Seyfu breaks 5k record and other Road Racing adventures

The highlight of what was a quiet week was Seyfu seting a new Club 5km record around Battersea Park, elsewhere Heathsiders were running getting ready for the Autumn road races and Cross Country Season

RunThrough Chase the Sun 10k, Olympic Park, Wednesday, 14.9.22

Gavin Evans rights: “I seemed to be the only Heathsider running this four-lap, twisty-turny 10k, which was run alongside a 5k at Olympic Park. It is not a fast course – with the four laps it means eight double-backs, eight sharp turns and eight bridges so there is lots of slowing down and speeding up. I finished in 10th place in a time of 39:05. Oddly, then the results came up they put me in 5k list and had me running it in 29 minutes although they quickly changed it when the error was pointed out.”

Result

3rd Thomas Foy 35:37

10th Gavin Evans – 39:05 (1st V50-60)

37th Thomas Crowley (V50) 42:53 (2nd V50)

Caroline McGraw (VW50) 55:23 (1st VW50)

(174 finishers)

Pride Run 10k, Victoria Park 17.9.22

There were just two Heathsiders racing the Pride Run in Viccy Park this year. Both Jonathan Shipley and I were using it as a tune-up for longer races this autumn but were still very happy with our times in pretty good conditions. Jonathan raced his quickest 10k for four years in 37:16 to come 19th and I got a quite unexpected PB of 35:53 in 8th place.

8th Jamie Morris (V45) 35:53 (1st V45)

Jonathan Shipley (V45) 37:16 (8th V45)

Friday Night 5k Under the Lights, Battersea Park, 15.9.22

Seyfu produced a brilliant run at Battersea on Thursday Night (bizarrely not on a Friday!) to break Thomas Archer’s overall club record for 5km.

5th Seyfu Jamaal (U23) 14:32 PB New Club Record

171st Lily Woolcock (17th SW) 19:15

Vale of York 10k, York 11.9.22

17th Nicola Graham 40:28 PB (3rd SW)

Marathon Training Day Half Marathon, Milton Keynes 11.9.22

2nd Pete Northall 2:00.18

Great North Run, Gateshead 11.9.22

2,461st Mark Dean 1:38.12 PB

2,574th Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin 1:38.43 PB

Kenilworth Half Marathon, Kenilworth 11.9.22

65th Graham Wilkinson (V35) 1:28.06

167th Louisa Pointon (VW35) 1:41.04 (8th VW35)

Pleshey Half Marathon, Chelmsford 11.9.22

14th Roger Maidment (V45) 1:13.09

26th Rebecca Bunting (VW35) 1:18.40 (1st Woman)

Tallinn Marathon, Tallin, Estonia 11.9.22

506th Sonia Connor (U23) 3:48.46

Chiltern Wonderland 50, Goring on Thames

52nd Leonard Martin (V35) 9:38.14

135th Dominic Bevacqua (V45) 11:31.44

136th Ruth Forbes (VW45) 11:31.46 (15th VW45)

Parkrun

Parkrun results can be found here , and congratulations on first places for Julia Kelk (Finsbury), Andy Barnes (Hackney Marshes), Oliver Desborough (Highbury Fields), Peter Gould (Whitstable), Matthew Cockerill (Ally Pally), Annabel Litchfield (The Old Showfeild) and Rachel Rosenthal (Peace Valley).

Compiled by Simon with thanks for contributions from Gavin and .