Warrington Athletic Club's Danny Cliffe produced the fastest time in the UK by an athlete under 20 when he finished in 40th place in a field of around 31,000 runners in the BUPA Great Manchester 10 kilometres road race on Sunday 18th May. Danny's run in a time of 30 minutes 53 seconds put him in 1st place in the non invited or elite runners and he was only 2 minutes 4 seconds behind the first British runner and 1 minute 30 seconds behind Dan Robinson who has been the highest placed British runner in the last Commonwealth Games, European Championships and Olympic Games Marathons.

 Meanwhile Mervyn ward finished in 44th place and 2nd over 50 in the Chester Half Marathon running a time of 1 hour 24 minutes 29 seconds.

On Saturday 17th May The BUPA Junior Great Manchester races took place with two Warrington Athletic Club athletes taking part.In the 12-14 Boys race Tom Jervis finished in 2nd place in a time of 7 minutes 23 seconds while in the 9-11 girls Carys Mc Auley finished in 5th place in 9 minutes 39 seconds.