Brian Slaughter and Grant Stirling did it again as they picked up 8 golds 1 silver tune CBP’s between them the Southern Counties Masters Indoor Championships. Brian started the Gold rush with a victory in the 60m Hurdles. They both took victories in their age groups for the pole vault with Grants 2.80 and Brian 2.60 clearances. The Long Jump was again a double victory with Brian getting a Championship Best Performance Record (CBP)
Grant’s Triple Jump his number one event saw victory with 12.32m a CBP as he builds towards his winter goal of the World Indoor Championships. Brian still had three events to go and next up was the High Jump and only managed Silver for this one. Onto the more physically demanding was the 200m and then an hour later the 400m but again they were dealt with in a victorious way.
The following week Grant travelling to the British Masters individual event Indoor Championships in Sheffield and cemented his no1 status for triple jump by taking the national title in the M45 age group. His 12.43 was one of his best indoors with 4 jumps all within 3cm of this for his series of jumps. He added to this the pole vault title with 2.80m.
The main focus for both is the World Masters Indoor Championships in Torun Poland at the end of March and therefore these were another stepping stone towards that goal as Brian and Grant treated them as a competitive training days.