A reminder to everyone that the last Finsbury Open Track & Field meeting of the year is on Sunday. Quite a few people from the Tuesday night track group have indicated that they are going to run the 5000m and I would like to encourage people from all of Heathside's training groups to run this -- the more of you are in the race the better you will all run! It's also a good chance for road runners to experiment with middle distance races (or the high jump!)

Full timetable:
http://www.londonheathside.org.uk/competition/open_meetings/24th_August_2008.php

We will switch to using Ally Pally next week (19th). Meet as usual at the club.

The fifth and last round of the Mens Southern Track & Field League takes place this Saturday 2nd August 2008, A team in Kingston and B team in Ipswich.

The A squad is in second place in the Division 3 South going into this fixture and if we win the match we win promotion to Division 2. Our opposition are South London Harriers (hosts), Bracknell (1 point behind us) and Paddock Wood. SLH and Bracknell particularly have a number of useful athletes and are likely to provide a good standard of competition.

A good turn-out is essential to ensure promotion, and a couple of volunteers to help officiate on the day would also be a big help, plus of course anyone who'd like to come and cheer the team on.

Travel to Kingston is via train from Waterloo to Norbiton Station which is about a 10 minute walk from the track (Kingsmeadow Athletics & Fitness Centre, Kingston Road, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 3PB).

Meeting time for athletes is at 11am next to the ticket office at Waterloo.

I will be at Finsbury Park track, Tuesday and Thursday to confirm who's competing, travel arrangements etc. I can be reached on 07968 772792.

Our B team is at Ipswich (Northgate Sports Centre, Sidegate Lane West
IPSWICH, IP4 3DJ). Peter Snell is co-ordinating the B squad along and will also be at the track tonight.

John Flahive
Div 3 South Team Manager


Matchday Timetable (both fixtures)
1.00 Pole Vault
1.00 Shot Putt
1.45 Hammer
2.00 High Jump
2.15 400m Hurdles
2.30 Long Jump
2.35 100m
2.50 800m
3.10 5000m
3.15 Javelin
3.30 400m
3.45 110m Hurdles
4.05 200m
4.30 Triple Jump
4.45 Discus
4.20 1500m
4.40 4 x 100m
5.00 3000m chase

The third round of the LICC is this Saturday at Barnet Copthall:
http://www.runtrackdir.com/details.asp?track=london-he

Th​e timetable is below and includes a mile race for those of you who felt good about Tuesday race at Finsbury Park!

13.00 Hammer
13.00 Pole Vault
13.00 Long Jump
13.00 3000m Walk including Young Athletes 1000m Walk
13.30 400m Hurdles
13.40 800m - All age groups including Young Athletes
14.10 100m - All age groups including Young Athletes
14.15 Triple Jump
14.3O Discus
14.30 High Jump
14.50 400m
15.05 100m Hurdles (W)
15.15 3000m (mixed)
15.35 110m Hurdles (M)
15.45 200m - All age groups including Young Athletes
15.45 Javelin
15.45 Shot
16.15 1 mile - All age groups including Young Athletes
16.30 2000m Steeplechase (M) <- and (W), I assume

As promised, here is a compendium (is that the right word?) of all the Heathside results I know about from the 3 weeks I was away but which haven’t been publicized before. There are also a couple from this week so that I can get a bit ahead of myself, as I will be on holiday next week so won’t be able to send anything out on Monday. As there are an awful lot to fit in I won’t waste any more time with waffle but will move straight on to the results:

Southern League Division 4 North, match 4 (of 5), Luton, 12/7/08:
100 Metres A 4th Emmanuel Adesina 14.3s
B 4th Adrian Essex 13.8s
200 Metres A 4th Emmanuel Adesina 30.6s
B 4th Adrian Essex 29.5s
400 Metres A 4th Emmanuel Adesina 72.0s
B 4th Ben Clarke-Janssen 61.0s
800 Metres A 2nd Tony Killilea 2m 11.8s
B 3rd Ben Clarke-Janssen 2m 47.3s
1500 Metres A 2nd Pete Crockford 5m 03.0s
B 2nd Simon Mackey 5m 14.7s
5000 Metres A 1st Pete Crockford 17m 57.9s
3000 S’Chase A 1st Tony Killilea 11m 22.2s
B 1st Adrian Essex 14m 39.8s
Long Jump A 3rd Simon Mackey 5.10m
B 1st Emmanuel Adesina 4.68m
High Jump A 4th Simon Mackey 1.45m
B 1st Eddie Bayne 1.40m
Triple Jump A 3rd Simon Mackey 10.24m
Shot Put A 4th Eddie Bayne 7.24m
B 4th Ben Clarke-Janssen 5.77m
Discus Throw A 4th Peter Snell 13.85m
B 4th Eddie Bayne 12.36m
Javelin Throw A 3rd Eddie Bayne 25.71m
B 2nd Adrian Essex 20.96m
Hammer Throw A 4th Adrian Essex 13.31m
B 3rd Peter Snell 9.03m
Overall Match Result:
1st Huntingdonshire 175
2nd Luton 135
3rd Biggleswade 110
4th London Heathside 106

Watford Track & Field Open Meeting, Watford, 16/7/08:
200 Metres:
Luke McNally 22.96s
Bill Awere 23.62s
Daniel Aka 23.74s
Jean-Paul Hazeley 24.16s
Sam Brown 25.25s
Remel Wickham 26.65s
1500 Metres:
Jacob Howe 4m 23.44s
3000 Metres:
Pete Crockford 10m 07.33s

Herne Hill Harriers Open Meeting, Tooting, 19/7/08:
100 Metres:
Parise Hinds-Green 14.20s
200 Metres:
Parise Hinds-Green 29.06s

High Wycombe Half Marathon, High Wycombe, 20/7/08:
37th Gavin Evans 84m 57s
54th Matt Dumenill 88m 22s
258th Susie Brighton 1h 45m 06s
260th Andrew Dawson 1h 45m 13s

National Young Athletes League Southern Div 2 London, match 4 (of 4), Kingston, 20/7/08:
Under 17 Men:
100 Metres A 2nd Luke McNally 11.8s
B 5th Eden Confino 13.2s
n/s Edward Kargbo 13.0s
n/s Jonathan John 13.1s
200 Metres A 1st Luke McNally 23.3s
B 3rd Edward Kargbo 25.5s
400 Metres A 3rd Siam Simpson 55.9s
800 Metres A 3rd Jonathan John 2m 14.1s
B 2nd Siam Simpson 2m 16.8s
n/s President Opoke 2m 44.2s
High Jump A 1st Luke McNally 1.60m
B 1st Eden Confino 1.57m
4x100 Relay 3rd 47.6s
4x400 Relay 2nd 3m 48.6s
Under 15 Boys:
100 Metres A 4th Mervin Reebye 13.7s
B 4th Jeremy Nelson 14.4s
200 Metres A 4th Mervin Reebye 26.7s
B 3rd Jeremy Nelson 28.7s
1500 Metres A 2nd Jamie Armstrong 5m 29.8s
Long Jump A 3rd Jeremy Nelson 4.72m
B 4th Mervin Reebye 4.02m
High Jump A 5th Alex Economou 1.35m
B 2nd Jamie Armstrong 1.30m
Under 13 Boys:
100 Metres A 1st Colin Kpodonu 14.5s
B 2nd Wale Olatunji 15.2s
n/s Tawfeeq Amode 18.8s
200 Metres A 2nd Tokunbah Johnson 29.5s
B 1st Anton Johnson-Smith 30.1s
800 Metres A 4th Aidan Ishock 2m 49.2s
B 4th Tokunbah Johnson 2m 55.5s
1500 Metres A 4th Callum Jackson 6m 08.3s
75M Hurdles A 2nd Colin Kpodonu 14.3s
B 1st Anton Johnson-Smith 14.8s
4x100 Relay 1st 55.4s
Long Jump A 5th Callum Jackson 3.70m
B 4th Tawfeeq Amode 3.28m
High Jump A 3rd Wale Olatunji 1.30m
B 1st Colin Kpodonu 1.25m
Shot Put A 2nd Aidan Ishock 7.97m
B 1st Tokunbah Johnson 6.96m
Under 17 Women:
100 Metres A 1st Nicky Famodun 13.5s
200 Metres A 1st Nicky Famodun 27.6s
High Jump A 2nd Nicky Famodun 1.35m
Under 15 Girls:
100 Metres A 3rd Rani Lewinson 14.3s
B 3rd Giovanna Southwell 15.2s
800 Metres A 3rd Lottie Sorbie 2m 42.8s
Long Jump A 4th Giovanna Southwell 3.83m
High Jump A 4th Rani Lewinson 1.25m
B 2nd Giovanna Southwell 1.25m
Shot Putt A 3rd Lottie Sorbie 4.29m
Discus Throw A 3rd Rani Lewinson 15.72m
Under 13 Girls:
75 Metres A 4th Deborah Famodun 11.7s
150 Metres A 3rd Deborah Famodun 23.2s
800 Metres A 2nd Kathleen Jackson 2m 56.4s
1200 Metres A 4th Jade O’Brien 5m 06.2s
B 3rd Rhiannon Bassett 5m 19.0s
70 Hurdles A 2nd Jade O’Brien 14.2s
B 3rd Kathleen Jackson 15.7s
4x100 Relay 3rd 63.7s
Long Jump A 4th Deborah Famodun 3.07m
B 3rd Ellie Jackson 3.01m
High Jump A 4th Jade O’Brien 1.15m
Shot Put A 2nd Ellie Jackson 4.25m
Overall Match Result:
1st Kingston & Poly 588
2nd South London 549
3rd Hercules Wimbledon 348
4th London Heathside 277.5
5th Highgate 237.5

