Big Half, National Schools Games, London Masters & Heath Duathlon
Contents
The Big Half
Twilight 5000’s
National Schools Games
London Masters champs / BMC
Hampstead Heath Duathlon
Dorney Half / Treggy 7
Parkruns
The Big Half Greenwich 1 Sep
The Big Half styles itself as London’s community Half Marathon, and certainly lived up to its name in terms of numbers of Heathside runners, with 33 club participants in the 12,000+ mass race ; plus Seyfu competed in the elite race and finished 4th there ( in a time that would have won the mass race easily ) , results as follows ;
4 Seyfu Jamaal 1hr 4m 36s
24 Kader Seyed 1hr 12m 9s
84 Conor Brown 1hr 16m 31s
92 Will De Cothi 1hr 16m 43s
99 Jose Sabroso 1hr 17m 5s 12th V40
161 Jonny Forsyth 1hr 18m 47s 6th V50
175 Raoul Metcalfe 1hr 19m 9s
418 David Lee 1hr 23m 55s
429 Peter Dowds 1hr 24m 7s
448 Ed Boden 1hr 24m 22s
511 Justin Badger 1hr 25m 11s 8th V55
673 Paul Beale 1hr 27m 20s
813 Mark Dean 1hr 28m 45s
1096 Glen Taylor 1hr 31m 36s
1383 Matteo Etchemendy 1hr 34m 15s
1613 Roy Kimachia 1hr 36m 10s
1665 Yen Vo 1hr 36m 36s 15th FV45
1731 Timothy Meara 1hr 37m
2236 Chris Magierek 1hr 40m 17s
2321 Paul Mercer 1hr 40m 46s
2456 Jack Da Silva 1hr 41m 36s
2643 Tom Griffiths 1hr 42m 40s
3386 George Sutton 1hr 46m 33s
3509 Jonathan Finney 1hr 47m 13s
3846 George Aston 1hr 48m 50s
4184 James Connell 1hr 50m 22s
5077 Moya Malekin 1hr 54m 9s
5208 Phil Mcgaw 1hr 54m 39s
5432 Steve Crowley 1hr 55m 32s
5785 Antonio Ribeiro 1hr 56m 59s
8797 Stefano Spalvieri 2hr 9m 23s
10794 Salman Adam 2hr 18m 44s
11130 Caroline McGraw 2hr 20m 31s
12215 Steven Murnane 2hr 27m 6s
Tracksmiths Twilight 5000s Parliament Hill 28 Aug
Seyfu and Kader also participated the previous week in the Twilight 5000m races, as did Thomas Watts, with Kader setting a PB. and Seyfu winning the A race
5000m
SX5 33 Thomas Watts 18m 13.29s
SX7 8 Kader Seyed 15m 49.38s PB by 1.3s
SX8 1 Seyfu Jamaal 14m 28.20s
National School Games, Athletics Field Events, Loughborough, 30 Aug
Elkie Baker picked up a medal at the National Schools Games, as Simon Baker reports :
“ Elkie Baker took part in the National School Games over the weekend. “ The competition which is a legacy of the 2012 Olympics takes place Bi-annually and features 1500 young athletes across 11 sports over a 4-day weekend hosted at the impressive facilities at Loughborough University. The Athletics competition takes place over two days with field events on the Friday and track on the Saturday. The top 4 U17 athletes from each of the home counties is selected plus the next 4 highest ranked athletes. The alumni from the games is impressive boasting at least 11 medallists in Paris having competed in the Games.
Elkie competed in the Discus which kicked off the action on the Friday morning in very sunny conditions. She was 2nd after the first 3 throws however former National Schools winner Matilda Farrar (Waverley) threw a big 38.73m in round 4 to take the title with Elkie finally finishing in 3rd place, but with another medal to add to her collection.”
