PAC News 41, 22nd October 2019

Ryan helps GB Youth in Triathlon Super League!

On Saturday (October 19) in Birgu and Bormla in Malta, a series of Triathlon Super League “Enduro” races were held, for multi age-groups. These involve the athletes undertaking two consecutive, non-stop (except for their five “transitions”) sets of Swim-Bike-Run, with the fastest (in Ryan’s race) taking just 23-23 to finish.  (Swim 300m-Bike 2K-Run 1K-Swim 300m-Bike 2K-Run 1.5K!) From earlier events in UK, Ryan had been selected to be part of the GB Youth (U18) Boys team. In this event, GB took seven of the first eight places, ranking 1-4 and 6-8!  Ryan finished an excellent 3^rd of the 16 starters, in 24-18.   I hope his PAC training partners find time to congratulate him! Other teams involved in this race were Ireland, Jersey, France, Malta, and Slovenia. In other races there were seven other countries including Singapore, Canada, Hong Kong, and strong Italians. Please Hi-5 Ryan when you see him!

Our u15 Boys made a strong challenge at Wormwood Scrubs!

Twenty PAC Juniors faced the Southern Cross-Country Relay challenge among more than 600 athletes in their six races on Saturday at Wormwood Scrubs in North London.  Lexie Brown, Will Rabjohns and Emily Parker featured as individuals; the best team result was by the u15B, ranking 5^th of the 38 complete teams, in 20-51 for their 3 x 2Km run.  Lexie, Will, Emily and Mark Ruby produced top-16 times for their legs, of all the runners in their races!

Next Cross-Country Match: This will be Wessex 2, to be staged at Lytchett Minster School on Sunday, November 3^rd.  Schedule as for Match 1 at Limelights. If you wish to run but were not registered for the first match, contact Mark Pauley (Junior Chairman) this week.  No dogs, no spikes inside, keep off walls!

Results from Wessex Sportshall 1 at Canford 19th October

In their first Sportshall venture of the season we had a number of outstanding performances.  Three of our teams finished 3^rd but all did their best and mostly showed the benefit of attending Saturday training.

In all individual events, teams could have ‘A’ and ‘B’ athletes scorers. The ‘A’ athletes were then ranked and awarded points starting at 24 for the best(A1).  Any ‘B’ athletes were then similarly ranked, starting at 12 for the best (B1).   Relays (R) ranked starting at 36 for winners.  No points given to mixed u15s.

Both u11 teams and the u13B finished third. The u13G, in spite of some excellence, finished 5^th out of 8 teams.  Well done, all! Thanks to Alison too!