Berlin Marathon, Vitality 10K, Westminster Mile and SEAA Road Relays

An exciting weekend of races – with six Heathsiders coming in under 2.30 in the Berlin marathon, fast times in the Vitality 10k, a club record in the Westminster Mile and great performances from all the teams in the SEAA relays in Aldershot. We also have an update from Adrian Day who is competing in the European Masters Championships in Pescara in Italy, and will be there over this coming weekend.

Berlin Marathon,  Berlin, 24.09.23

Seyfu led the Heathside contingent home in an astounding time of 2.19.39. But impressive times all round for this first marathon of the season. Tom Aldred pulled out (as planned) at the half marathon point in a speedy half marathon time of 1.18.53

64th Seyfu Jamaal 2:19.39

126th Kader Sayed 2:26.25

153rd James Hurrell 2:27.44

167th Andrew Barnes (V40) 2:28.02

171st Kieran Morris 2:28.21

306th Sion Lewis (V40) 2:33.00

771st Conor Brown  V35       2:41:31

1469th Rendy Prakoso   SEN       2:49:47

6818th David Macnamara V40       3:24:13

Vitality 10K, London, 24.09.23

The Vitality 10K took place on Sunday – results were separated between men and women with Jonathan Hilling leading the men home in 42nd place in a time of 33.00 and Julia Kelk leading our women home, coming in 57th woman in a time of 41.37.

Men

42 Hilling, Jonathan (GBR) – Men 18-34 00:33:00

76 Gracie, Christopher (GBR) – Men 35-39 00:34:11

93 Etchemendy, Mattao (GBR) –Men 18-34 00:34:39

108 Minelle, Filippo (GBR) – 1100Men 35-39 00:34:55

177 Wilkinson, Graham (GBR) –Men 35-39 00:36:25

247 Shalom, Jonathan (GBR) – Men 45-49 00:37:13

268 Watts, Thomas (GBR) –Men 18-34 00:37:29

286 Johns, Daniel (GBR) – Men 45-49 00:37:38

312 Coleman, Callum (GBR) – Men 18-34 00:38:01

315 Lewis, M (GBR) – Men 40-44 00:38:02

327 Morris, Jamie (GBR) –Men 45-49 00:38:10

335 Cardoso, Filipe (GBR) –Men 40-44 00:38:14

749 Dean, Mark (GBR) – Men 18-34 00:41:44

904 Gu, Hongbin (GBR) – Men 35-39 00:42:48

1977 Merry, Guy (GBR) – Men 45-49 00:48:08

2198 Connell, James (GBR) – Men 50-54 00:49:04

3145 Montersino, Kyall (GBR) –Men 18-34 00:52:32

3237 Slade, Ian (GBR) – Men 55-59 00:52:55

4414 Ahmed, Imran (GBR) –  Men 18-34 00:58:22

Women

57 Kelk, Julia (GBR) – Women 40-44 00:41:37

77 Mauger, Lucie (GBR) – Women 35-39 00:42:17

94 Bellio, Maura (GBR) – Women 18-34 00:42:58

136 Singleton, Joanna (GBR) –Women 18-34 00:44:24

146 Vo, Yen (GBR) Women 45-49 00:44:38

153 Vinluan, Jessica (GBR) –Women 40-44 00:44:52

305 Andreeva, Ekaterina (GBR) – Women 35-39 00:47:20

349 Connor, Sonia (GBR) – Women 18-34 00:47:53

503  Kearney, Trudy (GBR) – Women 35-39  00:49:33

842 Zebedee, Cynthia (GBR) –Women 50-54 00:52:37

1321 Simpson, Catherine (GBR) –Women 18-34 00:55:39

1967 Johnson, Emilly (GBR) – Women 18-34  00:58:47

Westminster Mile, 23.09.23

Valentin was the only Heathsider listed in this race, and he had a fantastic run, gaining a new club record in the 45-49 category for 1 mile

23rd Valentin Valeanu 05.01 (club record 45-49 category)

SEAA Road Relays, Aldershot, 23.9.23

Ruth sent in this report on the juniors section: “Great day out in Aldershot for the juniors at the SEAA road relays. Very strong competition and all teams performed well. Highlights U15 Girls 15th (out of 63 teams) U17 women 15th (out of 47 teams) U15 boys 32nd (out of 69 teams) and U17 men 39th team. Amy Kirk was the stand out individual performance with 14th fastest leg overall U15G.”

