Heathside Feel the Need for Speed
Apologies to those who did speedy runs at the end of July and beginning of August, we finally got round to highlighting your times here!
Starting off with a look at the shorter distances, Danny O’Reilly ran a fantastic 16:25 in the penultimate Battersea Park summer 5k series on Monday 29th, while the end of the week saw the SOAR Mile event at the community track by the Olympic Park. 5 Heathsiders were in attendance, with PBs for Esti Guijarro Puente (5:45.92) and Tom Bedwell, who ducked under 5 minutes with a superb run (4:53.03).
The following day there was more action over at Battersea Park as Christopher Burke and Catrin Tyler came 19th and 21st in the latest Sri Chinmoy 10k event, where Catrin’s time of 37:37 ensured she took home the prize for 2nd woman.
Further East at Victoria Park, five Heathsiders took part in the RunThrough Half Marathon event. Marcus Tillotson was first home as he finished in 27th place (86:37), closely followed by Stephen Barron (87:04) and Fabian Thehos (89:17). Natalie Shoham also knocked a couple of minutes off her PB, finishing in 1:50:44.
Even further East, Richard Peachment was the sole LH rep at this year’s final Orion Forest 5 race but came away with a PB (35:31) while the following day Peter Gould finished in 6th place at the latest Regent’s Park Summer 10k.
Full results:
Sri Chinmoy Battersea 5k, Monday 29th July
11th Danny O’Reilly 16:25
112th Laura Hunt 20:41
136th Alun Nash 22:41
Lee Valley Sprint Open, Wednesday 31st July
100m
Mike Bense (V45) 13.27
200m
Mike Bense (V45) 27.10
Avery Dietrich (U15) 26.82 PB
Soar Summer Mile, Olympic Park, Friday 2nd August
Race 3 10th Jessica Vinluan (V35) 6:22.41
Race 4 1st Esti Guijarro Puente 5:45.92
Race 7 13th David Fallon 5:21.25
Race 9 10th Andrew McGeary (V40) 5:01.73
Race 10 13th Tom Bedwell (V40) 4:53.03
Orion Harriers Forest Five Miles, Epping Forest, Saturday 3rd August
70th Richard Peachment 35:31
Sri Chinmoy Battersea Park 10k, Saturday 3rd August
19th Christopher Burke 37:27
21st Catrin Tyler 37:37 (2nd woman)
Queen Elizabeth Park 10k Series, Saturday 3rd August
120th Conor Brown 54:46
Victoria Park Half Marathon, Saturday 3rd August
27th Marcus Tillotson 86:37
29th Stephen Barron 87:04
41st Fabian Thehos 89:17
50th Graham Wilkinson 91:38
160th Natalie Shoham 1:50:44
Regent’s Park Summer 10k Series, Sunday 4th August
6th Peter Gould 37:23
62nd Carl Heap 46:06
Parkruns:
First finishers on July 27th were Seyfu Jamaal (now with Heathside proudly added to his parkrun profile!), Tom Aldred, fellow race reporter Caroline White and Jonathan Shipley.
Full results here:
https://www.parkrun.com/results/consolidatedclub/?clubNum=2017&eventdate=2019-8-03
Report compiled by Gareth, thanks to Simon Baker for emailing in some of the results. Corrections/omissions to the usual address: lheathside@gmail.com