Issue 803 - April 2010 - Race Walk UK

or abusive language. Also, if abuse istargeted at an official, the athlete may beimmediately disqualified.Handgun ReclassificationFrom 16th April it is illegal to possesscertain starters pistols without a firearmslicence. Following an announcement fromthe Association of Chief Police Officers, theOlympic 380 BBM imitation handgun hasbeen reclassified as a prohibited weaponand now requires the individual to hold aFirearms Certificate with authority topossess the particular weapon on it.English Anthem to be DecidedThe Anthem that will be played for Englishsportsmen and women in Delhi at theCommonwealth Games this year is currentlyup for decision. A shortlist of three has beendrawn up, and voting is open to the publicvia England Athletics. The final decision willbe made from; Jerusalem, God Save theQueen, and Land of Hope and Glory.Commonwealth Games ProgressEntries for the 2010 Commonwealth Gamestaking place in India this October have sofar been received from England, Australia,India, Malaysia, and Kenya. Entries fromSouth Africa, Canada, and New Zealand areyet to be announced. Other nations mayalso be confirmed later on. This is goodnews considering that very few nationscompeted in the last Commonwealth Gameswalks held in Australia, and the walkingevents came close to being eliminated fromthe Games.Commonwealth Games SelectionJo Jackson was the very first athlete to beselected for England’s 2010 CommonwealthGames team. She has been selected byEngland Athletics following her victory in theUK and RWA National 20k Championshipsat Victoria Park, London, on 11th April. Herwinning time of 1:39:14 was within theguideline time of 1:42. As a result of herperformance Johanna wasrecommended for selection by EnglandAthletics and this has been ratified byCommonwealth Games England.At the last Commonwealth GamesJohanna finished 7th but she haslowered her PB by a full 10 minutes sincethen. Last year she was the third fastestCommonwealth athlete over 20k. Jo, whois coached by Andi Drake and MaureenJackson, commented, “I'm really excitedto be selected for my secondCommonwealth Games. Four years agoit was a big learning experience for mebut this time round I will be looking for amedal. I've never been out to India,however, I realise racing conditions couldbe difficult, but they will be the same foreveryone. With the right preparations Ihope to have a successful Games.”Craig Hunter, Chef de Mission of theEngland team in Delhi, said: “Wecongratulate Johanna on her selectionand wish her the very best with hercontinuing training for Delhi”.England Athletics Team Leader JohnBrierley said, “It is exciting to haveactually started the process of selectingwhat will undoubtedly be a formidableand extremely ambitious EnglandAthletics team for Delhi. We wish Jo thevery best of preparations in the lead up towhat should prove to be a significantcompetitive milestone in her athleticscareer.”Martin Rush, one of the team coaches,commented, “Since making the transitionto race walking Jo’s progression hasbeen tremendous. We are very pleasedthat Jo has been selected and are veryexcited by what she has the potential toachieve in Delhi. I know that she will beworking diligently with her coaches AndiDrake and Maureen Jackson to ensureshe seizes the opportunity that theCommonwealth Games represents forher. Knowing that the first athlete hashad their selection confirmed adds to the

excitement and expectation that are buildingaround this year’s Commonwealth Games.”As part of her preparation Johanna will usethe Environmental Chamber in CarnegieSport Performance for three weeks prior todeparting for the pre-Games holding camp.Jo's acclimation will form part of a studyawarded a seeding grant from the Facultyentitled "The effects of an intermittent heatacclimation protocol on race walkingeconomy".Small Nations MatchJune 20th sees England hosting the annualSmall Nation's match at Bedord. The eventhas an EAA Permit and is rumoured to bethe domestic highlight of this years racewalking calendar. It will be be contested byteams from England, Ireland, Belgium,Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark. Theevent includes a final CommonwealthGames trial and is of crucial importance forthe development of the senior walkers forthe future of the sport in England. TheJunior 10,000m races will take place in thestadium as part of the UK Junior/U23Championships.USA Walkers IncentiveCash prizes are to be awarded in the 2010USATF 20k Race Walk Nationals in DesMoines, Iowa later this month. The prizemoney for men and women will be: 1st$4,000, 2nd $3,000, 3rd $2,000, 4th $1,000,5th $500, 6th $500.Ilford Get FaciltyThe purchase of the freehold of Ilford AC'sforest clubhouse site at Chigwell Row hasbeen completed. Ilford had leased thisfacility until now. The project has beencompletely funded from the legacy of clubstalwart Edgar Moon's estate and fromgenerous donations from many clubmembers including Edgar’s son, Brian. TheIlford spokesman commented on signing thedeal; “The club has had a strong presencein the area since 1923 and now that wecompletely own our Clubhouse we canguarantee that this will continue for yearsto come and also seek to develop the siteas a road and cross country centre forthe benefit of all”.Announcements100 Mile Walk Back ONLong distance enthusiasts should reservethe weekend of 7th/8th August, as a 100mile walk is to be held in Castle Park,Colchester. The event is being organisedby Chris Flint and preparations are wellunder way. Chris expects a good turnoutof over 30 for this Centurion qualifyingevent, despite the short notice. It has notyet been decided whether this event willalso be the 2010 National Long DistanceChampionships, but the number andquality of entries received within the nextfew weeks will affect the decision. Theannual 100 miles was originallyscheduled to take place on the Isle ofMan but was cancelled due toconstruction works.RWR ArchivesFollowing a call in the last issue, DougFotheringham has kindly offered toprovide the entire 400 missing backissues of Race Walking Record for thenew online archives. Doug recentlycelebrated his 80th birthday, and hasbeen heavily involved in race walking for60 years.International ResultsRace Walking Record magazine will nowinclude all major overseas walking resultsby popular request. A new section on thewebsite will also list international resultsas soon as they are available. Resultsstart later in this issue. Only major gamesopen to international walkers will bepublished, along with foreign races whereUK walkers have appeared. OtherNational results from various countries

may appear on the website, but minor andobscure results from overseas will not. Thismagazine has also increased in size toaccommodate all the international extras.Summer Training in SpainThe ambitious Enfield League are planninga leaguers training camp in Calella nearBarcelona, sometime between their tworaces on 2nd October and 6th November.Anyone interested should contact RonWallwork. Half board at the ***plus VOLGAHotel, Calella, based on double roomsharing will cost €30 per person per night.The likely dates are 5/6 to 12/13 Octoberand the simplest way to organise the week,would be for people to book the hotelthrough Ron and make their own travelarrangements.Young Volunteer Steps ForwardsAfter finishing his university studies for theyear, Tom Bosworth has volunteered to helpRWR/RWA. He is proving himselfresourceful and is currently helping with twonew projects. Please support any requestshe makes for information.Essex League 500th RaceThe 500th Essex League Race is to bestaged on Saturday 3rd July (2.30pm) atRedbridge Cycling Centre, Forest Road,Hainault, Essex IG6 3HP. It will be 5km, inkeeping with the 300th and 400th EssexLeague races, to encourage "one-off"comebacks by former Essex Leaguecompetitors. A large function hall (holdingup to 100 persons) is being hired for thepost race reunion/buffet/social. The EssexLeague will carry on to the last race in theyear, and then it will end.BMAF 20kIt is confirmed that this will take place onSaturday 26th June at NorthamptonRacecourse - the same venue as last year.The venue is quite central within the city andis situated about a mile north-east of therail station.Race Walking in WalesThe 3,000m racewalk Welsh OpenSenior and U20 Championships will beheld on Saturday 10 July at Carmarthen.There will also be a Welsh closedchampionship for U17 (3,000m); U13 andU15 (1,000m). The Senior/U20 is part ofthe McCain UK Challenge series, andmany of the top men and women arelikely to enter. The 3,000m is to bescheduled for mid-afternoon, so shouldgive most the chance to get across toWest Wales. Make a weekend of it - it's abeautiful part of the World. Details andentry forms are available online.Terry Simons 1926-2009From Eric HorwillTerry began his long athletics career withWorcester in the 1950's. He gained aWelsh International vest for a track walk.Although walking was his main discipline,he also took part in running events. I firstmet him in a 10 miles road run organisedby RAF Bridgnorth.He helped found Bromsgrove AC in theearly 1960's. (Maurice Doogan, theBMAF T&F supremo was also an earlymember.) Later he was part ofBromsgrove and Redditch AC when thetwo clubs merged.He then formed a breakthrough group,Nomads Walking Club, before in lateryears returning to B&R. He was mainlyresponsible for developing many youngwalkers, particularly with Nomadssquads. During this time the ReverendRoy Lodge (former international) was oneof his prominent competitors. Theybecame close friends and Roy gave oneof the readings at the funeral.Terry carried on competing as a veteranand gained many successes in World

and European Masters events. He was veryproud of his medals!A successful self-made businessman, hewill be remembered as an enthusiasticathlete, coach and organiser as well as areal character, not forgetting his famouswhiskers!We offer our sincere condolences to his wifeand family.Denis Withers 1927-2009From Eric HorwillMasters Athletics has lost one of it's bestknown and popular stalwarts who wasinvolved as a successful competitve athlete,a technical official, an administrator, as wellas an event organiser.As an athlete, Denis began his career as asprinter with Smethwick Harriers. Hecompeted for Harborne Harriers, HalesowenAC (he was a life member), and BirchfieldHarriers, as well as Midland Veterans AC.He gradually converted to race walking andcompeted regularly until about December2006. His achievements in European andWorld Masters Championships were quitememorable.As an organiser he masterminded not onlymany race walking events, but was heavilyinvolved in the BMAF Road Relay RunningChampionships held regularly in SuttonPark.And he still found time to officiate regularlyas a qualified field official. He was also formany years a keen member of the MVACcommittee.Denis, despite his 80+ years always lookeda lot younger than many of hiscontemporaries. He enjoyed good healthuntil the final 2 years. Away from athleticshe was a keen family man with a wide rangeof interests, including gardening, music,politics, travelling, and adult learning.He is survived by his wife Yvonne whoshared many of his interests, includingathletics. She also has competedsuccessfully in many European andWorld events. We offer our sincerecondolences to Yvonne and all theirfamily.Denis passed away in late December.Despite severe weather and deep snow,there was a huge turnout at the funeral,demonstrating how much he will bemissed by all of us.Bill Maxwell R.I.P.Bill was known to many as he was a truecharacter. Bill, who died age 76, walkedfor the now defunct Leyland Motors ACand when that folded he donned the vestof Lancashire WC. He qualified asCenturion 509 in 1973 at the toughBristol 100 Miles (20.52.29) and achievedthat feat 4 more times. He travelled allover and came south with LeylandMotors to race against Ford & VaxhallMotors in British IndustriesChampionship races organised by PatFurey and staged in Luton by the lateJohn Telford. We express condolence tohis family.Reverend David Christie-Murray R.I.P.The Reverend David Christie-Murray(SWC & The Centurions) a former winnerof the Enfield Open 7 Miles Walk hasdied at the age of 96. He scored two wartimevictories in 1940 and 41 with timesof 55:25 and 55:05 and attended theopen at Donkey Lane a few years ago.FeaturesParish Walk Preview 2010by Dave Mackey1,710 nervous walkers awaiting the gunat 8am on June 26th , preparing to takeon 85 miles of the most picturesque,demanding and hilly road race courses in

the world. Fantasy? No, this is the Isle ofMan Parish Walk, one of the most gruellingraces in the walking calendar. The eventhas gripped the island over the past 10years and its high profile has ensured arecord entry for this year.Having been sponsored by Clerical Medicalfor the past 20 years, the race is being rununder their Scottish Widows banner thisyear. This also means that as a sponsor ofLondon 2012, they have arranged for anOlympic ambassador to start and competein the walk this year - former World andOlympic 400m silver medallist Roger Blackwill be amongst the throngs on the start line.Before you get too excited, he will not beentertaining any thoughts of finishing therace!After the worst winter on the island for 30years, thoughts have come round to thisunique event. It has certainly become "thething to do", a challenge of both physicaland mental strength and endurance.The race starts in the island's capitalDouglas and from there heads south to PortErin, and then turns towards Peel on thewest coast and then finally to Ramsey in thenorth before heading back towards Douglas.The leaders will be finished in the dark onDouglas Promenade at roughly 11pm, butthe tail of the field will still be around to seethe sun come up at 8am, the 24 hour timelimit! Organisation of the event is run on amilitary scale and year on year,improvements are made for the benefit of allcompetitors. The main advance has seenthe use of electronic timing introduced in2007 which not only gives each walker splittimes for each church but also the ability fornon competitors to watch the progress inreal time via text message and on thewebsite.As usual, predicting the outcome of the raceis not easy as nothing can be taken forgranted over the distance. Winner of the lasttwo years, Jock Waddington is going for arare hat-trick achieved only twice before inthe race's 40 year history (John Cannell 81-83 and Willie Corkill 85-87) so statisticallyit's not easy for him. Despite the potentialabsence of record holder Sean Hands(14hrs 47min in 2006) due to injury,opposition will be tough with five timeswinner Robbie Callister back for anothercrack at what would be a record equalling6th victory. Also poised to go well are topten UK ranked 20k walker MichaelGeorge, last year's third Mark Hempsalland top newcomer from 2009 VinnyLynch. Former 100 mile winner PeterRyan is heading up a group from IlfordAC and it will be interesting to see howhe goes on his first attempt, given hisobvious pedigree. Even the editor of thismagazine is making the pilgrimage,intending to walk a portion of thecourse!!!What is definite is that there will be a newname on the ladies trophy this year, withthe retirement of multiple winner SueBiggart and the non-participation of lastyear's winner and record holder JaniceQuirk. In a hard race in which a few couldsurprise, Maureen Moffat and ShirleyGage will be among the favourites.Entries have now closed for this year butre-open for 2011 on December 1st. Itreally is something to behold, a road raceso well organised, so brilliantlypatronised and so cherished by us all.Everyone should do this at least onceand we look forward to seeing you nextyear on the beautiful Isle of Man whereyou can say "I did it!"UKA National Centre for RaceWalking: Year 1 - into the Year of theCoachBy Andi DrakeThe UKA National Centre for RaceWalking opened in April 2009 and at oneyear in it is timely to reflect on theposition of the Centre. The athletescurrently training at the Centre are*:Johanna Jackson, Brendan Boyce (IRL),Tom Bosworth, Kat Granger, Alex Wright(all Leeds Met. Carnegie); Mark O'Kane

