WHILE many Abingdon Amblers athletes were preparing for the Abingdon Marathon, the club sent a strong team to Birmingham to compete in the senior men’s National Six-stage Relay Champ-ionships on Saturday.

Oz Ellis produced the fastest leg of their team, clocking 19mins 32secs as Abingdon finished 65th out of 83 entrants.

The competition was won by Bedford & County AC.

Abingdon Amblers times: 1 O Ellis 19.32, 2 D Hamilton 20.03, 3 S Fisher 19.36, 4 L Newell 19.58, 5 D Walters 21.14, 6 P Egerton 20.05.

OTHER RESULTS

CARDIFF HALF MARATHON

Abingdon Amblers: 73 R Mulvany 1hr 16mins 49sec (pb), 101 A Watts 1.17.47 (pb).

AMSTERDAM MARATHON

Witney RR: A Greasby 3.29.18.

FRIETH HILLY 10K

Headington RR: J Thorn (2nd V40) 39.43, N Baker (1st V50) 42.19, D Sawyer (V50) 51.04, M-A Fischer (LV40) 51.22, J Worth (V40) 51.25, B Cornelius (V60) 55.27, R Illiffe (SL) 1.01.13.