YA track & field opener, seaside 10k prizes & more

Sixteen of our most dedicated young (U15) athletes took part in their first track & field fixture of the season on Saturday, coming in just ahead of local rivals Highgate, while many of our seniors were duathling, running round trees or winning team prizes in various bank holiday weekend adventures. The evidence is multi-media-tastic. If your plug-ins don't crash...

Heathside has a thriving youth athlete section thanks to the tireless efforts of our coaches and their support staff, and the U15 and U13 contingent of that section got a chance to take to the tartan and the field for the first fixture of the Youth Development League this past season (our older young athletes are sustaining (in some cases trumping) the efforts of the seniors in the Southern Athletics League)

Four of our U15 Heathside boys, seven U15 girls and five U13 girls turned out in mainly sunny Richmond at St. Mary’s University track on Saturday to rack up 243 match points, finishing 4th out of six teams and one place ahead of rivals and neighbours Highgate. Perhaps Adrian wasn’t joking when he said that the academic venue’s “all pervasive aura of intellectual endeavour and empty beer bottles was an inspiration to us all”.

Across a range of events we managed eight first place finishes, two of which came from Molly in the throws and two from Isayiah in the sprints – congratulations to them but a well done to all the athletes for trying their utmost in as many events as the rules would allow.

Turning our attention for a moment to the tireless efforts of the young athlete coaches and the support crew who spent the day with the young’uns in Richmond, special mentions are due to Peter Snell for relentless work in the field, ably backed up by Suzette and Dominic. Rachel, Kabir and Adrian may have done “boring things with forms” but no forms=no points.

At this stage yet another reminder, but no less sincere for the repetition, that we really do need volunteers to fill these roles – if you can fetch javelins you can help the club score points. If you can help, or think you can/want to help please email Tom Aldred (tomaldred@hotmail.com) or just turn up to the next YDL, on 1 June.

“If you are, or can bring with you some 11, 12, 13 and 14 year old athletes with you all the better,” says Adrian.

Those of us who missed out on the YDL can relive the day’s events via photos available on our Facebook group (will try to move them to Flickr as well, for the non-FBers) and via slow mo action videos on our YouTube channel. It’s multi-media-tastic:

  

(If the embedded player isn't showing up you can see the videos here, and there are more if you dig around our YouTube channel...)
 
Moving on to the Heathside senior ranks Elspeth, Jackie and Barbara scooped a team prize for their combined efforts over a fast, largely flat 10k in sunny Whitstable on Monday, and Leigh was first woman in Torrington AC’s oldest race, a hilly 2.8miler that goes “around THE tree” (guess what the race is called ...). We also had Gavin running a good Richmond Half but finishing 30s short of his PB on what was a warm day for a long race, and second claimers Isobel Rea and Steve Brookes out running quality times.

Parkruns were a popular choice this weekend, with Chris and Ant doing a nice 1-2 in the Finsbury edition, (Chris isn’t down as Heathside in the results, but given that he’s already steeplechased for us in the SAL I’d say it’s a done deal. Hope so.), Rick and Dom a 2-3 at Ally Pally, and Tom shaving more than a minute off his South Manchester parkrun from last week with a blistering 15:49 around Preston Park in Brighton, even though it’s far from his best. I was going to reference the Steve Ovett statue in Preston Park, but apparently that was stolen …

 
Results as follows:

 
Hillingdon Duathlon, Minet Park, Hayes, 05/5/13

25th Jo Irwin 13.35 - 32.23 - 6.32 total 52min20sec (third woman)
26th Gabi Johnson 14.51 - 31.10 - 7.10 total 53min11sec (fourth woman)



Whitstable 10k, 06/5/13:

3rd Martin Potter 43:37
43rd Elspeth Storrar 41:20 (3rd woman)
63rd Jackie Wastell 43:05 (8th woman, 1st FV45)
181st Barbara Tomaszczyk 49:03 (32nd woman, 8th FV45)
325th Steve Woolf 54:14
London Heathside 1st women’s team

Ranelagh Harriers Richmond Half, 5/05/2013
36th   Isobel Rea 84:44
166th Gavin Parish   99:56
(no chip option available)

Bristol 10k, 05/05/2013
63rd    Steve Brookes    33:44

Youth Development League (YDL), Southern North 3 Round 1, Twickenham, St.Mary's Uni., 4/05/2013 

Match result and League Standings

1 Wycombe Phoenix Harriers 519    (6)  
2 St. Marys Richmond AC     496    (5)  
3 Vale of Aylesbury AC      361    (4)
4 London Heathside    243    (3)
5 Highgate Harriers 224   (2)
6 Team Hounslow & St. Marys 183 (1)

