Hercules Wimbledon round-up: Eastaugh PB puts him in club all-time list

Charlie Eastaugh moved his way up the Hercules Wimbledon all-time list as he recorded a new personal best over 3,000m in Cardiff on Sunday.

Competing as a guest in the Welsh Indoor Championships Eastaugh finished second overall in 8:16.10, less than two seconds behind race winner Oliver Barbaresi, writes George Mallett.

Eastaugh said: “As it was technically the Welsh national championships we had no pacer and had to do the work ourselves, going out at an honest pace and settling to 2:10 at 800m.

“After that I didn’t pay attention to the splits as I knew I could run a big outright PB.”

Eastaugh improved his best over the distance by four seconds.

He worked his way up from fifth to second, over a second clear of third, to beat all the Welsh athletes.

It moves him to 16th on Hercules’ all-time list, led by former GB International Dave Clarke.

It is his first PB for 17 months and he thanked coach Ben Noad for his plan of strength and consistency paying off once more.

The club’s junior runners competed in various age group at the Southern Championships last weekend with some standout individual performances.

Conor Kelly raced in the U17 200m and recorded a season’s best of 22.66 to take the title.

Kelly won his heat and semi-final before running away from the rest of the field to take the title.

The 200m champion also competed in the 60m, finishing fourth in his heat for a new PB of 7.33s.

Also competing over 200m was Omari Koroma, who recorded a PB of 24.42s to finish third in his heat as well as Markos Schuchinsky, who ran 23.88s to finish second in heat four, having run 7.48 over 60m earlier in the day.

U15 Matthew Wehrle, moving up in distance, won 300m silver in a new personal best of 39.82. In running 39.85 in his heat just hours before it meant he had broken 40 seconds for the first time in his running life and did so twice in a day.

In the girls U15 300m Allegra Adams ran a new personal best of 44.45 to finish second in her heat. She finished fourth in her final.

Thomas Whorton ran 2.18.67 to finish sixth in the U15 800m. He qualified second in his heat, running three seconds quicker than the final.

Isabella Harrison ran 2.18.52 for fifth place, having earlier qualified with the third fastest time.

Thomas Hennigan, two years younger in the U13 800m finished in 2.45.00 for fourth, an outstanding debut over the distance.

Mabel Rose-Scales, continued her outstanding indoor season to win U17 high jump bronze, clearing 1.65m to equal her PB set last week in Carshalton.