There was an amazing turn-out of 116 Heathsiders for the second Met League race of the season on Saturday, Lenny completed the 4th and final leg of the Centurion 50 mile Grand slam in Wendover Woods and Battersea Half had some impressive results.

Met League #2, Wormwood Scrubs, 11th November 2022

Wormwood Scrubs was bathed in sunshine for the second Met League race of the season. It was a day of fantastic running and results, with the Senior women and Junior women’s teams coming first and the men’s team coming 4th. Rebecca Bunting was first woman, Seyfu just missed coming second man by a matter of seconds and Hattie Munday took 3rd place in the Junior women.

Here's Simon’s report on the junior races:

The sun does actually shine at Wormwood Scrubs as unseasonably warm weather treated the runners for the 2nd Met League race of the season and the 4th consecutive weekend of racing (with 3 more before the Christmas break). For the first time this season we put out full teams in all age groups and were rewarded with victory for the Junior Women, 2nd for Junior Men and 3rd for the U13 Girls. Individually Hattie ran another composed race to finish 3rd with Amy Kirk the 3rd U15G.

In the U11’s Edith Deakin was again our first Girl home finishing 7th with debuts from Verity Mitchell and Thalia Roberts seeing the team finish 4th place. In the Boys race Jacob Purcell was first home ahead of Alex Rankin who for the first time this season wasn’t our leading runner. Ben Wheelen made his debut as the team finished in 8th place.

The U13 Girls had 9 runners with Rosa Cormacaon our first home in 13th place followed by Maya Westgate, Kitty Kelsall and Margot Hunt to secure our team 3rd place. Kiara Pegor made her club XC debut. The boys were missing some of their stronger runners but were led home by Charlie Nicolson in 15th. Mikado Wahid, Pip Young and Jude Hampton Phillips made up the team.

The Junior races saw a good turnout for the men with David Baah-Okyere in his first race of the season finishing 6th. George Saint was next in 15th and Alex Smith 17th with Sam Turner (U15B) ensuring the team finished 2nd. The race also saw debuts from Phoenix Bonhote and Nathaniel Swinhoe. A young Junior Womens team produced a great performance to win the race with Hattie Munday our only U17 running a fantastic race to finish 3rd followed by Amy Kirk in 8th and 3rd U15 Girl, only 12 s back was Kiara Corkin finishing 11th and with Lettice Grundy crossing the line in 19th the win was ours.

The great performances especially by the girls has moved us to 3rd place overall in the Howard Williams Trophy.

Thanks as always to Team Managers Ruth and Russell as well as the athletes and their parents for supporting them on the day. The races come thick and fast with athletes running for their Borough next Saturday before club races at Trent Park and Uxbridge.

U11 Boys (1,800m, 46 runners)

1st L DaSilva (TVH) 6:17

20th Jacob Purcell (9th U10) 7:05

36th Alexander Rankin 7:34

46th No 11446

47th Zak Wahid 8:15

52nd Laurie Wotton 8:39

Team:- 1st SBH 204pts, 8th London Heathside 75 pts, 19th London Heathside B 4 pts

Overall:- 1st SBH 360 pts, 6th London Heathside 164 pts

U11 Girls (1,800m, 41 Runners)

1st V Muraidhar (ESM) 6:38

7th No 1445

19th Verity Mitchell 8:01

22nd Willow Lazar 8:10

26th Thalia Roberts 8:25

Team 1st ESM 105 pts, 4th London Heathside 74 pts

Overall:- 1st WG&EL 214 pts, 7th London Heathside 110 pts

U13 Boys (2,800m, 48 runners)

1st J Branch (Herts P) 10:25

15th Charlie Nicolson 11:34

38th Mikail Wahid 12:36

50th Pip Young 13:55

53rd Jude Hampton Phillips 14:12

Team 1st Herts P 208 pts, 10th London Heathside 88 pts

Overall:- 1st SBH 354 pts, 8th London Heathside 184 pts

U13 Girls (2,800m 44 Runners)

1st A Johnson (ESM) 11:29

13th Rosa Cormacain 12:43

15th Maya Westgate 13:02

17th Kitty Kelsall 13:05

18th Margot Hunt 13:07

22nd Lila Blustin 13:55

27th Kiara Pegor 14:06

31st Nayah Brown 14:19

35th Charlotte Beale 14:30

38th Lucy Ryan 14:47

Team:- ESM 127 pts, 3rd London Heathside 117 pts, 8th London Heathside B 65 pts

Overall:- 1st Trent Park 272 pts, 3rd London Heathside 257 pts, 9th London Heathside B 130 pts