(Leeds University); Lauren Whelan (LeedsCity College); Nathan Duncan(Cleethorpes); Gabrielle Terry (Kingstonupon Hull); Jamie Higgins (Leeds City AC);and on a 12 month exchange RachaelTeddy (AUS). We have hosted severalathletes for training camps and will welcomemembers of the Australian World Cup Teamfor a five week camp immediately followingthe World Cup. We continue to recruit for2010 entry and expect to add more athletesin September subject to successfulexamination results!We are delighted to have won both men'sand women's 2010 National 20 kmChampions in April with Tom Bosworth andJohanna Jackson. Our strategies andobjectives relate to developing talenttowards championship level competition.Johanna Jackson has become the firstBritish athlete to place on the podium in anIAAF Challenge placing 3rd in Sesto SanGiovanni on May 1st. Brendan Boyce (IRL)has achieved an IAAF qualifying time for the2011 World Athletics Championships 50 kmfollowing his debut recently in Dudince,Slovakia in March. 19 year old Alex Wrightrecorded 1 h 30 min for his debut 20 km inSesto San Giovanni and Tom Bosworth wonhis first ever national title on his debut 20km: both athletes straight from the juniorranks in 2009. In the successes of Johanna,Brendan, Alex and Tom we can see thetalent development process taking shape.We have also hosted race walk specificelements of the England Athletics NationalCoach Development Programme andcontinue this work with EA National CoachMentor Martin Rush. Moreover we lookforward to sharing our work and welcomingdelegates from around the World and theUK at the forthcoming 2010 EuropeanAthletics Coaching Summit Series when wehost the 1st European Race WalkingConference between 5th and 7th ofNovember.As Director of Race Walking I head up theprogramme but creating a performanceenvironment relies on a team ofprofessionals and the progression of theathletes has been strongly supported bybiomechanist Brian Hanley;physiotherapists from the CarnegieSports Physiotherapy Clinic, led byAlison Rose; nutritionist Louise Sutton;physiologists and psychologists fromCarnegie Sports Performance; andsupport coaching from Andy Henderson(strength & conditioning and endurancetraining) and Ian Richards. Thesecolleagues have got to know the athletesand as they develop their understandingof the race walking events their valuegrows! This set up provides the Carnegieathletes with quality coaching for alltraining sessions structured using sportscience and sport medicine support.Working so closely with the athletesallows constant monitoring of theirhealth/fitness/weakness status.Talent development goes beyond puttingin the kilometres in training as we seek todevelop all aspects of the performanceprocess. One of the principle areas ofwork has been conditioning in order toavoid injury and be ready to tolerateincreasing training workloads. This hasbeen an issue for some of the athletesand leads me to challenge our race walkcoaching knowledge and skills. Thephysiotherapy support required by theathletes at the Centre can be dividedequally between those who specialisedlate and those who specialised early: thelate specialisation group have utilised sixtimes less physiotherapy than the earlyspecialisation group in the periodSeptember 2009 to March 2010! Theathletes who specialised in race walkinglate (i.e. mid-teenage years) have a baseof athletic skills and competencies from arange of track & field events and othersports that provides a conditioning baseto tolerate training loads. The earlyspecialisation group have done little elseother than race walk since their earlyteenage years or younger... The supportwe are able to provide is effectivelyreducing the injury rate but we areengaging in remedial work that as agroup of professionals we feel is part of

athlete preparation from (at least) the earlyteenage years - this is the most importantstage of athletic preparation and there isevidence to support this being a make orbreak time in the development of the athlete(Robertson & Hamilton, 2008). Racewalkers who specialise early risk notdeveloping basic athletic movement skills,leading to injury from their one-sidedpreparation. Moreover it is evidenced thatmany of our younger age group athleteswho have specialised early completeinappropriate (too low) training loads, i.e.doublydisadvantaging them to theextent thatthey may beunable toreach theirpotential. Along-termathletedevelopmentmodel should consider appropriate activitiesfor the career stage of the athlete; andorganise these to suit the appropriate stagein the training/competition year througheach day's activities.Photo: Andi DrakeOur coaching challenge is thus twofold -firstly where we have coaches there areathletes. More coaches should thereforeequal more athletes so I would encouragemany of our veteran athletes to competeless and coach more, seeking a UKAthletics coaching licence to help bring newtalent into the race walk events. Secondly Iwould encourage our existing coachingtalent to continue developing theirknowledge and skills to challenge andsupport young race walkers effectively, e.g.through development of wider athleticmovement skills; and not to be afraid ofencouraging them to take part in a range oftrack & field events and sports as part oftheir all round development. It has been apositive and productive process workingwith colleagues on the England AthleticsCoach Development Mentoring Programmerecently sharing our ideas and workingtogether on tools to support these ideas.UK Athletics have designated 2010 asYear of the Coach* so let's get more ofus involved in coaching and improvingthe depth of our talent pool.Further reading: Robertson, S., Hamilton,A. (2008) Long-Term AthleteDevelopment - Canadian Sport for Life.Canadian Sport Centres, Vancouver.(http://www.canadiansportforlife.ca/ )*athlete coaching teams:Johanna Jackson: Middlesborough &Cleveland Harriers. Coaches Andi Drake& Maureen JacksonBrendan Boyce: Ireland/Coventry GodivaHarriers. Coach Andi DrakeTom Bosworth: Tonbridge AC. CoachesAndi Drake & Peter SelbyKat Granger: Sheffield. Coaches AndiDrake & Brian AdamsAlex Wright: Belgrave Harriers. CoachesAndi Drake & Ray HallMark O'Kane: Coventry Godiva Harriers.Coaches Andi Drake & Dave RatcliffeLauren Whelan: Manx Harriers. CoachesAndi Drake & Liz CorranNathan Duncan: Cleethorpes. CoachesRuss Jackson & Andi DrakeGabrielle Terry: Kingston upon Hull.Coaches Russ Jackson & Andi DrakeJamie Higgins: Leeds City AC. CoachAndi DrakeRachael Teddy: Australia/Victorian RaceWalking Club. Coach Andi Drake.FEATURE: McCain UKA Race WalkingChallenge 2010-When was the McCain UKA RaceWalking Challenge created?In 2007, when UK Athletics launched itas a new competitive structure for racewalking, to bring about more appropriateand meaningful competition for athletes

and to elongate the season for top clubathletes.-What are its objectives?To provide the strata of British athletes justbelow that of our international standard witheffective, professional competition from thebeginning of the season through to the Finalin September.To provide wider competition opportunitiesand focus for the season for aspiringathletes.To provide quality competition for athleteswho may not otherwise have the opportunityto compete against each other.To provide competition that covers thewhole of the UK.-How many events are involved?The UKA Race Walking Challenge for 2010involves a total of 7 events, plus a Final,during the course of the season and iscreated through a number of existingcompetitions. Existing competition providershave chosen to be part of this increasinglyprestigious series to form links across anumber of events.The events are as follows:-6th March: CAU Inter CountyChampionships/Molly Barnet, Coventry. 10kMen / 5k Women11th April: UKA/RWA/EA National Champs,London. 20k Men & Women31st May: CAU Inter Counties, Bedford. 3kMen & Women12th June: Northern Ireland & Ulster Open,Antrim Forum Track & Field Championships.3k Men & Women20th June: EAA Permit Meeting, Bedford.20k Men & Women27th June: Aviva European Trials,Birmingham. 5k Men & Women10th July: Welsh Championships,Carmarthen. 3k Men & Women11th September: Final – McCain UK RaceWalking Challenge Final, Coventry. 10kmMen & Women-How does the McCain UKA RaceWalking Challenge work?Throughout the season athletes will havethe chance to register their 3 bestperformances and these will beconverted into points and displayed in arankings system. Even if you compete atall the qualifying events it will still only beyour best 3 scores that count.Athletes take this overall score into theFinal. At the Final, an athlete’s score willbe calculated based on their performanceand multiplied by a factor of 1.5. Thisscore is then added to their previouspoints total and the athletes with thehighest number of points will be awardedthe prizes and the titles of McCain UKARace Walking Challenge Champions for2010.-How are the points calculated?McCain UK Challenge points tables havebeen produced specifically for theMcCain UKA Race Walking Challenge.The results will be taken from each meetand converted into points and displayedin the McCain UKA Race WalkingChallenge Rankings.Men and Women will be scoredseparately.-How can an athlete check theirrankings?The McCain UKA Race WalkingChallenge rankings are readily availableand can be accessed via the UKAwebsite www.ukathletics.net. Therankings are updated after each eventand an athlete’s current placing will beshown based on the scores derived fromtheir performances.-What do the overall winners receive?The following prize money will be paid tothe best Male and Female:-

1st Place: £250, 2nd Place: £150, 3rdPlace: £100-Who can I contact for further information?Dr Ian RichardsTel: 0113 8127039Email:- I.Richards@leedsmet.ac.ukDr Andrew DrakeTel:- 0113 8123527E-mail: A.Drake@leedsmet.ac.ukPaul Aldridge, UK AthleticsTel:- 0121 713 8410Email:- paldridge@uka.org.ukNUTRITION: Enzymes - keys to a healthylife - part oneBy Pat ReevesWithout enzymes, nothing would be alive onour planet. No animal, plant-life or humanbeings can exist without them. At anyminute millions of microscopic enzymes arepowering throughout your body causingreactions to occur. You would be unable tobreathe, hold and turn the pages of RaceWalking Record to find how your comrades -and the competition (!) did; unable to eat,taste the food on your plate, drive, work orre-boot the computer. You would havereturned to the soil and likely fertilising thenext crop generation, if not for enzymes.More than 3,000 types of enzymes areknown to proliferate the human body,effecting everything from renewal, digestion,maintenance and protection. Enzymesconstantly change and renew themselves.Enzymes are protein-based particles foundin every living cell of everything which isalive, or becomes alive. They are truly thepower houses of each and every cell.Basically they either initiate chemicalreactions or speed them up. Consider thesimple act of turning milk into yoghurt,cabbage into sauerkraut, grapes into wine,etc. Enzymes were definitely at work inthese processes!All life processes, whether breathing,thinking, digestion, etc is a complexseries of chemical reactions known asmetabolism. There are actually two partsto metabolism known as anabolism andcatabolism: Anabolism is any type ofprocess in which simpler substances areduly combined to form something morecomplex (muscle-building for instance)and catabolism is basically any processin which living cells break downsubstances into simpler particles(digestion for instance).Obviously, in my profession, enzymesresponsible for digestion featureenormously - and those accountable forhealing - being of particular, personalimportance following my surgeries - areabsolutely vital to me at present.The sum total of anabolism andcatabolism is metabolism. Enzymes arethe catalysts that make the chemicalreactions possible.Above and beyond enzymes' metabolicroles - they are also food potentiators. Alledible foodstuffs have potential nutrientswhich need 'unlocking' in a way ourbodies can make use of them.For as long as out bodies can produceenzymes, we thrive. However, ourbodies' production slows dramaticallywith age, illness, injury - sporting or not,and our old enemy - stress. If our bodiescannot produce them sufficientlyeffectively, or produce them with anoptimal activity level, then enzymes mustbe acquired in supplemental form - thatwill be either pills or fermented orsprouted live food. No other form isadequate.Each of the 3,000 plus types of enzymesperform their work differently. Someenzymes are secreted in active formothers - such as those involved indigestion - are secreted in an inactiveform, requiring co-factor enzymes tomake them ready to do their work.

How do you know if you are digestiveenzyme-deficient? Simply speaking you willsuffer from indigestion, flatulence, gas,bloating, illness etc. Illness is likely the mostobvious signal that your enzymes arerunning low. As l previously said, enzymes'make you work', so any illness, or diseaseprocess, such as cardiovascular,degenerative disease such as cancer or aslow recovery rate after an injury/surgery etcare indications that your body's enzymesare not of optimal content.My surgeon just said that he is amazed withmy exceptional healing ability from the triplesurgeries effected almost twelve weeks agocompared to 'normal' people. Obviouslygrateful for being 'abnormal' - my regime ofsprouted/living foods is definitelyresponsible for a much sort-after conclusion.As athletes we need to supply our bodieswith an optimal amount of live, activeenzymes.These can be supplied in abundance bysprouting your food, using microbialfermentations and in concentrated plantextracts called 'functional' foodstuffs.Animal-based enzymes are usuallyextracted from pig or calf pancreas. Plantforms are extracted from papaya andpineapple.More about enzymes next time - especiallythe healing variety. -Pat Reeves.Results and ReportsBritish Masters Indoor Track & FieldChampionships27th March 2010Lee Valley Center, LondonIn the last indoor event of the season, thewalks were well supported. A new BritishRecord set by W75 Maureen Spelman.3000m Walk M451 Francisco Reis 49 SCVAC 14-25.553000m Walk M501 Steve Allen 53 OPEN 16-15.063000m Walk M551 Sean Pender 56 VAC 17-47.813000m Walk M601 Sean McMullin 64 IRL (G) 16-32.422 Michael O'Connor 60 IRL (G) 17-27.383 Howard Brown 61 WMAA 19-39.074 John Hall 61 VAC DNF3000m Walk M651 Peter Hannell 67 VAC 17-15.462 Ronald Penfold 68 VAC 17-35.493 Peter Howard 67 EVAC 19-12.003000m Walk M701 Arthur Thomson 73 VAC 16-14.132 Ron Powell 73 SCVAC 19-05.313 Dave Stevens 73 VAC 20-11.504 Bernard Hercock 73 VAC 21-27.72Arthur Thomson and Francisco Reis3000m Walk W351 Joanna Stringer 38 SCVAC 18-36.383000m Walk W401 Priscilla O'Sullivan 44 IRL (G) 20-23.253000m Walk W451 Helen Middleton 47 EVAC 16-28.522 Maureen Noel 46 VAC 18-30.873000m Walk W501 Ann Wheeler 54 MMAC 17-15.022 Fiona Bishop 50 VAC 19-12.433 Norma Grimsey 53 SCVAC 21-02.533000m Walk W551 Cath Duhig 55 EVAC 18-30.813000m Walk W601 Ann Lewis 62 SCVAC 19-09.912 Susan Barnett 60 EVAC 19-16.983000m Walk W751 Maureen Spelman 75 VAC 22-24.72New British RecordSudbury 5 Miles2nd AprilSudbury, Suffolk

