Race update from around the stores

With the summer racing season upon us, below is a few updates from around the stores.

Jak Lowden - (U&R Gosforth)

North East Track Championships - Gateshead Stadium today Saturday 14th May

.. thats right sports fans nobody get's the news out faster than Radio Darlington ..

Today saw Gosforth's Jak Lowden running at the North East Track & Field Championships at Gateshead stadium over 400m.
Jak's preparation has gone well since his last outing last week, and with a quality field to race against it proved to be a great race with a Bronze medal and a 49.65 electronic timed result for the young man.
The winner came home in a superb 48.70 in very windy conditions with second place 49.35.
Jak races again tomorrow over 200m, and is hopefull that a 22.1 should result in another medal.
We wish you well Jak !  Give it the beans ! 

North East Track Championships - Gateshead Stadium Sunday 15th May

Good morning !, more news from Gateshead North East Champs... 

The weather here y/day was on the blustery and wet side and so didnt make for a blistering 200m final, but Jak ran a credible 23.5 versus the winning time of 22.7 to get a Bronze Gong to add to the Bronze from Saturday- This result takes Jak to 9 top 3 finishes out of 9 races for this part of the season.

We have a 3 week micro-break from racing now, which will allow Jak to get back into his normal training routine before his next race on the track and in preparation for the Northern Track and Field Championships in 6 weeks, with an aim of going sub 49's for 400 and running 22.3 for his 200.. it will happen..

We wish you well Jak, may your fast-twitch fibres grow ever stronger, faster and tire less frequantly ! 

Paul Wathan (U&R Keswick)

Geneva marathon went ok considering I had only entered 2 weeks before the event.
Managed 2:54:20 which got me 18th overall in the race, and 3rd senior male over the line (Age 19 - 29 Cat) and puts me in 5th overall in the UK Rankings  so far this year for the marathon distance in the under 23s. ;-)

postcrtipt....

Tuesday 17th - Moorclose 10k in 35:34 for 8th overall
Wednesday 18th - Latrigg Fell Race in 21:33 for 10th overall

Time to rest now ZZZzzzzzzzz......

Natalie Moncrieffe (U&R Birmingham)

Huge congratulations due here in Birmingham to our very own Natalie Moncrieffe who has won fastest female at the Birmingham Lord Mayors 10K!

Rebecca & Ian (U&R Leeds Headingly)

Rebecca did the Leeds Half Marathon at the weekend in 1:48 in hot conditions.
Personally, I've had a few results recently. Beginning of March ran for England in Germany against Germany, France and Belgium and finished 2nd behind one of the local German athletes. Won the Sedbergh 3 Peaks race in March, and the Yorkshire Orienteering Champs in April. Top 10 at the British Orienteering Middle Champs in April, 5th at the U&R sponsored Bunny Run Race 2, and 2nd place on the 1st leg at the Calderdale Way Relay last weekend.

Andy Wiles (U&R Darlington)

More racing news from the sports desk ...

Last Weds 4th of May saw Up&Running Darlington's Andy Wiles pull on his track spikes in anger for his first track race of this season..

Travelling down sauf' to Watford and racing over 3K in a mid-week open - Andy performed brilliantly with a new PB of 8:16 for the 3k distance, narrowley beaten by Darlington Harriers UK indoors 1500m's silver medalist Lewis Moses - this is a great result because Andrew ruptured his ankle ligaments on the preceeding Sunday during a training run - Andrews ankle is still a mess and causing the young man some pain as it is interferring with his running at the moment; .......can I get a group "Ahhhhhh" please ?

post script...

Darlington Up&Running racing machine Andrew Wiles posted another epic result on the evening of 17th May at Trafford at the British Milers Club Gold Standard over 1500m.

Leading from the front Andy produced a 3:48.66 to win with a 4 seconds margin over second place.... ...remarkable!

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So there you go.  As you can see we have a team that live, eat and breath sport, especially running.  If you want to talk about any of your running and what your goals are please contact any of out U&R staff.  See where the nearest store to you is Shops.upandrunning.co.uk.