Part I - a sunny start and podium finishes at the Met league in Claybury
In the first of this week’s race reports, we cover a very successful day at the first Met league cross-country race at Claybury, for juniors and both the men’s and women’s teams. All the other races will be covered in the second report.
Met League Race 1#, Claybury, 14.10.22
Simon Baker sent in the following report from Claybury:
The club started our XC season on a beautiful sunny day at Claybury. Beth Hawling started the season where she left last year by winning her race with Sefu 2nd in the Senior Men's race with Tom Aldred the first V40. The Senior women finished 2nd behind VPH&TH, the team weakened a little due to recent marathon races, while with a great turnout the Senior Men finished 3rd.
The Juniors registered two 3rd places (Junior Women and U13G) and 2 5th places (U11B and U13B) with the Junior Men 6th and U11 Girls with only one runner finishing 11th. Special mention should go to Amy Kirk (U15G) who was our first finisher in the Junior Women's race finishing 7th and 3rd U15G overall.
Results
U11 Boys (1500m, 44 Runners)
1st B Kaspar (SBH) 5:27
15th Alex Rankin 6:07
18th Sebastian Mcneely 6:09
20th Jacob Purcell 6:15
38th Laurie Wotton 6:58
39th Zak Wahid 6:58
Team:- 1st SBH 156 pts, 5th London Heathside 89 pts
U11 Girls (1500m, 41 Runners)
1st V Muraidhar (ESM) 5:46
6th Edith Deakin 6:23 (1st U10G)🏅
Team:- 1st WG&EL 110 pts, 11th London Heathside 36 pts
U13 Boys (3,000m, 48 Runners)
1st J Branch (Herts P) 10:46
12th Rory Willis 11:55
22nd Alex Kirk 12:21
32nd Charlie Roberts 13:10
34th Mikail Wahid 13:18
40th Connor Roberts 13:58
48th Jude Hampton-Phillips 14:53
Team:- 1st SBH 159 pts, 5th London Heathside 96 pts, 15th London heathside B 10 pts
U13 Girls (3000m 52 Runners)
1st J March (Barnet) 11:49
12th Rosa Cormacain 12:51
15th Caitlin Roberts 12:59
21st Lila Blustin 13:07
24th Margot Hunt 13:19
25th Maya Westgate 13:22
30th Jasmina Roberts 14:16
40th Charlotte Beale 15:02
52nd Lucy Ryan 16:21
Team:- 1st Trent Park 170 pts, 3rd London Heathside 140 pts, 10th London Heathside 65 pts
Junior Men (4000m 79 Runners)
1st G Ward (Herts P) 13:31
17th Frederick Beale 15:15
23rd George Saint 15:37
27th Gregory Berrisford Sweet 15:40
28th Sam Turner (U15B) 15:44 (12th U15B)
32nd Alex Smith 15:52
34th Eric Beale (U15B) 15:55 (15th U15B)
51st Ben Ryan (U15B) 16:42 (25th U15B)
73rd Artie Feeny Willings 18:30
Team:- 1st WG&EL 279 pts, 6th London Heathside 225 pts, 11th London Heathside B 130 pt, 26th London Heathside C 1 pts
Junior Women (4000m 57 Runners)
1st L McDonald (VPH&TH) 15:47
7th Amy Kirk (U15G) 16:22 (3rd U15G)🏅
8th Hattie Munday 16:30
26th Lettice Gundry (U15G) 17:57 (14th U15G)
31st Milly Watkins 18:22
Team:- 1st WG&EL 192 pts, 3rd London Heathside 160 pts
Howard Williams Trophy (Juniors)
1st WG&EL 104.5 pts, 4th London Heathside 82 pts
Senior Women (8000m 153 runners)
1st Beth Hawling 29:02 A 🏅
7th Rebecca Piggott 31:58 A
