VLM 2012 and Mini Marathon - Plus Antwerp, Watford meets

After a week of worrying about rain and cold temperatures conditions could hardly have been better for this year’s London Marathon and Heathside was out in full force with 35 crossing the finish line, split almost perfectly evenly between our male and female runners. We saw terrific performances from Tom Aldred, George Stewart and Matt Convery, with Katy Webster and Sarah Swinhoe leading the ladies, both the latter right on their sub 3 hour targets. With 7 of our runners breaking 3 hours, and 5 ladies finishing in under 3h30m we had an excellent day overall.   

Impeccable races were run by Emma Grayson and Paul Jarman who achieved their PB’s with almost even splits and Elspeth ran a great debut marathon in 3h27m.    We also had excellent PB's from Simon, Leo, Nick, James and Jayne as well as no doubt a few others.  Caroline White is also to be congratulated for finishing 46th in her age category in what I believe is her 17th London marathon!
     
In a day of mixed fortunes it seemed some of our runners weren’t on best form, which is disappointing as many people had trained very well for this event and suffered illness the week before or unexpected injury on the day.  Apologies to anyone I have missed out or if I have missed any PB’s – please let me know. 

Virgin London Marathon 22/04/12

97th Tom Aldred 2h36m01s PB
184th Matt Convery 2hr40m36s
190th George Stewart 2h40m54s (26th M40-44)
532nd Simon Nash 2h50m17s PB
561st Katy Webster 2h50m59s (14th F18-39)
642nd Sarah Swinhoe 2h52m41s (5th V40 – V44) PB
714th Paul Jarman 2h54m10s (66th M45-49) PB
1828th Rob Shulman 3h07m54s
1849 James Pickett 3h08m03s
1948th Luke Wynne 3h10m33s
2225th Paul McCrossin 3h11m55s
2340th Gavin Mantle 3h14m24s
2352nd James Hedgman 3hr12m56s PB
3286th Leo Pemberton 3h21m02s PB
3450th Nick De Sausmarez 3h22m27s PB
3467th Matt Fassnidge 3h22m33s
3596th Robin Tremaine 3h23m48s (74th M55-59)
3843rd Ursula Wilson 3h25m38s (92nd F40-44)
4200th Elspeth Storrar 3h27m58s
4566th Emma Grayson 3h29m54s PB
5035th Dominic Jackson 3h32m44s
7185 Claire Thornhill 3h44m45s
7487th Roger Wagland 3h46m17s
9934th Caroline White 3h56m25s (46th F55-59)
10305th Charlotte Pheazey 3h57m37s PB
12006th Ray Yau 4h04m07s
12919th Jayne Sales 4h08m01s PB
12934th Fran Norman 4h08m04s
17807th Kathryn Creaney 4h27m01s
18892nd Sarah Illingworth 4h31m06s
20970th Di Gardiner 4h39m11s
23404th Resi Dzialdow 4h49m05s
27321st Dani Shearing 5h07m41s
27347th Kerry  Hastings 5h07m52s
29826th Carolina Graterol 5h23m22s

London Mini Marathon 22/04/12
Girls Under 13
71st Ottavia Laidler 21m40s
126th Molly Harrison 22m37s
170th Phoebe Crockford 23m41s

Girls Under 15
16th Lucy Carter 19m30s
46th Lily Beckford 20m36s
98th Genevieve Weston 22m29s
128th Xelia Mendes-Jones 23m31s
194th Harriet Mackinney 25m54s

Girls Under 17
21st Yanna Raykov 20m30s
148th Kathleen Jackson 25m10s

Boys Under 13
194th Cameron Mackinney 21m22s
205th Antanas Weston 21m33s

Boys U15
28th James Wooldridge 17m23s
43rd Johnny Naylor 17m41s
84th Max Heap 18m18s
138th Connor O’Shea 19m32s
148th Jasper Crockford 19m47s
221st Filmon Woldermichael 21m55s

Boys U17
47nd Miron Woldermichael 17m20s
91st Daniel Sajna 18m38s
138th Melvin Wachira 19m.38s

Antwerp Marathon 22/04/12
Mark George 3h17m45s

Ally Pally parkrun, 21/04/2012
2 Steve BUTTLING-SMITH 00:20:27
11 Rick BAKER 00:24:33
24 Lyn EVANS 00:27:17

Finsbury parkrun, 21/04/2012
4 Brian HEFFERNAN 00:18:55
13 Carl Andrew HEAP 00:20:26
17 Iva RAYKOV 00:20:32 1st lady
25 Steven T WILLIAMS 00:21:45
55 Ben CLARKE-JANSSEN 00:24:25

Gunpowder parkrun, 21/04/2012
21 Emilia VYNNYCKY 00:23:45

 Hampstead Heath parkrun, 21/04/2012
7 Stuart AMBLIN 00:19:43
35 Andrew SULSTON 00:24:19
41 Bob GOULD 00:24:50
43 Michiko THOMAS 00:25:03

Wormwood Scrubs parkrun, 21/04/2012
1 Daniel MCKEOWN 00:18:16

Watford Open, 18/04/2012
100m
2nd Michael Bense 13.38s (SB)
7 finishers
200m
5th Michael Bense 27.83s
7 finishers
800m
8th Mohamed Mohamed 2:04.41
9 finishers

Watford Minors Meeting, 15/04/2012
Maddy Crockford U9G
75m
4th 14.7s  
6 finishers
400m
8th 1:48.8s
10 finishers
LJ
2nd 2.21m
Out of 8
Phoebe Crockford U13G
100m
6th 18.1s
6 finishers
800m   
13th 3:16.9
15 finishers
LJ
7th 2.92m
Out of 8