Women Strike Silver in the Southerns

At a sunny Beckenham Palace Park the Senior Women secured Team Silver in the Southern XC Championships with Beth Hawling an individual Bronze. At Lee Valley the Club’s Young Athletes broke a host of Club Records. Mary Kehoe one two silver medals at the Irish Indoor masters Championships.and Izzy Watkins wins the Middlesex Schools Intermediate Girls Title.

SEAA Southern XC Championships, Beckenham Palace Park, 29.1.22

We are close to the climax of the Cross Country Season now with the Big Championships before the climax of "The National" on Parliament Hill on 26th February. Saturday was the South of England Championships held on a new course at Beckenham Palace Park, a former golf course and now public park overlooked by a large Country House. The weather was beautifully sunny although the wind did pick up during the day. The recent dry weather also meant the course was firm underfoot with much of the course run over mud and gravel paths.

The Senior Women led by Beth Hawling, who secured the Club's first senior individual medal in the race, produced one of the Club's greatest Cross Country performances winning silver with all 4 scorers finishing in the top 30. Elsewhere a weakened Men's team were 22nd and the Junior teams produced two 15th places, 16th and 19th, which however (excluding the recent U20M's silver) are probably our best ever set of overall results. We believe Izzy Watkins' 14th place in the U15 Girls race was our highest ever ranked finish by a girl.

Seniors Race

The Senior Women's race of 8,000m started with the customary charge before dropping down to make a small loop. Heathside were already well represented at the front of the pack before the field headed out on the first of two laps. 2020 winner Jess Gibbon (Reading) started to take a lead the field stretched out behind her, Beth who had been 3rd fell back to 5th some 20m behind 4th place after falling heavily on one of the descents. That was the way it stayed until the very closing stages when Beth started a charge as those ahead of her started to feel the early race pace. As they made the final turn into the finishing straight Beth caught and passed the 4th placed Sarah Astin (Belgrave Harriers) and pulled away up the last climb to take Bronze. Behind her Brogan Wallace had run a steady race to finish in 17th place. At this point 3 AFD runners and two Cambridge Harriers had finished, Basingstoke then saw a spate of runners come in with 12th, 29th, 25th and 26th place and all 3 looked in prime place for the medals. However Evangelista Divetain had been joined in the later stages by Annie Arnold, in her first race for the Club, and they crossed the line in 29th and 30th places to move the team into 2nd place with Aldershot's last runner finishing in 31st place securing them the Gold. Seven other Heathsiders also ran.

The men's team was somewhat weakened but ran valiantly with Charles Hardy the first home in 135th place, the remainder of the 6 scorers all completed the 4 lap 12k course in under an hour with Andy Barnes 154th, Oliver Negus 240th, Tom Fancett 246th, Ben Palmer 264th and Ben Williams 267th. There were another 9 Heathsiders taking part.

Junior Races

The Junior races were slightly frustrating with several of our youngsters missing due to Covid or other commitments. This is also an awkwardly timed race for all the Middlesex Clubs coming as it does only 2 days after Middlesex Schools XC Championships. The U15 Boys started the day's action off after being held on the line for 20 minutes while Marshall's got into position. David Baah-Okyere was our first runner home in a race blighted by some poor marshaling and course marking with runners getting lost in the woods or taking the wrong route. Despite this the lads finished in 16th and the leading Club from Middlesex and the Met League.

Next off were the U13 Girls with Amy Kirk leading the team with an admirable 38th place after finishing in 5th place in the Middlesex Schools. Lettice Gundry, back from illness, ran her typical unfused race to finish 84th. The remaining girls Ivy Gray, Jessica Lappin and Elkie Baker stuck together round the course to cross the line almost together and securing 15th place for the team. Frank Bailey was the only U13 Boy to run in only his 3rd race of the season and will have learnt lots from the experience.

The U15 Girls have been our strongest age group this year. Izzy Watkins the newly crowned Intermediate Girls Middlesex Schools Champion showed real grit to run again so soon finishing in 14th place out highest placing in a girls race in recent memory. Sister Milly was next home with Hattie Munday next. Ella Mai Hancock completed the scoring with Amara Odegoberin and Madison Fawley also running. In what was one of the most competitive age groups the team ended up in 19th place.

