Put your sun tans away, it will soon be time to brave the elements over the coming months and get stuck in to some winter work! Interval training sessions will start from the Royal Free Recreation Club on Wednesday September 22nd and at Trent Park on Saturday Sept 25th (subject to confirmation on the date of the St Albans Relays). As per normal interval sessions continue throughout the year at Finsbury Park Track each Tuesday.

Hope to see you there.

A message from Kabir:

ISLE OF WIGHT FELL RACES - VENTNOR

18th/19th September 2010

Many Heathsiders have enjoyed these races over the years including Andy Owen, Andy Welshman, David Browne, John Flahive, Kabir Kemp, Ken Townson and Jackie Watt.

There are 3 scenic races over 2 days :

Saturday 18th 11.00am
The St. Boniface Fell 3miles 775 feet ascent

Saturday 18th 3.00pm
The Ventnor Horseshoe 7M 1500 feet ascent

Sunday 19th 10.30am
The Wroxall Round 13miles 1500 feet ascent

I recommend you join us for some great countryside on the fantastic Isle Of Wight.

You can run one, two or all three races. The choice is yours.

Non-runners, walkers and families are welcome.

Check out the scenery at www.rydeharriers.co.uk Go to the Ryde Harriers Photo Album - Fell Series.

There is also a map of Ventnor, which is on the south east coast. OS grid ref. SZ 564774

Venue and Registration :

The race HQ is located at The Winter Gardens on Shore Hill - a hop, skip and jump from the beach. Registration from 9.30am.

Minimum Age for race 1 - 14 years
races 2&3 - 18 years

NB : There is no upper age limit.

Accommodation -

Isle Of Wight Tourism : 01983 813818

General enquiries, race and course information :

Chris Lewis 01983 857339

e-mail races@rydeharriers.co.uk
​website www.rydeharriers.co.uk
Tr​avel www.wightlink.co.uk

Lond​on Heathside contact :

Kabir Kemp : Home - 020 8368 9382
Mobile - 07515 280173
email - kabirkemp@googlemail.com
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I am looking forward to an excellent weekend in almost always sunny Ventnor.

I hope many of you can make it,

Kabir

Due to days getting shorter this will be our last chance to have an off-road session. This last "session" of the season will take the form of a mixed ability relay (teams of two) in the vicinty of the paddock car park at the bottom of Ally Pally. Teams will be sorted out on the night. No prizes just glory! Meet at the Harringay Club as usual to depart at 7.30 pm for the 10 mins warm-up jog to the start.

Barbara

The second to last Southern Women's League match takes place on Saturday, 7 August at Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath. That's right, Parliament Hill. Nice and local, so you can pop on by at your leisure and ... take part!

We're up against four teams: Highgate Harriers, Woking, Southend and Andover.

The match kicks off at noon, and as always, it would be great to have as many ladies participating as possible. If you're interested, get in touch with Kabir (07515 280173) or myself (07810 352290). I'll wrap up with my usual comment: it's fun!

Cheers,

Sue

The Bank Holiday led to it being a quiet weekend for Heathside’s adults, with the most notable feature being the number of different simultaneous 5k races our members managed to take part in on Saturday morning without any 2 of them being at the same venue! Alex was the most successful with a win at his local parkrun, while Philip’s performance showed how variable the quality of the parkruns can be as he ran faster than last week but finished 5 places lower. Meanwhile I was running twice the distance on the track in probably the most competitive 10000 Metres I’ve ever run in. Sadly the officials didn’t match the standard of the runners however, as at least 2 people were told they had finished when they still had a lap to go. The timing was hopeless too as the electronic timing didn’t work and the hand-timings seemed to be little better than quesswork. I certainly ran at least 1.5 seconds quicker than the time they gave me and everyone else I spoke too felt they had been similarly hard done by. Earlier in the week 4 of us had travelled up to Watford in horrible conditions on Wednesday evening. Mark and Alan bore the brunt of the bad weather for their race, while John and I ran 30-40 minutes later when it had stopped raining. Only John took advantage however with an excellent run.

