Wins for Beth Hawling and Tom Archer, as Heathsiders take the plunge in the Met league 3 at Uxbridge
Many Heathsiders travelled to the other side of London last Saturday to take part in the latest exciting instalment of the Met league, featuring a ski slope, a near a vertical hill and of course, THAT river crossing, all done twice.
Simon Baker sent in the following report from the scene:
A glorious day greeted runners for the last Club race of the year at Uxbridge. Despite the North Circular being shut there was another strong turnout of Heathsiders. The course had been re-orientated with the start and finish in the field closest to the A40. However the course still incorporated the old ski slope and river crossing (U15 and above).
There were wins for the Vet Mens team and U13 Girls, the Junior Men were 2nd and Junior Women 3rd as were both Senior Mens and Womens teams. Individually Beth Hawling made it 3 wins out of 3 with Thomas Archer the 1st U20 Man. Tom Aldred was 2nd V40 Man and Kiara Corkin was 3rd U13 G. Age Group 3rd places also went to Martin Potter (V50), Mark Jefford (V55), Carl Heap (V65), Tanya Addison (VW50) and Caroline White (VW60).
The Club still sit in 1st place in the Senior Women's standings and 4th for the Senior Mens. The Juniors maintained their 2nd place overall although SBH closed the gap.
Senior Report
The race quickly became a tussle between Beth and Hannah Viner of Highgate. The lead changed several times before Beth fresh from her 20th place in Liverpool pulled away to take the win with a healthy 20s margin. There was over 1 and half minutes before the third runner crossed the line. Our Senior Womens team was a little depleted with Highgate and TVH packing well; the next Heathsider home was Evangelista Divetain in 13th with Lily Woolcock next in 21st. Emily Reichert and Shannon Sinclair supported each other to finish together in 33rd and 34th place with the A team completed by Ciera Kennedy in 38th. Jenifer and Anne unfortunately were victims of injuries caused by rocks on the river bed we wish them both speedy recoveries. So the Women teams run of Met League victories comes to an end but they remain in prime position for the overall team title with closest rivals VP&TH losing positions.
The Men's race saw a bumper field with Highgate were utterly dominant in the race having 6 finishers in the top 10. Thomas Archer leading the Heathside Challenge despite a full dip in the river and his 8th place saw him as the 1st U20 and showing last weeks race was just a blip, this was also despite falling headfirst in the river. Tom Aldred again was 2nd Heathsider home in 13th place. A minute later Henry Cochrane crossed the line with Matthew Rallinson next in 33rd place. The rest of the scoring team of Charles hardy, Francesco Melloni, Christopher Gracie, Billy Cochrane, Conor Brown, Tom Fancett and Jamie Morris safely secured 3rd place and closed the gap in the overall title positions a little. The Vet team did even better winning their race and more importantly now just sit 1 point behind leaders Trent Park in the overall standings.
Junior Report
After last week’s freezing conditions the Juniors had almost perfect racing conditions although many running the course for the first time found the ski slope a rather challenging obstacle however once negotiated the rest of the course offered soft firm ground.
The U11 Boys kicked things off with our leading Boy Rory Willis producing a solid run to finish 4th, Alex and Kymani followed him home to finish in 8th place the team being penalised for not being able to field a full 4 scorers. The U11 Girls were also depleted with only one representative debutant Tamara Pushpanathan.
The U13 Boys also disappointingly only had 1 runner with Issac Walker running gallantly to finish 37th. In comparison we had enough U13 Girls to field 2 teams. Coach Ruith has really created a supportive team environment and that was seen in a pretty dominant display to secure the Juniors first team win of the season. Kiara, although leading at half way was picked off by her close rivals Posie Shaw of (SBH) and Jorja March (Barnet) over the closing places to finish 3rd. Behind her Amy Kirk ran a measured race to come in 4th. The ever dependable Lettice Gundry followed in 10th with Caitlin Roberts in 12th to secure a convincing team win. Behind them the girls ran as a group supporting each other finishing between 21st and 26th places.
The Junior Men were the first to negotiate the River crossing which attracts an audience to add to the pressure of negotiating the water and steep banks on either side. As a result the U17's dominated this race. Bedo Draskozy ran well to secure 6th place just ahead of former Heathsider Spike Blake. Roni Kizilkaya was 13th and Janak Subberwal 18th and Luke Pike completed the scoring team which secured 2nd place overall. The Junior Womens race was the opposite with the top places dominated by the U15s. Our U15 Girls were without the Watkins sisters but were led by Hattie Munday in 13th place and Ruby Walls just behind in 14th. maia Hampton Philips and Mia Rosen were next in 24th and 25th places to see the team finish in 3rd on count back.
