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Mick Acott Celebrates the Olympics
With the Olympic event now one year old Mick Acott a Lewes AC club members was determined to celebrate and keep his memories fresh and alive. To this end he entered the Anniversary 5MILE at the Olympic Park. This was a five mile run around the Olympic park with the last 300m finishing in the Olympic Stadium itself in front of several thousand spectators. He was in the Red Group the first Wave of over 12,500 runners with a predicted time of 43 minutes.
Beating his predicted time Mick finished in 39mins.59secs and was 2,357th overall and 49th in his 55-59 age group.
Mick’s comments were that ‘ It was a great experience and certainly kept my memories fresh running with Paula Radcliffe, Mel B and Victoria Pendleton’