Middlesex champs, London 10,000, Westminster Mile and Marin 10k

The main event of the weekend was the Middlesex County champs at Lee Valley, which took place over two days. There was plenty to celebrate for Heathsiders with some great PBs and SBs. (See the full results below.)  There were undoubtedly a few of you at the Edinburgh marathon, but full results are not available yet so we will write that up next week.  

The standout result of the meet looks to have been Lily's win in the U17 300m, flying round the track (three quarters of it, at any rate) in 41.48 seconds. Liam also thought he'd won the U13 800 in 2:27.97 (knocking four seconds out of the previous championship best) but he was unfortunately disqualified for a lane infraction. He went on to score some very creditable results in other events, coming fourth in the 200 and second in the long jump.

On the road, there was the small matter of the Bupa London 10,000, in which Alex "Just pleased to get around" Galloway was our first Heathsider home of eight.

"For the first time in years I managed to break the 45 mins mark. Goes to show that running with the Club and getting good coaching from Barbara and Alison pays off," announced Rob Bowler from inside the hypoxic tent at Heathside's secret training laboratory.

"Started just behind Mo Farah but finished a LONG way behind him," added Paul J, who clearly ought to choose someone a bit more realistic to strike up a heated rivalry with.

There was also the Westminster Mile, which Sebouh, Gabi and Di took part in.  Meanwhile, Gyorgy Csatlos relieved event announcers by not making the podium at the Windsor Half Marathon but still ran an excellent sub-90, which was good enough for 13th place.

There were plenty of club members at parkrun this week, with a good result for Elspeth (first lady at Hampstead Heath) and outstanding times for Stuart Meiklejohn, Alex Weatherill and Rich Macauley who was this close to first place at Grovelands.  Fastest female Heathside parkrunner was new member Rebecca Bunting who finished Richmond parkrun in 20min20sec so we look forward to welcoming her to the cross country team in due course! 

Further afield, Fiona rocked California like an earthquake in the Marin Memorial Day 10k, running 43 minutes and change. Meanwhile, in the Coventry Sprint Tri, I disgraced the name of the club in the swim leg, coming 180th out of about 200. Honour was partially restored with second in the run leg (behind a bloke who had 'GBR' printed on his onesy and his own website about being a mega triathlete) and 54th overall. As the tri took place at my old school, I was hoping the run leg would go though the CDT studio, which would definitely have given me an edge on the competition.

Rubber duck corner
Congratulations to Gabi for completing the 1500m Eton Dorney open water swim (1500 if you swim in a straight line, which apparently she can't) and Jo for the 750m. Apologies to both for missing you out in the first version of the report. Apparently, it wasn't all that warm - might want to look for a heated lake next time, ladies.

Results

Middlesex County AA Championships

Lee Valley, 25-26 May 13

100 U20M h1 (25 May)

3 11.25 Jordan Glaze SB

5 11.48 Joseph Galea SB

100 U20M h2 (25 May)

5 11.72 Joseph Dennison PB

100 U15M h3 (26 May)

3 12.22 Darnell Plummer

200 U20M (25 May)

7 23.94 Joseph Dennison

200 U20M h1 (25 May)

3 23.81 Joseph Dennison PB

200 U15M (26 May)

6 25.3 Darnell Plummer

200 U15M h1

4 25.0 Darnell Plummer

200 U13M (26 May)

4 29.0 Liam Garrett PB

300 U17W (25 May)

1 41.48 Lily Beckford PB

300 U15W (26 May)

5 47.96 Molly Harrison PB

800 SM (25 May)

5 2:09.01 Tom Fancett

1500 U20M (25 May)

1 4:42.27 Daniel Szajna SB

1500 U17M (25 May)

2 4:21.81 Johnny Naylor PB

3000 U20M (25 May)

2 9:48.88 Miron Woldemichael

3000 U17W (25 May)

3 11:16.30 Rachel Seckl PB

5000 SM (25 May)

4 18:00.32 Jonathan Hopkin PB

High jump SM (25 May)

1 1.70 Emmanuel Nwaobodo SB

High jump U15M (26 May)

2 1.55 Henry Damon

Long jump SM (25 May)

5 6.10 Jacob Wilson

Long jump U15M (26 May)

3 5.35 Henry Damon PB

Long jump U13M (26 May)

2 4.53 Liam Garrett PB

Shot 6K U20M (25 May)

2 9.95 Izaiah Turner PB

Shot 4K U15M (26 May)

3 9.83 Darnell Plummer PB

Javelin 800 U20M (25 May)

3 35.12 Daniel Szajna PB

Bupa London 10k

269 Alex Galloway 36:38

398 Paul Jarman 38:33

496 Patrick Burke 39:43

1197 Robert Bowler 44:53 PB

1222 Gavin Parish  45:01

1169 Alan Dickson 44:39

1389 Helen Smith 46:04

1443 John Joseph Dowd 46:21

Bupa Westminster Mile 2013

290  Takvorian, Sebouh   00:06:25

404  Johnson, Gabi 00:06:49 (6th V40 - 44)

447 Gardiner, Di   00:07:01 (9th V35 - 39)

Royal Windsor Half Marathon

13 Gyorgy Csatlos 01:29:39

Marin Memorial Day 10k

241. Fiona Alston 43:09

Coventry Sprint Triathlon Swim 400mT1Bike 20kT2Run 5k 54. Dan McKeown00:11:5100:01:5000:45:3200:00:3600:18:25Total: 01:18:17

27/5/13 Human Race Open water swim, Eton Dorney
1500m Gabi Johnson 36min40sec

750m Jo Irwin 18min03sec
 

Parkruns galore

Ally Pally parkrun

3 Rob SHULMAN 00:19:30

5 Richard HEWETT 00:19:37

6 Matt FASSNIDGE 00:19:41

31 Louise CRIPPS 00:28:10

Colwick parkrun

2 Andrew WELSHMAN 00:18:01

Finsbury parkrun

6 Sean Thomas CASEY 00:19:28

11 Brian BOYLE 00:20:11

52 C ZACHARIDES 00:23:24

56 Ken TOWNSON 00:23:38

67 Adrian ESSEX 00:24:32

76 Rebecca SWEET 00:24:57

90 Ben CLARKE-JANSSEN 00:26:05

105 Joe SILVA 00:27:49

106 Laura BOOTHMAN 00:27:56

125 William T ROBERTS 00:30:56

Grovelands parkrun

2 Richard MACAULAY 00:17:35

Hackney Marshes parkrun

5 Stuart MEIKLEJOHN 00:17:44

6 Alex WEATHERILL 00:17:47

27 Claire THORNHILL 00:21:33

Hampstead Heath parkrun

18 Elspeth STORRAR 00:21:20  (first lady)

57 Bob GOULD 00:25:24

66 Andrew SULSTON 00:26:42

Oak Hill parkrun

23 Michiko THOMAS 00:23:39

Richmond parkrun16 Rebecca BUNTING 00:20:20 (2nd Lady)

Preston Park parkrun

3 Kev GADD 00:19:02

8 Mark DERRY 00:19:46