Elsie heads the weekly performance update
It is fantastic to return from a week away to report on some amazing results from WADAC young athletes as the outdoor season gets underway.
Elsie Brindle (coach Mark Upton Mark Upton) heads the list running a time of 56.44 secs over 400m in Yeovil on Monday. This results is good enough to go 3rd on the clubs all time 400m lists and puts Elsie 21st on the early season European U18 lists. Brother Monty Brindle (coach Mark Upton) also ran the 400m finishing in a time of 57.45 secs. Also competing on Easter Monday was Tom Price (coach Elias Mtshweni) who grabbed 3rd place on the clubs age group all time lists all to himself with a new pb of 2.40m in the pole vault. Sister Amber Price (coach James Mann) also pb’d but in the 800m running 2 mins 35.65 secs. Yeovil’s meeting was spread over 2 days with the first day on Easter Saturday. Rebekah Smith (coach Dave McManus) had a great day running an impressive 11.91 into a stiff wind in the 80m hurdles and followed this with a new pb of 5.17m in the long jump.
Bracknell’s open meeting also took place on Easter Saturday and Elsie Brindle started a busy weekend by running a time of 39.95 secs to go 3rd on the clubs all time age group 300m lists just ahead of Abi Dennison who is interestingly now a social media influencer in stregth & conditioning. Elsie also ran 25.57 secs to win the 200m. Hayden Rogers (coach Dave Sherry) continued his fine start to the season by winning his heats in both 100m & 200m. Monty Brindle was 3rd in his 400m heat in a new pb of 56.69 secs. Oliver Wye (coach Mark Upton) ran pb’s in both 100m & 200m in the U17 mens age group with brother Rhys (coach Mark Upton) doing exactly the same in the U15 age group.
In midweek action in Watford on Wednesday were the Tom’s Jacob’s & Evans (both coached by James Mann) both recorded pb’s in the 1500m. Thomas Jacob’s time of 3 mins 59.79 secs saw him dip under 4 mins for the first time and go 3rd on the clubs all time age group 1500m lists. Thomas Evans also pb’s with a time of 4 mins 5.47 secs. A further pb was achieved by Joao Otto De Souza (coach James Mann) who ran 9 min 39.78 secs in the 3000m.