Fred Hughes 10 mile Road Race

This weekend saw a large contingent of Heathsiders at the first race of the 2014 Rob Jackson Road Race Championships, the Fred Hughes 10 mile race in St Albans.  We had 34 Heathside finishers and returned home with the second men's team prize and first male vets.  Elsewhere Julia and Tom took part in a tough challenge in Anglesey, covering ultra distances in deep mud  - perhaps taking their Met League training for Wormwood Scrubs to extremes.  

In St Albans, Gavin Evans reported that the conditions were good, despite a few puddles (the course had been re routed to avoid the flooded areas).  It was nevertheless a hilly route and there are some great results to report.   Our first man home was Andrew Brooker (who had also won the Walthamstow parkrun the day before) and our first woman home was the unstoppable Cathy Jeremiah.  
For a different persective on the race and competition within the female ranks you may be interested in Tammela's account in her blog

Elsewhere Tom and Julia took part in the Endurance Life Coastal Trail marathons in Anglesey.  Julia reports that the entire course was under deep water or mud, there were mountains to be scrambled over and in some places the mud was thigh high.  Sounds like a lovely weekend away, Julia.  Hope to see you both at Wormwood Scrubs on 8 February for the last met league fixture!  Emerson Paul likewise took part in an off road race, the Benfleet 15 in Essex, billed as a challenging multi terrain course, incorporating sections of Canvey Island sea wall and the undulating Hadleigh Downs.  

On Saturday Briony Fane took part in her first ever race walk organised by the Enfield and Haringey Athletics Club and finished 2.5 miles in just over 28 minutes.  

19/1/14 Fred Hughes 10 Mile Road Race (chip times) 550 finishers
13th Andrew Brooker 58min04sec
16th Dan Madams 58min25sec (2nd M40)
18th Dan Mckeown 59min13sec
19th Ed Garrett 59min20sec (3rd MV40)
24th David Hellard 1hr 00min37sec
35th Gavin Evans 1hr 01min59 sec (1st M50)
42nd Ash Abrha 1hr03min02sec (2nd M50)
57th Rob Shulman 1hr04min47sec
61st Patrick Waldron 1hr05min04sec
62nd Cathy Jeremiah 1hr05min13sec (4th Senior woman)  PB
69th Joe McKeown 1hr 05min13sec
90th Tim Marshall 1hr08min22sec
106th Bridgit Napleton 1hr09min37sec (4th F45)
109th Henry Hamilton 1hr09min32sec PB
115th Costi Stavrianakis 1hr09min29sec
128th James Felstead 1hr11min14sec
154th Leo Pemberton 1hr12min14sec
164th Rob Bowler 1hr13min33sec
166th Andrew Hudson 1hr12min52sec
173rd Ray Yau 1hr13min47sec
217th Tammela Platt 1hr16min17sec
219th Caroline Boyle 1hr16min18sec
221st Gavin Parish  1hr15min51sec
222nd Caroline White 1hr16min31sec (1st FV50)
225th Charles Redfearn 1hr16min46sec
230th Joanne Irwin 1hr16min51sec
263rd Tom Bedwell 1hr18min36sec
276th Jesper Lycke - Peterson 1hr18min52sec
323rd Agi Palanki 1hr21min33sec PB
340th Howard Monk 1hr23min03sec
359th Barbara Tomaszczyk 1hr23min56sec
388th Emilia Vynnycky 1hr25min32sec
484th Laura Boothman 1hr31min07sec
492nd Steve Woolf 1hr31min31sec

19/1/14 Benfleet 15, Essex
623rd Emmerson Paul 2hr15min51sec

18/1/14 Enfield Race Walking League 2014
2.5 mile walking race
Briony Fane 28mins26secs


18/1/14 Endurance Life Coastal Trail Series, Anglesey, Wales55km Ultra Marathon
48th Tom Upchurch 7hr23min

44km "marathon" 
63rd Julia Kelk 5hr57min (12th woman) 

18/1/14 parkrun round up

Ally Pally parkrun4th Paul Mercer 19min38sec
14th Richard Budd 21min36sec
18th Rob Konowalchuk 22min38sec

Finsbury parkrun3rd Stuart Meiklejohn 18min28sec
11th Asa Cusack 19min29sec
13th Dominic Jackson 19min34sec
19th Andrew Dunderdale 19min48sec
27th Carl Heap 20min36sec
106th Edyta Szot 25min17sec
107th Sarah Illingworth 25min21sec
110th James Parker 25min31sec
189th Helene-Mary Kehoe 31min23sec

Gladstone parkrun
14th Nick de Sausmerez 20min53sec

Hackney Marshes parkrun
12th Michael Abrahams 20min51sec

Hampstead parkrun
3rd Tony Kililea 18min58sec
143rd Laura Boothman 30min00sec
151st Shelly Fennell 30 min40sec

Highbury Fields parkrun
5th Tom Fancett 19min08sec
11th Tim Marshall 19min34sec
66th Ben Clarke-Jansnsen 24min13sec

Little Stoke parkrun
14th William Griffiths 19min13sec
25th Thomas Griffiths 20min00secs

Oak Hill parkrun
2nd Rebecca Bunting 19min06sec

Preston parkrun
10th Mark Derry 19min28sec

Southwark parkrun
30th Claire Sliwerski 24 min09sec

Walthamstow parkrun
1st Andrew Brooker 18min03sec


The next race in the Road Race Championships is the Watford Half Marathon on Sunday 2nd February - entries still open.