10 of our youngsters competed in the end of season Young Athletes meeting at Newham on Sunday and most of them came home with at least 1 medal after some excellent performances. Yohannes was perhaps the most successful with 2 PBs, one of which got him a club age group record in the Javelin. Colin also had a good all round day and wasn’t far off the club Discus record. Amongst the Girls Deborah sprinted well and Xelia ran an excellent 800 though she wasn’t at her best in the Javelin, while Selam almost matched her brother with a club record, narrowly missing out in the Discus. Results as follows:

Watford Track & Field Open Meeting, Watford, 25/08/10:
1500 Metres:
John Flahive 4m 26.16s
Paul Lemmon 4m 37.33s
Mark George 5m 22.11s
Alan Dickson 5m 30.18s

Grovelands 5k parkrun, Grovelands Park (Southgate), 28/08/10:
1st Alex Macaulay 17m 05s

Hackney Marshes 5k parkrun, Hackney Marshes, 28/08/10:
6th Philip Bentley 18m 15s

Brighton & Hove 5k parkrun, Hove Park, 28/08/10:
36th Mark Derry 20m 24s

Finsbury Park 5k parkrun, Finsbury Park, 28/08/10:
53rd Regina Pereira 29m 56s

Lancaster 5k Road Race, Lancaster, 28/08/10:
33rd Mark George 19m 46s

Herne Hill Harriers Open Track & Field Meeting, Tooting, 28/08/10:
10000 Metres:
8th Paul Lemmon 35m 09.1s

Newham & Essex Beagles Young Athletes Track & Field Meeting, Plaistow, 29/08/10:
Under 13 Boys:
800 Metres:
3rd Yohannes Asefa 2m 49.20s (PB)
Discus:
2nd Yohannes Asefa 17.13m
Javelin:
2nd Yohannes Asefa 26.26m (PB, club U13 record)

Under 13 Girls:
100 Metres:
5th in ht Kaya Birch-Skerritt 16.86s
Long Jump:
6th Kaya Birch-Skerritt 3.50m

Under 15 Boys:
100 Metres:
2nd in ht Colin Kpodonu 13.13s
200 Metres:
5th Colin Kpodonu 26.53s
Discus:
3rd Colin Kpodonu 26.40m

Under 15 Girls:
100 Metres:
3rd Deborah Famodun 14.03s
5th Rebecca Shaw 15.64s
200 Metres:
3rd Deborah Famodun 28.80s
7th Selam Asefa 35.70s
800 Metres:
1st Xelia Mendes-Jones 2m 37.80s
Discus:
3rd Selam Asefa 17.31m
Javelin:
2nd Xelia Mendes-Jones 19.60m
4th Sommer Birch-Skerritt 17.35m
6th Selam Asefa 14.39m

Under 17 Men:
100 Metres:
4th in ht Jordan Tompkins 12.12s
5th in ht Daumantas Dulius 13.08s
200 Metres:
3rd Jordan Tompkins 26.17s
4th Daumantas Dulius 26.25s

Under 20 Men:
Javelin:
1st Ashley Baynes 31.50m

Due to the lack of track & field events it was a relatively quiet week for Heathside with only about 20 people racing, but it was still a successful time for us as Heathsiders won not just 1 but 2 of the local parkruns, while we also had 4 finishers in the top 50 of the Burnham Beeches Half Marathon. Pride of place goes to Liam as he was 15 seconds quicker (and rather more than 15 years older!) than our other parkrun winner Philip, while Ricardo also had an excellent run to lead home the team in the Half. As I wasn’t actually present for any of the races there isn’t any more I can add, so for once I’ll get straight on to the results. Here they are:

Finsbury Park 5k parkrun, Finsbury Park, 21/08/10:
1st Liam Proudlock 18m 03s
4th Gavin Evans 19m 07s
9th Mark George 20m 56s
20th Joanne Irwin 22m 38s
26th Caroline White 23m 09s
51st Adrian Essex 26m 56s

Hackney Marshes 5k parkrun, Hackney Marshes, 21/08/10:
1st Philip Bentley 18m 18s