Finally, in case anyone wants to relive the river crossing, here’s are a couple of links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PObtK5bjKaI&t=6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2KHHaVVDCc
Met league 3 – Uxbridge, 11th December 2021
U11 Boys 2000m 39 runners
1st J Hayward (ESM) 7:21
4th Rory Willis 7.40
22nd Alexander Rankin 8:52
33rd Kymani Galliard 9:49
Team:- 1st ESM 107 pts, 8th London Heathside 59 pts
Overall:- 1st ESM 369 pts, 2nd London Heathside 284 pts, 3rd SBH 246 pts, 12th London Heathside B 74 pts
U11 Girls 2000m 27 runners
1st Q Bookless (Cookham) 8:02
23rd Tamara Pushpananthan 10:39
Team:- 1st WG&EL 85 pts, 14th London Heathside 4 pts
Overall:- 1st WG&EL 293 pts, 8th London Heathside 82 pts
U13 Boys 3000m 46 runners
1st D Jeffs (SMR) 11:24
37th Issac Walker 14:54
Team:- 1st SBH 153 pts, 16th London Heathside 10 pts
Overall:- 1st SBH 425 pts, 5th London Heathside 196 pts, 20th London Heathside B 9 pts
U13 Girls 3000m 39 Runners
1st P Shaw (SBH) 12:25
3rd Kiara Corkin 12:37
4th Amy Kirk 13:05
10th Lettice Gundry 13:47
12th Caitlin Roberts 13:51
21st Lila Blustin 14:35
23rd Maya Westgate 14:47
25th Ivy Gray 14:53
26th Elkie Baker 14:54
37th Lucy Ryan 16:42
Team:- 1st London Heathside 131 pts, 6th London Heathside B 65 pts
Overall:- 1st London Heathside 431 pts, 2nd WG&EL 419 pts, 5th London Heathside B 240 pts
Junior Men 5000m 79 runners
1st A Hamud (SBH) 12:56
6th Bedo Draskoczy 13:55
15th Roni Kizilkaya 14:42
18th Janak Subberwal 14:45
26th Luke Pike 15:27
37th Michael Smith 15:56
42nd Gregory Berrisford Sweet 16:10 (16th U15)
72nd Amarin Preka 17:35
74th Artie Feeny-Willings 17:41 (39th U15)
Team:- 1st SBH 280 pts, 2nd London Heathside 255 pts, 15th London Heathside B 97 pts
Overall:- 1st SBH 961 pts, 5th London Heathside 773 pta, 14th London Heathside B 384 pts, 29th London Heathside C 23 pts
Junior Women 5000m 56 runners
1st A Svihalkova (U15) (TVH) 15:22
13th hattie Munday 16:24 (10th U15)
14th Ruby Walls 16:34 (11th U15)
24th Maia Hampton Phillips 17:17
25th Mia Rosen 17:25 (17th U15)
42nd Tess Walker 19:08
46th Ella Mai Hancock 19:31 (33rd U15)
50th Libby Judd Hawkes 20:51 (36th U15)
52nd Maddison Frawley 21:43 (37th U15)
Team:- 1st TVH 193 pts, 2nd Cookham 152 pts, 3rd London Heathside 152 pts, 15th London Heathside B 38 pts
Overall:- 1st TVH 524 pts, 2nd London Heathside 495 pts, 17th London Heathside B 120 pts
Senior Women, 8,000m 182 runners
1 Beth Hawling 28:44 A
13 Evangelista Divetain 31:59 A
21 Lily Woolcock 33:25 A
33 Shannon Sinclair 34:14 A
34 Emily Reichert (V40) 34:15 A (Vet A)
38 Ciera Kennedy 34:41 A
47 Sara Garcia 35:29 B
52 Genevieve Weston 35:46 B
59 Eilidh Wagstaff 36:09 B
70 Laura Hunt 36:57 B
77 Tanya Addison (V50) 37:47 B (Vet A) 3rd V50
93 Annabel Judd (V50) 39:42 B (Vet A)
103 Yanna Raykov 40:25 C
107 Rose Garrett (U20) 40:50 C (5th U20)
109 Caroline White (V60):40:58 C (Vet A)
110 Kimberli Butler 41:02 C
115 Jaqueline Wastell (V60) 41:30 C (Vet B)
120 Ann Woulfe (V40) 41:59 (Vet B)
123 Jo Irwin (V50) 42:16 (Vet B)
