MAC's Ritvik Ganta and Jack Hinchy secure personal bests at Watford Open Meet

Ritvik Ganta

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Ritvik Ganta and Jack Hinchy both secured new personal bests running in different heats of the 200m at the Watford Open Meet on August 24.

Ritvik shaved some time off his previous best with 28.37 while Jack was a few hundreths of a second slower in 28.42.

Jack went on to claim another new PB in the long jump, clearing 4.16m before running the 1500m in 5.51.

Neil Muir, John Ingram, Steve Overbury, and Marika gathered in the small village of Marston on Sunday for the Headington 5mile road race.

John was first home for the club in this visually varied race in 41.50, followed by Neil in 45.35. Steve and Marika finished together in 51.21, but with the Oxfordshire County Championships being staged at the same event, they were some way behind the race winner, who crossed the line in less than 25 minutes. The prizes were handed out afterwards by British long distance and marathon runner, Mara Yamauchi.

Dorney Lake was awash with hundreds of competitors for triathlon and running events on Sunday.

Among them were MAC athletes Mat Gifford and Mathew Snelling. Mat completed the standard distance (1.5km swim, 40km bike ride, 10km run) in 2hrs, 9mins, 49 seconds, finishing 29th overall and fifth in his age category. Matthew completed the sprint distance (750m swim, 20km bike ride, 5km run) and finished 12th in his category with a time of 1hr 24mins 21secs.

Hervé, Dylan, and Chloe Bavazzano all raced together in the 5km race, with Dylan showing good pace throughout to finish fourth (first in age category) in 18.15.

Chloe finished 10th (2nd in age category) with a personal best of 22.41, having been expertly paced by Herve.

Craig West completed the 10k race and, keeping close to the leading half marathon runners he was able to maintain his target pace and finish second overall, first in age category in a new PB of 35.54.