Newcastle 10k Elite Race Highlights – Blistering 29:29 and EPIC Sprint Finish!!!

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And they’re off and we’re aware right we’ll been looking we’ll quickly go through some of the athletes we’ve got in the lineup of the elite race for the men’s and the women’s uh I’ll start off with the uh we’ve got Cameron Allen uh from hon harriers Cameron’s in very very good

Shape at the minute he’s been he’s got a number of wins off the cross country I think he probably would have been a little bit disappointed with his Liverpool performance and since then it’s probably spurred him on to get going back roaring to go with training again uh got Joe Armstrong like I’ve

Just mentioned it’s fresh from his 5K PB 1413 I’m sure off the back of that you would expect him to be looking to go well under sub 2930 if possible and you’ve also got Alex Brown he’s going well strong athlete should see him with a Mor with Harry’s vest on there along

Again along with the blue and the White Stripes we’ve got jonath Jonathan uh scante Phillips from Cambridge and colid can’t quite see him yet you and then I think the next guy doesn’t need much inter no he doesn’t no it’s local L Callum Johnson get how he is um you know

Callum’s former International uh well former national cross country winner in counties cross country Champion Bladen 2023 winner great North 10K winner so he’s winning and winning and obviously he won the um jro 10K most recently as well I think you know obviously we’ve had a little chat of the field there but

Just cutting back to this race it looks like it’s a Dennis Kip langa that’s sort of hit this one hard from the off really and these two seem the position that we are in and what we can see we can see that they seem to have

Uh a bit of a match yeah absolutely be interesting to see if they can maintain this though um the pace seems to be pretty quick at the minute so and we’re still in the early stages I mean I’ve seen I watched the European cross country championships and I watched

Liverpool the the European cross country trials colum Johnson you can see him in third and Callum Cameron Allen just tucking in as well behind not far just keeping them within touching distance but it’s exactly how Colum played at the Europeans he said he coach Alan Starry very very experienced I’m sure he would

Have talked him through uh how he was going to run the race today not to go off like a b out of Hill with the wind what do you think about the course then I mean we talking earlier about about being sheltered I mean as a pan kick you

Can see already absolutely if you look at the left and right it looks BR shelsea which will benefit to yeah 100% cam I think you know like we’ve said it’s a windy day but you can see from this feed that we’re getting now it’s very well sheltered and like we touched

Upon earlier it doesn’t seem to be detering them from getting out there and running hard from the off so uh people run 10K different during the come you’ll know for yourself from doing them some people like to get out hit hard from the off others like the building erasers um

Really push through the second half the 5K I’m sure all these athletes are at a standard where they know the best way to run a 10K so well he becomes psychological too I guess and you know you you just look at that Dennis K he’s

Um JW looks easy I mean his shoulds nice and relaxed you can tell if a Runners relax with his shoulder but L is a bit of a surprise looks like Jo Armstrong’s gone to the front maybe the pace has dropped slightly and Dennis’s sort of

Realize he’s being used as a as a bit of a pacemaker and doesn’t kind of want to do all the work with the wind which is could be a sensible move but what just to touch on what we were talking about and what Richard said is that when when

They’re on the way out and that’s where the wind’s kind of the worst is that both sides of the car seem to be pretty sheltered so they’ll go out here and they’ll turn left and go a bit further along I think this is the most exposed

Part of the course so you can see the B on the B there on the side exactly that’s but this yeah this is the most exposed part of the course but again it’s not overly exposed got the key side on the left but the right hand side

Seems to be pretty pretty sheltered they did go through 2K in just under six minutes so you know it is around that three minutes per k Mark which is going to bring them home in about 30 minutes you’d imagine that they’re going to they’re going to Rally the last few k

Okay so you know at this point it’s it’s going to be a sub30 race but I think what you’ll expect now to be honest with you rich is that Callum will hit the front which it looks like it looks like he already is he won’t want that pace to

Drop because he is strong and I’m telling you camon Allen he won’t want the pace to drop his 10 kilm PB is the fastest in the field 28 and a half minutes that is rapid I wonder now cam whether these guys are starting to think a little bit about the prize money the

Race series overall I think you know from looking at the the top price Top Flight prize list that we’ve got in front of us here you know first place today it’s a minimum of 450 quid that’s going to be on your mind thinking it’s £450 at stake here but then as we know

From the the series that this you know the Top Flight have brought to us for those who didn’t get to see the podcast Top Flight in association would run through um they’ve uh it’s this Top Flight series is number of races throughout the year um over 2024 and your three highest scoring

Races contribute to an overall points uh system and there will be cash prizes for that and the cash prizes themselves are really Hefty if you’re first place over um over the full series then you’re going to be walking away with ,000 pound so again if these guys are eyeing up the

Potential of completing the series completing three races in that series and trying to take maximum points at each one of them then actually the time element of things doesn’t become the priority it then becomes about well actually I want to win this race because

I want to win this race I’m going to get more points and as we know cam points between prizes in the Top Flight Series so it’s it shows the popularity that the run through events do have um and I I say without the people who side from the

Elite without them um sort of uh attending the events the atmosphere wouldn’t be the wouldn’t be the same for the elite either so yeah there is a few runners in the women’s race who only maybe three or four years ago started running at a run through events and now

Running for England um one of those is in fact Jasmine Woods um you know she ran for England as an under 20 International uh in Cardiff at the Cardiff 5K in the summer and you know three four years ago she she decided you know what I’m gonna lce the boots up I’m

Gonna run there’s a run through event at my local uh near my local area down south she she did it loved it and now she’s an international athlete and I’m sure she’ll be out there with another uh we’ve got another three ladies in the elite event today um trying to ble it

