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Athletics: Addison makes a solid return at Orton
HAMPTON athlete Neil Addison returned to action in Sunday's Bushy 10k and finished second behind Stuart Nelson of Rugby and Northampton.
HAMPTON athlete Neil Addison returned to action in Sunday's Bushy 10k and finished second behind Stuart Nelson of Rugby and Northampton.Addison recently decided to take a short break from the sport after going down with one too many illnesses but he came within nine seconds of making a winning return around the streets of Orton.
The speedy policeman said: "I'd been back running for a week and my coach was keen for me to get a race under my belt just to see where I am at. I had three or four weeks of doing nothing and then did four or five steady runs so I decided to give it a go.
"I didn't go off too hard and I felt okay at first and caught the leader around 5k. I stayed with him for as long as I could but dropped back around 8k.
"It gets very frustrating when you keep getting ill so I'll try to keep the mileage down and concentrate more on quality training than quantity."
Both Nelson and Addison were inside Nick Grimer's year-old course record of 34.02. Paul Halford finished third, one of three Werrington Joggers in the top 10 with John Herbert making a fine club debut in seventh and Michael Moore finishing 10th.
Stamford Strider Philippa Taylor was a convincing winner of the women's race with Werrington's Eli Scott smashing her personal best in third.
BARNACK athlete Matt Gunby blasted to victory in the Whissendine 6, beating fellow former Peterborough Athletic Club member Steve Body by 31 seconds.
Matt Grace had an excellent run in fourth to lead Bourne Town Harriers to team success.
Local results
1 Matt Gunby (Woodford) 31.42; 4 Matt Grace (Bourne) 32.48; 11 Brian Corleys (Bushfield) 35.43; 13 Richard Lomas-Brown (Bourne) 36.00; 16 Paul Massingham (Stamford) 36.31; 18 Mark Botteley (Bourne) 36.52; 19 Vaughan Roberts (Bourne) 37.13; 28 Tony Gilbert (Bourne) 39.18; 30 Daniel Stapleton (Bushfield) 39.36; 31 Reg Allen (Thorney) 39.41; 40 Des Adey (Bourne) 41.16; 53 Gary Masters (Eye) 42.15; 55 Phil Barnes (Bushfield) 42.28; 63 Paul Hannah (Stamford) 42.56; 70 Geoff Howes (Thorney) 43.55; 71 Andy Henson (Thorney) 43.57; 79 Barrie Barrett (Bushfield) 44.22; 82 Andy Scott (Werrington) 44.46; 84 Katy Lee (Bourne) 44.52; 95 Anthony Yoxall (Bourne) 45.29; 105 Paul Page (Bushfield) 46.18; 118 Chris Stapleton (Bushfield) 47.12; 131 Phil Nicholson (Bushfield) 48.21; 132 Eric Jeyes (Werrington) 48.23; 134 Tim Cook (Werrington) 48.30; 138 Lisa Richardson (Bourne) 48.44; 147 Ayla Smith (Bourne) 49.38; 154 Shaun Kemp (Bourne) 50.13; 158 Tony Lack (Ramsey) 50.29; 163 Richard Griffen (Eye) 50.53; 165 Alan Miles (Bushfield) 51.24; 174 J. Moore (Stanford) 52.18; 175 Rachael Kmp (Bourne) 52.28; 177 Gill Bates (Eye) 52.37; 183 Mary Webber (Bushfield) 53.28; 196 George Dawson (Bushfield) 54.32; 199 Nicky Asplin (Bourne) 54.39; 202 Gordon Pearson (Eye) 55.50; 207 Peter Tebb (Bushfield) 55.24; 212 Mandy Cook (Bushfield) 55.36; 218 Linda Oswin (Eye) 56.37; 228 Raymond Oswin (Eye) 58.07; 235 Fiona Wolstenholme (Eye) 60.22; 236 Stuart Bremner (Bourne) 60.24; 239 Ron Firth (Bushfield) 61.01; 248 Marianne Blessett (Bushfield) 66.53; 249 Paula Stapleton (Bushfield) 67.18; 250 Antoinette Rendle (Bushfield) 68.05.OLIVER Mason of Peterborough Athletic Club finished an excellent 24th out of 27,000 in Sunday's British 10k London Run, clocking 35.50.
Deeping runner Matt Blunden was another local athlete to finish 24th in a big road race. He ran 32.28 in the Great North 10k at Sunderland.
MARCH athlete Louise Hazel finished fifth in the 100m hurdles at the UK Championships/World Championships Trials in Birmingham.
Although slowest out of the blocks, she clocked a season's best of 13.50 and missed a medal by just nine hundredths of a second. She had reached the final by finishing second in her heat in 13.58.
Hazel also competed in the high jump, finishing seventh with 6.07m while fellow March athlete Glen Watts clocked a season's best of 9.14.05 to finish ninth in the 3000m steeplechase.
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