The Winter Season started in sweltering hot conditions with the traditional Middlesex Young Athletes Road Relays which is also the first chance for silverwear and our young athletes delivered with 4 team medals including Gold for the U15 Boys and Girls. Suraya, Elkie and Malakai won their first County Vests at the South of England Inter-Counties Championships. Closer to home the Club helped host the inaugural London Masters Championships at Finsbury Park. There were also big track PB’s and great performances on the road.

Road Racing

Middlesex Young Road Relays, Minet Centre, Hayes, 10.9.23

The winter program for the Young Athletes started as usual with the Road Relays. This year due to the high temperatures all races below U17 were shortened to 1000m/1500m. Kit Young started the action with a solid 12th place in the U11 road relay. The club finishing with two team gold (U15 Boys and Girls) silver for the U13 Boys and Bronze for the U17 Men. There were individual medals for Amy Kirk (U15G), Dylan Mills (U15B), George Saint (U17M) and Milly Watkins (U17W)

The U13 Boys A team with Rory Willis 2nd fastest overall was supported by Charlie Nicolson (4th) and Alex Kirk (6th) comfortably too the silver medal 21s behind winners ESM. London Heathside B team comprising Alex Rankin (11th), Seb McNeely (13th) and Pip (19th) were 4th.

The U15’s however really excelled winning both races. We had 3 Girls teams with the A team finishing 1st 43s ahead of ESM. Amy Kirk (2nd), Kiara Corkin (5th) and Lettice Gundry (8th) all producing solid races. THe B team of Rosa Cormacain (6th), Maya Westgate (7th) and Lila Blustin (11th) missed out on 3rd place by 14s the C team finished 5th with Jessica Lappin (12th), Margot Hunt (13th) and Jasmina Roberts (18th). The Boys also won with a 15s margin with Dylan Mills 2nd fastest only 3s off 1st, Frank Baiiey (4th) and Sam Turner (8th). The B team comprising Alex Poutney (11th), Ennio Kaloukian (12th) and Phoenix Bonhote (24th) were 4th by only 8s

The U17 Men were 3rd led home by George Saint (3rd), David Baah Okyere (6th) and Artie Feeny Willings (21st) with Ben Ryan (22nd) also running. Milly Watkins was our only U17 finishing 3rd.

Well done to all the athletes and Team Manager Ruth,

Results

U11 Girls (1000m)

No Competitor

U11 Boys (1000m)

1st L DaSilva (TVH) 3:19

12th Kit Young 3:50

U13 Girls (3x1500m)

1st Harrow 16:45

No LH Team

U13 Boys (3x1500m)

1st Ealing Southall & Middlesex 15:25

2nd London Heathside A (Rory Willis 4:57, Charlie Nicholson 5:22, Alex Kirk 5:27) 15:46

4th London Heathside B (Alex Rankin 5:44, Seb McNeely 5:47, Pip Young 6:12) 17:43

U15 Girls (3x1500m)

1st London Heathside A (Amy Kirk 4:58, Kiara Corkin 5:21, Lettice Gundry 5:43) 16:02

4th London Heathside B (Rosa Cormacain 5:30, Maya Westgate 5:36, Lila Blustin 5:48) 16:59

5th London Heathside C (Jessica Lappin 5:53, Margot Hunt 5:53, Jasmina Roberts 6:30) 18:11

U15 Boys (3x1500m)

1st London Heathside A (Dylan Mills 4:41, Frank Bailey 4:45, Sam Turner 4:52) 14:29

4th London Heathside B (Alex Poutney 4:56, Ennio Kaloukian 4:57, Phoenix Bonhote 5:13) 14:55

U17 Women (3x3000m)

No London Heathside Team

3rd Milly Watkins 11:42

U17 Men (3x3000m)

1st Highgate Harriers 29:13

3rd London Heathside (George Saint 9:33, David Baah-Okyere 9:57, Artie Feeny-Willings 11:47) 31.17

Richmond RunFest

3 Heathsiders valiently took on a 10k and half marathon despite the heat, the conditions were so challenging the marathon race had to be haulted for health reasons with 1000 runners still on the course.