162 Emilia Vynnycky (V50) 48:11 (Vet B)
166 Marianne Gibson (IV50) 48:44 (Vet C)
Team:
Div 1:- 1st TVH 368 pts, 2nd Highgate Harriers 329 pts, 3rd London Heathside 291 pts, 9th London Heathside B 148 pts
Overall 1st London Heathside 1018 pts, 2nd VP&TH 867 pts, 7th London Heathside B 530 pts
Div 2:- 1st ESM 729 pts, 4th London Heathside C 115 pts
Overall:- 1st ESM 192 pts, 4th London Heathside C 599 pts
Vet Div1:- 1st VP&TH 98 pts, 6th London Heathside 79 pts, 12th London Heathside B 24 pts
Overall:- 1st VP&TH 335 pts, 4th London Heathside 79 pts, 12th London Heathside B 24 pts
Vet Div 2:- 1st Hillingdon B, 8th London Heathside C 3 pts
Overall:- 1st VP&TH B 141 pts, 8th London Heathside C 32 pts
Senior Men 8,100m 375 runners
1st J Allen (Highgate) 25:21
8 Thomas Archer (U20) 26:37 A (1st U20M)
13 Tom Aldred (V40) 26:55 A (Vet A) 2nd V40
28 Henry Cochrane 27:52 A
33 Matthew Rallison 28:01 A
49 Charles Hardy 28:46 A
56 Francesco Melloni 29:04 A
76 Christopher Gracie 29:41 A
88 Billy Cochrane 29:54 A
91 Conor Brown 30:16 A
104 Tom Fancett 30:42 A
112 Joseph Cochrane 31:04 A
126 Jamie Morris 31:25 A (Vet A)
132 Jake Spencer 31:33 B
140 Oliver Negus 31:51 B
141 Martin Potter (V50) 31:52 B (Vet A) 3rd V50
153 Alex Sweet (V40) 32:20 B (Vet A)
157 Mark Jefford (V55) 32:27 B (Vet A) 3rd V55
160 Nathan Tipping 32:33 B
165 Paul Mercer (V45) 32:46 B (Vet A)
172 Leonard Martin 33:08 B
173 Edward Garrett (V45) 33:11 B (Vet B)
187 Chris Hartley (V55) 33:45 B (Vet B)
196 Joel Northcott (V40) 34:03 C (Vet B)
205 Andrew Wooding 34:15 C
207 Liam Hazelton 34:19 C
210 Philip Hogg (V50) 34:24 C (Vet B)
218 Kwasi Agyei-Owusu (V40) 34:41 C (Vet B)
226 Lee Connor (V50) 35:05 C (Vet B)
227 Stephen Topp (V45) 35:07 C (Vet C)
240 Mark George (V50) 35:45 C (Vet C)
254 Kris Milovsorov 36:04 C
256 Pete Crockford (V60) 36:14 C (Vet C)
265 Tom Bedwell (V40) 36:33 (Vet C)
275 Leo Pemberton (V40) 36:56 (Vet C)
282 Matt Beard (V50) 37:10 (Vet C)
287 David Hallam (V50) 37:23
300 Joel Hawes 38:08
343 Marco Maserati (V60) 40:43
353 Ian Whisson (V60) 42:01
359 Deng Akol 43:49
367 Carl Heap (V65) 44:52 3rd V65
Team:-
Div 1:- 1st Highgate harriers 1542 pts, 2nd VP&TH 1386 pts, 3rd London Heathside 1148 pts
Overall:- 1st Highgate Harriers 4641 pts, 4th London Heathside 3148 pts
Div 2:- 1st Harrow 975 pts, 4th London Heathside B 714 pts, L5th London Heathside C 456 pts
Overall:- Harrow 3431 pts, 2nd London Heathside B 2559 pts, 7th London Heathside C 1677 pts
Vet Div 1:- 1st London Heathside 368 pts, 6th London Heathside B 227 pts, 10th London Heathside C 1677 pts
Overall:- 1st Trent Park 1110 pts, 2nd London Heathside 1109 pts, 4th London Heathside B 790 pts, 10th London Heathside C 440 pts
Howard Williams Trophy (Junior)
1st WG&EL 99.5 pts (8 wins), 2nd London Heathside (1 win) 92 pts, 3rd SBH 89 pts (4 wind)
Howard Williams Trophy (Senior)
1st Highgate Harriers 48 pts (1 win), 2nd VP&TH 48 pts, 3rd London Heathside 47 pts (1 win)
Report by Simon Baker.
Photos from Ruth Milller, Caroline White
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