Middlesex Young Athletes, Grindelwald and the Handicap

The highlights this week include the Middlesex Young Athletes League, an Ultra from Switzerland and the annual club handicap.

Middlesex Young Athletes league

There were some great performances at the Middlesex Young Athletes League this week.  Notable performances include those of Imani Quamina (U11 Girls 150m), Hattie Munday (U11 girls 800m), Javahn Robinson-Leitao (Boys U11 150m), as well as several others who came first in their disciplines.  Heathside now lies 3rd overall in the league out of 9 teams.

Eiger Ultra Trail, 15th July 2017

Lenny Martin sends the following report from an epic race in Switzerland: “I was in Grindelwald in Switzerland at the weekend for the Eiger Ultra Trail weekend, and racing in the 35km event. A truly spectacular course took in 2,600m of climbing, and included a traverse of the foot of the Eiger North Face. I finished in 5 hours 27 minutes, for 82nd place from 461 finishers.”

Harry Hawkes 10

Three Heathsiders went south of the river to run in the Harry Hawkes 10.  Tom Bedwell led the trio home in 1:14, followed by Lucie Mauger (1:17:24) and Laura Boothman (1:42:42).  For Laura, it was another 10 miler ticked off in her quest for 10X10 miles in a year.  She comments that it was a nice course, despite being flat and not muddy, with a great atmosphere and very humid. 

Heathside club handicap

Results are up at: http://www.londonheathside.org.uk/docs/HeathsideHandicap2017.pdf

We managed to squeeze our annual handicap race in before the thunderstorms arrived, but not, alas, before considerable disruption on the Northern Line accounted for a number of the competitors. A few who did arrive reported having to warm up by hot-footing it from Camden.

At 7:30PM this year's 'hares', Jerry Odlin and Alison Harrow set off into the woods, followed in dribs and drabs by the rest of the field until the last runner, Andy Barnes, took off almost 10 minutes later.

Jerry held onto his lead for about 4K, before Tom Hosking motored past him on his way to overall victory in an adjusted time of 15:26. Filipe Cardoso followed and Alice Hosking scuttled past in the final straight, claiming the ladies' trophy and the fastest woman prize (adjusted time 16:08, net time 20:38). 

I'm not sure if this is the first time a married couple have scooped the prizes at one of our club races, but I'm going to guess, probably? Watch out for them next year when they get sent off joint-last as a three-legged race team.

Other notable runs were Andy Barnes, who caught and passed over half the field on his way to the fastest male prize (17:18), Simon Brown (17:45) was fastest male vet for the second year in a row, so he clearly isn't getting any slower (or younger), while Tom Fancett (17:28) ran the fastest debut time.

For the women, Sif Sumarlidadottir (21:26) was our fastest vet, while Magdalena Kopalova (24:51) recorded the fastest debut time.

As ever, very few entrants were over-optimistic with their time predictions. However, there was a new prize for this year for the most accurate time prediction, which was won by Andrew Prystawsky (he charges by the letter) who ran *exactly* 20 minutes, *exactly* as he had predicted.

My warmest thanks to everyone who took part and most especially to everyone who volunteered on the evening or helped otherwise in organising the event.

In particular, a special thanks to Steve Woolf for organising the event for the last however many years (a lot, basically) and his invaluable assistance and guidance this time.

Parkruns

Many ran in parkruns last Saturday.  Congratulations for first place finishes go to Charles Hardy (Grovelands. 17:05),  Andy Barnes (Highbury Fields, 17:37) and Andy Welshman (Belton House, 18:56).  Results are here: http://www.parkrun.com/results/consolidatedclub/?clubNum=2017&eventdate=2017-07-15