South Manchester 5k parkrun, Fallowfield (Manchester), 21/08/10:
55th Ben Clarke-Janssen 23m 53s

Burnham Beeches Half Marathon, Farnham Common (Bucks), 22/08/10:
19th Ricardo Suarez-Lee 77m 53s
31st George Stewart 80m 42s
39th Ken Heney 81m 55s
48th Gavin Evans 83m 26s
105th Jo Green 89m 47s
164th Paddy O’Brien 94m 49s
249th Carl Heap 99m 57s
483rd Sandra Buckton 1h 53m 20s
583rd Claire Sliwerski 1h 57m 39s
672nd Resi Dzialdow 2h 04m 48s

Runners Quest Ufdance Half Marathon, hackney Marshes, 22/08/10:
?th Simon Clarkson 1h 43m 24s (PB)

There were 2 major meetings with several Heathsiders competing over the weekend, but before I move on to them I’ll just do a quick roundup of some previously unreported earlier events. Last weekend Martin and Jackie both won their age category and weren’t far off overall victories in a hilly 5 mile race through Epping Forest, while on Wednesday Tony not only won his age category but also beat all the youngsters in the Civil Service Champs Steeplechase. Then on Saturday morning Leigh continued her excellent season with another PB in the 10k over at Victoria Park.

The first main event however was the final LICC match of the summer at Parliament Hill. The weather was cool and still, so good for the middle distance runners but less so for the sprinters, so it was no surprise that 2 of the best Heathside performances came from Joe and John in the 800 Metres, with Joe running an even paced race to smash his PB while John hung on behind him for his best run of the year. There were also good performances from Bill, Mohamed, Jordan, James and Miron amongst others, though the star has to be Xelia who smashed her own club record by 5 metres in the Javelin. In the BMC 1500 Metres race which also took place at Parliament Hill that afternoon, Mehretab had his best race of the season to run what I think was a PB and only narrowly miss the club record.

Then on Sunday 6 Heathsiders went down to Kent to compete for Middlesex in the Southern Inter Counties match. Conditions now were totally different, dry and bright but very breezy, and as the wind was behind the sprinters it was they who were the happy ones this time. Nicky slaughtered her PBs with terrific runs in both sprint events, though as the wind was over the legal limit for both (only narrowly in the case of the 200) they won’t officially count towards rankings etc. Both were just outside the Heathside club records, but as she doesn’t turn 17 until later this week there is still plenty of time for her to achieve those. Sue also managed a PB despite the wind and had an excellent run to finish 2nd overall, beating the A strings of all the other counties and only losing to her own Middlesex teammate. Both Nicky and Sue also ran strong relay legs and helped Middlesex to a close 2nd place behind the hosts Kent in the women’s match. Both for Middlesex and for the Heathsiders the men’s match was rather more mixed. Israel and I were happy to both set season’s bests but Nathan was less successful in both of his events. Several other events were lacking Middlesex competitors so Kabir, who was only intending to be there to watch and support, ended up making his County debut in the Walk! Despite such heroics however Middlesex only managed 6th place in the men’s match and this led to 4th place in the combined competition. Results of the above and some other events as follows:

Orion Forest 5 Mile multi-terrain race, Epping Forest, 07/08/10:
2nd Martin Potter 28m 06s (1st V40)
53rd Jackie Wastell 35m 28s (5th woman, 1st V45)

Self-Transcendence 5k Road Race, Battersea Park, 09/08/10:
19th Steve Monaghan 17m 22s (2nd V40)

Civil Service Track & Field Championships, Eton, 11/08/10:
3000M Steeplechase:
1st Tony Killilea 11m 25.8s

Rosenheim League Final + Open Track Meeting, Tooting, 11/08/10:
Men:
1500 Metres:
3rd Paul Lemmon 4m 34.08s
Women:
1500 Metres:
1st Sue Rust 4m 55.93s
3000 Metres:
1st Sue Rust 10m 48.72s

Finsbury Park 5k parkrun, Finsbury Park, 14/08/10:
17th Emilia Vynnycky 22m 33s (2nd woman, 1st V40)

