Congratulations to Raph Bouju who set a new club Senior Men's 100m record of 10.02 seconds whilst running at the EAP meeting in Geneva at the weekend.  Raph is getting very close to breaking the 10.00 second barrier.  Although Raph is now running in Holland, and his performances are not on the Power of Ten, 10.02 would put him twelfth on the UK all-time list.

Congratulations to Tennyson James who set a new club M65 record for 100m Hurdles at the Eastern Masters league match at Cambridge on 7th June.  The new mark is 17.4 seconds.

A warm and sunny Saturday saw 20 U13 and U15 girls make the trip to Woodford Green for the 2nd match in the YDL. This was again a tough competition for the youngest members of our club as we are in a division with teams from Brighton, Cambridge Harriers, Crawley, Herne Hill and Woodford Green and as usual all the girls gave everything they had in every event they took part in and came away with 19 personal bests and 1 season’s best.

Congratulations to Lyla Danobrega, who broke her own 1500m Steeplechase club record at the weekend.  Running at the British Milers Club PB Classic at Oxford on 3rd June, Lyla won her race by over ten seconds in 5:11.06, which becomes the new club record for both the Senior Women's and Under 17 Women's categories.  This moves Lyla up to fourth spot in the UK under 17 rankings.

Congratulations also to Raph Bouju.  A fantastic run at the weekend at the FBK Games in Hengolo saw Raph reduce his 100m PB to a world-class 10.09 seconds whilst coming third behind Reece Prescod and Yohan Blake.  This break's Raph's own 100m club record.  Raph also broke Richard Ashby's club 200m record in May with a time of 2.65 seconds.  Richard's old mark of 20.85 seconds had stood since 1985.

Good running at the the Challenger meeting in Belgium on Saturday 27th May with Raph Bouju claiming PBs over 100m and 200m.  Raph's new 100m PB of 10.20 seconds  currently ranks him sixth in Europe, whilst his 200m PB was a very speedy 20.65 seconds.  Aston Lockwood clocked 22.57 seconds for 200m.  At the same meeting, Jack Goodwin ran a fast 13:54.33 5000m.  Meanwhile at the British Milers Club Grand Prix in Manchester, Tia Wilson claimed a 5000m PB of 16:30.22, finishing strongly to come second in her race, and Jamie Webster won the 800m G race in 1:53.88.

The second EYAL match was a lot warmer and drier than our first at Norwich. The girls had a fantastic day winning the U13s and coming 3^rd in both the U15s and U17s. We had 38 PBs and 10 SBs.