Kevin Ogden led Spenborough and District AC to a trio of age category victories, while grabbing a fine third place overall in the annual Esholt 5km road race series.Ogden, Tony Bradford (8th overall) and Keith McGhie (11th) all went into the last of the three round championship leading their respective sections and each pulled further clear of their nearest rivals, with in-form Ogden climbing among the overall prize-winners with a lifetime best 16 minutes, ten seconds in the final race over the undulating Yorkshire Water owned course.
It was another fine performance from 38-year old Ogden, less than a month after clocking a superb 2 hours, 45 minutes and 16 seconds to finish 321st in the London Marathon.
Bradford too had plenty of miles in his legs - the 45-year old fencing contractor fitting in the Leeds Half Marathon in between rounds one and two at Esholt, then shaving two seconds off of Alf Woffinden’s nine-year old Vet 45 club record.
McGhie also smashed the club best, smashing Steve Moss’s previous V50 mark of 17:17, also set in 2001, by a full 10 seconds in the opening event, before lowering it again to 16:59 a week later.
Ogden plans another crack at his marathon best time, at Nottingham in September, while McGhie, ranked number one in the UK in his age group over 800m last year, will probably revert to the more accustomed surroundings of track racing from now on.
All three could feature in Spenborough’s next Northern Track and Field League Division 2 match at Trafford, Manchester on June 5th.
The Princess Mary Stadium, Cleckheaton-based team lie fourth after the opening round.
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Well done guys, great to see the hard work paying off! Sounds like I'll have to be updating the club records document. I'll do that as soon as I get chance, and post it here.
Great stuff, saw this in the local paper too!
Keith, thought i was reading my daily paper there (the Guardian sports pages) until i came across your report!! Brilliant piece of writing and well done to you, tony and kevin.
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