Brighton 5k parkrun, Hove Park, 14/08/10:
17th Mark Derry 19m 19s

Pride Run 10k Road Race, Victoria Park, 14/08/10:
44th Leigh James 39m 31s (PB, 2nd woman)

British Milers Club Regional Meeting, Parliament Hill, 14/08/10:
1500 Metres:
2nd Mehretab Solomon 3m 56.63s

London Inter-Club Challenge, match 4 (of 4), Parliament Hill, 14/08/10:
Men/Boys:
100 Metres:
Bill Awere 11.76s
Jean-Paul Hazeley 11.88s
Jordan Tompkins 12.28s
Colin Kpodonu 12.93s
Ben Clarke-Janssen 15.51s
200 Metres:
Bill Awere 23.6s
Mohamed Mohamed 24.7s
Jean-Paul Hazeley 26.3s
400 Metres:
Mohamed Mohamed 54.41s
Mike Abrahams 66.00s
800 Metres:
Joe Silva 2m 05.22s (PB)
John Flahive 2m 09.15s
James Wooldridge 2m 25.6s
Johnny Naylor 2m 43.51s
Ben Clarke-Janssen 2m 56.60s
3000 Metres:
Miron Woldemichael 10m 38.50s
Alex Beattie-Child 11m 06.27s
Javelin:
Nathan Cyrus 37.14m
Hammer:
Ben Clarke-Janssen 11.83m
Girls:
800 Metres:
Xelia Mendes-Jones 2m 41.85s
Javelin:
Xelia Mendes-Jones 24.85m (club U15 record)

Southern Inter-Counties Track & Field Championships, Ashford (Kent), 15/08/10:
Men:
110M Hurdles A:
4th Israel Nworgu 15.87s
3000M Chase B:
4th Paul Lemmon 10m 53.11s
3000M Walk B:
3rd Kabir Kemp 24m 24.02s
Triple Jump A:
6th Nathan Cyrus 11.34m
Javelin A:
7th Nathan Cyrus 36.66m
Women:
100 Metres B:
1st Nicky Famodun 12.65s (PB)
200 Metres B:
2nd Nicky Famodun 25.95s (PB)
800 Metres B:
1st Sue Rust 2m 18.17s (PB)
4x100 Relay:
4th Middlesex (incl. Nicky) 50.79s
4x400 Relay:
1st Middlesex (incl. Sue) 4m 01.03s

A terrific team performance by Heathside’s women on Saturday led to them winning their 4th Southern League fixture by the narrowest possible margin of half a point, with the added bonus that they are now 1 place and 1 point above Highgate in the league! A turnout of 14 athletes, easily their best since rejoining the league a couple of years ago, made covering all the events (apart from the Pole Vault anyway) relatively easy, but in a hard fought fixture with 4 evenly matched teams more than just taking part was required. There were a couple of setbacks, usually due to people doing events for the first time and not quite understanding the rules, and because of that Heathside were in 2nd place, just behind Woking, for much of the match. With just the relays to go however the gap was down to 1.5 points, so as long as Heathside beat Woking in both of them the result would be victory. After the dominance of Nicky and Lennicia in the individual sprint events the 4 x 100 was really only a case of getting the baton round, which thankfully they did. The 4 x 400 was a very different matter however, but thanks to a brave 1st leg from Natalie, who had earlier had to drop out of the individual event with an injury, a stunning 2nd leg at way over her normal distance from Nicky and an excellent 3rd leg at way under her usual distance from Jaimie, Sue was given the baton with a decent lead. She was up against the individual 400m winner from Woking however and by the final bend the gap was just a couple of metres. We needn’t have worried though as she sprinted off the bend to hold on by nearly a second to confirm the victory. With so many excellent performances it is difficult to single a few out for special praise, but I will anyway! Sue ran a PB in the 800 and her 2nd fastest time ever in the 1500 to dominate the middle distances, while Jaimie’s victory was never in doubt in the 3000. Rani showed huge promise in the Discus and Long Jump and also got valuable points for the team in the 400 Hurdles, while Jennifer and Joanna, both on their Heathside debut, performed excellently in a variety of Field Events, highlighted by their double first in the Shot. MVP however must be Nicky with 3 individual wins and 2 great relay legs to finish things off. The next step for the team is to get equally good turnouts and performances when the match isn’t at Parliament Hill. The final match this season is at Peterborough on September 4th and a good performance there would suggest that promotion next season would be a reasonable target.