Out Sophie P it I’m sorry if uh I think I got that one right this time Sophie and uh I know I got I know she joke last time at jaran K that I said her name wrong so I do apologize um she’s running for Al harriers Jasmine’s running for

Durham city harriers both of them 3430 both northeas Runners great to see and also Emily Kerney as well with a 3309 PB and also we have an additional entry we didn’t talk about her in the podcast because she’s just joined the race Rebecca Robinson from Kendall AC another

3309 PB which is quite unheard of to have such two PBS within two set with two sets of Runners within a second of each other yeah um that’s usually pretty unheard of not sure what sort of shape Rebecca Robinson will be in don’t think she’s run a 3309 for for a number of

Years but I’m sure she’ll still be battling with the rest of the girls um you know I think in the podcast we got sort of touch base about how Emily had run a marathon and two weeks later she’d run rull Valley uh and run 3350 was it

59 yes yeah I think so but that’s actually I think if we look at the um look at the personal bests of Sophie and Jasmine you might think 30 seconds off of that that’s quite a long way but honestly the shape those two were in at the minute both winning races both

Running personal bests I can imagine this is going to be closer than what people think I think this is going to be going again I think now we’re getting to the thick of the race you know coming up to four miles in we’ve got two miles to

Go I think now this is where if you’re in this lead pack and you’re feeling good this is where people are going to start thinking about how they’re going to win it and I think each athlete is probably going to have a slightly different way of winning it I think

Someone like Callum Johnson he might be looking to make a move he does he looks easy do yeah he does and Callum does as well like I said before about the way Joe was running at the start you can usually tell if someone’s sort of feeling quite comfortable just by

Looking at the shoulders you can see both the shoulders of of colum and’s uh en cument quite relax him with Dennis to be fair it’s hard to tell whether or not he’s just sort of sitting back he’s absolutely he’s he’s got a he’s got great you know 1355 K PB which means

That the second half of the race I it was clearly slower at the start now that they’ve those three have took off um I’m sure he’ll be willing what he’ll be raring to go as well and so maybe looking at sort of going through the heads now will be like thinking right

When am I going to kick when am I going to make my move when am I going to show my cards yeah that’s that’s the big thing yeah they’re they’re all looking easy they’re all looking relax I’ve watched Callum r a number of times again here go looks like he’s starting to hit

Def and C Allen is uh Allen is tracking yeah and he’s he’s not letting him out of his sight at all I think what cam Allen’s got in the back of his mind is being a 343 1500 meter run he knows he can shift he knows he can kick so he’s

Thinking well if I’m in contact with under to go then it’s game on WE we’ll see we’ll see what happens there um but yeah he does look relaxed and he’s not letting Callum Johnson out of his sight I think for the first time in this race we’re seeing a little Gap sort of

Tracking Callum he looks comfortable he’s checking his watch I mean yeah I think he’s he’s definitely going to be sat on Callum hoping that he can you know hang on for the last to the last 100 meters maybe try and work his way past but to be honest in a 10 kilometer

Race like this when it’s going at this pace it’s not always about speed it’s about strength it’s about strength and Duran speed and Juran should I say sorry so I’ll be interested to see if Cameron’s got any any kind of kick in his legs I know that he said he’s not

Doing indoors to me I spoke to him a few months ago uh he lives quite close to me he said to me that he’s aiming for the roads and he’s aiming for the the cross country he’s proved his form on the cross country this is his time to prove

It on so he’ll be wanting to you know get that scalp of colum he’s Callum again like we just said Callum did finish in front of him at Liverpool Callum finished fifth at the European cross country trials uh you know he was in the European um cross country championships run for Great Britain

Cameron will be wanting to sort of get get his get one back one over again on thought you can see him he’s you see these boys are coming in with 500 meters to go now um it’s it’s not far this is it where we’re really starting to get

The moves being made um and it looks like Cal and is you know they stride for stride this is really exciting stuff to watch on FD as they head back into the key side um cam who’s your money on like we’ve mentioned that 343 speed you would

Fancy him and it looks as though he’s got he’s got half a yard on Johnson but he’s still there isn’t he and he’s strong no he not all you know he’s still there he’s still within touching distance this is anyone’s game is the home straight now oh here we go Johnson

Look he’s pulling out a touch as well 250 a goal picked up the pace again looks like Cameron’s digging deep it looks like Callum could come past him here if he doesn’t pick up the pace is stride for stride as he go all the way down the home stet we coming into what

Is probably now the last 150 m 150 to go still touching distance a stride between the two of them callums you can see the arms pumping Cameron Allen head going down oh these boys are really going for it now Allen opening up the front there Johnson come on

Lad just take it from Callum Johnson great time as well 292 for the win it looks like K hours morning what a battle that was so I’m assume we’ve got Kip langa going to be coming in in third again he’s still going to be under 30 minutes

A great run from him you know we know a little bit more about him now we know what standard he’s at the spot later on in life and having a good run oh we go this first Jasmine wood well done Jasmine Jasmine’s won women’s 10 it was

Hard to see i’ seen her on the way back didn’t wasn’t quite able to see where she she uh finished um sorry where she was at but look you can see how Overjoyed she is and I can imagine she’s probably quite surprised because I know personally I went to University and you

Know I’ve trained alongside these people and I still touch Bas with a lot of them uh I know that it was submission week for her she had three submissions in the last week and everyone who’s been to University well understands the the the sleepless nights you have and she’s the

Last I think over the last few nights she’s had nor more than six hours so great to see her running so well I’m sure her coach will be over the moon that’s a massive PB I think