9th Lily Woolcock 32:44 A
19th Genevieve Weston 33:32 A
34th Ciera Kennedy 35:38 A
51st Maura Bellio 36:59 A
53rd Tanya Addison (V50) 37:05 B Vet A (2nd VW50) 🏅
59th Jennifer Wing 38:17 B
79th Annabel Judd (V55) 40:10 B Vet A (5th VW55)
82nd Kimberli Butler 40:17 B
111th Marianne Gibson (V55) 43:30 B Vet A (12th VW55)
121st Lorna Stevenson 44:15 B
Senior Women Teams
Division One
1st VPH&TH 327 pts, 2nd London Heathside A 318 pts, 10th London Heathside B 95 pts
Division Two
1st Herts P 235 pts, 12th London Heathside C 0 pts
Vet Women Teams
Division One
1st VPH&TH 143 pts, 6th London Heathside A 64 pts
Division Two
1st Eton Manor 64 pts, 11th London Heathside B 0 pts, 12th London Heathside C 0 pts
Senior Men (8000m 359 Runners)
1st W Broom (Highgate) 24:53
2nd Seyfu Jamaal 25:23 A🏅
13th Tom Aldred (V40) 26:33 A Vet A (1st V40)🏅
33rd Oliver O Connor (U20M) 27:38 A (6th U20M)
35th Ismail Abukar 27:51 A
48th Patric Clark 28:20 A
58th Charlie Oglive 28:55 A
59th Yann Sevestre 28:56 A
69th Jem O'Flaherty 29:13 A
76th Filippo Minelle 29:36 A
78th Matthew Wheat 29:38 A
97th Nathan Tipping 30:25 A
103rd Tom Fancett 30:34 A
112th Jamie Morris (V45) B Vet A (6th V45)
114th Bedo Draskoczy (U2M) B (13th U20M)
118th Robert Selway 31:01 B
122nd Joseph Mckeown 31:12 B
136th Adam Mitchell (V40) 31:32 B Vet A (17th V40)
140th Kwasi Agyei-Owusu (V40) B Vet A (18th V40)
146th Sammy Keenan 31:57 B
154th Ryan Mccarthy 32:15 B
157th Valentin Valeanu (V45) 32:21 B vet A (11th V45)
169th Peter Woorron 32:47 B
172nd Chris Hartley (V55) 32:58 B Vet A (4th V55)
181st Lee Connor (V50) 33:10 C Vet B (4th V50)
187th Janak Subberwal (U20M) 33:27 C (19th U20M)
189th Alex Sweet (V40) 33:34 C Vet B (26th V40)
209th Pep Pamies (V45) 34:32 C Vet B (20th V45)
210th Ian Gordon 34:47 C
213th Leo Pemberton (V40) 34:52 C Vet B (29th V40)
216th Liam Hazelton (V40) 35:05 C Vet B (30th V40)
217th Rob Shulman (V55) 35:06 C Vet B (7th V55)
226th Pete Crockford (V60) 35:19 C Vet C (2nd V60)🏅
234th Florian Maurer 35:37 C
236th Philip Mcdermott (V40) 35:38 Vet C (35th V40)
239th Leonard Martin 35:44
243rd Matt Beard (V50) 35:56 Vet C (12th V50)
245th Michael Smith (U20M) 36:00 (21st U20M)
267th Kris Milovsorov 36:57
270th Andrew Owen (V50) 37:05 Vet C (17th V50)
277th Tony Killilea (V55) 37:24 Vet C (14th V55)
280th Luca Paterlini 37:29
287th Harry Owrid 37:52
293rd Andrew Johnston (V50) 38:17
333rd Jerome Boughton Mills (V60) 41:23 (15th V60)
338th Russell Weston (V60) 42:29 (18th V60)
Senior Men Team
Division One
1st Highgate Harriers 1445 pts, 3rd London Heathside 1075 pts, 11th London Heathside B 412 pts
Division Two
1st Trent Park 1066 pts, 6th London Heathside C 644 pts
Vet Men Team
Division One
1st VPH&TH 358 pts, 3rd London Heathside A 302 pts, 8th London Heathside B 180 pts, 11th London Heathside C 104 pts
Howard Williams Trophy
1st VPH&TH 45 pts (1 Win), 2nd Highgate Harriers 43 pts (1 Win), 3rd London Heathside 43 pts
Report by Simon Baker, photo by Maura Bellio