Watford Open, YDL and imminent SAL

A fair number of Heathsiders kicked off their summer on the track at Watford. Lily ran a PB in the 100, while everyone else plumped for the 1500. Particularly impressive were Ni'ia in her club track debut, and Tony comprehensively demolishing the club V50 1500m record.

We also have results from the previous weekend in the YDL, which sounds like some sort of dreadful right-wing organisation but is actually the Youth Development League. There were lots of personal and season's bests - hopefully they'll continue throughout the summer.

Track and field alert! Our second SAL fixture is this weekend in Cambridgeand we need everyone we can get. That does include you, whatever your standard! If you've ever had to sprint for the bus, leap over a ravine, or even throw a large-ish tortoise over some distance (for whatever reason), we can find an event for you to take part in.

Keep your eye on our Facebook page or email lheathside@gmail.com for details.

Other races

Ed Samuel scored first place at the London Spring 10K in Regents Park. As Ed's margin of victory was around two minutes, I'm guessing he didn't leave his winning move to the final couple of kilometres. We also have a result for Tom Ashby in the Geneva Marathon, where he made it round inside 3h10.

Elsewhere, Emerson and Monika did the 52-mile Malvern Hills Ultra. "We would have finished about 4 hours quicker but kept stopping to take photos as the scenery was so spectacular," said Emerson in an email noticeably lacking any photographic attachments whatsoever.

Results

London Spring 10K,  Regents Park, 10 May
1 Ed Samuel 35:05


Watford Open, 7 May

100m Race 3

4     111     Lily Beckford    U20F    12.69 (PB)

1500m Race 4

12    238     Leigh James    SW    05:07.81

1500m Race 6

5     305     Sue Rust     SW    04:49.78

1500m Race 7

4     236     Jacob Howe     M40     04:44.65

1500m Race 8

10    304     Tony Killilea    M50     04:41.77

12    237     Ni'ia Hothersall     SW    04:43.72


Malvern Hills Ultra (52 miles),  3 May 2014
54= Emerson Paul 13h37m
54= Monika Thaler 13h37m
Geneva Marathon96  ASHBY Tom 03:09:12


UK Youth Development U13/U15 League Division Southern North 3
Mile End, 3 May 14

75 U13W A4 Aaliyah Lakeman11.46SB 75 U13W B3Missy Macdonald11.29 PB 100 U15M A5Peter Onuba12.72 PB 150 U13W A3 Aaliyah Lakeman22.67PB 800 U15M A4  Charlie Swash2:18.90PB 800 U15W A5 Meg Naylor2:47.87 PB 800 U13W B3 Missy Macdonald3:06.32 PB
 HJ U13M A1 Rocco Lofinmakin-dutta1.26 PB HJ U15W A5 Meg Naylor1.15 PB LJ U13M A4 Rocco Lofinmakin-dutta3.72 PB LJ U13W A3 Aaliyah Lakeman3.59 SB LJ U13W B2 Missy Macdonald3.58 PBSP4K U15M A2 Peter Onuba11.92 PB SP3K U15W A6 Rachel Finke5.23 PB SP3K U15W B6 Louise Gilbert4.07 PB DT1K U15W A6 Phoebe Crockford11.19 PB DT1K U15W B6 Rachel Finke9.10 PB JT600 U15M A5 Peter Onuba18.38 PB JT500 U15W A4 Phoebe Crockford14.58 PB JT500 U15W B2 Lily McKay10.69 PB 

And finally
This week's parkrun results