The Sudbury 5 mile Fun Walk at on GoodFriday attracted two hundred walkers,mostly fun walkers.5 mile1 Helen Middleton 45.422 Richard Emsley 46.463 Amos Seddon 48.114 David Sharpe, 50.295 Malcolm Brown, 56.346 Bernie Hercock 57.567 Serena Queeney 58.118 Sue Smith 58.439 Michael Croft 60.38IOMVAC Spring Handicap Walk/AnnBrough TrophyThursday 8th April 2010NSC, Isle of Man5km1 Michael George 24:24 (6th Handicap)2 Jock Waddington 25:01 (1st)3 Sean Hands 25:55 (5th)4 Vinny Lynch 27:47 (4th)5 Dave Mackey 29:40 (3rd)6 Terri Salmon 31:22 (8th)7 Colin Moore 32:47 (2nd)8 Ian Callister 33:33 (10th)9 Christina Twizle 35:18 (7th)10 Henry De Silva 37:03 (9th)"Bedell Cristin" Eric Waldron TrophyFriday April 9th 2010Osmond Priaulx, GuernseyRace winner Jason Le Noury was only a fewseconds down on his time set in last yearsevent, as he crossed the line in 15.10,leading from start to finish. Second manhome Stuart Le Noury, who had PhilLockwood for company for the first few laps,removed 21 seconds from his PB. A big 2mile PB for Phil Lockwood gave him thirdplace. Mick Le Sauvage came home in22.05, beating the old Guernsey Age Besttime set by Denis Dedman.2 mile track walk1 Jason Le Noury M 15.102 Stuart Le Noury M 15.273 Phil Lockwood M35 15.424 Rob Elliott M50 17.485 Kevin Le Noury M50 20.596 Mick Le Sauvage M70 22.05Kent Young Athletes League11th April 2010Canterbury, KentGirls 1200 Metres Walk1 Megan Lillington U15 Ashford 8:00.22 Ellen Driscoll U15 Tonbridge 8:15.13 Charlotte Cohen U15 Tonbridge 8:29.23 Sian Driscoll U15 Tonbridge 8:29.25 Alex Wheelwright U15 B&B 8:35.76 Felicity Endacott U13 Ashford 8:40.97 Emma Waugh U15 B&B 8:50.38 Nicole Walker U15 B&B 8:59.39 Eleanor Winter U13 Bexley 9:20.010 Hannah Czarnowski U13 Ton 9:24.0Boys 1200 metres Walk1 Luc Legon U13 Bexley 7:53.92 Charlie Jinks U15 Bexley 8:21.33 Olly Nix U13 Tonbridge 8:39.44 Elliot Conboy U13 Tonbridge 8:40.15 Jacob Marks U15 Bexley 8:59.36 Daniel Marks U13 Bexley 9:10.2YRWC Club RaceSunday 11th AprilYRWC held a club race over 2 laps of theintended new 'Bradford' circuit. This is atough course - not many would bewishing it was still 50km! -Alan Brooks14.3km1 A Shand 91.222 R Jackson 98.233 A Brooks 101.054 K French 101.065 P Carroll 115.31G Dowling - 1 lap onlyVAC Summer WalksTuesday 13th AprilBattersea Park, LondonThe field for the first of the year’sBattersea Park 5 milers was up to a veryreasonable 20 despite the National 20kbeing only two days previously and themajority had also taken part in the 20k.The Park saw the pleasant sunnyweather that these races usually enjoywith a slight but cold breeze. The front ofthe field was unusually strong with fourinside 45. -Peter Hannell5 miles1 M. EASTON 39-482 F. REIS 41-12

3 P. RYAN 43-064 H. MIDDLETON 45-30 L5 A. THOMSON 45-366.M. SCAMMELL 46-287 J. HALL 46-488 S. ALLEN 48-59 (Barnet)9 P. HANNELL 49-2010 S. PENDER 50-1611 P. KING 50-3512 M. HINTON 50-4813 F. BISHOP 51-06 L14 C. FLINT 51-1115 P. CRANE 52-2616 D. HOBEN 56-0417 J. MAY-ENF 57-3518 B. HERCOCK 60-0619 K. CRILLEY 62-40 L20 J. MAY-VAC 64-52Birchfield Games & Open17th April 2010Alexander Stadium, BirminghamAn A race followed by a B race. An excellentdebut for newcomer Marc Sheridan fromNorth Wales, who took up race walking tolose weight and shed eight stone in twoyears, walking every morning.3000m1 13:26 Tommy Taylor (Birch)2 15:32 Holly Smith (Birch)3 15:48 John Constandinou (Birch)2000m1 11:28 Daniel Watling (W&B)2 11:52 Marc Sheridan (unatt)3 12:40 Tracy Mills (Birch)4 12:53 Isabelle Reid (Birch)5 12:57 Karen Davies (Birch)6 13:09 Tasha Webster (Hereford)7 13:24 Jill Langford (W&B)8 13:35 Jessica Mills (Birch)Sunday April 18th 2010Isle of Man 5k and YAG ChampionshipsN.S.C. perimeter roadway5k1 Michael George Manx Harriers 24.14 M402 Andy Green MH 27.01 M553 Vinny Lynch IOMVAC 27.07 M454 Alexander Eaton MH 28.13 U15 B5 David Walker Unatt 28.19 M356 Marie Jackson MH 28.24 W457 Adam Cowin MH 28.56 U17 M8 Sally Walker MH 29.45 W359 Dave Mackey MH 29.53 M4010 Judith Quane U/a 30.05 W4011 Terri Salmon IOMVAC 30.47 W4512 Jane Foster U/a 30.56 W3513 James Green MH 30.59 U17 M14 Sinead Kaneen MH 31.39 U15 G15 Debbie Storrie U/a 33.47 W353k1 Danielle Oates MH 17.11 U15 G2 Juan Bellando MH 17.58 U15 B3 Alexandra Ross MH 18.01 U15 G4 Rebecca Storrie Unatt 20.46 U13 G5 Rebecca Greatbatch U/a 21.58 U15 G1k1 Lee Mackey U/a 7.29 U11 boy2 Keira Mackey U/a 7.33 U9 girl3 Stephen Waddington U/a 7.50 U9 boy4 Max Walker U/a 7.50 U9 boy5 Lucy Corkish U/a 9.24 U9 girl6 Connor Cain U/a 10.36 U7 boyPhiladelphia Cup team race1 Mile handicap road walkLes Amarreurs, Vale, GuernseyA PB by Phil Lockwood, in chasing downhis team mate Dave Dorey in the finalstraight, was his reward as he crossedthe line first in the Philadelphia Cuphandicap walk. Their first and secondplacings were unbeatable, enabling themto take the Cup. Back in fifth place, thelast man to start Jason Le Noury alsobeat his PB, edging closer to a sevenminute mile with a 7.04 clocking. Stuart leNoury with a 7.12 clocking was thesecond fastest walker, with his teammate Carol Bates having a good race togive them second spot in the team event.2km(Watch time / Actual time)1 Phil Lockwood M35 11.30/ 7.152 Dave Dorey M60 11.31 / 10.163 Carol Bates W55 11.35 / 10.504 Mick Le Sauvage M60 11.39 / 10.245 Jason Le Noury M 11.39 / 7.046 Stuart Le Noury M 11.42 / 7.127 Kay Coulson W40 12.02 / 12.028 Kevin Le Noury M50 12.11 / 10.26Team result for Philadelphia Cup1 Team A: P. Lockwood, D Dorey 23.01

2 Team C: S Le Noury, C. Bates 23.173 Team B: J Le Noury, K Coulson 23.414 Team D K Le Noury, M Le Sauvage 23.50Midland Masters Handicap WalksEdgbaston Reservoir, BirminghamTaking place at the same time as theMasters Running Relays, with some walkersfaster than the runners.5km1 27:34 J.Constandinou Bir (35:34 H’cap)2 32:17 Les Scrivens Worc M (35:57)3 34:28 Lynn Bellfield Hale W (35:58)4 32:14 Julie Bellfield Hale W (36:29)5 30:51 Glyn Jones Cov M (36:41)6 36:43 Eric Horwill D&S M (36:43)7 34:36 Karen Davies Bir W (37:06)Jeff Ford Open Walks/YAG GrandPrix/Northern ChampionshipsDon Valley Stadium, SheffieldKatie Ford won the senior 5k for the thirdtime. Becky Chambers secured the U13Grand Prix title by winning all five of theGrand Prix events so far. She got within 3seconds of her new PB from the Nationals.She had travelled overnight from Guernsey,arriving home at 5am on the morning of therace! There were a number of other PB's,notably Emma Achurch who knockedanother 12 seconds off her 3k time havingreduced it by 22 seconds when winning thenational. -Brian AdamsUnder 13 Girls 2k1 Rebecca Chambers Sheffield 11.222 Niamh McKevitt St Wilfreds School 12.523 Ella Jenkinson Greenhill School 12.52Under 15 Boys 3k1 Daniel Watling W&B 16.112 Daniel Waples Kettering 16.11Under 15 Girls 3k1 Emma Achurch Leicester 16.17Under 17 Boys 5k1 Nathan Duncan Cleethorpes 26.222 Ben Woollas Cleethorpes 28.04Under 17 Women 5k1 Jasmine Nicholls Leicester 28.40Senior Women 5k1 Katie Ford Sheffield 26.342 Sue Rey Leicester 35.35Senior Men 5k1 Mark Wall Leicester 28.282 John Paddick Redcar 31.403 Peter Bilson Sheffield 40.09Senior Women 10k1 Helen Middleton Enfield 55.412 Karen Wears Redcar 57.453 Angela Paddick Redcar 59.064 Laurayne Redman Redcar 65.015 Sue Rey Leicester 71.13Senior Men 10k1 Ben Wears Redcar 44.392 Paul Evennett Redcar 45.273 Adrian Edwards Lancashire 55.324 Glen Blythman Redcar 57.205 Mark Byrne Redcar 59.076 Alastair Shand YRWC 60.077 David Crompton Lancashire 61.408 John Paddick Redcar 61.499 Keith French YRWC 67.1610 Stephen Walker Lancashire 67.3211 David Hoben Surrey 71.42DNF Mark Wall Leicester DNF2nd South Yorkshire LeagueFriday 23rd AprilPeter racing over 2km held on by just 9seconds from fast closing Becky whoproduced a 6 second PB (3km).1 Peter Bilson Snr 15.30 2km2 Becky Chambers 18.29 3kmSaturday 24th AprilGoodwin CupChorley, LancashireConditions for the race were very warmand sunny.10 Miles(Time, H’cap time, H'cap position)1 Greg Smith M55 1:42:02 1:39:32 (7)2 Alistair Shand M45 1:43:37 1:35:37 (5)3 Dave Evans M60 1:44:28 1:34:28 (4)4 Glyn JonesM65 1:47:53 Cov 1:29:53(1)5 Salaish Shah M45 1:52:24 1:36:24 (6)6 Joe Hardy M65 1:53:05 1:41:05 (8)7 Pat Evans W55 1:58:00 1:34:00 (3)8 Eric HorwillM75 2:14:18 D&S1:33:18(2)London Inter-Club Challenge / EnfieldLeague Race 4Copthall StadiumIt turned out to be Ladies Day at the firstLICC meeting of the year. In ideal

conditions Diane Bradley and KelseyHoward completely demolished the LICCrecord of 15.49 set in 2004 at BatterseaPark by Belgrave's V. Lauer. Sue Barnettand Norma Grimsey also set PB's as didSteve Allen.3000m Women1 Diane Bradley (Tonbridge) 15.22 W452 Kelsey Howard (Tonbridge) 15.36 u173 Helen Middleton (Enfield) 16.24 W454 Anne Belchambers (Steyning) 18.34 W555 Di Braverman (Enfield) 18.55 W556 Sue Barnett (Enfield) 19.11 W607 Norma Grimsey (Enfield) 20.05 W503000m Men1 Fransico Reis (Ilford) 14.24 M452 Trevor Jones (Steyning) 15.04 M503 Steve Uttley (Ilford) 15.16 M504 Steve Allen (Barnet) 15.44 M505 Andrew Cox (Hillingdon) 16.18 M556 John Ralph (Chiltern H) 16.43 M507 Amos Seddon (Enfield) 17.06 M608 Michael Harran (Surrey) 17.15 M709 Ken Bobbett (Hillingdon) 17.24 M6510 Sean Pender (Enfield) 17.27 M6511 David Sharpe (Ilford) 17.34 M5512 Michael Hinton (Ilford) 18.48 M5513 Ron Powell Enfield) 18.52 M7015 Jon May (Enfield) 19.34 M5515 Bernie Hercock (Enfield) 20.51 M7016 David Ainsworth (Ilford) 23.29 M60RAF WARMA 2 day marches24th - 25th AprilRAF Cosford, WolverhamptonThis event is largely the qualifying event formilitary teams in Nijmegen 4 day marchesand has entries of about 1,500 of which 150are civilians, making it one of the largestwalking events in Britain. The routes, whichare principally on roads, are scenic from thestart and throughout, and includes threestately homes (the route actually goingthrough the grounds of one of them) a fewkm of canal towpath and the Royal Oakwhere King Charles II hid to escape theRoundheads. There is a very British feelabout this, with Union & Welsh flags inabundance, spectators & polite applause foreach finisher with traditional RAF hospitality.Ideal for stamina building. 10k/20k/40k perday. -David Hoben2 x 40kChris Bolton - Lancs WCMaurice Ireland - Lancs WCDave Hoben - Sy WCJill Green - CenturionsHans Rennie - Centurions"Yorkshire Guernsey" ChampionshipRace 3Sunday April 25th 2010Delancey Park, GuernseyMens 10 kms road walk1 Jason Le Noury M 52.082 Phil Lockwood M35 53.163 Stuart Le Noury M 55.264 Rob Elliott M50 60.285 Kevin Le Noury M50 68.176 Dave Dorey M60 71.557 Mick Le Sauvage M70 72.47Womens 10 kms road walk1 Rose Druckes W65 75.31Hewitt Cup 2010 - Round 1Tuesday 27th April 2010Maks Orzal won the first race of the 2010Hewitt Cup series with a fine walk thatbroke the 10 minute barrier for 2km. Lastyear's champion in this event, Joe Smith,improved on his PB to take second placeand clock the fastest time in the UK forhis age-group. Jasmine Nichollstriumphed in the girl's event but it was ahard fought victory as Emma Achurchchallenged her throughout the race.Rachael Woolley made a welcome returnto take the other podium position. In thiscompetition the individual standings arebased on a handicapping system whichencourages all competitors to improve, orget close to, their best times over the 3race series. Half of the walkers betteredtheir previous best times. BenjaminAllen's performance was just enough togive him an early lead over team-matesJake Smith and Max Flanagan in theboys league standings. In the girl's table,debutant Emma Walker leads ahead ofsisters Emma and Laura Achurch. JoeSmith, still only year 5, is proving to be agreat find with another fine pb in front ofjudges Pete Markham and Chris Smith. -George Smolinski

