Joe Beamish held his nerve on the final lap to help John
McGlashan College win its third successive senior boys title
in the annual Caversham road relays yesterday.
Olympian Nick Willis has won the United States road mile
championship in Minneapolis this afternoon (NZT), running 3
minutes 56.2 seconds to edge a largely local field.
She may have missed narrowly three years ago but there was no
denying Rebekah Greene (Hill City-University) an open women's
record in the Lovelock Relay on Saturday.
As if running 230km through the Sahara Desert in temperatures
of up to 54degC wasn't difficult enough, former Dunedin
runner William Tokona did it with injuries.
It may have been a better day for the ducks, but Stafford
Thompson turned up the heat in the mud, drizzle and
single-digit temperatures to win the Three Peaks mountain
race in Dunedin yesterday.