Cockings Conquers Comrades

FastFriday 2019 – June 7th

The Glorious Heathside made their usual trip to Walthamstow track for Orion’s FastFriday, with a slightly smaller than usual contingent representing. Thankfully we always have good supporting with a decent Heathside crew huddled in lane 3 with beer and prosecco yelling at us as we lapped the dreaded rat wheel for 25 laps. In the first race of the night we experienced every weather condition starting with peeing rain and ending with bright sunshine. There was a gusty top bend to hinder us on every lap, but everyone ran strong. Sion Lewis went with the 34 minute pacer to try to challenge for the victory. This was perhaps a bridge too far for him after his stunning run at Vitality 10K the week before which was probably still in the legs. He held his nerve for a podium third. Julia Bijl challenged for 1st lady for most of the race before pulling off with about a mile to go with injury. Alex, Joe C, Joe Mc, Gav and Jimbob all turned in hugely satisfying track performances by their own standards.

In the second very fast race, Tom Aldred eased through the field picking off runners and taking a respectable third place podium - unable to catch the first two runners who tussled for most of the race 200 metres up the road!

Despite some of the organisers’ errant result listings, these are the actual correct finish times:

Race 1

Pos Time      Name                    Category Gender
3      35:37.5 Sion Lewis              V35         M
8      36:13.9 Alex Sweet             V35         M
11    36:31.6 Joseph Clemoes    V35         M
13    37:20.4 Joseph McKeown  V35         M
15    38:37.6 Gavin Evans          V55         M
17    38:57.7 James Connell       V45         M
        DNF     Julia Bijl                  U23         W

Race 2

Pos Time       Name                   Category Gender
3      31:51.8 Tom Aldred            V40         M

Comrades – Sunday June 9th

In South Africa, Michael Cockings represented at the world’s oldest Ultra Road Marathon. The wonderful Comrades runs 87km from Durban to Pietermaritzburg.  This year was the “Up” run making it a gruelling first 40K uphill, followed by rolling hills with huge elevation gains and losses for the remainder of the race. Michael held his nerve for a very respectable time that gives him the coveted Bill Rowan Medal for finishing under 9 hours. He placed in the top 10% of finishers. This is one of the ultimate road races and with an incredible atmosphere and spirit, along with that heart-breaking strict 12 hour cut off.

Pos    Name                    Time
1978  Michael Cockings  08:38:33

Southend Half Marathon - Sunday 9th June

At the Southend Half Marathon, pocket rocket Sara Black, took 1st Woman overall in a stunning run resulting in a shiny new PB. The V45 (super) mum just can't get enough races these days. She's on FIRE!

Pos   Name         Time
1       Sara Black  86:54 PB

Summer Quadkids

Russell and the Junior Coaches held their second Quadkids Competition of the year on Sunday 8th June.  Again the day proved popular with almost 80 young athletes taking part.  The competition involves 4 events 75m, 600m, Long Jump and Vortex throw.

In the U9 competition, as was the case in the last competition in March, the leading boy and girl were Abraham Lock and Grace Wood.  Skye Kelly produced the highest score of all the U13's with 252 points a 20 point improvement on her March score.  Thomas Conley was the highest scoring boy.  Among a host of great performances were Martha Jolly whose 75m of 10.6 sec and long jump of 3.94m were the longest on the day and Skye Kelly with the fastest 600m of 1:56 and vortex throw of 29.46m.

Thanks again to all the coaches and parents who helped the event run so smoothly.  Results can be found on www.quadkids.org.

Quadkids Results, Finsbury Park Track, 8.06.19.
Over 13 Boys (7 Competitors)
1st Sam Ingram 318 pts (75m - 9.49, LJ - 4.14m, 600m - 1:41, Vortex 40.21m)
2nd Avery Dietrich 306 pts (9.90, 4.31m, 1:43, 34.14)
3rd Benjy Bediako 281 pts (10.43, 4.35m, 1:44, 24.11m)

U13 Boys (28 competitors)
1st Thomas Conley 223 pts (11.60, 3.41m, 2:04, 26.54m)
2nd Eden Brown 208 pts (11.20, 3.22m, 2:14, 25.30m)
3rd Thomas Moreton 197 pts (11.40, 2.90m, 2:08, 23.45m)

U13 Girls (26 competitors)
1st Skye Kelly 252 pts (11.20, 3.76m, 1:56, 29.46m)
2nd Amara Odeogberin  200 pts (11.10, 3.25m, 1:57, 11.56m)
3rd Suraya Frost 184 pts (10.90, 3.80m, 2:27, 8.83m)

