My only record - the one and only single record that I know of, that I hold anywhere in the world has gone!!!!

After 13 years, someone has come along and beaten my Championship Best Performance for the Surrey 400m Hurdles.  I guess it was going to happen sometime, but now I'm going to go and get all superstitious seeing as someone has done it at the 13th attempt!

Well done Austin Ferns, on running 52.66 - 0.04 quicker than I got all those years ago.  At 36 I may be a touch old to get it back (and a touch decrepid), but it does give a good incentive to train even harder!

I am not bitter, honest.....

On a brighter note, two of the athletes I'm coaching won U17 gold medals - Tom Parry is currently number 4 in the UK at 100m hurdles and won the Surrey Championships comfortably in 13.8.  Richard Smeaton broke his one week old Pb and has now taken well over two seconds off this time of last year to clock 51.69 in winning the 400m.

Well done to them and all the others who produced the goods over the weekend, it was good to see.

So, what is next.  There are more competitions this weekend and the weekend after and then we turn our attention to the regional champs a few weeks hence, where there will be lots of competition for all the athletes.