Junior Men (3,800m, 74 Runners)

1st D Turk (SMR) 12:34

6th David Baah-Okyere 13:23

15th George Saint 13:43

17th Alex Smith 13:44

23rd Sam Turner 14:01 (8th U15B)

27th Gregory Berrisford Sweet 14:07

34th Eric Beale 14:37 (12th U15B)

44th Ben Ryan 15:03 (19th U15B)

49th Luca Rozzo 15:10 (23rd U15B)

55th Phoenix Bonhote 15:21

57th Frank Bailey 15:27 (27th U15B)

59th Nathaniel Swinhoe 15:39

61st Artie Feeny Willings 15:54

70th Archie Evans 17:27

Team:- 1st SMR 257 pts, 2nd London Heathside 239 pts, 10th London Heathside B 146 pts, 16th London Heathside C 68 pts

Overall:- 1st SMR 484 pts, 3rd London Heathside 464 pts

Junior Women (3,800m, 64 Runners)

1st K Shaw (HertsP) 14:22 (1st U15G)

3rd Hattie Munday 14:38

8th Amy Kirk 15:10 (3rd U15G)

11th Kiara Corkin 15:22 (5th U15G)

19th Lettice Gundry 16:00 (9th U15G)

26th Ishanna Cannell 16:31 (15th U15G)

42nd Ivy Gray 17:21 (27th U15G)

53rd Alice Waites 18:37 (36th U15G)

57th Jessica Lappin 19:05 (39th U15G)

Team:- 1st London Heathside 219 pts , 2nd Herts P 207 pts

Overall:- 1st London Heathside 379 pts, 2nd WG&EL 366 pts

Senior Women (8,000m 179 runners)

1st Rebecca Bunting 28:47 A

6th Rebecca Piggott 30:14 A

8th Olivia Desborough 30:18 A

9th Josie Hinton 30:21 A

12th Lily Woolcock 30:37 A

17th Nicola Graham 31:32 A

22nd Olivia Lukasewich 31:41 B

32nd Genevieve Weston 32:17 B

37th Seren Hughes 32:36 B

38th Chiara Borg 32:38 B

41st Amy Cook 33:02 B

67th Jennifer Wing 32:42 B

72nd Maura Bellio 34:52 C

78th Tanya Addison 35:21 C Vet A (4th V50)

100th Annabel Judd 36:45 C Vet A (3rd V55)

120th Catherine Jones 37:57 C

135th Jaqueline Wastell 39:29 C Vet A(4th V60)

147th Ariane Dupas 40:24

160th Marianne Gibson 41:50 Vet A (8th V55)

165th Lorna Stevenson 42:23

Division 1

1st London Heathside 342 pts, 5th London Heathside B 194 pts

Overall:- 1st London Heathside 660 pts, 8th London Heathside B 289 pts

Division 2

1st Harrow 266 pts, 6th London Heathside C 152 pts

Overall:- 1st Harrow 463 pts, 8th London Heathside C 152 pts

Vet League Division 1

1st VP&TH 137 pts, 7th London Heathside A 63 pts

Overall:- 1st VP&TH 280 pts, 6th London Heathside A 127 pts

Vet League Division 2

1st TVH 34 pts, 11th London Heathside B 0 pts, London Heathside C 0 pts

Overall:- 1st Eton manor 91 pts, 11th London Heathside B 0 pts, 12th London Heathside C 0 pts

Senior Men (8,000m 458 runners)

1st A Lepretre (Highgate) 24:05

2nd Seyfu Jamaal 24:15 A

16th George Gurney 25:03 A

34th Oliver O'Connor 25:52 A (6th U20M)

35th Joseph Young 25:54 A

53rd Sion Lewis 26:44 A Vet A (2nd V40)

60th Roger Maidment 26:56 A Vet A (1st V45)

76th Andy Barnes 27:12 A

83rd Peter Gould 27:28 A

89th Conor Brown 27:38 A

93rd Harry Kleiman 27:45 A

100th Filippo Minelle 27:52 A

110th Callum Coleman 28:12 A

127th Oliver Le Polain 28:27 B Vet A (16th V40)

128th Samuel Lloyd 28:29 B

135th Luke Pike Mullins 28:40 B (16th U20M)

147th Tom Livermore 28:59 B

150th Ed Boden 29:01 B Vet A (3rd V50)