Richmond Run-Fest 10km, Kew Gardens, 9.9.23

19th Stephen Topp (V45) 39:02

Richmond Run-Fest Half Marathon, Richmond, 10.9.23

21st Oliver Negus 1:26.19

853rd Kyall Montersino 2:02.09

Pleshey Half Marathon (incl Essex Championships), Chelmsford 10.9.23

271st Jemma Conn 2:47.50

Run Through QE Olympic Park, Stratford, 9.9.23

5km

8th Tom Griffiths 20:41

Track and Field

Veterans AC Track & Field Championships 2023, Finsbury Park, 9 Sep 23

The Club, led by Adrian Essex, helped organise this inaugural masters event held at our home track. Despite the stifling hot weather the event proved very successful with a host of great performances by Healthsiders to boot. Thanks again to all the officials and volunteers who helped.

100m

SM2 3rd Adrian Day (V65) 14:57

SM3 4th Tony Killilea (V55) 14:32

SW2 3rd Noelle O’Regan (VW35) 14:31

200m

SM2 2nd Adrian Day (V65) 29:28

SM3 3rd Tony Killilea (V55) 29:66

SM3 5th Steve Crowley (V55) 32:27 PB

400m

SM2 2nd Adrian Day (V65) 72:31

SM3 5th Steve Crowley (V55) 69:32

SW1 1st Noelle O’Regan (V35) 68:12

800m

SM3 4th Richard Macauley (V35) 2:06.16

1500m

SM2 2nd Richard Macaulay (V35) 4:24,63

SW 4th Lucie Mauger (V35) 5:27.39 PB

Pole Vault

6th Adrian Essex (V70) 1.60m

JT (500g)

2nd Dulce Laluces (VW60) 12.45m PB by 3.26m

SEAA Inter-Counties U15/U17 Championship, Oxford, 10.9.23

Thomas, Malakai, Suraya and Elkie all represented Middlesex at the South of England Inter-Counties in Oxford. Elkie won the U15 Girls Discus with Suraya and Malakai both 3rd in their respective sprint hurdles. Thomas Wasserman also produced point winning performances in Hurdles, Shot and Hammer.

75mH

H1 3rd Suraya Frost (U15G) 11.96

Final 3rd Suraya Frost (U13G) 11.75

80mH

3rd Malakai David McKenzie Callum (U15B) 11.66

100mH

4th Thomas Wassermann 15.08

Discus

1st Elkie Baker (U15G) 34.61m

Shot Put

6th Thomas Wassermann (U17M) 11.29m

Hammer

7th Thomas Wassermann (U17M) 30.73m

Watford Graded Opens, Watford, 6.9.23

200m

SX1 2nd Jeanne Vellard 27.34 PB by 0.35s

800m

SX4 9th David Baah-Okyere (U17M) 2:06.86

SX5 7th Richard Macaulay (V35) 2:02.70

B6 8th Artie Feeny Willings (U17M) 2:27.56

B7 11th Lily Woolcock 2:20.23 only 0.1s outside her PB

3000m

SX3 2nd Joseph Young 8:31.39 PB by 50.56s

South London Harriers Endurance Club Championships, Coulsdon 5.9.23

1500m

SX2 5th Ennio Kaloukian (U15B) 4:54.77 PB by 3.52s

SX3 7th Dylan Mills (U15B) 4:29.73 PB by 9.07s

Park Run

Parkrun

Over 90 Heathsiders ran in parkrun last Saturday. Congratulations for first place finishes go to: Matthew Rallinson (Finsbury, 16:26), Rebecca Piggott (Finsbury 18:16), Fran Owen (Faelledparken 20:20), Chiara Borg (Oak Hill 20:12), Sarah Swinhoe (Ally Pally 20:55), Francescoa Stocco (Hafan Pwllheli 23:35) and Annabel Litchfield (Old Showfield 21:30)

Full results can be found here.

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Double Gold at the Middlesex Road Relays

Road Racing

Track and Field

Park Run

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