Saturday, 4th May 2024, Grangemouth
Just a week on from our first competition of 2024 in the CSSAL league, Team Lasswade was back at Grangemouth, this time for the Forth Valley League. We had a good number of PBs from athletes last week but what happened today was pretty spectacular – every athlete who competed today was either competing in an event for their very first time (so therefore setting their PB) or set a new PB – over 20 of them! Wow!
Coming off a great cross country season, Freya smashed her 800m PB by 9 seconds winning the Under 15s race by the length of the straight in 2m16.4. Although still very early in the season, this would currently rank her in the top 10 in the UK.
In the Under 13s, Isla, also coming off a great debut season in the cross country ran her first track race for Lasswade in the Under 13s 800m and like Freya, had a gun to tape victory solo-running 2m38.2.
For the boys, Fraser and Moray, who both ran in the CSSAL last week both set new PBs both running over 10 seconds faster than the week before. Fraser had already taken 9 seconds off his PB last week so to improve his PB by 19 seconds over two races was an amazing performance.
Highlights In the sprints came from victories for Kupa, Archie and Isla over 100m. Corrie, Ada, Ollie, Mia and Eva all recorded PBs.
In the field events, Kupa made it a double victory by winning the Shot Putt; Emma added 3 meters to her Javelin PB for 2nd place 0and backed up by Megan who won the B event in a new PB. Going home with the biggest smile on his face will no doubt be our jumps coach, Mark Szymanski, who saw Lasswade do the double-double in the U13 high jump competitions. Archie and Harrison won the boys A & B events and Ada and Orla took victory in the girls A & B events. No surprises, all of these in PBs!
Every athlete should be proud of their performances today.
Another strong performance from Team Lasswade saw us provisionally in 2nd place officials points to be added.
Provisional Team Results
(Excludes official points, U13s High Jump)
| Position | Team | Points |
| 1st | Cumbernauld | 477 |
| 2nd | Lasswade | 453.5 |
| 3rd | Livingston & District | 424 |
| 4th | Central | 422 |
| 5th | Harmeny ‘B’ | 402 |
| 6th | Dunfermline | 357 |
| 7th | Lothian | 275 |
| 8th | Dunbar | 208.5 |
Individual Results can be found here: https://data.opentrack.run/en-gb/x/2024/GBR/fvl-m1-d2/
Thanks you to Linden, John and Ruth for officiating; Dave, Zee and Fiona for helping run the events and to our coaches who are clearly doing a fantastic job with our athletes.
Next competition: The next competition in the Forth Valley League will be on Sunday 2nd June at Livingston. This time, we will be competing in the morning session. Entries are open now and will close on Sunday 26th May
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