Results

Middlesex YAL, Allianz Park, Saturday 15th July 2017

150 U11 Girl's A 150m - 1 Imani Quamina 22.65

150 U11 Girl's B 150m - 1 Hattie Munday 23.9

800 U11 Girl's A 800m - 1 Hattie Munday 02:49.7

800 U11 Girl's B 800m - 3 Nuala Rennard 03:11.8

LJ U11 Girl's A Long Jump - 4 Laila Tempesta 2.69

SP U11 Girl's A Shot Putt - 1 Imani Quamina 5.74

SP U11 Girl's B Shot Putt - 1 Laila Tempesta 5.2

4x100 U11 Girl's 4x100 - 1 London Heath. 64.49

100 U13 Girls A 100m - 4 Sanaa Neunie 14.53

100 U13 Girls B 100m - 3 Elyse Duncan 15.9

1500 U13 Girls A 1500m - 6 Maggie Raphael 05:49.6

HJ U13 Girl's A High Jump - 3 #ERROR! 1.2

HJ U13 Girl's B High Jump - 4 Fabienne Weston 4.8

DT U13 Girl's A Discus - 3 Fabienne Weston 13.74

100 U15 Girls A 100m - 5 Olivia Salagubaite 13.88

1500 U15 Girls A 1500m - 2 Rose Garrett 05:03.2

1500 U15 Girls B 1500m - 1 Mimi Blake 05:18.6

LJ U15 Girl's A Long Jump - 4 Rose Garrett 3.76

SP U15 Girl's A Shot Putt - 5 Nell Swinhoe 4.69

1500 U17 Women A 1500m - 2 Lily Mckay 05:30.9

LJ U17 Women A Long Jump - 2 Jasmin Daly 3.81

150 U11 Boys A 150m - 1 Javahn Robinson-Leitao 22.99

150 U11 Boys B 150m - 2 Thomas Wasserman 24.01

800 U11 Boys A 800m - 5 Benji Bendiako 02:54.4

800 U11 Boys B 800m - 2 Javahn Robinson-Leitao 02:58.4

LJ U11 Boys A Long Jump - 1 Thomas Wasserman 3.6

LJ U11 Boys B Long Jump -1 Benji Bendiako 3.41

SP U11 Boys A Shot Putt - 2 Thomas Wasserman 4.61

SP U11 Boys B Shot Putt - 2 Adam Nkoso 3.96

4x100 U11 Boys 4x100m - 1 London Heath. 60.6

100 U13 Boy's A 100m - 7 Etienne Munday 15.8

100 U13 Boy's B 100m - 1 Daniel Robb 13.96

800 U13 Boy's A 800m - 5 Nana Oduro-Nyaning 02:31.5

800 U13 Boy's B 800m - 3 Spike Blake 02:32.6

75H U13 Boy's A 75H - 1 Etienne Munday 13.66

HJ U13 Boys A High Jump - 1 Etienne Munday 1.35

HJ U13 Boys B High Jump - 2 Tino Quamina 1.35

DT U13 Boys A Discus - 6 Arthur Reed 10.24

4x100 U13 Boy's 4x100m - 2 London Heath. 58.69

U15 Boys A 100M - 3 Rufus Tansey 12.73

100 U15 Boys B 100m - 4 Vianne Allen 14.6

200 U15 Boys A 200m -5 Rufus Tansey 28.06

800 U15 Boys A 800m - 3 Thomas Archer 02:14.7

800 U15 Boys B 800m - 3 Oliver O'Connor 02:35.2

LJ U15 Boys' A Long Jump - 6 Thomas Archer 3.91

LJ U15 Boys' B Long Jump - 2 Oliver O'Connor 3.44

SP U15 Boys' A Shot Putt - 4 Oliver O'Connor 4.3

JT U15 Boys' A Javelin - 3 Vianne Allen 24.42

U17 Men A 100m - 4 Callum Mills 13.45

800 U17 Men A 800m - 2 Liam Garrett 02:07.3

800 U17 Men B 800m - 3 Kenneth Boulton 02:16.0

LJ U17 Men A Long Jump - 2 Isaac Tibbett 5.32

Non-scorers:
Under 11 Boys 800 metres - 4 Ivor Joslin 02:53.3
Under 13 Boys 800 metres - 7 Arthur Reed 02:43.4, 15 Joseph Rennard 03:12.3
Under 13 Boys 100 metres - 6 Arthur Reed 16.5
Under 11 Girls Shot Putt - 2 Hattie Munday 5.33
Under 11 Boys Long Jump - 1 Javahn Robinson-Leitao 3.71, 3 Adam Nkoso 3.28
Under 11 Girls 150 metres - 2 Laila Tempesta 25.4, 5 Nuala Rennard 27.56
Under 11 Boys 150 metres - 2 Adam Nkoso 25.17

Eiger Ultra Trail, 15th July 2017

82: Leonard Martin     5:27:11

Harry Hawkes 10, 16th July 2017

138   Tom Bedwell   1:14

192   Lucie Mauger   1:17:24

530   Laura Boothman  1:42:42