Grangemouth, Sunday 21st August
The final Joint League fixture saw a good turn out from Lasswade’s U17 and U20 athletes. There would have been lots of PBs but the gusty wind meant a lot of the sprint races were over the allowable limit for PB purposes.
Fresh from winning the 100m and 200m in the Bute Highland Games the day before, Ramsay would have recorded a considerable PB in the 100m (11.71s) but with the windspeed recorded at 3.1m/s his first (legal) sub 12s clocking will have to wait. Petter (11.80s), Keith (12.48s), Lauren (13.59s) also fell foul of the wind and would have had PBs too.
Earlier in the day, Elena recorded a PB in the 100m hurdles with 16.01s. Now hurdling over 80m, Lauren and Chiara recorded times that were faster than their 75m Hurdles times so technically, another 2 PBs in the bag. Lauren also landed another PB in the long jump with 4.38m.
Fortunately, there were some who managed to get PBs – Erin’s strong finish saw her bring her PB down to 14.25 and Evie, who’s last race was into a -5.6m/s wind ran 14.24s with a almost perfect +1.9m/s wind. Phoebe recorded a season’s best with 14.84s and Amber, in her first race for a few seasons ran 13.90s.
Sophie in her debut for Lasswade ran 15.58s and followed that up with 2.74m in the long jump and 1m24.22 in the 400m.
More PBs followed from our athletes in the endurance group. Olivia moved down in distance to clock 2:25.84 in the 800m and Will continued his great season with an 800m PB of 2m15.28 and a new 400m PB of 58.14s.
Andrew, who took 20 seconds off his 1500m PB last weekend at the Scottish U17 Championships, unsurprisingly managed to take a large chunk out of his 800m PB running 2m03.93.
In the high jump, Alec couldn’t quite match the PB he set in the Scottish U17 Age Group champs last weekend in Aberdeen but still recorded a solid 1.56m.
To round up the day’s results, Chiara also tackled the 300m coming home in 51.44.
Once again, thanks to all our athletes, coaches and to Leigh for providing some photos. Good performances and PBs don’t just happen without hard work by the athletes and dedication of our coaches.