The U17 men only had four members with Roni Kizilkaya first home in 65th place with Fred Beale next in 91st. Jabak Subberwal and Michael Smith supported themselves round to finish in 124th and 125th places to secure 15th place overall. Maia Hampton-Phillips was our only U17 women finishing 71st, she too had run in the Middlesex Schools. Injury depleted our U20 Men with Oliver O'Connor again our only runner finishing 41st.

There is now a blank weekend for Cross Country before the last run of races for the season with NWLL/Sunday League on the 12th/13th Feb and then the climax of the Met League with the final race at Trent Park on 19th. That is followed by the "National" where with 89 senior runners alone we have the biggest Club Entry.

Results - SEAA South of England XC Championships, Beckenham, 29.1.22

U13 Girls 3000m 195 runners

1st J Davey (Kettering) 11:42

38th Amy Kirk 12:37
84th Lettice Gundry 13:20
170th Jessica Lappin 14:43
171st Ivy Gray 14:43
180th Elkie Baker 14:55

Team 1st Marshall Milton Keynes AC 65 pts 15th London Heathside (Kirk, Grundy, Lappin, Gray) 463 pts

U13 Boys 3000m 165 runners

1st J Meyburgh (Windsor S E & Hounslow AC) 10:12

126th Frank Bailey 13:03

U15 Girls 4000m 187 runners

1st K Pye (Aldershot & Farnham) 14:59

14th Isabella Watkins 15:36
64th Emelia Watkins 16:37
86th Hattie Munday 17:07
150th Ella-Mai Hancock 18:48
168th Amara Odeogberin 19:32
181st Madison Frawley 20:38

Team: 1st Blackheath & Bromley Harriers 73 pts, 19th London Heathside (I Watkins, E Watkins, Munday, Hancock) 314 pts

U15 Boys 4000m 189 runners

1st A Dack (Medway & Maidstone) 15:11

53rd David Baah-Okyere 16:48
99th Greg Berrisford-Sweet 17:44
158th George Saint 19:07
186th Artie Feeny-Willings 23:24

Team:- 1st Chiltern harriers 58 pts,16th London Heathside (Baah-Okyere, Berrisford-Sweet, Saint, Feeny-Williams) 496 pts

U17 Women 5km 125 runners

1st H Reynolds (North Norfolk) 17:34

71st Maia Hampton-Phillips 21:04

U17 Men 6km 143 Runners

1st E Bird (Poole) 19:38

65th Roni Kizilkaya 22:42
91st Fred Beale 23:29
124th Janak Subberwal 25:06
126th Michael Smith 25:19

Team 1st Poole AC 53 pts, 15th London Heathside (Kizlkaya, Beale, Subberwal, Smith) 406 pts

U20 Men 8km 87 Runners

1st H Brodie (Bedford) 25:39

41st Oliver O'Connor 28:41

Senior Women 8km 336 runners

1st J Gibbons (Reading) 28:16

3rd Beth Hawling 29:13
17th Brogan Wallace 30:57
29th Evangelista Divetain 31:35
30th Annie Arnold 31:38
41st Olivia Desborough 32:12
119th Ciera Kennedy 35:07
145th Laura Hunt 36:11
240th Kimberli Butler 40:52
252nd Ann Woulfe 41:27
256th Jackie Wastell 41:36
291th Rebecca Marshall 43:17
Team- 1st Aldershot & Farnham 51 pts, 2nd London Heathside (Hawling, Wallace, Divetain, Arnold) 79 pts, 3rd Basingstoke 83 pts

Senior Men 15km 685 runners
1st A Coley-Maud (Guildford) 47.41

135th Charles Hardy 55:12
154th Andy Barnes 55:43
240th Oliver Negus 58:46
246th Tom Fancett 58:54
264th Benjamin Palmer 59:25
267th Ben Williams 59:35
289th Martin Potter 1:00:15
304th Matthew Wheat 1:00:51
369th Joseph Clemoes 1:03:19
410th Rob Shulman 1:04:36
447th Gavin Evans 1:06:00
458th Liam Hazelton 1:06:19
556th Matt Beard 1:10:09
571st Philip Hogg 1:11:25
645th Marco Maserati 1:17:10
Team:- 1st Southampton 131 pts, 22nd London Heathside (Hardy, Barnes, Negus, Fancett, Palmer, Williams) 1,306 pts

Middlesex Schools XC Championships, Harrow School, 27.1.22

Thursday saw the rearranged Middlesex Schools XC, which acts as the selection race for the National Schools XC at Hop Farm, Kent in March. A lovely sunny day saw lots of juniors run for their Boroughs. Unfortunately results are not available but well done to Izzy Watkins who won the Intermediate Girls race and Amy Kirk who was 5th in the Junior Girls race. Other Juniors running included Caitlin Roberts, Lucy Ryan, Ben Redland, Sam Turner, Alex Pountney, Jessica Lappin, Elkie Baker, Mia Rosen, Hattie Munday, Milly Watkins, Sam Lindsell, Maia Hampton-Phillips and Mia Manttan.