2k Girls1 Jasmine Nicholls Countesthorpe 10:342 Emma Achurch Leysland HS 10:403 Rachael Woolley Coventry Uni 10:564 Laura Achurch Blaby Stokes 14:065 Emma Walker Blaby Stokes 14:096 Kezia Brown Blaby Stokes 15:077 Isobel Keanan Blaby Stokes 17:108 Neve Duguid Blaby Stokes 17:569 Sophie Higgins Blaby Stokes 18:322k Boys1 Maks Orzal Leicester Grammar 9:592 Joe Smith Blaby Stokes 12:203 Edward Poyser Blaby Stokes 13:52=4 Benjamin Allen Blaby Stokes13:57=4 Max Flanagan Blaby Stokes 13:576 Jake Smith Blaby Stokes 14:037 Josh Bramley Blaby Stokes 18:30VAC, Surrey, Hertfordshire & MiddlesexTrack ChampionshipsWednesday 28th April 2010Battersea Park, LondonIt was a good meeting with 22 starters andfinishers on a warm Spring evening andalthough Ian Richards, Olympian andCenturion, convincingly won the overall raceit was good to see other walkers tussling itout in their own battles further down thefield. The turnout by officials is greatlyappreciated and a number had respondedto the appeal circulated by Essex Walker.Such communications channels are mostuseful and this is also greatly appreciated. -Chris FlintThe evening was pleasant but not too hotand times generally satisfactory but notoutstanding. An exception to this was MickHarran who chased the normally muchfaster Shaun Lightman all the way to finishless than half a minute behind and insidethe hour for the first time. -Peter Hannell10,000m1 I.Richards (Stey) M60-1 48:54.02 S.Uttley (Ilf) M50-1 53:46.33 E.Viljoen (HW) W35-1 54:39.6 Sry14 S.Allen (Bar) M50-2 55:32.6 Herts15 A.Thomson (HP) M70-1 55:52.5 Herts26 J.Hall (Bel) M60-2 55:55.2 1st Mddx7 H.Middleton (E&H)W45-1 57:22.0Herts8 S.Lightman(SWC)M65-1 59:15.3Mddx29 M.Harran (SWC) M70-2 59:39.7 Sry110 M.Culshaw (Bel) 40 60:17.7 Mddx311 S.Pender (E&H) M55-1 61:00.5 Mddx12 M.Noel(Bel)W45-2 62:11.4 Sry Mddx113 P.Hannell (SWC) M65-2 62:40.0 Sry214 I.Statter (SWC) M50 62:46.2 Sry315 M.Hinton (Ilf) M65 3 63:42.016 C.Flint (L Vid) M65 63:43.3 Sry17 F.Bishop (Wok) W50-2 66:27.5 Sry218 Jon May (LonVid) M55 66:28.2 Middx19 D.Delaney (SWC) M65 69:28.7 Sry20 D.Hoben (SWC) M55 2 71:09.7 Sry21 B.Hercock (Enf) M70 3 71:11.9 Mddx22 John May (L Vid) M75 1 77:48.8 SryGraham Mann Team RaceSunday May 2nd 2010Les Amarreurs, GuernseyTwo good walks from the first two acrossthe line gave them a great start in theteam race. Winner Jayne Le Nouryedged out her team mate Carol Bates byonly three seconds as they were joinedby Dave Dorey, back in fifth place, to winthe trophy by a minute from the secondteam of Phil Lockwood and Kevin andJason Le Noury. The team trophy, firstheld in 1968, in memory of walkerGraham Mann, is decided on thecombined times of each teams threewalkers as they pass the finish line. Thethree fastest actual times of the day wereset by the last three home. PhilLockwood removed over half a minutefrom his PB with a 14.15 clocking, whilstJason Le Noury took four seconds off hisbest with 13.44. -Rob Elliott3 kms handicap road walk(Watch time, Actual time)1 Jayne Le Noury W45 22.51 / 20.212 Carol Bates W55 22.54 / 20.543 Mick Le Sauvage M70 22.55 / 19.554 Kevin Le Noury M50 23.04 / 19.045 Dave Dorey M60 23.18 / 19.486 Kay Coulson W40 23.28 / 23.287 Jason Le Noury M 23.29 / 13.448 Phil Lockwood M35 23.35 / 14.159 Stuart Le Noury M 24.26 / 14.56Graham Mann Team result1 C Bates, Jayne Le Noury, D Dorey2 P Lockwood, K Le Noury, Jas Le Noury3 M Le Sauvage, K Coulson, S Le Noury

Tonbridge Open Track raceMonday 3rd May 20103000m1 Liam Baldwin M20 Tonbidge 14:48.742 Kate Funnell W17 Ashford 15:24.013 Emily Symons W20 Ton. 16:28.564 Guy Thomas M15 Ton 16:42.135 Rebecca Roddy W15 Ash 17:59.616 Ben Parsons M17 Ton 18:03.957 Garry Macdonlaid M50 Surrey 18:34.458 Cameron Corbishey M15 M&M 18:34.789 Julia Beer W17 Ton 20:05.4010 Cathernine Coterill W17 Ton 20:14.1311 Kevin Burnett M70 Surrey 21:56.67Pednor 5 miles / BuckinghamshireChampionshipsMonday 3rd May 2010Bank Holiday Monday saw the picturesquePednor course in Chelsham with a field ofover 30 walkers over the hilly lanes, despitethe uninviting weather.Mens 5 miles1 42:04 Francisco Reis Ilford M452 43:28 Peter Ryan Ilford M553 43:29 Steven Uttley Ilford M504 45:43 John Ralph Chiltern M50 Bucks5 45:44 Arthur Thomson Enfield M706 49:13 Sean Pender Enfield M557 50:47 Michael Harran Surrey M708 51:06 Christopher Flint Lon.Vid M659 51:18 Mark Wall Leicester M5510 52:24 Les Scrivens Worcester M6511 54:17 Scott Jones Surrey12 56:31 Trevor Brawn Chilt M60 Bucks13 57:35 David Hoben Surrey M5514 57:55 Bernard Hercock Enfield M7015 58:05 Martyn Cartwright CH M65 Bucks16 58:35 Andy Newing GVH M4017 59:18 Phil Goodwin Unat M5518 63:57 Steve Allen Barnet M5019 68:11 Mike Morgan BJ M70 Bucks20 70:26 Barry Gilbert WR M6021 70:59 Peter Morris RRR M5022 75:29 Gareth Cadwallader unat M50Ladies 5 miles1 45:38 Helen Middleton Enfield W452 52:19 Jackie Carver Unat W40 Bucks3 53:04 Fiona Bishop Woking W504 58:40 Ruth Lingley WSEH W45 Bucks5 59:38 Sue Rey Leicester W506 60:43 Laura Butt Chiltern W35 Bucks7 63:56 Anna Allen Unat W508 64:04 Elspeth Attwood Unat W509 69:37 Deborah Lewis Hillingdon W4510 75:29 Nancy Neville Unat W50Boys 2 miles1 25:09 Jonathon Lee U13Midland Veterans League - EastDivision, Match 1Wednesday 5th May 2010NuneatonJohn Culshaw made a welcome return toracing, after his heart attack and bypassoperation last year.M40 2000m1 Mark Williams 09:35.4 Tamworth2 John Thompson 11:42.5 Harborough3 Mick Aston 11:53.1 Leamington4 Steve Harris 11:53.9 R&N Lions5 Mark Barrowclough 12:17.5 R&N6 Neil Smith 12:33.6 Nuneaton7 Chris Smith 15:57.5 LeicesterM60 2000m1 Colin Turner 10:39.1 Nuneaton2 Keith Richards 12:08.6 R&N3 Dave Harmer 12:57.2 Charnwood4 Dave Oram 13:18.7 Harborough5 John Culshaw snr 16:16.7 TamworthW35 2000m1 Tricia Garner 12:16.3 R&N Saints2 Sophia Howard 13:27.9Charnwood3 Alison Hay 13:54.1 Nuneaton4 Unity Hamilton Harding 14:04.8 Harb.W40 2000m1 Ann Wheeler 10:39.7 Nuneaton2 Carol Birch 12:57.0 R&N Lions3 Sarah Bland 13:22.1 Leamington4 Yvonne Barber 14:28.4 Harborough5 Val Cross 14:37.7 R&NKent Veteran’s League MatchFriday 7th May 2010Canterbury2km1 S. Lightman (Sy WC/B &B) 10:282 R. Michell (Sy WC/B & B) 10:383 G. Macdonald (Sy WC/Ashfd) 11:55County Track & Field Championshipswere held over the weekend 8th/9th Mayin many counties across the country.

Saturday May 8th 2010Northamptonshire County Track & FieldChampionshipsCorbyU11 Boys 1000m1 Joe Bowskill KTH U11 Boys 6:45.5U11 Girls 1000m1 Tabatha Walford KTH U11 Girls 7:07.02 Rhiannon Cole KTH U11 Girls 7:17.3U15 Boys 3000m1 Daniel Waples KTH U15 Boys 16:26.6Senior Men 3000m1 Mark Wall MMKAC SM 18:29.9Senior Women 3000m1 Helen Middleton E & H SW(G) 16:18.82 Sarah Lightman LWC SW(G) 19:17.43 Sue Rey MMKAC SW 21:38.5Veteran Women 3000m1 Valerie Cross R & N VW 22:47.6Sussex & Surrey County ChampionshipsK2 Crawley3000m Men1 Ian Richards M60 Steyn 13:57.0 Sx VM12 Trevor Jones M50 Steyn 15:07.3 Sx SM13 Ron Penfold M65 Steyn 17:01.5 Sx VM24 Peter Hannell M65 SWC 17:32.7 Sry SM15 Ian Statter M50 SWC 17:47.2 Sry SM26 Chris Flint M60 L.Vids 18:17.1 Sry SM37 Peter Crane M60 Surrey 18:22.0 Sry SM48 Dave Delaney M65 SWC19:22.7 Sry SM59 Dave Stevens M70 Steyn 19:36.7 Sx VM43000m Women1 Estle Viljoan W35 HW 15:15.3 Sy SW12 Sarah SowerbyW45 Steyn16:34.4 SxVW13 A.BelchambersW55 Steyn18:37.7Sx SW13 Fiona Bishop W50 AFD 18:39.7 Sy SW24 Jenny Denyer W55 HH 22:10.2 Sx VW23000m YAG1 A. Statter U15 SWC 19:22.7 Sy U15B1Hampshire County ChampionshipsPortsmouthMen 3,000 metres1 Jim Ball M45 Steyning 14.18.912 Roger Osgood M65 Havant 17.59.333 Mark Cawte M40 Swindon 21.43.54Women 3,000 metres1 Verity Snook W35 AFD 15.54.392 Ann Lewis W60 AFD 18.52.39Under 15 Girls 2,500 metres1 Megan Chapple U15 GIAAC 17.42.29DQ Daisy Letch U15 Jersey SpartanMiddlesex County ChampionshipsBarnet Copthall Stadium3000 metres walk senior women1 Maureen Noel Belgrave 17:50.912 Norma Grimsey Enf & Har 20:12.103000 metres walk senior men1 Francisco Reis Ilford 14:14.622 John Hall Belgrave 15:43.963 Shaun Lightman Surrey W.C. 16.37.684 Sean Pender Enf & Har 17:41.935 Ron Powell Enf & Har 18:58.436 Bernard Hercock Enf & Har 21:07.95Sunday 9th MayLeicestershire, Rutland &Warwickshire County ChampionshipsAlexander Stadium , Birmingham3000m Walks1 Mark Williams Tamworth AC 15.01.53(1st VM Staffs)2 Max Orzel Leicester 15.15.81 (1stLeics U17M) Establishes new record3 Fiona McGorum Leicester 15.16.69(1st Leics SW) Breaks own record by 45s4 John Constandinou Birchfield 16.04.09(1st Warks VM)5 Ann Wheeler Nuneaton 16.10.95 (1stWarks VW) Breaks record by 76s6 Jasmine Nicholls Leicester 16.16.02(1st Leics U17W)7 Emma Achurch Leicester 16.45.15 (1stLeics U15W)8 Keith Richards Coventry Godiva18.10.16 (2nd Warks VM)9 Mick Aston Leamington 18.21.34 (3rdWarks VM)10 Karen Davies Birchfield Harriers19.39.22 (2nd Warks VW)Suffolk County ChampionshipsIpswich3000m Men1 David Buchanan (unat) 16.423000m Women1 Angie Alstrachen (EHAC) 20.12(Championship record)2 Serena Queenie (EHAC) 21.153 Jennie Greenward (New J) 23.30

