West Yorkshire Track and Field League #4 - Wakefield

A very wet, miserable evening greeted us at Wakefield for the WYTFL meeting number 2.

This is essentially a league for the young athletes, and the turnout from Spen this year has been poor. This is a real pity, that so many of our young athletes seem to have abandoned the very league that gave them their first taste of track competition, I'm not sure of the motives for this, it's certainly shouldn't be lack of competition, because it's seems to be well supported by athletes from some of the other local clubs, and some of them are running good times. It would be a real shame if this league suffered because of lack of support, because it gives a unique opportunity for those starting in competition. So if any of the parents of the athletes who have been avoiding it this year are reading this, I'd ask you to have re-think.

Anyway, rant over. There were some good performances on the night, I didn't watch every race, but saw Steve McNamara comfortably win the 200m, Matthew Jones ran another PB in the U15 boys 800m and Sarah Peacock ran in a very impressive win in the Senior Ladies 800m.

Sheila and Amanda were as usual having a go at every possible event, and you can only applaud their enthusiasm and commitment for that. Well done ladies!

In the senior mens 800m, our combined age (John, Keith and me) of somewhere close to 140 meant that we were certainly giving a few years away to the rest of the field, but Keith and John aquitted themselves well with Keith just getting the better of John, and a sub-2:10 time to boot. I was left trailing in their wake, but happy that I achieved my goal for the evening which was to go under 2:25, which I managed with a couple of seconds to spare.