Alex Carter was in a class of his own as he set a new course record in the May edition of the Running Bath 2013 5k road race series.
The Team Bath teenager's time of 15mins 26secs was seven seconds inside the old record and a massive 56 seconds faster than the existing aged-17 standard.
With Carter leading from gun to tape, it was left to Matt Maynard and Steven Curtis to battle it out for second place, with the former taking the honours in 16:38.
That sliced 41 seconds off his personal best and was seven seconds faster than Curtis, who also went quicker than he had before.
Leading the over-40s home was Steve Rose in 17:53, six seconds ahead of Luke Sturgess-Durden, and David Vaudin continued to dominate the over-50 age group by finishing in 18:02.
Dave Gunstone, last year's age-group champion, was runner-up in 19:02 and George Chapman finished second to Carter in the under-20s category in 17:29, beating his previous best by 22 seconds.
Jo Mumford was first lady home in 21:14, with Zina Marchant second in 22.13.
Matt Maynard was the most improved runner and other bests were set by George Frost, Josh Taylor, Louis Gillow, Marcus Wiltshire, Peter Nisato, Romek Kriwald, Craig Chapman and Pip Colles.
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Running Bath 5k road results for May 2013
1 Alex Carter 15:26, 2 Matt Maynard 16:38, 3 Steven Curtis 16:45, 4 George Frost 17:11, 5 George Chapman 17:29, 6 Allister Sheffield 17:33, 7 Josh Taylor 17:38, 8 Mark Bown 17:45, 9 Steve Rose 17:53, 10 Luke Sturgess-Durden 17:59, 11 Roland Teare 17:59, 12 David Vaudin 18:02, 13 Jack Cook 18:05, 14 Malcolm Treby 18:44, 15 Neil Turner 18:50, 16 Stefan Barnett 18:56, 17 Tom Martin 18:57, 18 Dave Gunstone 19:02, 19 Louis Gillow 19:24, 20 Barry Awan 19:40, 21 Paul King 19:45, 22 James Taylor 19:50, 23 Marcus Wiltshire 20:10, 24 Peter Nisato 20:40, 25 Malcolm Turner 20:56, 26 Joanne Mumford 21:14, 27 Richard Roberts 21:30, 28 Oscar Estradan 21:34, 29 Glen Morrison 21:42, 30 Romek Kriwald 22:06, 31 Zina Marchant 22:13, 32 Keith Jones 22:28, 33 Mark Thomas 22:39, 34 Craig Chapman 23:17, 35 Andrew Guest 23:36, 36 Paul Carroll 24:08, 37 Ian Past 24:24, 38 Pip Colles 24:57, 39 Ali Robinson 25:38, 40 Cristina Lujan-Barroso 25:58, 41 Ray Brigden 35:33.