Norfolk County ChampionshipsIpswich1 Cath Duhig (Ryston R) 18.142 Sue Smith (Ryston R) 22.27Essex County ChampionshipsChelmsfordAn odd result with many DNS, all from StAngela’s Ursuline School, which normallyhas a couple of girls walking, promising tofollow it up, then forgetting or nodding off…Men 3000m1 Daniel King Colchester 12:45·212 Steve Uttley Ilford 15:09·183 Dave Sharpe Ilford 18:13·78DNS: 4Women 3000m1 Linda Mountford U/a 20:59·042 Val Mountford Southend 24:23·90U/17 Men 3000m1 Jordan Bull Ormiston Park 23:01·73U13B 10001 Elliott Mountford U/a 7:25·27U17W 3000m: DNS 1U15G 2000m: DNS 4Kent County ChampionshipsAshfordWith thirteen starters the Kent championshipwas by far the largest of the southernchampionship fields. However, the mostrelevant fact was that all but three of themwere under twenty-one in stark contrast toall the other championships and gave aclear demonstration that race walking canbe a young persons discipline. TomBosworth records an incredible result.Mens 3000m1 Thomas Bosworth SM Ton 11:46.56 NewRecord.2 Johnathon Hobbs U20 Ash 14:26.043 Liam Baldwin U20 Ton 14:37.914 Chris Hobbs M50 15:44.805 Ben Parsons U17 Ton 16:21.526 Guy Thomas U15 17:23.717 Garry Macdonlaid M50 Surrey 18:12.818 Stephen Holliday M60 M&M 19:01.46Womens 3000m1 Kate Funnell U17 Ash 15:09.052 Diane Bradley W40 Ton 15:11.243 Emily Symons U20 15:43.354 Rebecca Collins U20 M&M 15:59.845 Rebecca Roddy U15 Ash 17:37.606 Catherine Cotterill U17 Ton 18:56.477 Katherine Buckley U15 Ash 19:10.458 Geraldine Legon W50 Bexley 20:14.159 Megan Lillington U15 Ash 20:32.37International ResultsIAAF Race Walking Challenge 201013th February 2010Hobart, AUSTRALIAIn the first leg of the 2010 IAAF racewalking challenge the series venturedinto the Southern hemisphere for the firsttime. Nine walking meets plus the WorldCup and the finals are completing theIAAF Walking Challenge Calendar in2010. Husband and wife duo Jared andClaire Tallent won Round 1 of theChallenge which was also the Australian20km race walking championships andCommonwealth Games selection trials.The Tallents were joined by Luke Adamsand Cheryl Webb in securing tickets tothe Games in New Delhi in October on acool night along the Hobart waterfront.(Note: Jared Tallent earned automaticselection to the Games finishing in thetop eight in the 20km walk at the 2009world championships.) Lining upalongside one of the strongest racewalking fields ever assembled inAustralia, Jared Tallent moved straightfor the front of the pack and never lookedback, storming home to complete the20km course in the new PB of 1:19.15.Returning to action after missing theOlympic Games in 2008 and WorldChampionships in 2009 it would be nofairytale ending for Deakes, the 32-yearoldwithdrawing from the race just afterthe halfway mark.20km Women1 Claire Tallent AUS 1:32:402 Cheryl Webb AUS 1:33:283 Jillian Hosking AUS 1:34:134 Kellie Wapshott AUS 1:35:235 Nicole Fagan AUS 1:41:356 Kate Newitt NZL 1:47:527 Rosie Robinson NZL 1:51:248 Lauren Bourke AUS 1:55:35

9 Alana Barber NZL 1:58:5810 Tamara Attard AUS 2:02:5711 Kelly Mabbett NZL 2:05:2612 Caitlin Brunton AUS 2:11:53DQ Beki Lee AUSDNF Megan Szirom AUS20km Men1 Jared Tallent AUS 1:19:152 Luke Adams AUS 1:22:073 Ato Ibanez SWE 1:23:304 Chris Erickson AUS 1:23:375 Isamu Fujisawa JPN 1:25:136 Yuki Yamazaki JPN 1:27:127 Ian Rayson AUS 1:27:538 Brendon Reading AUS 1:28:089 Tom Barnes AUS 1:33:0610 Derek Mulhearn AUS 1:33:3411 Duane Cousins AUS 1:35:0812 Quentin Rew NZL 1:35:1613 Scott Nelson NZL 1:39:1614 Daniel Payne AUS 1:43:4115 Darren Purcell AUS 1:45:3616 Mike Parker NZL 1:46:5217 Eric Kemsley NZL 1:52:4018 David Sim NZL 1:56:30DNF Adam Rutter AUSDNF Nathan Deakes AUSDNF Darren Bown AUSDQ David Mejia MEXDQ Eder Sanchez MEXDQ Adrian Herreramex MEXJunior 10km Women1 Regan Lamble AUS 48:122 Beth Alexander AUS 49:033 Paige Hooper AUS 49:264 Claire Xian AUS 51:175 Amy Burren AUS 53:306 Kristie Goznik AUS 53:37Junior 10km Men1 Dane Bird-Smith AUS 43:172 Sean Fitzsimons AUS 43:323 Rhydian Cowley AUS 44:264 Blake Steele AUS 44:295 Jordan Mulhearn AUS 47:56DQ Brad Simpson AUS DQEAA Permit Meeting: 10th Meeting deMarcha Atlética da Cidade de Olhao-Algarve Walking21st February 2010Olhao-Algarve, PORTUGALVera Santos of Portugal beat back strongwinds as well as some rain to win thewomen’s 20Km competition20km Men1 Moulinet Bertrand 1987 FRA 1:25:162 Sergio Vieira 1976 CNRM 1:28:003 Pedro Isidro 1985 SLB 1:28:434 Molmy Damien 1988 FRA 1:28:575 Augusto Cardoso 1970 FCP 1:29:566 Pedro Martins 1968 CAS 1:33:387 Luis Lopes 1990 GS-RC 1:35:348 Cristiano Antonio 1988 ACV 1:37:199 Lukas Pazdera 1985 CZE 1:47:0810 Pedro Nunes 1989 CPC 1:48:2011 Fabio Ramos 1990 CBF 1:49:07DQ Nuno Valente 1988 CCSJMDNF Bruno Fernandez 1975 CBFDNF Davax Herve 1978 FRADNF Rui Magalhaes 1988 ACADNF Nuno Santos 1988 CFBDNF Boyez Antonin 1984 FRADNF Joao Vieira 1976 CNRMDNF Houssaye Cedric 1979 FRADNF Luis Silva 1970 AAC20km Women1 Vera Santos 1981 JOMA 1:30:092 Ana Cabecinha 1984 COP 1:32:363 Ines Henriques 1980 CNRM 1:33:474 Laura Polli 1986 SUI 1:39:575 Zuzana Schindlerova 1985CZE 1:40:486 Maribel Gonçalves 1978 CSM 1:41:577 Claudia Conceicao 1989 SCB 1:50:108 Liliana Martins 1990 GCAD 2:00:089 Anabela Moreira 1970 CDQ 2:17:42DNF Ana Silva 1990 CPCDNF Catia Ramalho 1982 GDCIAAF World Race Walking Challenge:EAA Gran Premio Citta di Lugano14th March 2010Lugano, SWITZERLANDThe weather and conditions for this eventwere perfect, and many PB's were set bythe athletes. In first place, Olympic Goldmedalist Alex Schwazer broke the 18year old Italian National record. Last tofinish within the time limit was thismagazine's editor, also breaking theNational record, for Cyprus. The Italianrecord made headline news on Italiantelevision. A battle between TommyTaylor and Scott Davis lasting the whole

ace saw both of them get big PB's, withScott getting 90th place on the UK all-timelist, and Tommy just beating him and goingto number 82. The ladies race was verycompetitive, with two Chinese girls and oneother just pulling away at the end to beat JoJackson into 4th. However, although shemissed the podium she retains the courserecord which she set last year when winningthe prestigious event. A big PB from FionaMcGorum saw her go to 41 on the UK alltimelist.Souvenir Swiss penknives were presentedto every competitor, but as many peoplefrom England had travelled via Ryanairwithout checked in luggage (for around £30return), knives could not be taken back.However, Peter Marlowe kindly offered totransport them and ended up taking a largebag of knives through the airport on his wayback to England. Those returning to the UKimmediately after the race enjoyed thesunshine beside the scenic lake,surrounded by snow capped mountains, in atown famous for it's hospitality towards racewalking. Those who stayed afterwards wereleft to find their own food in the evening aftera mixup at the official hotel. The Greek teamdecided to stay in the hotel bar, the Chineseteam went to a pizza restaurant, the Czechsand Brits went to Burger King, and theRussian walkers settled for many cans ofbeer and entertained the town with theirsinging for several hours! Race walkers whovisit Lugano always desire to return.20km Men1 Alex Schwazer ITA 1:18:24 NR2 Robert Heffernan IRL 1:20:453 Grzegorz Sudol POL 1:20:50 PB4 Aleksandr Yargunkin RUS 1:20:555 Chen Ding CHN 1:22:036 Wang Zhen CHN 1:22:03 PB7 Nazar Kovalenko UKR 1:22:23 PB8 Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi ITA 1:22:339 Marco De Luca ITA 1:22:38 PB10 Andrei Talashka BLR 1:23:5311 Aleksey Khimin RUS 1:23:56 PB12 Sérgio Vieira POR 1:24:1013 Colin Griffin IRL 1:24:4514 Michael Doyle IRL 1:27:55 PB15 Andrei Stsepanchuk BLR 1:28:1316 Brendan Boyce IRL 1:28:38 PB17 Pasquale Sabino ITA 1:29:0218 Carl Dohmann GER 1:29:47 PB19 Carlo Alberto De Casa ITA 1:29:56PB20 Darrell Stone GBR 1:30:0221 Alessio Wruss ITA 1:30:41 PB22 Dzianis Krauchuk BLR 1:30:4423 Ruggero D'Ascanio ITA 1:30:5624 Karel Ketner CZE 1:32:25 PB25 Olivier Colette BEL 1:33:00 PB26 Thomas Taylor GBR 1:33:08 PB27 Scott Davis GBR 1:33:26 PB28 Vito Zanni ITA 1:33:43 PB29 Jacques Van Bremen NED 1:34:28PB30 Jakub Zajíc CZE 1:35:00 PB31 Ivan Mobilia ITA 1:38:07 PB32 Bachisio Faedda ITA 1:39:02 PB33 Bruno Morotti ITA 1:40:03 PB34 Graziano Morotti ITA 1:40:0435 Jérome Caprice MRI 1:40:21 PB36 Miguel Angel Blanco ESP 1:40:5337 Lukáš Pazdera CZE 1:45:5438 Franco Venturi ITA 1:54:0039 J. Constandinou CYP 1:54:55 NRDNF Ivan Trotski BLRDQ José Manuel Rodríguez ESPDNF Theódoros Kefalópoulos GREDQ Róbert Tubak HUNDNF Giuseppe Nania ITADNF Gianmauro Pirino ITADNF Franco Geronimo ITADNF Bernard Cossy SUI20k Mens team1 China 2:44:04.92 Russia 2:44:49.93 Fiamme Gialle 2:45:10.04 Ireland 2:45:29.15 Centro Sportivo Carabinieri 2:47:24.36 Armed Forces of Belarus 2:52:04.97 Czech Republic 3:07:23.48 U.S. Quercia Rovereto 3:20:06.69 Birchfield Harriers 3:28:02.520km Women1 Li Yanfei CHN 1:31:272 Li Li CHN 1:31:33 PB3 Inês Henriques POR 1:32:314 Jo Jackson GBR 1:32:375 Evaggelía Xinoú GRE 1:32:586 Ana Cabecinha POR 1:33:157 Zuzana Schindlerová CZE 1:33:178 Hanna Drabenia BLR 1:34:269 Lucie Pelantová CZE 1:34:48 PB

10 Olga Povalyayeva RUS 1:36:0111 Katalin Varró HUN 1:36:16 PB12 Laura Reynolds IRL 1:37:29 PB13 Tatyana Korotkova RUS 1:37:3314 Laura Polli SUI 1:38:1215 Mária Czaková SVK 1:40:2716 Gisella Orsini ITA 1:40:3217 Agnese Ragonesi ITA 1:41:2418 Valentina Garofalo ITA 1:43:1619 Katsiaryna PashkouskayaBLR1:46:36PB20 Karolína Škrášková CZE 1:48:0921 Elisa Raia ITA 1:48:25 PB22 Maura Marchiori ITA 1:53:1623 Fiona McGorum GBR 1:53:46 PB24 Linda Betto ITA 2:02:08DNF Anett Torma HUNDNF Marta Vicini ITADNF Kseniya Trifonova RUSDNF Marie Polli SUI20k Women team1 China 3:02:58.52 Czech Republic 3:08:04.63 Russia 3:13:32.64 Armed Forces of Belarus 3:21:01.11 Ekateríni TheodoropoúlouGRE47:55PB2 Georgiana Enache ROU 49:583 Veronika Privalincová SVK 50:44 PB4 Anežka Drahotová CZE 51:59 PB5 Eliška Drahotová CZE 52:02 PB6 Kelsey Howard GBR 54:25 PB7 Elisabetta Giacomelli ITA 54:53 PB8 Kenza Siblot FRA 55:19 PB9 Gladys Moretti ITA 55:32 PB10 Lucie Thouret FRA 55:36 PB11 Olga Pucková CZE 55:46 PB12 Adela Frydrychová CZE 56:19 PB13 Anna Stanková CZE 57:57 PB14 Giada Maffeis ITA 58:44 PB15 Stephanie Rukin GBR 60:27 PB16 Viviana Valsecchi ITA 61:07 PB17 Ana Blanco ESP 62:55 PBDNF Federica Curiazzi ITA 14.8.92The ladies leading group (Jo: 68)10km U20 Men1 Lukáš Gdula CZE 43:14 PB2 Luca Ferrari ITA 44:37 PB3 Pavel Schrom CZE 44:514 Alberto Gabbiadini ITA 47:155 Antonio Cirillo GBR 48:44 PB6 Quentin Macabrey FRA 52:04 PB7 Tomas Semko SVK 52:33 PB8 Liam Baldwin GBR 53:17 PB9 Baldassare Cavataio ITA 53:19 PB10 Manuel Giordano ITA 55:38 PBU20 Men 10k team1 Czech Republic 1:28:04.92 Atletica Bergamo 1:31:51.110km U20 WomenSteph RukinU20 Women 10k team1 Czech Republic 1:42:42.22 Montbéliard Belfort Athlétisme1:50:55.03 Czech Republic Junior Team 1:53:42.34 Atletica Bergamo 1959 1:54:15.310km Masters Women1 CARMEN FRONTONS ESP 56:23.82 ANGELS GUARDIOLA ESP 1:01:50.03 COLETTE GIRARD SUI 1:02:01.74 KAREN DAVIES GBR 1:09:21.65 SUZY MAYOR SUI 1:18:05.810km Masters Men1 FABIO RUZZIER SLO 49:06.82 NISCHAN DAIMER GER 49:24.23 ANDREA NASO ITA 50:26.34 VIKTOR GINKO BLR 51:38.35 LUIS ABADIAS PALACIN ESP 51:56.46 ROBY PONZIO SUI 53:43.77 PAOLO GHIRLANDA SUI 53:46.18 VLADIMIR VERSEC SLO 54:16.19 ANDREU CASTILLO ESP 55:14.410 DANIELE CAROBBIO SUI 56:11.3

