Bicester AC’s athletes have been busy competing in various indoor athletic competitions held at the start of the new year. Cyrus Ariana was Bicester’s sole representative at the recently held South of England Indoor Championships held at Lea Valley. Ariana had to navigate two rounds of competition in the under 15 boy’s 300m. Ariana started off with a win in heat 2 clocking 40.56secs, the second fastest qualifying time. Ariana then ducked under 40secs in the final clocking 39.96secs for 2nd place, which as an outdoor EA PB level 7 time. He was one of only two athletes to duck under the 40 second barrier.
Django La Porte competed in the recently held Loughborough indoor athletics meeting. La Porte contested two 60 metre races which were open to all age groups with clockings of 7.16secs and 7.15secs respectively. Both of these times were EA PB level 8 times.
Earlier in the year, Cyrus Ariana and Georgia Bower competed in an indoor athletics meeting in Windsor. Ariana ran a new personal best of 7.87 secs in the 60m which is an EA PB level 6 time. And running in her first competitive indoor meeting Georgia Bower clocked 8.41secs for the 60m.