Senior Men win Fraternity Cup and marathon action
This week features Action from a muddy Trent Park where the Senior Men won the Fraternity Cup, elsewhere road race action from Battersea and Florence.
Fraternity and Soriority Cups, Trent Park, 23.11.24
Thanks for Barnet for organising another Fraternity and Sorority Cup which also forms part of the Chingford League and NWLL. The Senior Men produced the best performance winning the Fraternity Cup with the scoring 6 runners all in the top 25. Tsegay Berhane was 1sst home with Kader Seyed 2 places behind with
Abel Woldegeorgis, Oliver O’Connor, Denden Hagu and Mihaly Jeles completing the team. In the Womens race Genevieve Weston and Molly Harrison both had top 10 finishes.
In the Young Athlete races Sam Turner (U17M) finished 2nd with Edith Deakin (U13G) 3rd. Other top ten finishes were recorded by Michael Schofield (U11B), Matilda Hinson (U13G), Alex Kirk (U15B) Ennio Kaloukian (U15B), Amaya Shankardass (U17W) and Dylan Mills (U17M).. In the team competition the U17M and U15B were 2nd (both with a margin of 1 point) and the U17W 3rd.
U11 Girls (2km 52 finishers)
1st J Watson (WSE) 8:51
19th K Warburton 10:29
31st Livia Belkin 11:07
37th E Deakin 11:48
41st A Maini 12:15
42nd E Schofield 12:37
44th O Oren 12:41
48th E Reller 12:47
52nd Y Balter NT
Team:- 1st WG&EL 46 pts, 7th London Heathside 128 pts, 16th London Heathside B 186 pts
U11 Boys (2Km 50 finishers)
1st J Tonge (WG&EL) 8:44
7th Michael Schofield 9:16
23rd Kai Duberry 9:49
41st D Tawbougt 10:24
47th O Gardiner 10:31
Team:- 1st SBH 26 pts, 4th London Heathside 90 pts, 13th London Heathside B 202 pts, 21st London Heathside C 271 pts
U13 Girls (3Km 40 runners)
1st E Prince (WG&EL) 11:39
3rd Edith Deakin 12:01
10th Matilda Hinson 12:19
27th Greta Lawrence 13:32
34th S Baker 14:27
35th E Boivin 14:35
39th Sky Murray 15:57
Team:- 1st WG&EL 28 pts, 4th London Heathside 74 pts
U13 Boys (3km 34 runners)
1st E Frith (WG&EL) 10:39
20th Dylan Lewis 12:16
23rd Alex Rankin 12:42
32nd Willian Edwards 14:41
Team:- 1st WG&EL 31 pts, 9th London Heathside 110 pts
U15 Girls (4Km 29 finishers)
1st S Allen (Highgate) 15:11
18th Skye Parke-Antonis 18:24
23rd Laura Davies 19:32
24th Vera Vasquez 19:35
29th A Coleman 21:13
Team:- 1st WG&EL 57 pts, 10th London Heathside 94 pts
U15 Boys (4km 28 finishers)
1st A Pflug (Highgate) 13:22
5th Alex Kirk 14:27
6th Ennio Kaloukian 14:32
13th J Skelsey 15:23
Team:- 1st Highgate 52 pts, 2nd London Heathside 53 pts
U17 Women (5km 14 finishers)
1st L Johnson (Dacorum) 22:47
4th Amaya Shankardass 24:48
11th Jessica Lappin 28:14
12th A Wajetes 29:47
Team:- 1st Dacorum 29 pts, 3rd London Heathside 42 pts
U17 Men (5km 33 finishers)
1st R Rock (TVH) 19:43
2nd Sam Turner 19:46
6th Dylan Mills 20:51
15th I Silverstone 22:32
Team:- 1st ESM 56 pts, 2nd London Heathside 57 pts
Senior Women (146 finishers)
1st Z Oldfield (Loughton) 29:47
5th Genevieve Weston 31:21
7th Molly Harrison 32:01
49th Ann Woulfe (V40) 39:14
54th Moya Malekin 39:19
81st Marianne Gibson (V50) 42:30
105th Sue Edie (V60) 45:08
Team 1st VPH&TH 29 pts, 6th London Heathside 125 pts
Senior Men (255 finishers)
1st G Stubbs (SBH) 24:36
3rd Tsegay Berhane 25:27 (1st Chingford League)
6th Kader Seyed 26:15 (3rd)
12th Abel Woldegeorgis 27:13 (9th)
15th Oliver O’Connor 27:26 (12th)
14th Denden Hagu 27:44
25th Mihaly Jeles 28:38
38th Roy Kimachia 29:32
42nd Hugo Cox (V40) 29:44
62nd Philip Hogg (V50) 31:01
72nd Oliver Murray (V50) 31:29
76th Nicholas Hodges-Gibson 31:43
87th Artie Feeny Willings (U20M) 32:26
93rd Dave Browne (V60) 32:44
95th Harry Owrid 32:48
96th Chris Greenwood 32:58
99th Robert Shulman (V50) 33:02