Discus (Women)
3rd Elkie Baker (U17W) 36.73m (32.48m, 33.47m. 35.23m, 36.67m, 35.55m, x)
London Masters/Vets AC Champs Tooting Bec 31 Aug
Adrian Day reports
“ Tooting Bec-kons …
At least three Heathsiders ventured to deepest south London on Saturday to take part in the London Masters / Vets AC Champs (this was held at Finsbury Park last year). Fiona Holland ran in the 1500m and won Gold in her age group . Fiona was in the same race as the incredible Clare Elms - who took the W60 World Record for the 1500m in 4:57.14! At 60 years and 9 months Clare is the oldest woman in the world to break the five minutes barrier. It wasn’t a huge surprise as she currently holds 24 British age group records!
Israel Nworgu resumed his hurdling rivalry with fellow M35 athlete Michael Shortall. Israel took Silver in the 400m hurdles, but then beat Michael to win Gold in the 110m hurdles.
Meanwhile I had a successful afternoon taking a clean sweep of sprint Golds in the 100m, 200m and 400m in my M65 age category. A late start to the 100m meant the three races were squeezed into 90 minutes, so no PBs in the 200 or 400 “
100m Adrian Day V65 14.43s
200m Adrian Day 28.80s
400m Adrian Day 67.25s
1500m Fiona Holland FV65 7m 52.21s
110 Mh Israel Nworgu V35 16.85s
400 Mh Israel Nworgu 64.24s
BMC Regional Races Gillingham 2 Sep
800m
2 Richard Macaulay 2m 1.42s
Hampstead Heath Duathlon 1 Sep
Hannah Yip reports ;
“ A smaller turnout this year from London Heathside for the 25th Hampstead Heath Duathlon (also known as the Pondathon).
Three laps of Parliament Hill Lido (180m in total), a run to Highgate Men's Pond (1,100m), one lap of the Men's Pond (340m), a run to Kenwood Ladies' Pond (690m), one lap of that (230m), a run to the Mixed Pond (2,200m), one lap of the Mixed (180m), and a final 1,400m run to the finish line near the Lido.
I got a bit lost towards the Mixed Pond, but managed a PB.
Conditions were very favourable, with the water temps being approx. 19–20 degrees. There were over 400 participants for this year's event and (for the first time) there was a finisher's medal.”
1st W Kirk 30:48
46th Anne-Marie Clifford 38:47
55th Tanya Addison (V50) 39:24 (2nd V50)
65th Marcus Lloyd (V50) 39:56
72nd Oliver Negus 40:32
96th Katie Belkin (V50) 42:22
110th Hannah Yip 43:18 (PB)
121st Liam Hazelton 43:55
180th David Ingamells 46:56 (PB)
189th Lorna Stevenson 47:25
305th Sue Eedle (V60) 55:54
Dorney Lake Half Marathon Windsor 1 Sep
back to the roads, and Gavin Evans encountered some unexpected events in his half marathon at Dorney Lake, where he finished as the first V60, and sends in this report,
“ I was the sole Heathsider running this four-lap half on a hot, windless day (22 degrees) at the Eton boating lake.
The organisers, RunThrough, decided to get the most bang for their buck, so put on several waves of triathlons, a 10k, 5k and half marathon all together. This meant that instead of running around the lake like the triathletes, the runners had to do a back-and-forth on one side of the lake, meaning that for the half there were 12 u-bend turns, which was far from ideal because it was very stop-start. Also, all the runners went off at the same time and we also found ourselves running with the triathletes some of the time.
I finished in 1:30:59, which, rather surprisingly, made me the first V60 by more than two minutes (this wasn’t the most competitive of races). However, when I looked up the results I found I was listed as having run this time for the 10k instead of the half, which was perplexing because I had the black half marathon number, had registered for the half and my name was among the half entrants. I wrote to inform the organisers but at the time of writing they had yet to correct it. Oh well “.
20 Gavin Evans 1hr 30m 59s (1st V60)
Treggy 7 Launceston 1 Sep
26 Martin Potter 44m 34s 1st V55
160 Jackie Wastell 59m 51s 3rd FV60
( pictured on front )
Parkruns
a summary of the week’s Parkruns can be found here
Compiled by Mark George, with thanks to contributions from Adrian, Hannah, Gavin, & Simon