Bits and Bobs.

It's not all plain selling when it comes to Sunday morning training sessions on the Welcombe Hills. A few bovine obstacles en route Photo courtesy of Emily Adams A mixed bag again this week. There is news of some superb performances from members of our junior endurance group in the 1 mile time trials held at our track last night, together with news from Jack Sumners, who is now back in America and Andrew Pozzi who is due to compete in a world class field at the Diamond League meeting in Monaco later today. George Fox-Rowe and Harry Gravelsons delivered PB performances at the weekend in an U15 & U17 event at The Pingles Stadium in Nuneaton. There's my lockdown story plus a note on this year's virtual London Marathon. Finally a couple of photos of aspiring racewalkers, or maybe not. There's just a few hours left before cut-off in this month's virtual Shakespeare races, so if you haven't done it, you haven't got long left. Take care Best Wishes David Jones. Ellen Taylor and Taylor Stubbins. A tale of two Taylors ! Magic Milers. Thursday night was a night of 1 Mile Time Trails for some of the older group of junior endurance runners at their regular Thursday night training session at the Stratford School Track. Blimey, didn't they do well ? At the time of writing, juniors are dominating the top of this month's vMagic Mile race with just a few hours left in the competition. Paul Hawkins' commented "There were some tremendous runs in tonight’s Time Trial, well done to all who took part. Unfortunately they won’t count for any official rankings or Power of 10 but the times are accurate and they have all set down a good marker." “Race” 1 1. Taylor Stubbins 4.57.7 2. Ned Campbell 5.30.4 3. Joel Watson 5.35.6 4. Josh Dobedoe 5.36.0 5. Adam Taylor 5.40.2 6. Ben Stockhill 5.40.6 7. Joe Warner 5.58.7 8. Seb Hillard 6.01.9 “Race” 2 1. Ellen Taylor 5.37.2 2. Olivia Robinson 5.39.7 3. Niamh Hillard 5.57.7 4. Maddie Linfoot 6.01.6 5. Tessa Parkin 6.02.3 6. Daisy Musk 6.06.9 7. Abi Cooper 6.18.3 8. Abbie Skinner 6.20.5 9. Martha Peters 6.21.1 10. Caitlin Boyle 6.22.2 News From Home and Abroad. The latest news of a couple of our International athletes. Jack Sumners' flies through the air with the greatest of ease. After Coronavirus broke out I was able to make it home after a few travel false starts. During most of the lockdown I was luckily given permission to use the school fields at Thomas Jolyffe, my old primary school and I was able to hop over the back fence of my house to train. With this I was able to complete various different sessions based around circuits and some speed work as well as the occasional long jump session. I had to take off a long way before the normal take off board because it’s only designed for primary school children and I was jumping…