Basildon A.C's international Kim Wall competed at the recently televised Manchester Games held on the streets of Manchester. Wall competed over the rarely run 150m straight (without the normal curve on the track) where she ran a PB 17.82w....

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Basildon's Senior relay teams each won medals at the county road relay championships at Melbourne Park on Sunday.

The women won gold by a huge margin over high flying Benfleet RC and Southend AC, though they didn't take the lead until the second leg of three.   Kirsty Tydeman led off for us with a strong 22:20 but was up against Benfleet's  Charlotte Peppiatt, the second fastest woman on the day.   She handed over to Stacey Ward who put us into a commanding lead with the fastest time of the day, 20:14.  Our third leg runner, Karen Goode, increased this lead with her 22:58 to give the team an overall time of 65:32, over four minutes ahead of her nearest rivals.

Charmaine Wheeler ran the first leg of our incomplete B team in 24:46.

Our men were defending champions but were up against a very strong Southend squad.  Jon Briggs showed his form is recovering after a long injury lay off with fourth place in 19:11.  He handed over to Gareth Riddell who gained two places in 20:00.   Our third leg runner, under 20 Grant Webb conceded one position in 19:40, being overtaken by Ryan Prout who ran the day's second fastest time.  But once Mark Sanford started the fourth leg, we all knew we stood a chance of silver if he could overhaul the Chelmsford athlete who had started a few metres ahead of him.  He duly did this with a time of 18:37, to earn team silver in 77:28.

Chris James (21:20) and Stephen Strange (21:09) ran the first two stages in an incomplete B team.

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