U9 Boys (15 Competitors)
1st Abraham 180 pts (12.90, 2.23m, 2:19, 9.30m)
2nd Kenzo 138 pts (14.08, 1.89m, 2:51, 18.40m)
3rd Law 134 pts (16.08, 2.40m, 3:09, 17.56m)

U9 Girls (9 Competitors)
1st Grace 165 pts (13.21, 2.38m, 2:38, 8.90m)
2nd Iris 91 pts (15.34, 1.87m, 3:10, 6.25m)
3rd Farah 54 pts (16.87, 1.31m, 3:20, 4.60m)

Great North Swim

Three hardy Heathside swimmers took part in the chilly and choppy Great North Swim in Lake Windermere over the weekend. It would have been 4 Heathside competitors as Steve Woolf also had an entry.

5km swim
Martin Potter 1:38:34 - 12th in age group
Briony Fane 2:01:34 - 7th in age group
2 mile swim
Jackie Wastell 1:29:59 - 27th in age group

Thames Valley Harriers Open Meeting
Wormwood Scrubs
5th June 2019

At the TVH Open, Luke and Abel both performed brilliantly to take 1st and 2nd in their races. Both finish times were lightening fast: 

800m
U20X2 1st Luke Gray (U20) 2:04.7

1500m
2nd Abel Woldegiorglis (U15) 4:26.41 PB

Vets League, Stevenage - Monday 10th June

In the Vets league, the ladies went one better than the men to take the fixture win. Both teams performed excellently and are well poised to challenge for the overall title with Fixture 3 (of 4) coming up in just over a week. 

Women
W35   
200m   
1 Baydar, Gokce (V35) 28.7
2 Reichert, Emily (V35) - NS 30.3
800m   
1 Reichert, Emily (V35) 2:44.8
3000m   
2 Swinhoe, Sarah (V45) 11:52.5
4x400m   
1 London Heathside  5.06.0
HJ   
1 Baydar, Gokce (V35) 1.20
JT   
1 Backhaus, Claudia (V40) 18.15
2 Swinhoe, Sarah (V45) - NS 21.53
3 Gokce Baydar (35) - NS 20.01
W40   
200m   
1 Kehoe, Helene (V55) 32.9
800m   
2 Satu Hietanen (45) 2:48.8   
W50   
200m   
3 Weston, Rachel (V55) 34.5
HJ   
2 Minson, Madeleine (V50) 1.15
JT   
3 Minson, Madeleine (V50) 15.46
6 Eedle, Sue (V60) - NS 9.29   
W60   
200m   
2 Eedle, Sue (V60) 40.3
800m   
1 Eedle, Sue (V60) 03:23.2
   
Womens Teams   
1 London Heathside 77.5 
2 Barnet & District 55.5 
3 Stevenage & North Herts 50 
4 St. Albans 36 
5 Herts Phoenix 35.5 
6 Ilford 15.5 
7 Enfield & Haringey 13 

Men  
M35    
200m    
4 Killilea, Tony (V55) 28.2  
800m    
2 Garrett, Edward (V45) 2:10.5 
3000m    
7 Parker, Scarlett (V45) 10:42.4 
4x400m    
2 London Heathside 04:12.9   
M40    
200m    
4 Parker, Scarlett (V45) 26.8 
800m     
5 Parker, Scarlett (V45) 02:21.3 
SP    
7 Weston, Russell (V55) 5.53 
8 Evans, Gavin (V55) - NS 5.29 
M50    
200m     
4 Jefford, Mark (V50) 27.9 
800m    
2 Jefford, Mark (V50) 02:24.0 
3000m    
4 Evans, Gavin (V55) 11:15.9 
HT    
9 Weston, Russell (V55) 12.00 
DT    
8 Jefford, Mark (V50) 17.28 
M60    
200m    
1 Essex, Adrian (V65) 28.8 
3000m    
1 Crockford, Pete (V60) 11:00.8 
SP     
2 Essex, Adrian (V65) 8.76 
    
Mens Teams    
1 Ilford 102  
2 London Heathside 93  
3 Herts Phoenix 80  
4 St. Albans 74  
5 Stevenage & North Herts 70  
6 Enfield & Haringey 63  
7 Harrow 56  
8 Barnet & District 47  
9 Dacorum & Tring 32 

Parkrun

Plenty of parkrun action on Saturday resulting in wins for Charles Hardy at Boston, Lily Woolcock at Ally Pally, and a glorious one-two for Tom Bedwell and Liam Hazelton at Sunny Hill:

https://www.parkrun.com/results/consolidatedclub/?clubNum=2017&eventdate=2019-6-08

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the report.