Edinburgh marathon, Bupa 10k plus 5ks

There’s a bit of a Scottish theme to this week’s race report, led in particular by Ken Heney and an east coast adventure that, after 32.4 miles of racing (not counting training and other, non-running racing) over three weekends, culminated in the Edinburgh marathon, where Fiona also made a strong debut as part of a pack of six Heathsiders.

Closer to the Heathside base Steve came down from Birmingham to run in the Bupa 10k alongside two other club members. Pete ran in the Eton Manor 5km and others made the most of the parkruns. I had the wrong time down initially for Katherine's Finsbury parkrun, so apologies for that - it's fixed now.

I know that other Heathsiders were out and about during triathlons and swims, and I have a report from Ruth on the British Triathlon Sprint Champs in Milton Keynes to add, kindly written in the third person:
 
Ruth and Gavin competed in this hugely enjoyable event - great venue and weather for camping as well as for competing. It was highly competitive, being the British champs and a world Qualifier event but both did well in their age category. Although she is aiming to qualify for the Olympic distance for the Work age group champs ( NZ in October) she did enough here to qualify for the sprint race as a backup.
 
Results as follows:
 

Edinburgh Marathon Festival - Marathon, 27/05/2012

70th Ken Heney 2:55:01 (see below for more on Ken’s preparations for this race)

615th Stuart Meiklejohn  3:23:54

716th James Martin Felstead (V45)  3:26:36

1185th Fiona Alston 3:36:05

1281st Padraig O'Brien 3:38:20
3565th Sarah Illingworth 4:13:20 (PB)

BUPA London 10k, 27/05/2012

123rd Steve Brookes 34:35

408th Matt Wells 40:09

1775th Emiko Kawakami (V40) 49:18

Eton Manor 5km, 27/05/2012

24th Pete Crockford  18:59   (3rd M50)

British Triathlon Sprint Champs, Milton Keynes, 27/05/2012
750m Swim ; 20 Km cycle; 5.3km run

Gavin Evans (50-54) 1:18:1  35th  ( Swim 16.01; Cycle 39.31; run 19.39 ( fastest runner in his category!)
Ruth Miller ( 50-54) 1:19:18  9th ( Swim 16.03; cycle 36.54; run 23.54 )
 

Ken’s East Coast adventure: 

05/05/12 Edinburgh - North Berwick 20mile

12th - 2h08:09

19/05/12 Eton Super Sprint Triathlon

15th - 1h01:43

20/05/12 Aberdeen Baker Hughes 10km

14th - 36:36

26/05/12 Edinburgh Marathon Festival 5km

2nd - 18:01

Parkruns

Ally Pally

2 Rob SHULMAN 00:19:32

3 Steve BUTTLING-SMITH 00:20:27

4 Dominic JACKSON 00:20:33

Brighton & Hove

29 Mark DERRY 00:20:10

Coventry

8 Daniel MCKEOWN 00:18:17

Finsbury

2 Alex GALLOWAY 00:18:06

5 Dan FINDLAY-ROBINSON 00:19:21

26 Katherine VINNICOMBE 00:22:46

48 Caroline BOYLE 00:23:41

55 Gavin PARISH 00:24:00

57 Marije INIGUEZ DE CIRIANO 00:24:10

66 Alice PARISH 00:26:00

69 Molly HARRISON 00:26:37

72 Francesca WOOD 00:26:52

Grovelands

2 Richard MACAULAY 00:18:36

Gunpowder

10 Emilia VYNNYCKY 00:23:52

Hackney Marshes

9 Jake Leon Justin LEE 00:20:27

Hampstead Heath

6 Andrew OWEN 00:19:47

41 Rick BAKER 00:24:12

42 Michiko THOMAS 00:24:28

54 Bob GOULD 00:25:43

Highbury Fields

22 Izaiah TURNER-FLAVIUS 00:23:50

27 Barbara TOMASZCZYK 00:24:25

South Manchester

107 Ben CLARKE-JANSSEN 00:24:19

Wimbledon Common

91 Karen HILLARY 00:22:18