At this time of year, you are not as restricted to where you can go in the early mornings or evenings, the temperatrue is warmer and so you can run with less clothes, which means less weight, and so feel faster and more fleet of foot and there are more opportunities to run off-road and enjoy beautiful surroundings!
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The weekend saw many outstanding performances from UK athletes around the world. Oliver Dustin was on fire in Nice with a 1:43.82 perfromance and at Eugene, Oregon, in the USA, Patrick Dever and Charles Hicks gave mouth watering performances over both 5000 and 10,000m in the NCAA Division 1 Championships.
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Olympic champion Mo Farah (handicap -7.5) will attempt to qualify for the Tokyo Games by beating the qualifying standard of 27:28.00 in an invitational 10,000m race at the Mller British Athletics Championships on Friday 25th June at Manchester Regional Arena.
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Eleven athletes have been selected to represent the British team at the 2021 IAU 24 Hour World Championships in Bucharest, Romania between the 2nd and 3rd October.
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The forecast is for lovely, warm days over the next week so that should be great for fine weather running but hay fever sufferers beware as the forecast is also likely to include high levels of pollen at this time of the year.
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The sport of ultra running is in mourning with the recent passing of guru and coach Norman Wilson. Wilson a previous IAU Vice President and Director will be remembered for his interest in the global sport and the various initiatives he drove over many years in the sport.
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Eilish McColgan (handicap -3.4) and Marc Scott (handicap -7.4) were crowned British 10,000m champions as the GB NI women took European Cup team victory and the men silver on an eventful night at the University of Birmingham track.
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