154th Oliver Negus 29:03 B

173rd Valentin Valeanu 29:28 B Vet A (6th V45)

179th Kader Seyed 29:37 B (21st U20M)

184th Matt Collins 29:44 B Vet A (7th V45)

186th Mathew Cockerill 29:51 B Vet B (6th V50)

187th Adam Mitchell 29:51 B Vet B (28th V40)

190th Martin Potter 29:53 C Vet B (1st V55)

212nd Sammy Keenan 30:20 C

226th No 1542

229th Joseph McKeown 30:44 C

232nd Chris Hartley 30:48 C Vet B (3rd V55)

233rd Kwasi Agyei-Owusu 30:50 C Vet B (37th V40)

235th Nick Hodges-Gibson 30:52 C

241st Peter Wootton 31:08 C

245th Andrew Bard 21:12 C

249th Liam Hazelton 31:24 C Vet B (42nd V40)

259th James Waddell 31:41

261st Alex Sweet 31:46 Vet C (45th V40)

271st Rob Shulman 32:03 Vet C (5th V55)

273rd Paul Mercer 32:04 Vet C (21st V45)

278th Dominic Jackson 32:08 Vet C (6th V55)

294th Ben Ridley-Jones 32:38

302nd Joe Starkey 33:02

308th Gavin Evans 33:13 Vet C (6th V60)

311th Leo Pemberton 33:15 Vet C (53rd V40)

325th Pete Crockford 33:38 (7th V60)

329th Mark George 33:49 (10th V55)

357th Neil Thomas 34:50 (61st V40)

363rd Kris Milovsorov 34:57

369th Padraig Waldron 35:04 (25th V50)

370th Jonathan Hopkin 35:07 (15th V55)

373rd Tony Killilea 35:11 (16th V55)

401st Andrew Johnston 36:20 (34th V50)

422nd Jerome Boughton Mills 37:44 (24th V60)

429th Justin Costley 38:37 (24th V55)

435th Russell Weston 39:43 (26th V60)

456th Andrew Owen 46:42 (40th V50)

Division 1

1st Highgate Harriers 1488 pts, 4th London Heathside 1114 pts, 11th London Heathside B 416 pts

Overall:- 1st Highgate Harriers 2,933 pts, 3rd London Heathside 2,189 pts, 11th London Heathside B 828 pts

Division 2

1st SBH 1,335 pts, 8th London Heathside C 820 pts

Overall:- 1st Trent Park 2,434 pts, 6th London Heathside C 1,464 pts

Vet Division 1

1st VP&TH 414 pts, 2nd London Heathside 399 pts, 6th London Heathside B 273 pts, 9th London Heathside C 191 pts

Overall:- 1st VP&TH 772 pts, 2nd London Heathside 701 pts, 6th London Heathside B 453 pts, 12th London Heathside C 295 pts

Howard Williams Trophy (Seniors)

1st London Heathside 44 pts 1 win

2nd VP&TH 44 pts 1 win

3rd Highgate Harriers 42 pts 2 wins

Howard Williams Trophy (Juniors)

1st WG&EL 99 pts 3 wins

2nd SBH 94 pts 3 wins

3rd London Heathside 88 pts 1 win

4th VP&TH 81 pts

Wendover Woods 50, Wendover, 12th November 2022

Lenny had what looked like perfect conditions to run in the Wendover Woods 50 on Saturday completing it in an impressive 11:46:39 . He sent in this report:

Wendover Woods is the 4th leg of the Centurion 50 mile "Grand Slam", having previously raced on the South Downs Way, North Downs Way and Chilterns this year. The race is 5 laps of a ten mile route, with over 3,000m of climbing over the course, and the last two laps run in the dark. I finished in 11h.46 for 69th place (of 198) on the day, and 9th place (of 50) for the 4 races overall.

Run Through Battersea Half Marathon, Battersea Park, 12th November 2022

Three Heathsiders took part in this flat fast race

6th Gareth Creagh 1.14.46 (2nd V45)

45th Steve Pennington 1.22.15 (2nd V50)

153rd Steve Casey jr 1.34.54

All Parkrun results can be found here. Congratulations for first places go to Guy Harling at Umfolozi parkrun and Annabel Litchfield at the Old Showfield parkrun.

Compiled by Caroline with thanks to Simon, Gareth, Lenny and Steve Casey Jr for results, reports and photos.

Met League #2 – Wormwood Scrubs, Wendover 50, Battersea Half

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