Beds & County's Martin Yelling won the second Cranfield University 5k in a time of 14.59 after holding off John Downes of London Irish in an elbow to elbow sprint for the line.  After the initial kilometre six runners began to detach themselves from the strung out field with William Levett of Vauxhall Motors AC and Downes forcing the pace down the long decent to the midway point. The four others content to follow the pace included Yelling, Shaftbury Barnett's Peter Ford and the Vauxhall Motors AC pair of Owain Matthews and Darren Deed.

  The steady drag up to the Nissan roundabout was enough for Levett to turn the screw with only Yelling and Downes able to follow.  Over the top, with just 800 metres to go Downes began to wind the pace up. At one point it looked as if Downes would solo to victory, but Yelling dug deep to stay on his shoulder. Coming into the final turns with 200 metre to go, Yelling used his experience to get the jump on Downes.  Then with the line in sight Downes began to come back, but it was too late, Yelling had won after running a tactically perfect race, with Downes a little disappointed to lose out by such a narrow margin.