CITY of Salisbury starlets Jake Ness and Austen Lane enjoyed a day in Cardiff mixing with two of Great Britain’s athletes.

The Salisbury youngsters were coached by 400m hurdler Dai Greene and indoor 60m sprinter Jason Gardner after winning some top-level coaching, which was designed to help boost the teenagers’ prospects.

Held in the Wales National Indoor Athletic Centre, the coaching session focused on approach warm-ups, sprintstarts, mobility, strength and conditioning, then moved on to technical feedback on the mechanics of their sprinting style.

The inspirational day was rounded off by a therapeutic ice bath.

  • On the road in the New Forest marathon, Jon Rich again performed well at the 26-mile distance clocking 3 hours 13 min 23 sec, and Liz Roberts also showed good form - knocking 21 minutes off her best with 4.8.02. Over the half distance, Jeanette Hardiman finished in the top half of the big field with 1.57.33.

In a multi-terrain 10k race at Hursley, Mel Holloway ran his way to a good 46.23.

The South West Veterans’ Athletics Club have confirmed that Salisbury’s supervet Gordon Wiltshire won silver among the M75s in a season- long 5k series, and his son Simon took bronze in the M40s.