11 STEVE ALLEN GBR 58:00.912 SYLVESTRE MARCLAY SUI 58:57.813 SIARHEY SLEDZ BLR 59:12.314 P. FORTUNATI ITA 59:14.215 CLAUDE BERNER SUI 1:00:16.316 JOSEP VINUESA ARG 1:02:38.017 MARIO ROSANO SUI 1:02:48.218 WALDO PONZIO SUI 1:03:04.719 JOSEPH BIANCO SUI 1:04:53.320 CLAUDIO PENOLAZZI ITA 1:05:37.621 EMMANUEL TARDI FRA 1:05'53.222 PIER ANDREOTTI ITA 1:06:49.423 CLAUDE GREBER SUI 1:10:04.524 W.BRANDENBURG SUI 1:12:39.4DNF BERNARD HALIL SUIMasters Men 10k team1 MC Centro Lazio 1:44:42.42 SAL Lugano Marcia 1:49:57.43 Armed Forces of Belarus 1:50:50.64 GAB Bellinzona 1:56:48.45 CM Monthey 2:01:46.06 CM L'Ecureuil La Poste 2:10:20.8EAA Permit Meeting: 29th Dudinska27th March 2010Dudince, SLOVAKIARobert Heffernan set a new 50k IrishNational Record of 3:50:07 hours whenfinishing third, improving the record set byJamie Costin last year of 3.50.52 at thesame event. Heffernan is using the 50kdistance as part of his early season basework in preparation for the Europeanchampionships in Barcelona where he willcontest the 20k event. An equallyimpressive debut 50k by Brendan Boyce. Itwas quite windy during the 20km with highhumidity,and this affected a large number ofwalkers in both mens and womens fields.20km Men1 Tóth Matej SVK 1:22:252 Dmytrenko Ruslan UKR 1:22:473 Kovalenko Nazar UKR 1:23:464 Talashko Andrei BLR 1:23:485 Kumín Anton SVK 1:27:046 Celik Recep TUR 1:27:127 Rácz Sándor HUN 1:28:468 Deac Ciprian ROU 1:32:079 Augustyn Lukasz POL 1:32:1610 Egan John IRL 1:32:3511 Gloger Nils GER 1:32:5212 Kidd David IRL 1:33:1513 Luniewski Miroslaw POL 1:52:16DQ Piórek Kamil POLDQ Korpela Matias FINDQ Filipovi Predrag SERDNF Ketner Karel CZEDNF Ciobotaru Alin ROUDNF Tomala Dawid POLDNF Rogowski Patryk POLDNF Wiater Tomasz POLDNF Rizek Milan SVKDNF Prendiville Niall IRLDNF Glázer Szabolcs HUNDNF Healy Timothy IRL20km Women1 Schindlerová Zuzana CZE 1:34:202 Malíková Zuzana SVK 1:34:533 Madarász Viktória HUN 1:36:274 Pelantová Lucie CZE 1:39:015 Szwarnóg Agnieszka POL 1:40:316 wierczyska Justyna POL 1:44:567 Czáková Mária SVK 1:46:508 Kažemaka Anita LAT 1:47:049 Kara Jolanta POL 1:47:4810 Mészáros Anita HUN 1:49:1011 Kapera Monika POL 1:53:1612 Stašová Miroslava SVK 2:05:53DNF Chrusciel Lucyna POLDNF Golba Katarzyna POLDNF Dygacz Agnieszka POLDNF Buziak Paulina POLDNF Kovács Andrea HUNDNF Herberová Hana CZE50km Men1 Augustyn Rafal POL 3:49:542 Brzozowski Artur POL 3:50:073 Heffernan Robert IRL 3:50:084 Nowak Lukasz POL 3:50:305 Linke Christopher GER 3:53:246 Pereira António POR 3:55:417 Kim Dong Young KOR 3:56:408 Shin Il Yong KOR 3:57:469 Houssaye Cedric FRA 3:59:2010 Bátovský Miloš SVK 4:01:1511 Losev Ivan UKR 4:01:5112 Majdán Dušan SVK 4:02:5613 Berger Maik GER 4:04:1614 Savanovi Vladimir SER 4:06:4715 Boyce Brendan IRL 4:08:0716 Le Coz Xavier FRA 4:16:0517 Khimin Aleksey RUS 4:16:2418 Oh Se Han KOR 4:17:3019 Kovalenko Maxym UKR 4:18:18

20 Novák László HUN 4:21:1621 Svensson Christer SWE 4:24:4222 Zajíc Jakub CZE 4:31:2823 Gaidamaviius Tomas LTU 4:31:4924 Dudás Gyula HUN 4:39:2725 Herber David CZE 4:40:1126 Kozelka Antonín CZE 4:40:3427 Nemes Viktor HUN 4:49:0728 Grinko Valerijus LTU 5:07:1429 Simon Zdenk CZE 5:09:5230 Balázs Sándor HUN 5:10:0931 Marinka Zsolt HUN 5:13:2332 Csaba István HUN 6:24:08DQ Žák Jií CZEDQ Szarvas Tamáš HUNDNF Tubak Róbert HUNDNF Caliskan Hakan TURDNF Malysa st. Jií CZEDNF Bukáek Martin CZEDNF Nymark Trond NORDNF Kalka Kamil POLDNF Pazdera Lukáš CZEDNF Wolski Dawid POLDNF Medera Zdeno SVKDNF Stsepanchuk Andrei BLRDNF Davaux Herve FRADNF Koltai Dávid HUNDNF Fábián András HUNDNF Moulinet Bertrand FRADNF Dujour Guillaume FRADNF Filipovi Nenad SERDNF Fedaczyski Rafal POLDNF Biche Sébastien FRADNF Rumbenieks Arnis LATDNF Rosiewicz Maciej POLEAA Permit Meeting: Podebrady10th AprilPodebrady, CZECH REPUBLICJérome Caprice who lives in Dublin, was theonly competitor from the Ireland & the UK.20km Women1 Di Vincenzo Sibilla 83 ITALY 1:32:102 Virbalyté Brigita 85 LITHUANIA 1:32:173 Pelantová Lucie 86 CZECH 1:32:574 Giorgi Eleonora Anna 89 ITALY 1:34:005 Kwoka Katarzyna 85 POLAND 1:34:216 Ferraro Federica 88 ITALY 1:35:457 Retout Anne-gaelle 80 FRANCE 1:36:218 Elss Christin 89 GERMANY 1:37:419 Pastare Agnese 88 LATVIA 1:37:5610 Guinaudeau C. 78 FRANCE 1:38:2111 Halkivaha Anne 86 FINLAND 1:40:4612 Mitrovic Sandra 74 FRANCE 1:42:3913 Lišakova Valerija 87 LITHUANIA1:44:2414 Czáková Mária 88 SLOVAKIA 1:46:2515 Averous Violaine 85 FRANCE 1:46:3316 Mastianica Inga 89 LITHUANIA1:46:4117 Brunet Elisabeth 86 CZECH 1:47:5618 Herberová Hana 81 CZECH 1:48:5919 Stašová M. 86 SLOVAKIA 1:55:0520 Netolická Martina 82 CZECH 2:08:02DNF Schindlerová Zuzana 87 CZECHDNF Škrášková Karolína 87 CZECHDNF Gromusová Alexandra 62 CZECHDQ Dygacz Agnieszka 85 POLANDDQ Torma Anett 84 HUNGARY20km Men1 Rubino Giorgio 86 ITALY 1:22:222 Boyez Antonin 84 FRANCE 1:23:253 Jelonek Jakub 85 POLAND 1:23:284 Ibánez Anatole 85 SWEDEN 1:23:305 Kuèmín Anton 84 SLOVAKIA 1:23:376 Campion Kevin 88 FRANCE 1:24:017 Šuškevièius T. 85 LITHUANIA 1:24:098 Paris Daniele 84 ITALY 1:25:129 Karlström P. 90 SWEDEN 1:25:3210 D´Onofrio Fortunato 81 ITALY 1:25:5311 Rízek Milan 78 SLOVAKIA 1:26:1312 Boufraine Mehdi 89 FRANCE 1:27:4713 Masciandri Daniele 88 ITALY 1:28:5714 Gloger Nils 90 GERMANY 1:29:2715 De Casa Carlo 86 ITALY 1:30:4716 Ketner Karel 90 CZECH 1:30:5517 Holuša Miloš 65 CZECH 1:31:0918 Rekst Rièardas 87LITHUANIA1:32:1519 Øíha Roman 90 CZECH 1:32:4120 Zajíc Jakub 89 CZECH 1:33:2921 van Bremen Jacques 84 NED 1:33:5422 Prevel Jean 84 FRANCE 1:35:4723 Kozelka Antonín 85 CZECH 1:36:0324 Boulch Mael 90 FRANCE 1:36:4925 Sobczak Marcelino 68 NED 1:38:2726 CapriceJérome 83 MAURITIUS1:41:1327 Medera Zdeno 75 SLOVAKIA 1:42:5228 Nedvídek Martin 75 CZECH 1:43:1929 Potier Nicolas 89 FRANCE 1:43:4430 Kalát Josef 55 CZECH 1:57:25DNF Bukáèek Martin 90 CZECHDNF Colette Olivier 88 BELGIUMDNF Maas Ronald 87 NETHERLANDS

DNF Majdán Dušan 87 SLOVAKIADNF Molmy Damien 88 FRANCEDQ Polášek Jan 80 CZECHDQ Gustafsson Andreas 81 SWEDENDQ Pazdera Lukáš 86 CZECHDQ Smola Josef 64 CZECHDQ van Beek Harold 62 NETHERLANDSIAAF World Racewalking Challenge:19th Grande Premio Internacional enMarcha Atletica17th April 2010Rio Maior, PORTUGALSpurred on by a hometown crowd, localhero Vera Santos took the women’s title. Onthe men’s side, Eric Tysse of Norway wonthis leg of the IAAF Race Walking Challengemeeting for the second time.20km Men1 Erik Tysse NOR 1.20.082 Yohan Diniz FRA 1.20.233 Zhen Wang CHN 1.20.424 Luis Fernando Lopéz COL 1.21.175 Eder Sanchez MEX 1.21.456 Ding Chen CHN 1.21.597 Matej Toth SVK 1.22.048 Hyunsub Kim KOR 1.22.249 Andre Hohne GER 1.22.4910 José Ignacio Diaz ESP 1.23.0911 Colin Griffin IRL 1.23.5312 Maik Berger GER 1.24.3913 Donatas Skarnulis LTU 1.24.4314 Jarkko Kinnunen FIN 1.24.4315 Young-Joon Byun KOR 1.25.2516 Carsten Schmidt GER 1.26.0717 Pedro Isidro POR 1.26.1118 Juan M. Cano ARG 1.26.2219 Jose David Dominguez ESP 1.26.5220 Augusto Cardoso POR 1.26.5621 Andrés Chocho ECU 1.27.4222 Mikel Odriozola ESP 1.28.0923 Giovanni Torres MEX 1.28.2424 Hedi Teraoui TUN 1.29.5825 Jorge Costa POR 1.31.2526 Luís Silva POR 1.33.5527 Luis Gil POR 1.34.4028 Pedro Santos POR 1.34.4129 Cristiano António POR 1.37.1830 Daniel Tomasi BRA 1.37.2631 Nuno Valente POR 1.38.5532 Cláudio Villanueva ECU 1.39.2333 Manuel Julio Angueira ESP 1.39.2834 Tiago Nascimento BRA 1.44.1435 Nuno Santos POR 1.45.5336 Carlos Paiva POR 1.52.14DQ Hatem Ghoula TUNDNF Grzegorz Sudol POLDNF Sérgio Vieira PORDNF Ferran Collados ECUDNF Luis M. Corchete ESPDNF Giovanni Gentile ITADNF Dionísio Ventura PORDNF Luis Lopes PORDNF Pedro Martins PORDNF Pedro Nunes PORDNF Hassanine Sbai TUNDNF Jose Puertas Ruiz ESP20km Women1 Vera Santos POR 1.29.162 Melanie Seeger GER 1.30.113 Julia Takacs ESP 1.30.204 Yanfei Li CHN 1.30.535 Ana Cabecinha POR 1.31.146 Beatriz Pascual ESP 1.31.417 Inês Henriques POR 1.32.198 Kristina Saltanovic LTU 1.32.429 Li Li CHN 1.34.2510 Maria Sanchez MEX 1.36.5311 Tania Spindler BRA 1.37.0112 Cisiane Dutra Lopes BRA 1.37.3013 Laura Polli SUI 1.38.1014 Marie Polli SUI 1.39.4315 Sara Alonso Castelo ESP 1.42.4616 Angélica Hernández MEX 1.43.3517 Dora Nemere HUN 1.44.3018 Chaima Trabelsi TUN 1.48.1919 Marisa S. Pereira POR 1.50.55DNF Olive Loughnane IRLDNF Erica Rocha de Sena BRADNF Ainhoa Pinedo ESPDNF Alba Sanchez ESPDNF Olfa Lafi TUNDQ Ana C. Conceição PORDQ Maribel Gonçalves POR53 Coppa Città di Sesto San Giovanni1st May 2010Sesto San Giovanni, ITALYJohanna Jackson made history when shebecame the first British athlete to makethe podium in an IAAF Challenge event.She clocked a season’s best of 1:32:03,passing halfway in 45.42 and afterpicking up her 2nd disqualification card at

