Archer 6th at National Schools XC, County Indoor Track Championships & Half Marathon action

Somewhat ironically given it was likely to be the last weekend of racing for a while, there was plenty of varied racing activity at the weekend. This included the last race of the XC season the National Schools Champs, where Thomas Archer took the kudos with a 6th place finish, the Tri Counties Indoor Track championships, and road races with the Brentwood and Bath Half Marathons and a 20 miler at Gloucester. The majority of the local park runs also went ahead.

National Schools Cross Country Championships, Liverpool,  14/3/20

Thomas Archer  achieved a fantastic  6th place finish at the National Schools XC championships, less than 30 seconds down on the winner, and there were fine runs from the other Heathside athletes competing, as Simon Baker reports

“6 Junior Heathsiders took part in the National Schools Championships at Sefton Park in Liverpool.  Thomas Archer again excelled finishing 6th in the Inter-Boys race to cap another excellent season.  Spike Blake was the first Middlesex runner home in the Junior Boys with a superb 48th place.  Hattie Munday, Mia Manttan and Rose Garrett also produced fine runs in the colours of Middlesex. Jake Evans completed a fine cross country season with 131st place in the Senior Boys Race for London.“ 

 Junior Boys (334 Runners)

1st B Peck (Suffolk) 14:10

48th Spike Blake 15:41 (1st Middlesex Runner)

 Junior Girls (344 Runners)

1st Z Gillbody (Salop) 11:03

184 Hattie Munday 12:40

 Inter Boys (331 Runners)

1st F Sproul (Cumbria) 18:08

6th Thomas Archer 18:36 (1st Essex Runner)

248th Oliver O'Connor 21:14

 Inter Girls (355 Runners)

1st B Wood (Wiltshire) 12:22

268 Mia Manttan 15:07

301 Rose Garrett 15:29

Senior Boys (6.7Km 324 runners)

1st M Stonier (Kent) 20.54

131 Jake Evans 23.26

Tri Counties ( Middlesex / Kent / Herts)  Championships, Lee Valley, 14-15/3/20

Moving to the track, there were several impressive performances at the Tri Counties Indoor championships, including  title wins  for Eleanor ( 60m ), Lily ( 1500m ), and Sam ( Pole Vault ), several other medal winning performances described below, plus new club records for  Amara  and Scarlett.

SImon reports again, with addition information supplied by Scarlett ;

“ A very successful Middlesex Indoor for the club with 9 medallists compared to the 6 last year.  Eleanor Ball retained her women's 60m title with Claudia Bioh repeating her bronze from last year.  Lily Woolcock secured the Senior 1500m title while Scarlett Parker broke the club V45 record in the 400m.  Joel Hawes won silver in the Shot Put.

Mia Manttan, the day after competing in the National Schools Cross Country, ran well to win silver in the 1500m The performance of the weekend however was  Amara Odeogberin who set two new club records in the 300m while qualifying to the final and 800m where she improved her PB by 8s in finishing a very close 2nd.  Sam Ingram took part in 3 U17M events 800m and 60m Hurdles and Pole Vault wining silver and gold in the latter two.  Also competing were Laila Tempesta, Tynan Parker and Larissa Wilson who produced great performances.”

Results

60m Senior Women

1st Eleanor Ball 7.94

3rd Claudia Bioh 8.43

60m U15G

6th Laila Tempesta 8.70

300m U15G

Final 5th Amara Odeogberin 46.76

Heat 1 3rd Amara Odeogberin 46.15 PB Club Record

Heat 2 4th Larissa Wilson 46.70

400m Senior Men

3rd Scarlett Parker (V45) 58.62   Club record

800m U17M

6th Sam Ingram 2:19.38   SB

800m U15G

2nd Amara Odeogberin 2:34.PB (by 8s) Club Record

1500m SW

1st Lily Woolcock 4:57.49

1500m U17W

2nd Mia Manttan 5:03.71  SB

1500m U15B

4th Tynan Parker 5:04.61  SB

60mH U17M

2nd Sam Ingram 10.34  PB

Pole Vault U17M

1st Sam Ingram 2.20m   SB

Shot Put SM

2nd Joel Hawes 8.53m  SB

There were some distance road races taking place as well, namely the Bath and Brentwood Half Marathons, plus the Gloucester 20 Miler and Fell running.

Brentwood Half Marathon          15/3/20

No reports have come in for this race, but from the Strava comments it appears that the runners had to overcome a strong headwind in the second half.  Despite this the race saw top 3 finishes and PB’s for Catrin & Rebecca, and a top 5 overall position for Kimon

5              Kimon   Doulis                    75m 31s

22           Catrin Tyler                         81m 22s    PB   2ND W

25            Rebecca Piggott                 82m 6s      PB   3RD W

43           Rob Shulman                     84m 45s

Bath Half Marathon                        15/3/20

Tanya Potiyenko achieved a PB at a rainy Bath Half Marathon, only just outside the 90 minutes. There were also a very quick times run by Alex Lawrence and George Gurney           

5 Alex Lawrence 66m 5s

62           George Gurney                 72m 46s

507         Tatyana Potiyenko          90m 12s  PB       

Gloucester 20 mile                         15/3/20

Ben (pictured below) reports that it a well supported event, comprising a 3 lap course with a couple of small hills and a lot of rain on the day

136         Ben Montilla                      2hr 41m 58s

Haworth Hobbie, Yorkshire, 14th March 2020

Rachel Marshall reports “I completed the Haworth Hobble fell race on Saturday.  Its a 32 mile ultra following Yorkshire Pennine  tracks over the moors from Haworth.  I finished in 162nd place in a time of 7:26:10.”

ParkRuns

Perhaps surprisingly, most park runs did take place as usual; The highlight was probably at Ally Pally, where Heathsiders filled the top 4 positions, led home by Doug Rendle in a time of 19m 9 sec.

Other top placers were Seyfu Jamaal at Finsbury Park ( 15.26 ), Chiara Borg at Grovelands ( 22.40 ),  Alysia Sawicka  ( Brockwell ) 21.59, and Tom Hollis  ( The Old Showfield ) 17.29

Full park run results can be found here

http://www.parkrun.com/results/consolidatedclub/?clubNum=2017

The report was compiled by Mark George, with thanks to contributions from Steve Baker, Scarlett Parker, Tanya Potiyenko, and Ben Montilla