Manchester, Boston and Rotterdam Marathons plus LICC

The spring marathon season is well upon us now with Heathsiders running in Manchester, Rotterdam, Boston and Newport last weekend. Keith Burrows finishing 548th in Boston and Jake Spencer 148th in Manchester with Rebecca Piggott the 10th woman finisher . Elsewhere PB’s were set in the field events at the LICC meeting.

Manchester Marathon, 16.4.23

17 Heathsiders headed to Manchester for their marathon with Jake Spencer first home followed by Rebecca Piggott.

Results

1st I Brasevicius 2:16.27

148th Jake Spencer 2:41:30

338th Rebecca Piggott 2:48:33 (10th Woman, 3rd VW35)

348th Kimon Doulis 2:48:46

435th Sammy Keenan 2:51:01

682nd Dominic Jones 2:55:11

937th Chris Vincent (V40) 2:58.05

1,028th Kwasi Agyei-Owusu (V40) 2:58.42

1,039th Peter Dowds (V35) 2:58.44

1,391st Mike Millar (V35) 3:03.26

1,981st Joe Starkey (V35) 3#:11.45

2,648th Alan Hughes 3:18.35

2,782nd Thomas Stewart (V40) 3:20.07

3,921st Glen Taylor (V45) 3:29.17

5,222nd Emma Simpson 3:39.06 (491st woman)

6,738th Mathias Enderle 3:49.01

11.240th Maarten Offeringa (V45) 4:19.00

16,295th Sue Eedle (V65) 5:15.13 (17th VW65)

ABP Newport Marathon and 10km, 16.4.23

69th Steve Pennington (V50) 2:54.59 (2nd V50)

Two Rotters in Rotterdam 

Phil Hogg reports “Phil and Valentin ran Rotterdam marathon on Sunday. We set off together under perfect grey skies and low wind which made for great running conditions. We split up after 2 km as Phil wanted to run faster, only for Valentin to glide past unnoticed later on. First half was sluggish but an energy gel and a mutual metaphorical self inflicted kick up the ass sorted us out so we could step up at half way. A 1km section just blasting out upbeat music did the trick along with amazing supporters. A strong finish route that felt as if it were downhill, but probably wasn't l, was awesome. 

Valentin arrived at 3.01.27 and Phil at 3.02.57. A pb for Phil. 

Beers were purchased shortly afterwards, revisiting a rotters pub with Ian and Joe from 2017."

Boston Marathon, Boston MA USA 17.4.23

Three Heathsiders crossed the atlantic to take part in this iconic race with Keith Burrows the first Heathsider home.

849th Keith Burrows 2:42.55

2,407th Alan O’Shea 2:53.42

3,267th Marcus Brown 2:57.16

LICC Meeting, StoneX

The first LICC meeting of the season was split between the StoneX and Harrow athletics tracks. Normally better attended by Heathsiders 3 did compete with Thomas Wassermann recording a PB’s in both the Discus and Hammer. Elkie Baker in her second competition of the season breaking her club record with the 4th furthest by an U15G this year as well as achieving English Schools Qualifying standard, next target is the 30m barrier.

LICC - Throws & Pole Vault, Stone X, 15.4.23

Hammer (5Kg)

3rd Thomas Wassermann (U17M) 29.56m PB by 1.2m

Discus (1.5kg)

2nd Thomas Wassermann (U17M) 25.63m PB by 2.1m

Discus (1Kg)

1st Elkie Baker (U15G) 29.82m PB by 8cm NCR AAA Grade 1

LICC Track & Jumps, Harrow, 16.4.23

1500m

T3 7th Rory Willis (U13B) 5:18.04

Parkruns

Many Heathsiders ran in parkruns last Saturday.  Congratulations for first place finishes go to Conor Brown (Highbury Fields, 17:06), Olivia Desborough (Princes, Liverpool, 19.12), Ciara Williams (Cassiobury, 21.43), Chris Holmes (Flegg High, 18.48) and Jonny Forsyth (Lordship Rec, 17.35).  Full results can be found here.

Compiled by Simon with thanks to Phil Hogg.