New Year Serpentine 10k and Lee Valley Indoor Open

The New Year opened with the traditional Serpentine 10km at Hyde Park with Seyfu 2nd and also saw Heathsiders compete indoors at Lee Valley. There was also a park Run Double Header at the weekend.

Serpentine New Years 10km

Fourteen Heathsiders ran in the New Year's Day 10K in Hyde Park. It was a perfect day, although a bit breezy. Seyfu narrowly missed first place, coming home 2nd place in 30.26. Josie Hinton was 5th woman overall and 3rd FV35, Gregory Berrisford Sweet was 2nd U17 and Caroline White 1st FV65. Jo Irwin was doing well until her achilles let her down and she had to walk the last mile or so.

The New Year opened with the traditional Serpentine 10km at Hyde Park with Seyfu 2nd and also saw Heathsiders compete indoors at Lee Valley. There was also a park Run Double Header at the weekend.

Serpentine New Years 10km and 3km fun Run, Hyde Park 1.1.23
1st Z Sedona (Bracknell) 30.05
2nd Seyfu Jamaal 30.26
64th Josie Hinton (VW35) 38.34 5th Woman 3rd VW35
105th Alex Sweet (V40) 41.16
108th Gregory Berrisford Sweet (U17M) 41.23 2nd U17M
139th Christopher Greenwood 43.38
140th Steve Crowley (V50) 43.22
163rd Karina Kaufmann (VW35) 45.14 29th SW
219th Guillaume Pichois (V40) 48.07
244th Caroline White (VW65) 49.29 1st VW65
295th Ian Slade (V50) 52.40
304th Marianne Gibson (VW55) 53.26
321st Anthony Chin (V60) 54.31  
364th Beatriz Vega (VW45) 57.28
423rd Jo Irwin (VW45) 1:01.57

511 runners

Lee Valley New Years Open

A mix of young and old Heathsiders tried out the new indoor track at Lee Valley with Suraya Frost setting a new PB in the 60m and our masters athletes preparing for the season ahead.

Lee Valley New Years Open, Lee Valley 2.1.23
60m
SX2.9 5th Suraya Frost (U15G) 8.63s PB by 0.02s AAA Grade 4
SX2.11 6th Michael Salousti (V55) 8.94s
SX2.15 7th Helene Kehoe (VW55) 9.59s

200m
SX2.4 2nd Suraya Frost (U15G) 28.85s
SX2.6 3rd Michael Salousti (V55) 30.06s
SX2.6 4th Adrian Day (V60) 30.54s
SX2.11 4th Helene Kehoe (VW55) 32.82s

300m
SX10 4th Adrian Day (V60) 47.68s
SX9 4th Tony Killilea (V55) 46.32s

Parkruns

Ninety-four Heathsiders took part in 35 Parkruns at the weekend including Park Runs in Wales, Scotland, Netherlands and Sweden. There were six winners – Richard Macaulay in Bressay (17:30), Conor Brown in Sunny Hill (17.54), Olivia Desborough in Highbury Fields (19:17), Nicola Graham in Roundhay (19:38), Rebbeca Piggott (Finsbury) 20.55 and Tom Ashby in Maxima (21.47)

Sunday saw 42 Heathsiders run on New Years Day with Olivia Desborough 1st at Highbury Fields again (19.18)

The full Heathside results are here .and here

Report by Simon Baker with thanks from Caroline White