Apart from that it was a relatively quiet weekend for the club. 3 of our youngsters gained Middlesex vests at the Southern Inter Counties match and, although they found the competition a big step up from league events, they will have gained a lot from the experience. Elsewhere Liam came a close 2nd in the local parkrun while, in a late result from last weekend, Ken unbelievably managed to complete a hilly 13 Mile race in a perfectly decent time only a week after his Ironman! On the subject of Triathlons I know there were a couple of Heathsiders doing the London one yesterday, but as the results page on the event website isn’t working I’m afraid I have no idea how they got on. The results I do have are as follows:

Milland Valley 13 Mile Trail Race, Liss (Hampshire), 01/08/10:
8th Ken Heney 91m 12s

Finsbury Park 5k parkrun, Finsbury Park, 07/08/10:
2nd Liam Proudlock 17m 42s
21st Barbara Tomaszczyk 24m 14s
35th Steve Woolf 27m 06s

Brighton 5k parkrun, Hove Park, 07/08/10:
18th Mark Derry 19m 44s

Regents Park 10k Road Race, Regents Park, 07/08/10:
21st Andrew Budgen 38m 58s
59th Neil Kimberley 43m 15s

Women’s Southern League Senior Division 3, match 4 (of 5), Parliament Hill, 07/08/10:
100 Metres A 1st Nicky Famodun 13.0s
B 1st Lennicia Tuitt 13.5s
200 Metres A 1st Nicky Famodun 26.6s
B 2nd Lennicia Tuitt 29.1s
400 Metres A 4th Almudena Garcia 74.2s
B DNF Natalie McQueen
800 Metres A 1st Sue Rust 2m 19.8s
B 4th Almudena Garcia 2m 47.9s
1500 Metres A 1st Sue Rust 4m 52.0s
B 2nd Susie Brighton 5m 59.1s
3000 Metres A 1st Jaimie Hunter 10m 52.5s
B 2nd Felicity Smith 11m 44.1s
100 Hurdles A DQ Nicky Famodun
B 2nd Joanna Banham 22.6s
400 Hurdles A 3rd Natalie McQueen 77.0s
B 2nd Rani Lewinson 94.2s
4x100 Relay 1st Rani, Natalie, Lennicia, Nicky 53.7s
4x400 Relay 1st Natalie, Nicky, Jaimie, Sue 4m 25.7s
Long Jump A 2nd Rani Lewinson 4.18m
B 2nd Joanna Banham 3.45m
High Jump A 1st Nicky Famodun 1.35m
B 2nd Joanna Banham 1.20m
Triple Jump A 4th Joanna Banham 7.43m
B 3rd Almudena Garcia 6.05m
Shot Put A 1st Jennifer Iwueke 8.22m
B 1st Joanna Banham 7.26m
Discus A 2nd Rani Lewinson 19.85m
B 3rd Nadia Martin 13.95m
Javelin A 3rd Meaza Neguse 12.23m
B 3rd Tiya Bekele 10.13m
Hammer A 3rd Sue Rust 14.25m
B NM Jennifer Iwueke

Overall Match Result:
1st London Heathside 86
2nd Woking 85.5
3rd Highgate/Barnet 73
4th Andover 60.5

Current League Table (top 5 + selected others of 19):
1st Exeter 398 14
2nd Thurrock 363 15
3rd Woking 339 12
4th Watford 296 9
5th Vale of Aylesbury 287 11
14th London Heathside 227 8
15th Highgate/Barnet 226 7

Under 17 Southern Inter Counties Championships, Stevenage, 08/08/10:
800 Metres A 8th Joe Silva 2m 08.9s
1500 Metres B 5th Jordan Tompkins 4m 59.6s
3000 Metres B 6th Miron Woldemichael 10m 55.1s
Shot Put B 6th Jordan Tompkins 8.07m