7km she had to hold back in the fear ofelimination. After the race she said “this is amajor breakthrough for me to make thepodium in an IAAF Challenge event. I amdisappointed though with the time as I hadto hold back after receiving my second redcard and I know there is much more in thetank”.Before this event became an IAAFChallenge, in 1981 Carol Tyson and IreneBatemen were 1st & 2nd with Irene 2ndagain in 1983 both races over 5k. This wasthe last time a British athlete made thepodium in this competition. The big namesof British men's walking have also been onthe podium in Sesto - Matthews andThompson in the 1960's - so for the traditionof race walking the Italians were happy tosee British success again in this historiccompetition.Alex Wright and Tom Bosworth both madetheir debuts in senior internationalcompetition. Alex remained on pace for asub 89 minute clocking until 15km, but allthe effects of the warm weather meant allthe British athletes slowed over the last5km. Wright came home to record 90.27 inhis debut. Bosworth recorded 93.02 in his2nd race at the distance.Commenting on the performances CarnegieDirector of Race Walking, Dr Andi Drakesaid: "Jo raced smart and was rewardedwith a podium finish - outside of the majorchampionships these are the events toplace in and she has moved on a level in2010! Alex and Tom have made outstandingprogress in their first year of seniorcompetition and exposure to this level ofcompetition is a key part of theirdevelopment.20km Men1 SCHWAZER Alex ITA 1984 1h20'292 TYSSE Erik NOR 1980 1h21'293 DINIZ Yohan FRA 1978 1h22'444 SBAI Hassanine TUN 1984 1h22'515 MOULINET Bertrand FRA 1h23'236 YU Wei CHN 1h23'387 WANG Zhen CHN 1h23'498 DAVAUX Herve FRA 1978 1h23'529 CHEN Ding CHN 1992 1h24'1310 VIEIRA João POR 1976 1h24'1711 YARGUNKIN Alex RUS 81 1:24'3612 HÖHNE André GER 1978 1h24'3913 HOUSSAYE Cédric FRA 79 1h24'4914 CASANDRA Silviu ROU 75 1h24'5215 COSTIN Jamie IRL 1977 1h24'5516 SI Tianfeng CHN 1984 1h25'2517 BERGER Maik GER 1979 1h25'4818 CAMBIL Alejandro ESP 1975 1h26'2919 TERAOUI Hedi TUN 1989 1h26'3120 KOVALENKO Nazar UKR 87 1h26'3521 GIUNGI Marco ITA 1974 1h26'3622 LIU Rusi CHN 1h27'2623 SAVANOVIC Vladimir SER85 1h27'5024 PAPAMIHAÍL Aléx GRE 1988 1h28'1725 DOLCI Mirko ITA 1985 1h29'4826 WRIGHT Alex GBR 1h30'2727 CAMPELO D.SANTOS BRA 1h31'2028 WANG Gang CHN 1h31'5229 MASCIADRI Daniele ITA 88 1h32'2330 DESSI Lorenzo ITA 1989 1h32'3131 BOSWORTH Tom GBR 90 1h33'0332 RÁCZ Sándor HUN 1986 1h33'5433 DOMÍNGUEZ RodrigoESP77 1h34'1734 STONE Darrell GBR 1968 1h34'4535 SEVEGNANI Calisto BRA 1h34'5236 PUERTAS RUIZ José ESP 1h35'0937 ZANNI Vito ITA CUS Pavia 1h35'1838 MOROTTI Graziano ITA 19511h37'4439 GAMBOA Diogo Dias BRA 1h40'0040 ROMAGNOLI Tommaso ITA 1h40'1741 CAPRICE Jérome MRI 1983 1h43'1242 BOLDRINI Federico ITA 19881h44'1243 CALISKAN Hakan TUR 1967 1h52'0944 TAMBURINI Pierino ITA 19541h58'3545 MARCADINI Salvatore ITA 19812h00'05DNF NYMARK Trond NORDNF GHOULA Hatem TUNDNF FONSECA Tiago BRADNF D.SANTOS JUNIOR Mario JoséBRADNF BAGIO José Alessandro BRADNF BOYEZ Antonin FRA DNFDNF KING Daniel GBR 1983 DNFDNF BARONI Giancarlo ITADQ HEFFERNAN Robert IRLDQ VERNIER Jean-Pierre FRA

DQ ZIMMERMANN Moacir BRADQ DOS SANTOS Luiz Filipe BRADQ KING Dominic GBR 1983DQ FLORIDO Rocío ESP 1976Jo (right) makes the podium at Sesto24th IAAF World Race Walking Cup15th - 16th May 2010Chihuahua, MEXICOAlex Wright, international debut20km Women1 SANTOS Vera POR 1981 1h28'292 SEEGER Melanie GER 1977 1h29'203 JACKSON Johanna GBR 1985 1h32'054 TONG Lingling CHN 1992 1h35'175 GAO Ni CHN 1991 1h35'336 MALÍKOVÁ Zuzana SVK 1983 1h36'247 PINEDO Ainoha ESP 1983 1h36'298 FERRARO Federica ITA 1988 1h36'399 POLLI Laura SUI 1983 1h36'5410 MADARÁSZ Viktória HUN 1985 1h39'2811 TRABELSI Chaima TUN 1982 1h40'1312 POLLI Marie SUI 1980 1h41'1513 SOLORZANO Monica MEX 1h42'1214 HE Fenfen CHN 1h45'0215 SPINDLER Tania BRA 1977 1h45'1916 LAFI Olfa TUN 1986 1h45'2117 GERENDÁSI Eszter HUN 85 1:46:4618 MARCHIORI Maura ITA 1959 1h53'18DNF LI Yanfei CHN 1990DNF GIORGI Eleonora ITA 1989DNF PICAGEVICZ Alessandra BRA84DNF MENÉNDEZ Niobe GBR 1966DQ LOUGHNANNE Olive IRL 1976Matej Toth of Slovakia came out of theblue to win the in searing conditions.Slovakia's first ever medallist didn't hitthe front until the last km of the race, inwhich the man whose face adorns everystreet corner in Chihuahua had led for allbut the first 10km. Horacio Nava from thehost city was cheered on by fans all theway held on to silver. In the teamstandings, Mexicans also had to becontent with silver missing out by just 1point as a trio of Chinese all packed inthe top nine. In bronze, Russia and Spainboth totalled 38 points but the medal willbe awarded to the Eastern Europeanstheir last scorer coming in 16th, 6 placesahead of the third scoring Spaniard. -JeffSalvage, www.racewalk.comJonathan Matthews was first American in4:45:52, having also competed last timethe World Cup was held in Mexico 17years ago. With white in his beardbetraying his age, the 53-year-oldMatthews became a favorite of thethousands of spectators who lined thecourse. "The support from the fans forme was really extraordinary," Matthewssaid. "On each of the 25 laps certainspectators around the 2k course cheeredso hard for me that I couldn't help butmake eye contact with them, which madethem cheer even harder. Perhapsbecause I was clearly considerably older

than that average competitor, this gavethem a rooting interest in me, as anunderdog.After the race several of thesegenerous fans tracked me down to hug me,shake my hand, or take pictures with me."Knowing that the conditions would make itdifficult to plan an appropriate pace,Matthews tracked his heart rate, workingbetween 152-164 bpm. "Though theconditions slowed my finishing time, trackingmy heart rate helped me to keep things justbelow the limit of my aerobic capacity thewhole way. It was very hard and it was agreat experience," he said.Elsewhere, the Chinese dominated themedals table, Eider Arévalo set a newJunior 10k National Record for Columbiawith 42:13, Frenchman Diniz injured hisankle by walking into a hole and had toabandon, and the overall Mexican WorldCup event was fantastically organised andcomplimented by all.50km Men1 Matej Tóth SVK 3:53:302 Horacio Nava MEX 3:54:163 Jared Tallent AUS 3:54:554 Tianfeng Si CHN 3:55:065 Jesús Angel García ESP 3:55:416 Yuki Yamazaki JPN 3:55:447 Cristian Berdeja MEX 3:56:26 PB8 Lei Li CHN 3:56:469 Faguang Xu CHN 3:57:5010 Sergey Sergachev RUS 3:58:11 PB11 Mikel Odriozola ESP 3:58:1512 Yury Andronov RUS 3:58:2113 Omar Zepeda MEX 3:59:3914 Marco De Luca ITA 4:00:4515 Chris Erickson AUS 4:03:5616 Sergey Melentyev RUS 4:05:0017 Rafal Sikora POL 4:05:0218 Bertrand Moulinet FRA 4:05:0819 José Leyver Ojeda MEX 4:05:2320 Rodrigo Moreno COL 4:05:4421 Colin Griffin IRL 4:06:0522 Juan Manuel Molina ESP 4:06:0823 Ferrán Collados ESP 4:06:2424 Emerson Hernandez ESA 4:06:47 PB25 Yunpeng Du CHN 4:07:3226 Diego Cafagna ITA 4:10:1827 Federico Tontodonati ITA 4:11:29 PB28 Cedric Houssaye FRA 4:12:5529 Ivan Zhbanov RUS 4:14:3130 Marc Mundell RSA 4:14:4231 Dionísio Ventura POR 4:15:1732 Miloš Bátovský SVK 4:15:2333 Tom Barnes AUS 4:16:1734 Jorge Costa POR 4:17:1935 Luís Gil POR 4:17:4736 Andrea Adragna ITA 4:18:5337 Herve Davaux FRA 4:18:5338 David Guevara ECU 4:20:5939 Dušan Majdan SVK 4:21:2340 Cláudio dos Santos BRA 4:21:2841 Eddy Roze FRA 4:23:1642 Sébastien Biche FRA 4:26:2243 Magno Mesías Zapata ECU 4:27:1944 Xiaoxin Gou CHN 4:30:1045 Róbert Tubak HUN 4:39:3146 László Novák HUN 4:45:1347 Jonathan Matthews USA 4:45:5248 Gyula Dudás HUN 4:48:1949 Edgar Cudco ECU 4:48:4550 Ray Sharp USA 4:56:52DQ Washington Alvarado ECUDNF Luke Adams AUSDNF Bernardo Calvo CRCDNF Marco Benavides ESADNF José Alejandro Cambil ESPDNF Luis Fernando García GUADNF Fabio Ruzzier SLODNF David McGovern USAMens 50k Team1 PR of China 212 Mexico 223 Russia 384 Spain 385 Australi a 516 Italy 677 Slovak Republic 728 France 839 Portugal 10010 Ecuador 13011 Hungary 13910km Junior Men1 Eider Arévalo COL 42:13 NR2 Zelin Cai CHN 42:22 PB3 Valery Filipchuk RUS 42:584 Konstantin Kulagov RUS 43:245 Fudong Cong CHN 43:556 Wenbin Niu CHN 44:037 Ever Palma MEX 44:298 Alexander Castañeda COL 44:52

9 Trevor Barron USA 45:1710 Tadeo Vega MEX 45:3311 Massimo Stano ITA 45:4512 Veli-Matti Partanen FIN 46:1413 Giovanni Renó ITA 46:1914 Julio César Salazar MEX 46:2315 Rhydian Cowley AUS 46:5716 M. Romanowski POL 47:29 PB17 Alberto Amezcua ESP 47:4318 Tyler Sorensen USA 47:5419 Juan Antonio Raya ESP 48:3620 Viktor Márkus HUN 48:4021 Lukás Gdula CZE 49:0422 Andrzej Lobaczewski POL 49:06 PB23 Dimitri Malosse FRA 49:3324 Pavel Schrom CZE 49:5625 Nicolas Gosselin FRA 50:0226 Hugo Andrieu FRA 50:4927 Victor Paloma ESP 51:1928 Daniel Lord NZL 51:2429 Jirí Malysa CZE 51:5430 Alejandro Chavez USA 52:41DQ Dane Bird-Smith AUSDQ Sean Fitzsimons AUSDQ Caio Bonfim BRADQ José Leonardo Montaña COLDQ Dementiy Cheparev RUSDNF Leonardo Dei Tos ITA10km Junior Men Team1 Russia 72 PR of China 73 Colombia 94 Mexico 175 Italy 246 United States 277 Spain 368 Poland 389 Czech Republic 4510 France 4810km Junior Women1 Antonella Palmisano ITA 47:522 Qin He CHN 47:57 PB3 Anna Lukyanova RUS 48:004 Jing Zhao CHN 48:03 PB5 Svetlana Vasilyeva RUS 48:356 Nina Okhotnikova RUS 49:027 Ting Zhang CHN 49:39 PB8 Alejandra Ortega MEX 49:49 PB9 Sandra Nevarez MEX 50:23 PB10 Sara Alonso ESP 50:2911 Federica Curiazzi ITA 50:4512 Beth Alexander AUS 50:5613 Ines Pastorino FRA 51:0014 Emilie Menuet FRA 51:0815 Regan Lamble AUS 51:1616 Berta Kriván HUN 52:2317 Paula Martínez ESP 52:4918 Wendy Cornejo BOL 52:5019 Cecilia Stetskiv ITA 53:3020 Cornelia Swart RSA 53:43 (NJ)21 Georgiana Enache ROU 53:5122 Kimberly García PER 54:0223 Sandra Yerga ESP 54:0624 Linda Paz ESA 54:0725 Amandine Marcou FRA 54:5126 Magdalena Jasinska POL 54:5927 Rachel Tallent AUS 56:1928 Katarzyna Korzeniowska POL 56:3229 Mirna García PER 57:25 PB30 Josefine Klausen DEN 58:28DNF Mariana Geldis MEX DNF10km Junior Women Team1 PR of China 62 Russia 83 Italy 124 Mexico 175 France 276 Australia 277 Spain 278 Peru 519 Poland 54Womens 20k, PHOTO: Jeff Salvage20km Women1 María Vasco ESP 1:31:552 Vera Santos POR 1:32:063 Inês Henriques POR 1:33:284 Vera Sokolova RUS 1:33:545 Yanfei Li CHN 1:34:186 Anisya Kirdyapkina RUS 1:34:477 Mayumi Kawasaki JPN 1:34:538 Ana Cabecinha POR 1:34:579 Jess Rothwell AUS 1:35:0410 María José Poves ESP 1:35:38