U15 Boys

100m A
2 Darnell Plumber            LHS 11.9

100m B
1 Isayiah Boers              LHS 11.9

200m A
2 Darnell Plumber            LHS 25.2                              

200m B
1 Isayiah Boers              LHS 24.9   

300m A
4 Tom Mills                  LHS 49.3

300m B
2 Atlas Turl                 LHS 52.0

800m A
4 Atlas Turl                 LHS 2.42.6

1500m A
4 Tom Mills                  LHS 5.02.7

Javelin Throw A
3 Tom Mills                  LHS 17.09

Javelin Throw B
4 Atlas Turl                 LHS 3.89

Long Jump A
3 Isayiah Boers              LHS 5.32

Long Jump B
1 Darnell Plumber            LHS 5.12

Under 15 Girls

100m A
3 Simone Lawrence            LHS 13.7

100m B
2 Takeisha Barrow            LHS 13.7

200m A
3 Ruth Bah                   LHS 28.8

200m B
5 Takeisha Barrow            LHS 42.3   

800m A
5 Molly Harrison             LHS 3.08.8

800m B
1 Naomi Conlon               LHS 2.41.1

75mH A
4 Takeisha Barrow            LHS 31.6

75mH B
4 Naomi Conlon               LHS 16.9

Javelin Throw A                       Gu15
1 Molly Harrison             LHS 14.08

Javelin Throw B
3 Takeisha Barrow            LHS 7.98

Shot Putt A                          
1 Molly Harrison             LHS 7.42

Shot Putt B                        
3 Simone Lawrence            LHS 4.46   

Long Jump A 
1 Eartha Stasaityte          LHS 4.07

Long Jump B
3 Naomi Conlon               LHS 3.10

High Jump A
5 Ruth Bah                   LHS 1.20

Girls U13

150m A
5 Aaliyah Lakeman            LHS 23.7

150m B
6 Rachel Finke               LHS 25.9

800m A
5 Rachel Finke               LHS 3.12.0

800m B
3 Ella Conlon                LHS 2.58.7

1200m A
4 Phoebe Crockford           LHS 4.38.9

70mH A
4 Aaliyah Lakeman            LHS 15.9

70mH B
1 Ella Conlon                LHS 15.3

Javelin Throw A
4 Kitty Pinder               LHS 6.85

Shot Putt A
4 Kitty Pinder               LHS 3.58

Shot Putt B
4 Aaliyah Lakeman            LHS 3.50

Long Jump A
5 Phoebe Crockford           LHS 3.39

Long Jump B
6 Ella Conlon                LHS 2.61

Girls U13 4x100m
5th Ella Conlon/ Aaliyah Lakeman/ Rachel Finke/ Phoebe Crockford  66.3 1                  

Girls U15 4x100m
3rd  Simone Lawrence/ Naomi Conlon/ Ruth Bah/  Takeisha Barrow  61.0 

Boys U15 4x100m
3rd 53.7       

Round the Tree, Torrington, 03/05/2013, 2.8 miles
1st  woman Leigh James 18:56 

Parkruns

Ally Pally

2 Richard HEWETT 00:19:38
3 Dominic JACKSON 00:19:43
37 Lyn EVANS 00:27:11

Finsbury Park

1 Chris NORRIS 00:16:54
2 Anthony HALL 00:17:30
6 Andrew WELSHMAN 00:18:28
10 Jonathan HOPKIN 00:19:06
18 Sue RUST 00:19:43
24 Daniel SZAJNA 00:20:27
37 Caroline BOYLE 00:22:10
61 Ken TOWNSON 00:23:34
86 C ZACHARIDES 00:25:31
127 Laura BOOTHMAN 00:29:37

Hampstead Heath

34 Andrew Simon CONWAY 00:24:01
54 Bob GOULD 00:25:27

Highbury Fields
5 Daniel MCKEOWN 00:19:33

Preston Park
1 Tom ALDRED 00:15:49
16 Mark DERRY 00:19:35
49 Claire THORNHILL 00:22:01

Pymmes
6 Claire SLIWERSKI 00:24:21

Wanstead Flats
10 Luka MELON 00:19:30

Whitstable
37 Julie KHAN 00:23:53

Compiled by Sue, with thanks to input from Adrian, Steve, Elspeth and Gabi, and apologies for omissions! Remember lheathside@gmail.com for all your race report needs.

Also, please find below some photos from last weekend's SAL fixture in Uxbridge, from our Flickr galleries:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/londonheathsideac/sets/72157633415959534/