119th Andrew Wooding 34:58
123rd Steve Crowley (V50) 35:10
159th Pablo Pizarro 37:00
172nd Antonio Ribeiro (V50) 37:31
224th Glen Taylor (V40) 48:00
230th Bob Gould (V80) 51:59
Team:- 1st London Heathside A 83 pts, 9th London Heathside B 438 pts. 16th London Heathside C 715 pts
Battersea Park Running Festival Marathon & Half Marathon, Saturday November 23 2024
Gavin Evans writes “Matt Beard smashed his marathon PB as a last-minute entrant to the Battersea Park Running Festival marathon on Saturday, breaking the three-hour barrier for the first time with plenty to spare in a time of 2:57:54, making him the first V55 runner.
What made his performance even more impressive was that the race turned out to be 26.7 miles (half a mile longer than usual) If he’d finished at the 26:2 mark his time would have been under 2:55. Also, he and Paul Beale were due to run the Valencia Marathon the next day, but a terror alert at Gatwick scuppered that (and, later, the Valencia marathon was cancelled because of 80mph winds). With the help of Joe Mckeown they registered at the final hour and made their way to a drizzly, windy Battersea Park just in time for the 9am start. “It was a case of mind over matter as the training was done,” he said afterwards. Matt’s previous PB was 3:03:09.
Paul and I had both picked up pesky cough-colds two weeks earlier. These lingered longer than usual and we were both a bit spluttery on race day. Paul had to pull up after about five miles. “I was coughing and struggling for air and I just thought to myself, ‘What’s the point?’” he said afterwards. I felt similarly – lethargic and coughing and with a dodgy stomach (note to self: chicken chilli con carne is not a wise choice for a pre-marathon supper), but I had to finish to qualify for the 2025 Comrades Marathon (which 10 Heathsiders will be running). After four miles I realised the spirit was not with me and that to finish I would need jog to 24 miles and race the last 2.2 if I had much left. I reached 24 on my watch and on the mile markers, and cranked it up, but discovered that the final burst was really 2.7 miles – half a mile extra (perhaps because of the difficulties involved in in getting exactly right an 11-lap course that started and finished on the running track). In the changing room afterwards everyone seemed to be talking about that extra half mile.
Melvin Lewis was another who ran a PB on the rainy, windy 11-lap course, finishing in a time of 3:23:15 and Aaron Smith finished in 3:57:40.
In the half marathon, which joined the marathon from 10am, Ula Cartwright-Finch, who is usually a track middle distance specialist, weaved her way through the slower marathon and half runners to finish in an impressive maiden half-marathon time of 1:26:21, making her the sixth woman in the race. Richard Paton-Mcdermott finished in 1:30:42 and Ferderico Forti in 1:35:50.”
Results
Marathon
25th Matt Beard – 2:57:54 (1st V55 and PB)
109th Melvin Lewis – 3:23:15 (PB)
168th Gavin Evans – 3;37:18 (4th V60)
264th Aaron Smith – 3:57:40
Half-Marathon
68th Ula Cartwright-Finch – 1:26:21 (6th woman)
1:30:42 Richard Paton-Mcdrmott – 1:30:42
1:35:50 Ferderico Forti – 1:35:50
Florence Marathon, Florence 23.11.24
Philip Hogg reports, “Isaac Edwards and girlfriend Anna Rawsthorne – ran amazing races in Florence marathon. 2:38 and 2:58 respectively!”
Parkrun
71 Heathsiders ran in parkrun last Saturday. Congratulations for first places finishes go to: Callum Coleman (Highbury Fields 16:53), Sammy Keenan (Stevenage 18:12), Rebecca Piggott (Ally Pally 19:45) and Chiara Borg (Lordship Rec, 21:47).
Full results can be found here.