11 Beatriz Pascual ESP 1:36:0812 Kristina Saltanovic LTU 1:36:2813 Hong Liu CHN 1:36:3414 Yang Shi CHN 1:37:3815 Yawei Yang CHN 1:37:3816 Susana Feitor POR 1:37:5817 Zuzana Schindlerová CZE 1:38:0618 Li Li CHN 1:38:5919 Claire Tallent AUS 1:39:0820 Maria del Rosario MEX 1:39:1621 Katarzyna Kwoka POL 1:39:2822 Kumi Otoshi JPN 1:39:2923 Liudmila Arkhipova RUS 1:39:3724 Masumi Fuchise JPN 1:40:0425 Yadira Guamán ECU 1:40:1926 Júlia Takács ESP 1:40:5827 Sandra Galvis COL 1:41:3928 Maria Guadalupe MEX 1:41:5229 Brigita Virbalyté LTU 1:42:0530 Lorena Luaces ESP 1:42:4631 Anne-Gaëlle Retout FRA 1:43:0332 Marie Polli SUI 1:43:1033 Katalin Varró HUN 1:43:1334 Tania Regina Spindler BRA 1:43:1535 Claudia Balderrama BOL 1:43:4036 Hanna Drabenia BLR 1:44:1637 Ingrid Hernández COL 1:44:3838 Miriam Ramón ECU 1:44:5739 Agnieszka Dygacz POL 1:45:2440 Cristina López ESA 1:45:4341 Laura Reynolds IRL 1:46:1042 Angélica Hernández MEX 1:46:1443 Johana Ordóñez ECU 1:46:5644 Tatiana Mineeva RUS 1:47:0545 Lucie Pelantová CZE 1:47:1146 Johanna Jackson GBR 1:47:1247 Solomiya Login USA 1:47:4348 Milángela Rosales VEN 1:48:1249 Mónica Equihua MEX 1:50:4550 Agnieszka Szwarnóg POL 1:51:51DQ Cheryl Webb AUSDQ Claudia Cornejo BOLDQ Verónica Colindres ESADNF Cisiane Lopes BRADNF Sandra Zapata COLDNF Paola Pérez ECUDNF Eszter Gerendási HUNDNF Anett Torma HUNDNF Maria Esther Sánchez MEXDNF Tatiana Sibileva RUSDNF Maria Czaková SVKDNF Chaima Trabelsi TUNDNF Stephanie Casey USADNF Miranda Melville USA20km Women Team1 Portugal 132 Spain 223 PR of China 324 Russia 335 Japan 536 Mexico 907 Ecuador 1068 Poland 11020km Men1 Hao Wang CHN 1:22:352 Yafei Zhu CHN 1:22:463 Andrey Krivov RUS 1:22:544 Erik Tysse NOR 1:22:555 Luis Fernando López COL 1:23:116 Ding Chen CHN 1:23:497 Eder Sánchez MEX 1:23:568 Sergey Bakulin RUS 1:24:059 Gustavo Restrepo COL 1:24:0810 Yerko Araya CHI 1:24:2311 Hassanine Sebei TUN 1:24:2712 Ivano Brugnetti ITA 1:24:2913 Miguel Ángel López ESP 1:24:3214 Petr Trofimov RUS 1:25:0315 Pedro Daniel Gómez MEX 1:25:0916 Rafal Augustyn POL 1:25:2817 Denis Strelkov RUS 1:25:3018 José Ignacio Díaz ESP 1:25:5519 Claudio Erasmo Vargas MEX 1:26:1920 Koichiro Morioka JPN 1:26:3621 Zhen Wang CHN 1:26:4922 Benjamín Sánchez ESP 1:26:5523 Rafal Fedaczynski POL 1:26:5824 Isamu Fujisawa JPN 1:27:1925 Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi ITA1:27:2426 Sérgio Vieira POR 1:27:2527 Jakub Jelonek POL 1:27:3528 Augusto Cardoso POR 1:27:4029 Kevin Campion FRA 1:27:4530 Pedro Isidro POR 1:27:5531 Jianbo Li CHN 1:28:0632 Andrés Chocho ECU 1:28:1933 John Edison García COL 1:28:2034 José David Domínguez ESP 1:28:2135 Allan Segura CRC 1:28:2536 Anton Kucmin SVK 1:28:2837 Dawid Tomala POL 1:29:2138 Andrey Ruzavin RUS 1:29:2239 Matteo Giupponi ITA 1:29:39

40 Daniele Paris ITA 1:29:5641 Yusuke Suzuki JPN 1:30:0842 Mauricio Arteaga ECU 1:30:1143 Antonin Boyez FRA 1:30:3944 Perseus Karlström SWE 1:30:4945 Victor Mendoza ESA 1:30:5746 Iñaki Gómez CAN 1:31:14 PB47 Ian Rayson AUS 1:31:2148 Máté Helebrandt HUN 1:31:4249 Noel Santini PUR 1:32:17 PB50 Francisco Arcilla ESP 1:32:3151 Giovanni Torres MEX 1:32:5652 Andreas Gustafsson SWE 1:33:0053 Anibal Paau GUA 1:33:2254 Grzegorz Sudol POL 1:33:2755 Anatole Ibañez SWE 1:33:2956 Ricardo Lojan ECU 1:33:37 PB57 Moacir Zimmermann BRA 1:34:2858 Edward Araya CHI 1:34:4759 Johathan Contreras ECU 1:35:4760 Recep Çelik TUR 1:35:5261 Patrick Stroupe USA 1:37:2462 Hédi Teraoui TUN 1:37:3863 Mehdi Boufraine FRA 1:37:4664 Jacques van Bremen NED 1:41:0465 Harold van Beek NED 1:44:3366 Creighton Connolly CAN 1:45:31 PBDQ Luis Gomez GUADQ Bernardo Segura MEXDNF Adam Rutter AUSDNF Evan Dunfee CANDNF Rolando Saquipay ECUDNF Yohan Diniz FRADNF Fortunato D'Onofrio ITADNF António Pereira POR20km Men Team1 PR of China 92 Russia 253 Mexico 414 Colombia 475 Spain 536 Poland 667 Italy 768 Portugal 849 Japan 8510 Ecuador 13011 France 13512 Sweden 151200 ClubRecent winners:April, 2010£25 - C. Gittins£10 - R. Bobson£10 - A. SmithLettersBelated congratulations on taking overRecord, nearly a year in, well done. Ihave taken Record since early 80's andfind it still a very personal magazine. I stilleagerly await it's arrival.As I follow the sport worldwide I reallylike to know how the Mexicans, Chineseand Aussies and our fellow Europeansare doing along with the IAAF Challengerounds. So please do your best for worldresults, and with respect NOT 2.5 pagesof Sheffield school champs!! Thank you.From searching the net some greatperformances already this year leadingup to the World Cup. A. Schwazer a 2.2635k and a 78.23 20k just six days after a3.50 50k! Nothing new in China, theyalways hold their 50 2 days after the 20and many double up. J. Tallent a PB 79early on and the Chinese, Poles andJapanese and Russians look veryimpressive. Closer to home a super 80m20k followed 2 weeks later by a fabulousdebut 50k in March by Rob Heffernan nogoing for a 4hr 3.45 pace to 40k Terrific!and young Boyce 88 and 4.08. What withJamie C and Colin @ 3.50 and 3.51respectively and the 3 of them sub 84 for20 along with Olive, what a greatstandard the Irishare getting for such asmall nation, not forgetting GillianO'Sullivan's World Silver and 87m 20k.Good walking to everyone.Doug Corkill, Isle of Man------------Congrats on a splendid little magazine. Idon't race much these days but do trainthroughout the year and have justcompleted my 24th London Marathon.The last 19 have been race walked whichI'm claiming as a record! My claim to

fame! Was it Andy Warhol who saideverybody has 30 minutes of fame in theirlife. Trouble is that mine has taken over 100hours!Best wishes, Mike Rowland------------I just think it is so good that at last we havewalkers of the calibre of Ben W Tom B andAlec W as they are young and I'm fed up ofgoing to international races listening tonegative thoughts and seeing the Brits doso badly. Hopefully times will return goodnow and I feel that Ben has so muchpotential lastly it is so important that wesend male and female walkers to Delhi sosub 89 is great or walks in theCommonwealths will be no longer.Pete Ryan------------A smashing day for race walking in VictoriaPark yesterday with good fields and a lot ofthe walking community who weren't racingthere and involved, We did, however, I think,miss an oppportunity to market our sport tothe park full of people out in the Springsunshine by ignoring them and appearingonly concerned with ourselves and ourevent. I am sure that there were manyonlookers who were bemused by what wasgoing on and indeed on my way round Iheard the discussions as to what event thiscould be - very few of them would havebeen aware that they were witnessing aNational championship in an Olympic event.My heartiest congratulations and thanks toall those involved in putting on yesterdays'sevent.Steve Allen------------Well done on putting the old RWR archivesup on the RWR website - a great initiative.Things are going well here and our walkingnumbers and age spread continues to bestrong,although we still suffer the inevitabledrain once kids leave school - no easyanswers on that one! On the Ericksonfront, our son Chris is in the WC 50kmteam and has also been named in ourComm Games 20km team so he is in fora big year. Lois and I will go to Delhi butnot to Mexico (finances!) Kind regardsand thanks as always.Tim Erickson, Australia------------RE: ArchivesI bet it’s a long-term project! It seems tome a very useful thing andcongratulations on being brave enough toembark on it. I was once approached bya company that offered to do the job; Ithink that their price was just a little shortof £1,000; made me laugh for days, it did.With best wishes,Peter Cassidy------------I have just got back from Naumburg - thisweekend I was an international athlete! Igot free entry and room and board at theNaumburg International Racewalk /German championships. They even hada Union Jack flying just for me! It was agreat experience. I finished in 2:05:13.Some seriously fast walkers in the race,when they lapped me the leaders weregoing a lot faster than they were inLondon! A very impressive event, theonly event I have seen better organisedthan this was Leamington 2007! This wasthe German championships for everyone,all ages from 9 to 70+, awards in all agegroups, UKA and BMAF please takenote! I plan to do this event again nextyear, hopefully a few more of mycountrymen and women will join me, it’sa good race for some of the promisingyoungsters to get some high classinternational competition.Tony BellEnglishman in Hamburg, GermanyIn the next issue...Nutrition, Technique, Drugs, Results, Reports, News, Photos... And anything I havemissed out of this issue. DON'T MISS IT - OUT VERY SOON!

FixturesJune 2010B 22nd 5 mile VAC Summer Walks 2010 (Champs) (7pm) Battersea Park, LondonB 22nd 2k Hewitt Cup postalB 26th - 27th 85 mile/var Scottish Widows Parish Walk Isle of ManB 26th 15 mile Allen Trophy (1:30) Chorley, LancashireB 26th var ESAA Development Walk Millfield SchoolB 26th var ESAA Development Walk Kirkby-in-Ashfield26th 1.25k/2.5k/5k/10k/20k BMAF 20k Championships Northampton Racecourse, NN1B 27th 10k Postal Walk (in uniform) 2pm YorkB 27th var ESAA Development Walk Millfield SchoolB 27th 3000m Sarnia WC Championship 7 Osmond Priaulx, Guernsey27th 5000m UKA T&F Championships Alexander Stadium, Birmingham27th var Irish National Championships Tullamore, IRELANDB 29th - Peter, Fler, Keswick CupsB 29th var Bill Collins Trophy (7:30pm) Tonbridge SchoolB 30th 3000m Sir Sefton Branker (Civil Service v Middlesex AAA v RAF) Copthall StadiumJuly 2010B 3rd 5k Ilford Open 5 / 500th Essex League Race Redbridge Cycle Circuit, Hainault3rd - 4th 3k/5k BMAF Outdoor Championships Cardiff International Sports StadiumB 4th 5 mile UK Gaymes Battersea ParkB 4th 5k/10k/Half marathon The Sunwalk Bristol4th 50k/20k Swiss 50k National Championships Yverdon-les-Bains, SWITZERLAND6th 1000m/5000m Woodford Tuesday Walks Ashtons Field, WoodfordB 7th 2000m Midland Veterans League 3 – Leamington/Burton/DudleyB 7th 3k/var Blackheath H./Surrey WC Championship (7:30pm) Normans Park, Hayes7th var EVAC T&F League Cambridge/Kings Lynn/Lee ValleyB 9th 3k Sarnia WC Championship 8 Amarreurs Road, Vale, Guernsey10th 1k/3k UK Challenge, Welsh Championships+Open Carmarthen, Wales10th - 11th 5k/10k Irish National Championships Dublin, IRELANDB 12th 2000m SCVAC T&F League Hemel HempsteadB 13th 5 mile VAC Summer Walks 2010 (7pm) Battersea Park, LondonB 14th 4 mile/var Johnson Bowl (Surrey WC) (7:30pm) Normans Park, Hayes15th 10k Manx Summer 10k St Johns, Isle of Man15th - 24th 5000m/10k/20k European Vets Championships Nyiregyhaza, HUNGARY16th var South Yorkshire League (6pm) SheffieldB 17th 5k/20k Dick & Zena Smith Memorial Walks (1:30) Simister, LancashireB 17th 1k/3k London Inter-Club Challenge/Enfield League Lee Valley, LondonB 18th 20k Sarnia WC Championship 9 North Side Circuit, Quayside, GuernseyB 20th - 23rd 200k/160k/120k Vierdaagse/Nijmegen 4 day marches Nijmengen, HOLLAND20th - 25th var IAAF World Junior Championships Moncton, CANADAB 24th 10k Dunnington Fayre Dunnington, Yorkshire24th 3k/5k SEAA Championships Crystal Palace24th var Irish National YAG Championships + Paul Nihill Shield, Tullamore, IRELAND26th - 1/8 20k/50k 20th European Athletics Championships Barcelona, SPAINAugust 2010B 1st 3.8 mile Rocquaine Regatta (Handicap) Rocquaine Bay, Guernsey3rd 1k/3k Woodford Tuesday Walks Ashtons Field, WoodfordB 3rd 5000m World Gay Games VIII Cologne, GERMANYB 4th 2000m Midland Veterans League 4 - East Div Charnwood4th var EVAC T&F League Milton Keynes, Kings Lynn, Lee Valley