North Hertfordshire Memorial Park, Holwell SG5 3RT (www.northhertsmemorial.co.uk)

Please let Jan or Margaret know by private message/text/phone etc if you will be attending, this will help to give them a better idea of numbers.