London Indoor Games (U13, U15, U17), Lee Valley, 27-28th January 2022

Great performances over the weekend by our young athletes with Trey Corlis breaking a 17 year old Club record in the 60mH and Milton Cooper and Magdeline Paitoo both setting new Indoor U15 200m Club Records as well as Gabriel Edwards breaking both his 60m and 200m records and is ranked 2nd and 1st nationally this year,

Results

60m

U17

H9 2nd Trey Corlis (U17M) 7.47

H4 7th Imani Quamina (U17W) DNS

H4 3rd Trey Corlis (U17M) 7.46

H7 3rd Imani Quamina (U17W) 8.34

U15

H3 3rd Montana Dennis (U15B) 7.94

H1 4th Martha Jolly (U15G) 8.22

H3 3rd Casia Langley Bradshaw (U15G)

H3 3rd Montana Dennis (U15B) 7.90

H1 3rd Martha Jolly (U15G) 8.11 PB New U15G Club Record AAA Grade 1

H3 3rd Casia Langley Bradshaw (U15G) 8.78

U13

H1 1st Gabriel Edwards (U13B) 8.11 PB New Club U13B Record AAA Grade 2

H5 3rd Syrah Langley Bradshaw (U13G) 9.95

H1 1st Gabriel Edwards (U13B) 8.12

H5 5th Syrah Langley Bradshaw (U13G) 10.04

200m

U15

H2 2nd Milton Cooper (U15B) 24:56 PB New U15B Club Record

H1 5th Montana Dennis (U15B) 25.39

H3 1st Ella Burridge (U15G) 27.64 PB

H2 3rd Magdeline Paitoo (U15G) 27.54 PB New U15G Club Record

H1 5th Casia Langley Bradshaw (U15G) 30.42

U13

H1 1st Gabriel Edwards (U13B) 26.94

60mH

U17

H4 4th Thomas Wassermann (U17M) 9.08

H1 1st Trey Corlis (U17M) 8.47 PB New Club Record

H2 4th Imani Quamina (U17W) 9.40

H4 5th Thomas Wassermann (U17M) 9.10

H2 5th Trey Corlis (U17M) 8.50

H3 3rd Imani Quamina (U17W) 9.37

U15

H2 6th Suraya Frost (U15G) 10.25

H1 4th Casia Langley Bradshaw (U15G) 9.96

H3 4th Suraya Frost (U15G) 10.31

H2 3rd Casia Langley Bradshaw (U15G) 9.96

U13

H1 3rd Max Wassermann (U13B) 11.62 PB New U13B Club Record

H3 3rd Max Wassermann (U13B) 11.81

Long Jump

U15

8th Martha Jolly 4.57m

11th Ella Burridge 4.33m

Shot Put

U17M

9th Thomas Wassermann (U17M) 9.72m

U15B

1st Max Wassermann (U13B) 6.39m PB

U13G

2nd Syrah Langley Bradshaw 7.45m

National Indoor Masters Championships, Athletes, Eire, 30.1.22

Mary travelled to Ireland to compete in the National Masters Championships coming home with two silver medals in the process.

60m

VW55 2nd Helene Kehoe (V55) 9.43

Shot Put

VW55 2nd Helene Kehoe (V55) 7.96m

RunThrough Battersea Park Chase the Moon 10km, Battersea Park, 26.1.22

1st A Dickson-Bell (VP&TH) 32:22
2nd K Morris 32:27 PB

Victoria Park 10km, Victoria Park, 29.1.22

1st D Smale (Southend) 31:17

3rd Alex Weatherill (V40) 34:54

97 Runners

Parkrun

78 Heathsiders ran Park Runs last Saturday. Congratulations for 1st places go to Seyfu Jamaal (Highbury), Rebecca Bunting (Oak Hill), Josie Hinton (Sunny Hill), Julia Bijl (Burgess), and Chris Gracie (Mile End). Full results can be found here.

Compiled by Simon Baker

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