Two records set at last week's East Coast Secondary School Road Race Championships were highlights of an excellent day's racing.
Central Hawke's Bay College's Holly Keir started the day on a great note when she cleared out from her field in the opening event at the Regional Sports Park to win the junior girls' race in record time. Her 15m 24s for the 4km distance was quicker than what Taradale's Laura Langley ran to win the senior race.
In winning, Keir, took 10 seconds off her own course record set last year.
Olivia Corrin (Gisborne Girls' High School) was impressive winning the year 9 girls' race by one minute and 18 seconds from teammate Tyler Andrews. What would otherwise have just been a solo time trial was made more interesting for spectators, and for Corrin, by the fact the year 9 girls' and boys' races were run together. Corrin worked her way through the boys' field and was closing on third placed Kahu Rangiuia-Lindup, but the boy rallied to hold his fellow Gisborne athlete out by three seconds.
Back in April, Corrin showed her one-in-a-generation type of talent in winning the North Island secondary school junior 3000m on the track in Masterton, running 10:14.12 and breaking a North Island schools' record which had stood since 1995.