British Masters Mile and Met League Stat Fest

British Masters Virtual Mile Race

16 Heathsiders joined 1560 others from accross the UK taking part in the British Masters Virtual Mile Race. With competitors asked to run a mile (previous races had been 10km and 5km) and enter their gps reading. The Club managed three scoring sides, the best placed of which was the Vet Men 55-64 who finished an outstanding 5th place. Paul Kelland and Julia Klek both recorded top 15 Age Group positions.

The fastest time was recorded by Dominic Jones with 5.11with Julia Klek the fastest Heathside women with 5:49. The VM55 men with Paul Kelland, Mark Jefford, Tony Killilea all recording sub 6 minute times were in 2nd place on the last evening of the race but later results saw them slip to 5th behind Chepstow Harriers (16:41) and ahead of Team Bath (17:36).

Great performances from all but we bet they can’t wait for proper racing to recommence. Not long now…..

BMA Virtual Mile Race, 28th February to 7th March 2021

VM35-44

1st Exmouth 13.34

25th London Heathside 15:55 (Jones, Clemoes, Cockings)

VM45-54

1st Colchester 14:52

28th London Heathside 17:24 (Badger, Haward, Nicols)

VM55-64

1st Colchester 16:01

5th London Heathside 17:11 (Kelland, Jefford, Killea)

Individual

1st T Merson (Exmouth) 4:21

122 Dominic JONES M35 43th 5:11

188 Joseph CLEMOES M35 55th 5:22

188 Michael COCKINGS M40 53rd 5:22

241 Paul KELLAND M55 14th 5:28

323 Justin BADGER M50 44th 5:39

365 Gareth MARSHALL M35 80th 5:45

376 Nick HAWARD M45 83rd 5:46

406 Julia KELK W40 15th 5:49

430 Mark JEFFORD M55 40th 5:51

443 Tony KILLILEA M55 42nd 5:52

514 Simon NICHOLS M50 72nd 5:59

545 Paul BEALE M50 76th 6:03

754 Satu HIETANEN W45 43rd 6:35

964 Madeleine MINSON W50 42nd 7:16

1035 Caroline WHITE W60 25th 7:38

1114 Fiona HOLLAND W60 32nd 8:06

Met League - Historical Performances

Our friends at SBH have been crunching Met League Numbers over lockdown (Full details can be found on their club website) recording winners since the league started 55 years ago . For anyone interested we set out the Club winners analysis below, which proves if we did not already know how brilliant our Women’s Teams are.

"The top 5 team wins for the Men for the period 1966 to 2020

1st Woodford Green (38 wins), 2nd SBH (32 wins), 3rd Verlea (28 wins), 4th Ealing, Southall & Middlesex (15 wins) and Thames Valley Harriers (15 wins). 7th London Heathside (13 wins)

The top 5 team wins for the Women for the period 1994 to 2020

1st Highgate Harriers (15 wins), 2nd London Heathside and Woodford Green (11 wins), 4th SBH (9 wins), 5th Hillingdon (6 wins).

The top 5 team wins for the combined total for the Men and Women

1st Woodford Green (49 wins), 2nd SBH (41 wins), 3rd Verlea (30 wins), 4th Highgate Harriers (27 wins), 5th London Heathside (24 wins).

Senior and Under 20 Women From 1994 to 2020 Season (26 Seasons)

The Top 3 team wins – 1st Highgate Harriers (11 wins), 2nd London Heathside (4 wins), 3rd Hillingdon (3 wins)

Consecutive wins – 7 Highgate Harriers (02/03, 03/04, 04/05, 05/06, 06/07, 07/08, 08/09), 3 London Heathside (17/18, 18/19, 19/20)

Veteran Men From 1979 to 2020 Season (41 Seasons)

The Top 3 team wins – 1st Verlea (16 wins), 2nd London Heathside (11 wins), 3rd Woodford Green (8 wins)

Consecutive wins – 8 Verlea (84/85, 85/86, 86/87, 87/88, 88/89, 89/90, 90/91, 91/92), 8 London Heathside (07/08, 08/09, 09/10, 10/11, 11/12, 12/13, 13/14, 14/15)

Veteran Women From 2001 to 2020 Season (19 Seasons)

The Top 3 team wins – 1st London Heathside (7 wins), 2nd Highgate Harriers (4 wins), 3rd Serpentine (3 wins)

Consecutive wins – 4 Highgate Harriers (07/08, 08/09, 09/10, 10/11)"

There are 5 wins are listed for one of LH’s foundation clubs, North London (4 Men and 1 women). Adding those would make it 29 combined wins and move the Club above Highgate (27) into 4th one place behind Verlea (30)

As for Individual race wins Ruairi McGonagle is 1st= U11 Boy (5 wins), Seyfu Jamaal 2nd= U20 Man (4) and Ella Waldman 2nd= U20 Woman (5)