Mo breaks park run course record

There was much excitement on Southampton Common on Saturday as Mo Mahamed beat fellow Southampton AC teammate Alex Wall-Clarke's park run course record. Alex's record of 15 mins and 7 seconds over 5km around Southampton Common was set in park run 193 on the 20th February earlier this year.  Mo recorded a time of 14 mins and 56 seconds in park run 221 on Saturday becoming the first man around the common in under 15 minutes. The park runs are a wonderful initiative that suplement many athletes training programmes both young and old.  In perect conditions on the common on Saturday morning pb's were achieved by young athletes Luke Powell, Max Satterly, Toby Hale and Ben Brown who all ran in Mo's record breaking race alongside brother Zak who was 2nd on the day just 1 seeond outside his park run pb of 15 mins 33 seconds.