Kelly gets the season off to a good start
On Saturday last four athletes from Ferrybank A.C. including Kelly Proper competed in an Indoor meeting in Loughborough College in England and Kelly had a good effort in the Long Jump as she took second place with a jump of 6.33 metres. The event was won by Jessica Ennis, the World Heptathlon Champion who jumped 6.39 metres, in the same event Nicola Power was fifth with 5.55 metres. In the 60 metres Niamh Whelan also had a good start to her season when she finished third in 7.60 seconds with Kelly Proper behind her in fifth place with 7.66 seconds, in the men's 60 metres Christopher Russell was unplaced. In Scotland on Saturday also Alex Flynn competed in a 4km cross country race at the Edinburgh Cross Country Festival over a very snowy course and finished fourth in a very big field of runners, he was timed at 13 minutes 37 seconds and the race was won in 12 minutes and 41 seconds. The race was a curtain raiser to the big International races at the same venue.