Hail and Hilly

he big race of the weekend (in terms of Heathside participants) was, of course, the London XC Champs on Hampstead Heath, where in relatively mild and dry weather conditions, 47 Men and 27 Ladies competed in club colours. Heathside's Ladies continued their glorious xc season with Ella Waldman, Kelly Thorneycroft, Rebecca Bunting and Sue Rust securing a team 1st place with less than half the points of the 2nd team, all four finishing in the top 15. Kelly, Rebecca and Sue finished in a group of 5 runners, separated by only 2 seconds, in what must have been a thrilling sprint finish to watch!

For the Men, Tom Aldred, Simon Dunderdale, Sion Lewis and Daniel McKeown scored 8th out of 29 teams, with Tom taking 3rd place overall and less than 40 seconds behind the winner.

The event marked Peter Crockford's 500th race and to celebrate this milestone his generous and talented daughter made and handed out delicious flapjacks to us all after the race, for which treat, on behalf of the club, a hearty thanks!

Whilst others were dashing around a not-too-muddy Hampstead Heath, Bethany Scott was running a Half Marathon around the home of Romeo and Juliette (ie. Verona, Italy), whilst Jane Stephens, Rob Shulman and others ran in the Great Ethiopian International 10k. Unfortunately, results are only given for the top 10 Men & Women, but Jane writes: "Addis Ababa 10k - 2,355m above sea level, over 40,000 participants, no official times. Those wanting to race got close to the front and got in around 47-8 mins. Those at the back were able to run when the field opened up at around 8k! This part of the race was just like a party, with dancing and singing, but no running!!!" 

Closer to home, Maryam Khosravi ran in the Victoria Park Half and bagged 3rd Female; Rajiv Ratan was in St Neots, Cambridgeshire for a swift Half (Marathon, that is...) - looking at the end of the results listing, it appears the officials disqualified a runner for continuing to wear headphones after being given 2 warnings! 

RESULTS in detail

RUNTHROUGH VICTORIA PARK HALF-MARATHON (19th November)

21                 1:28:33         Maryam Khosravi  (3rd F)

494 finishers

3rd CANGRANDE HALF MARATHON (VERONA, ITA 20th November)

163               1:27:36         Bethany Scott                   

2640 finishers

St Neots Riverside Half-Marathon (20th November)

203                1:36:23         Rajiv Ratan

1127 finishers

London XC Champs (Hampstead Heath, 19th November)

Senior Women

07                  22:46            Ella Waldman

10                  23:05            Kelly Thorneycroft

13                  23:07            Rebecca Bunting

14                  23:07            Sue Rust

35                  24:22            Ula Cartwright-Finch

61                  25:49            Rosa Serafini

63                  25:50            Josie Hinton

64                  25:52            Sara Black

69                  25:56            Satu Hietanen

73                  26:07            Alice Hosking

74                  26:10            Kerstin Kinkelin

78                  26:22            Emma Ford

106                27:17             Jackie Wastell

115                 27:36             Sandra Buckton

117                 27:38             Louisa Pointon

125                27:57              Jo Irwin

143                28:32              Caroline White

146                28:37              Chloe Alder

147                28:37              Catherine Doherty

152                28:44              Elspeth Storrar

153                28:45              Emilia Vynnycky

160                29:12              Ruth Miller

164                29:19              Hannah Jordan

168                29:29              Nicola McBride

171                29:40              Madeleine Minson

181                30:08              Hannah Stanforth

189                30:32              Katherine Vinnicombe

250 finishers

Senior Men

03                  31:26            Tom Aldred

44                  35:12            Simon Dunderdale

57                  35:48            Sion Lewis

59                  35:49            Daniel McKeown

66                  36:04            Martin Potter

71                  36:22            Pete Northall

72                  36:33            Daniel Johns

78                  36:42            Daniel Madams

82                  36:46            Chris Shipley

83                  36:48            Michael Heaney

85                  36:51            Richard Macaulay

102                 37:21            Mario Cadete

113                 37:33            Stuart Meiklejohn

116                 37:35            John Driscoll

117                 37:35            Paul Mercer

120                 37:39            Chris Hartley

125                 37:46            Luke Wynne

128                 37:47            Adam Mitchell

131                 37:50            Paul Jarman

135                 37:56            Joe Garrood

144                 38:11            Matthew Cockerill

161                 38:43            Lee Connor

168                 38:54            Mark Anderson

169                 38:59            Mark Jefford

171                 39:00            David Fallon

186                 39:24            Edward Adams

191                 39:29            Rajiv Ratan

205                 39:49            Jake Spencer

210                 40:00            Norman Mitchell

216                 40:11            Michael Cockings

235                 40:37            Laurence Arnold 

240                 40:46            Pete Crockford

249                 41:21            Trevor Wilson

257                 41:36            Nick Haward

260                 41:39            Peter Ward

262                 41:42            Paul Tonkinson

323                 44:12            Shaan Haque

324                 44:13            Marco Maserati

341                 45:10            Justin Costley

360                 46:14            Nicholas de Sausmarez

364                 46:41            Chip Hamer

376                 48:05            Marcus Tillotson

377                 48:09            Daniel Wrapson

390                 49:44            Tim Sander

392                 50:03            Ken Townson

395                 50:13            Greg Bell

415 finishers

In Parkrun news, numbers were slightly less than normal due to the later in the day XC. However, Jonathan Litchfield and Jessica Vinluan were "across The Pond" in the (Disunited?) States running in the 12th Roosevelt Island (Washington) PR, where they both nabbed 2nd place M & F respectively. Ursula Wilson, still proudly a club member, was "down under" getting 2nd F in the 5th Orange (New South Wales) PR.

Full club Parkrun results for the 19th here