Otley Athletic Club was represented by Caroline Marler in the British Masters Championships at Derby and she picked up a silver medal.

Caroline finished second in the women's 400 metres in 66.1sec to add to her previous victories in the 200m and 400m two weeks earlier at the Northern Veterans' Championships.

At the Kirkby Malzeard 10k, a beautiful scenic run in North Yorkshire, there was a good turnout with a number of Otley runners competing and doing well.

In addition to his recent run of excellent form, the winner was Otley's Julian Mawson who finished in a time of 34min 8sec, with Neil Cayton second in 34.28. Also running for Otley were Mick Jeffrey, who crossed the line in 39.44; David Fox in 45.09 and Don Buffam in 46.59.

The Chevin Fell Race takes roughly 14 minutes to get to the summit and only four or five to descend again for the quickest runners. This fell race is soon over but is nevertheless hard work and requires good concentration.

This year's winner was Robin Lawrence in 18min 36sec, closely followed by Paul Sheard in 18.43 and Jason Helmsley in 18.46.

For Otley the times recorded were: Duncan Burgess 19.50 (9th), Ray Hawksby 21.37 (22nd), John Armistead 21.50 (24th), Carl Walsh 23.26 (41st), Phil Robinson 25.31 (73rd), Graham Stead 26.19 (80th), Bob Payne 27.44 (90th), Antonio Cardinale 29.50 (103rd) and Ann Atkinson 30.17 (105th).

Buckden Pike race

THE Buckden Pike Fell Race, organised this year by Allan Greenwood, will be held on Saturday, June 21, and not this coming weekend as suggested in many places.

Hoping to qualify

SKYRAC AC will have a number of their outstanding young athletes competing in track and field events at the West Yorkshire Schools' trials at Cleckheaton this weekend as they bid to qualify for the England Schools' Championships. This year these will be held in Yorkshire at the Don Valley Stadium in July.

Skyrac have a number of medal prospects with Amy Howard hoping to repeat her success of last year when she gained an English Schools' medal in the discus.

Laura Kirk will be hoping to improve on last year's performance and get among the medals while such as Lewis Blakey, Emma Moutrie, Lucy Foxall, Jenny Hopton, Emma Connolly, Nick Howard and Joel Riley (competing in the North Yorkshire Championships) will all be hoping to qualify for the English Schools' event.

In the third round of the Young Athletes League at Jarrow Laura Kirk won the 300m in 41.8 and the high jump with 1.50m. She was also third in the A 100m in 13.3. Paula Foster won the B 100m in 13.6 and was third in the A 200m in 27.9 and third in the long jump with 4.23m. In the U-17 men newcomer Lewis Blakey won the 400m in 55.6 and the triple jump with 11.89 and was third in the long jump with 5.42. James Murray won the high jump with 1.59 and was third in the discus and shot.