A group of nine Lostock AC members did well in the Ian Hesketh Memorial Duathlon.
After his column about Henry Jonas last week and his recent successes, which included a 1:47.44 new 800m PB and a call-up to run for GB, Neil Featherby was told by some readers that they would like to see more track and field mentioned within his weekly columns.
Kenya had been hoping the late world marathon record-holder Kelvin Kiptum could break the two-hour barrier at the Paris Olympics, the head of Kenyan athletics said, calling his tragic death "devastating".And so everybody was really devastated," Athletics Kenya president Jackson Tuwei told AFP. "What was so sad was that everybody was looking to him to do well in the Olympics and maybe lower the marathon record below two hours," the national governing body chief said.