Vets (Masters) League

2010  

Match3:

An excellent effort - I don't know if Blackheath & Bromley (winners) realise how lucky they were that Gareth Davies unfortunately pulled a hamstring warming up for the long jump! I conservatively reckon that we would otherwise have won by 1 point! We all wish Gareth a speedy recovery

Mention must also be made of Chris Sykes's excellent win in the M50 800 against Bob Minting of B&B in a time of 2:13, but was unfortunate to be disqualified for a minor infringement of the green break line. Our theoretical victory could otherwise have been a comfortable 9 to 10 points, but as it happened it made no difference to our creditable 3rd place.

I must also confess to my utter failure to register a height in the M60 high jump. Thank goodness Bruce Hendrie turns 60 in a couple of weeks!

Bruce Charles ran his very last race for us in the M60 200m, after about 17 years of excellent performances for us, Bruce is retiring from competition, having struggled with injuries for some years. Bruce was instrumental in establishing us as a major force in Veteran athletics in the early days. He is still going to be active in coaching, and promotions - he is running the BMAF Decathlon and Heptathlon Champs at Horspath on 13th and 14th Sept. We all wish you well Bruce.

Finally, many thanks to Margaret and Barrie Strange who officiated all day, and thus relieved our athletes from OCAC quota of duties.

2008 results attached below

John Exley