U15 Boys (69 Teams)

1st Blackheath & Bromley 28:11

32nd London Heathside (40th Sam Turner 10:42, 25th Frank Bailey 10:45, 37th Ennio Kaloukian 10:59) 32:27

U15 Girls (63 Teams)

1st Aldershot Farnham & District 31:35

15th London Heathside (7th Amy Kirk 10:53, 20th Rosa Cormacain 11:35, 16th Kiara Corkin 11:44) 34:12

U17 Men (68 Teams)

1st Chelmsford 43:25

39th London Heathside (23rd George Saint 15:25, 27th David Baah-Okyere 16:03, 52nd Artie Feeny-Willings 18:31) 49:59

U17 Women (47 Teams)

1st Aldershot Farnham & District 50:26

15th  London Heathside (24th Milly Watkins 18:22, 15th Ishaana Cannell 18:55, 12th Izzy Watkins 17:40) 54:57

Senior Women (61 teams)

1st Aldershot Farnham & District 1:21.48

35th London Heathside (47th Lily Woolcock 23:54, 23rd Rhian Male 23:24, 44th Jennifer Wing 26:52, 38th Genevieve Weston 25:30) 1:39.41

Senior Men (107 teams)

1st Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers 1:47.22

26th London Heathside (41st George Gurney 19:06, 25th Matthew Rallison 18:56, 23rd Joseph Young 19:14, 46th Yann Sevestre 19:56, 19th Abel Woldegiorgis 19:20, 31st Gus Tomlinson Smith 19:42) 1:56.16

79th London Heathside B (84th Darryn Hillson 20:32, 71st Sammy Keenan 20:56, 83rd Keith Geoghegan 21:38, 71st Lee D'Arcy 20:59, 67th Jordan Marshall 21:17, 87th Bedo Draskoczy 24:38) 2:10.01 

Ealing Half Marathon
8th        Gareth CREAGH            1:15:53.6           V40      

1038th Steve CROWLEY            1:48:33.1           V50      

European Masters Championships in Pescara, Italy, 21 Sept – 1st Oct 2023

Adrian Day sent in this report of his visit to the European Masters Champs where he has been competing and will continue over the weekend:

“Hello. I'm competing at the European Masters Champs in Pescara, an Italian resort on the Adriatic.  I think I'm the only Heathsider here - but as there's around 450 in the GB team alone it's hard to know.  So far I've run in the 100m and 200m heats in the 65-70 age group; in my strongest event, the 400m,  I came second in the heats with a SB of 65.30, fourth in the semis and made the final as a 'fast loser'. My goal was to reach the semi and hadnt looked beyond, so was surprised to find the final was on the same day - which resulted in a slow last place (I know next time to better pace myself with three 400m races in two days). Still very happy with coming 8th in Europe.  Oh, and in between the 400 morning semi and evening final I won a bronze medal with M65 GB 4 x 100 team.  

Hopefully I will make one of the teams for the mixed and/or men's 4 x 400m at the weekend. Thanks to coach Israel, and the others in the masters sprint training group. 

Worth adding there's 4000 athletes here with a great friendly atmosphere - and GB is second in medal table behind the hosts.  I'd encourage any Heathsider over 35 to give an international masters event a go. More details here (this site is great thanks to lots of sterling work by our very own Mr Essex). https://bmaf.org.uk/

Will update on 4 x 400s if selected.”

Parkruns

87 Heathsiders took part in a parkrun this week – full results can be found here. Congratulations on first places for Charles Ogilvie and Sarah Swinhoe (Finsbury  Park), Amy Cook (Mile End),  Alysia Sawicka (Krakow), Annabel Judd (East Brighton) and Alan Hughes (Lordship Rec)

Compiled by Caroline White, with thanks for contributions from Ruth Miller, Adrian Day, Simon Baker and Valentin Valeanu