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Melissa Moon wins Mt Washington climb.
Melissa Moon triumphed over defending champion Anna Pichrtova of the Czech Republic in winning the annual Mt Washington mountain race in New Hampshire.
Moon described the race as a cat and mouse affair with Pichrtova, all the way up the tough 7.6 mile slog to the summit of 6288 ft.
The twice world mountain running champion kicked clear 300m from the finish. Moon recorded 1h 10m 11s, 15s ahead of Pichrtova, just missing the race record by three seconds.
Aish runs world champs marathon qualifying time
Michael Aish finished 11th in the Grandma's marathon in Duluth Minnesota in a time of 2h 17m 20s.
He is just under the 2h 18m standard for the world athletic championships in Helsinki in August.
Aish was up with the leaders to half way after passing the first 10km in 31m 14s and half way in 1h 6m 53s.
However his pace then slowed with the final 10km covered in 35m 7s.
The race was won by Wesly Ngetich of Kenya in 2h 13m 18s.
Meanwhile during the week Jason Stewart ran an 800m in Lucerne, finishing seventh in 1m 47.68s, and in Warsaw Carl McKenzie ran an impressive 3000m in 8m 29.48s for ninth place.
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