Head's Newsletter -7 July 2023

RUNNING CLUB

LONDON ATHLETICS

Connor Foley travelled to the National Schools Athletics Championships at Birmingham ’ s famous Alexander Stadium having decimated Jason Beerage ’ s 1992 4min 06sec 1500 m school record by well over a dozen seconds. Even so he was well down the list of National

The London Athletics Meet (formerly known as the Anniversary Games) will return to the London Stadium on Sunday 23rd July 2023, as part of the Wanda Diamond League series. World Class athletics is coming back to the stadium that bought you Super Saturday, gold medals galore and glorious track and field moments. Stars of the Commonwealth Games, European and World Championships will be headed for the London Stadium next summer for the biggest one - day athletics spectacular of the year.https:// www.diamondleague.com/ home/ link to Dimond league before

ranking times for the year getting into the top 20 with his new school mark of 3.53.53. The heat was a cagy affair. He was in the second heat with first 4 finishers and from each heat and the next 4 fastest progressing to the final . He started well then got boxed in for laps 2 - and 3 extricating himself with well timed smooth accelerations to be in a prime position leading from about 500m out . The home straight saw just 2 athletes ease past him. He finished in 3 rd looking calmly around to check he was well within the top 4 . Managing to keep that position despite an inadvisable slowing before the line not after the line ! The final saw him drawn 4 th from the inside and the ensuing cavalry charge left him well boxed in by the end of the first ( back ) straight. A second Houdini act was a little much to ask for as the heat had taken a little more than expected out of the legs. A strong finish saw him just outside the scoring position of top 8 for the County Championship overall points . The good news is that he gained invaluable experiment despite being a year young for the age group. He has next year to see what develops when he is the oldest in the age group next year. To qualify the county team was a considerable success as he was unavailable at the County championships. To be in the final was also a huge achievement to be quite correctly proud of.

Congratulations to Arthur on your 2.04 clocking at the county championships at Kingsmeadow.