WATFORD HARRIERS' senior men's team recorded their tenth consecutive win, at Crawley on Saturday, but still remain in second place, behind Blackheath in Division Five of the Southern Men's League.
The outstanding performance of the afternoon came from Marc Stacey, who improved his personal best in the javelin by almost three metres, with a superb winning throw of 45.96 metres.
Stacey was also a comfortable winner of the 400 metres, the B string triple jump and a member of the winning 4 x 100 and 4 x 400 metres relay teams - anchoring the latter team to victory with a very impressive time of 51.5 seconds.
The multi-talented Simon Whittingham continued to make his huge contribution to the team's success, winning the A string high jump, triple jump, 110 metres hurdles, 400 metres hurdles and the B string long jump.
Seventeen-year-old Luke Nicholls again produced another fine effort in the long jump - his winning effort of 6.29 metres confirming his recent improvements.
Nicholls also gained second place in the 100 metres and was a member of the winning short relay team.
Tristan Fryatt continued his 100 per cent record this season when winning the pole vault, with an effort of 3.70 metres, under far from ideal conditions.
Fryatt produced a season's best, with a leg of 54.0 in the 400 metres relay and gained second place in the 200 metres.
Nick Harris maintained his fine recent form, winning the B string 110 metres hurdles, high jump and steeplechase and gaining second place in the 400 metres hurdles.
Despite having little time for training recently, because of exam commitments, Roland Timmann still showed signs of a return to form when winning the B string 100 metres and gaining second place in the 200 metres.
Former British League athlete Chris Wood produced a season's best to win the B string 800 metres. He also equalled his best in the pole vault, gained second place in the 400 metres and third in the shot, finishing off his normal busy afternoon with good legs in both relays.
Matt Adcock returned from injury and numerous debilitating business trips to America in recent weeks to gain second place in the steeplechase and third place in the 5000 metres.
Dave Stevenson was very close to his personal best when winning the B string 5000 metres.
On Sunday, Julian Critchlow took part in the High Wycombe Half Marathon where he found himself up against Vale of Aylesbury's Justin Fowler.
He allowed his younger rival to lead by a few metres for the early miles before joining him at about three miles.
A mile further on, Critchlow gradually upped the pace until Fowlers' resistance broke at about five miles, leaving the Watford man to pull away gradually to win by about two minutes in 70.17.
Mike Palmer also ran.
Danielle Sanderson was in the medals again last Sunday at the National Hindu half-marathon in Brent.
Former Great Britain athlete Sanderson came third and was the fastest female competitor with a time of 82 and a half minutes.
The event, which was open to members of any faith, nevertheless saw Hindus from all over the country compete.
Although there were only 200 competitors in the main race, around 5,000 turned up to take part in a five-and-a-half mile fun run staged in conjunction with the half-marathon.
Having zipped round the course, bronze-medallist Sanderson and other hungry runners were treated to free vegetarian meals after the races.
In Sunday's Eastern Young Athletes match, the under-15 boys took first place and the under-13 and under-17's finished second.
There were several notable performances - particularly in the under-13's with the welcome appearance of young Theo William in the 100m crossing the line in 14.2.
Aaron Dombey, with a personal best in the 800m, Richie Drake in the long jump and Michael Bailey and Daniel Collette in the 1500m also performed well.
The under-15's saw newcomer Joe Tenny competing alongside district champion Richard Hansard in the 80m hurdles - taking first and second places for the Harriers.
Daniel Bartram, on form again, had firsts in both 100 and 200m.
Paul and Chris Yeomans took firsts in the 800m and javelin, and personal bests went to Daniel Storey in the 800m and Ollie Jepsen in the 1500m.
In the under-17's, Robert Webb had fine runs in both the 400 and 800m resulting in best times.
With some consistent throwing, Scott Iwanciw won both discus and shot, as did John Beardsworth in the 1500 and triple jump.
Other personal best performances came from Philip Fusi in the 400m and discus and Daniel Chambers in the 800m and long jump.
Four Watford Joggers found a reason to visit Leighton Buzzard for the town's multi-terrain 10k on Sunday.
A well marshalled course saw Dick Ashford lead the way home in 48 minutes 14 seconds, just ahead of Kevin Holmes and Richard Dixon Gough (48.30), while Paul Fletcher needed five pints of best supper the previous evening to face the experience (51.00).
Paul Emery and Chris Briers made use of the summer evenings with midweek 10k races.
Emery ran an improved 41.13 at Milton Keynes, while Briers ran 45.55 at Basingstoke.
Chris turned out again at the weekend, running 75.22 at the off road New Forest ten mile event, while Dave Watts clocked 85.30.
Watford Joggers are a sociable running club welcoming runners of all abilities. Our slowest group especially need new members and details can be obtained from Harvey on 01923 224947.
Woodside Stadium plays host to the British Milers Club Nike Grand Prix meeting on Saturday, July 22.
The meeting will see many of Britain's best middle distance athletes competing not just against each other, but also against the clock to achieve Olympic and World Junior qualifying times.
Included in the meeting will be national championship races for men and women in the 10,000m.
The meeting starts at 6pm and spectators are welcome.
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