SAL from Lee Valley, Night of 10,000s

Plenty of action this week with the first Southern Athletics meeting of the year as well as 3 Heathsider’s taking part in the Night of the 10,000 PBs which featured on the BBC red button. Chris Grice also took part in the Manchester Great Run. back on the track Cian O’Donnell took part in the Loughborough International.

Southern Athletics League Div 2 (North and East), Lee Valley, 20.5.23

1st VP&TH 261 pts
2nd Dacorum 260 pts
3rd Cambridge Harriers 258.5 pts
4th London Heathside 218.5 pts
5th Bexley 207.5 pts
6th WG&EL 206.5 pts

The club’s track and field season started with a hastily rearranged SAL meeting at Lee Valley due to the Finsbury Park Track Repairs.  The meeting saw a host of debutants and a number of our talented U17’s stepping in for their first senior meeting.  There were some great performances as the club finished 4th overall.  In a competitive meeting there were three wins for the men Thomas Archer (1500m) James Hamblin (Hammer) and joint 1st for Ivan Ross in the Pole Vault which he shed blood for!  In the women Rachel McDonald won the 800m and Caitlin Mcilwyn took over 10s off her PB to win the 3000m.  Elsewhere points were secured by Jennifer Wing and Andy Barnes in the steeplechase races with Ivan, Joel Hawes and Mark Jefford all securing points in multiple events. Noelle O’Regan also ran a great finishing straight to take 2nd in the 400m race.

Special mention to Helena Stone who as a para-athlete ran competitively for the first time.

4th place may be a little disappointing finishing place but a great achievement given the youth of the team and lack of competitors in many of the field events.
Thanks so much to everyone who made the trek to Lee Valley to help volunteer and especially Jen, Mark and Jonathan for their efforts to get the meeting on and run so smoothly.
The next SAL will be at Hemel Hempstead on Sunday 18th June.

Senior Men
100m
Asha Osei 11.56s A 5th PB
Mohamed Kamara 11.92s B 6th PB by 0.24s
Elliot Simmons 13.58 ns PB
Robert Shin 12.19 ns PB
200m
Asha Osei 23.43 A 5th
Oscar Hall (U17M) 22.93 B 2nd PB by 0.17s
Mohamed Kamara 25.11 ns PB by 1s
Robert Shin 25.13 ns PB
Nathaniel Swinhoe (U17M) 26.89 ns PB
400m
Artie Feeny Willings 1:05.60 A 6th PB
800m
Thomas Archer (U20M) 1:59.48 A 2nd
Richard Macaulay (V35M) 2:05.64 B 2nd
George Saint (U17M) 2:09.06 ns
1500m
Thomas Archer  (U20M) 4:05.72 A 1st
Richard Macaulay 4:22.06 B 3rd
Kader Sayed 4:37.67 ns
3000m
James Wooldridge 9:16.05 A 2nd
Sion Lewis (V40) 9:21.44 B 2nd
Matthew Beard (V50) 11:31.06 ns
Kader Sayed 9:35.99 ns
110mH
No Competitor
400mH
Ivan Ross (V45) 1:11.83 A 4th
3000mS/C
Andy Barnes (V40) 11:51.00 A 2nd
High Jump
Artie Feeny Willings (U17M) 1.45m A 5th
Nathaniel Swinhoe (U17M) 1.40m B 3rd
Pole Vault
Ivan Ross (V45) 2.60m A 1st=
Mark Jefford (V55) 1.20m B 3rd
Long Jump
Carlos Mingoes 6.05m A 2nd
Mark Lawrence (V50) 5.47m B 2nd
Triple Jump
Mark Lawrence (V50) 11.00m A 5th
Mark Jefford (V55) 7.95m B 2nd
Shot Putt
James Hamblin 11.20m A 2nd
Mark Lawrence (V50) 7.37m B 4th
Discus
Joel Hawes 31.63m A 5th
Ivan Ross (V45) 18.00m B 6th
Hammer
James Hamblin 58.24m A 1st
Joel Hawes 26.88m B 2nd
Javelin
Marcel Baczek (U20) 37.06m A 4th
Joel Hawes 29.15m B 3rd
Ivan Ross (V45) 29.68m ns
4x100m
4th London Heathside 54.54s
4x400m
3rd London Heathside 3:46.97

Senior Women
100m
Imani Quamina (U17W) 12.74s A 5th PB by 0.2s
Magdeline Paitoo (U17W) 12.78s B 4th PB by 0.26s
Jasmine Creer 13.97 ns PB
Sula Marshall 14.52 ns PB
Isabella Wolday-Myers  15.15 ns PB
Juliette Bird 17.22 ns PB
Helena Stone (T63) 20.97 ns PB
200m
Magdeline Paitoo (U17W) 26.11s A 4th
Noelle O’Regan (V35) 27.15s B 4th
400m
Noelle O’Regan (V35) 1:02.48 A 2nd
Rhian Male 1:10.42 B 2nd
Rachel MacDonald 1:03.75 ns PB
800m
Rachel McDonald 2:22.29 A 1st
Rhian Male 2:28.75 B 1st
1500m
Issy Watkins (U17W) 4:51.99 A 4th
Milly Watkins (U17W) 5:08.96 B 2nd
3000m
Caitlin Mcilwain 10:39.59 A 1st PB by 10.45s
Ciara Williams 11:38.86 B 3rd
Kim Butler (V35) 13:32.07 ns
100mH
Imani Quamina (U17W) 16.14s A 3rd PB
Ciara Williams 21.56s B 3rd
400mH
No Competitor
2000mS/C
Jennifer Wing  8:52.51 A 3rd
High Jump
Jennifer Wing 1.20m A 4th
Pole Vault
No Competitor
Long Jump
Jasmin Creer 3.10m A 5th
Isabella Wolday-Myers 2.86m B 4th
Triple Jump
No Competitor
Shot Putt
Isabella Wolday-Myers 4.92m A 6th
Discus
No Competitor
Hammer
No Competitor
Javelin
No Competitor
4x100m
No Team
4x400m
4th London Heathside 4:49.68

Man of the Match; James Hamblin (Hammer)

Ivan bandaged after his Pole Vault exploits ready for the Javelin

Night of the 10,000m PBS, Parliament Hill, 20.5.23

George Gurney and Seyfu Jamaal both set new PB’s at the night of the 10,000s with Olivia Desborough running a strong race in the Race 5. Seyfu went out hard and with another runner built almost a 100m lead over the pack which was led by a pacemaker. However the pack closed the gap and went past before Seyfu dug in to claim 5th place.

Race 2
23rd George Gurney 32:13.02 PB
Race 4
5th Seyfu Jamaal 30:6.79 PB

Race 5
26th Olivia Desborough 37:21.13

Great Manchester Run, Manchester 21.5.23

107th Chris Grice 36:24

Loughborough International, Loughborough, 21.5.23

100m

GA 6th Cian O’Donnell 11.04s

Parkruns

84 Heathsiders ran in parkruns this weekend.  Congratulations for first place finishes go to Koppany Szentes (Highbury Fields 17:49), Rebecca Bunting (Oakhill 18:23), Peter Gould (Ally Pally 18:01), Catherine Harris (Beverley Westwood 20:21), Edward Samuel (Lordship Lane Rec) and Chiara Borg (Lordship Lane Rac Full results can be found here .

Compiled by Simon baker with thanks to Mark Jefford