Mon 5.00am 16km Cadel+Roo 65m45Soon after starting this mornings run I came out onto North Lakes main road = Discovery Drive at the same time as another runner on the opposite side of the road, so were running side by side (but separated by the road). I felt he was trying to race so I hit the gas! I thought that was that and I'd not see him for dust but about 2K's later I looked behind and saw him (I presume ) just about 50m back! This time I really took off going hard for another 2K. No sign of my imaginary competitor, I relaxed into a more sedate pace . That impetus gave me a significant improvement in my overall time.
As you know I have been championing the cause of young Richard Goodman who last year broke my 31 year old Under17 3000m Club record. Last weekend racing at an invitation U20 3000m at the Diamond League Meeting at Crystal Palace he broke a away from a field of 30+ runners over the last K to win in a time of 8m12.94 . See how many of those guys ran PB's!! Richard is now 17 years old and it will be interesting to see if he can emulate the improvement 'our' Ryan Gregson has shown. Ryan also running in the London Meet finished 5th in the Mile in a PB 3m52.24 (having broken the Australian 1500m record this year with 3m31.06 as a 20 year old!). Ryan ran 8m01.26 as a 17 year old.
World Record 7:20.67 Daniel KOMEN KEN Rieti 1 SEP 1996
Area Record 7:26.62 Mohammed MOURHIT BEL Monaco 18 AUG 2000
World Lead 7:31.68 Yusuf Kibet BIWOTT KEN Ostrava 27 MAY 2010
National U20 Record 7:48.28 Jon RICHARDS GBR 1983
Rank Athlete Nation Result
1 GOODMAN, Richard GBR 8:12.94 PB
2 HAY, Jonny GBR 8:15.96
3 MCDONNELL, John GBR 8:16.02 PB
4 BITCHELL, Adam GBR 8:16.93 PB
5 CURR, Tom GBR 8:21.32 PB
6 GORECKI, Joshua GBR 8:23.41 PB
7 REED, Mickey GBR 8:23.80 PB
8 CONNOR, Ben GBR 8:23.97 PB
9 BERGIN, Matt GBR 8:24.09 PB
10 BENSON, Gordon GBR 8:24.42 PB
11 BAILEY, Ian GBR 8:25.27 PB
12 GRAY, Jack GBR 8:25.84 PB
13 MACLEAN, Charlie GBR 8:28.59
14 RIDLEY, Andrew GBR 8:28.66 PB
15 ROBINSON, Alex GBR 8:29.67 PB
16 BUTCHART, Andrew GBR 8:31.02 PB
17 WHITE, Liam GBR 8:31.57 PB
18 ABDI, Harun GBR 8:31.95 PB
19 CALDWELL, Luke GBR 8:33.13
20 WORTON, Dale GBR 8:34.63
21 ATKIN, Sam GBR 8:34.76
22 CORNWELL, Alex GBR 8:35.20
23 THOMPSON, Paul GBR 8:35.60
24 GRACE, Joshua GBR 8:35.88
25 PALMER, Elliot GBR 8:38.03
26 HENDRY, Alexander GBR 8:39.89 PB
27 CLARKE, Adam GBR 8:39.99
28 FARNHAM ROSE, Robbie GBR 8:42.74
29 MONAGHAN, Andrew GBR 8:44.25
30 MCCARTHY, James GBR 8:53.46
ELLIS, Harry GBR DNS
FARRELL, Thomas GBR DNS
FLEMING, Niall GBR DNS
HAWKINS, Callum GBR DNS
HOPKINS, Jonathan GBR DNS
STABLER, Sam GBR DNS
Intermediate times:1000mConnor, Ben (GBR)2:48.98 2000mGoodman, Richard (GBR)5:33.07
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