Woodford Green Open Meeting, Woodford, 23/7/08:
1500 Metres:
Pete Crockford 4m 57.05s

Last Friday Of The Month 5K Road Race, Hyde Park, 25/7/08:
9th Julian Ferraro 16m 57s (3rd V40)

Under 23 Multi-Events International, Ashford (Kent), 26-7/7/08:
Decathlon:
6th Ricardo Beckford
100 Metres 10.94s
Long Jump 7.12m
Shot Put 10.22m
High Jump 1.92m
400 Metres 50.67s
110 Hurdles 14.37m
Discus Throw 32.84m
Pole Vault 3.80m
Javelin Throw 43.76m
1500 Metres 4m 28.21s

Total Score 6993 points

Trent Park 5K Handicap, Trent Park, 26/7/08:
6th Henry Andrews 19m 16s
19th Chris Neophytu 20m 37s

London Inter-Club Challenge, match 3 (of 4), Copthall, 26/7/08:
100 Metres: Moses Arthur 10.84s
Bill Awere 11.65s
Jean-Paul Hazeley 11.67s
Majid Noori 12.05s
Cardelle Fenton 12.35s
Remel Wickham 12.75s
Jayed Mayes 13.09s
Mervin Reebye 13.42s
President Opoke 13.48s
Rani Lewinson 14.12s
Emmanuel Lewinson 14.38s
200 Metres: Bill Awere 23.41s
Daniel Aka 23.71s
Jean-Paul Hazeley 24.01s
Colin Robertson 24.28s
Majid Noori 24.72s
Mervin Reebye 26.53s
President Opoke 27.10s
Remel Wickham 27.25s
Daniel Ishack 27.98s
Rani Lewinson 28.79s
Wale Olatunji 28.84s
Emmanuel Lewinson 31.85s
400 Metres: Adrain Essex 64.77s
800 Metres: Sian Simpson 2m 12.0s
Jonathan John 2m 13.6s
1 Mile: Paul Lemmon 4m 51.03s
400M Hurdles: Israel Nworgu 58.93s
Daniel Aka 61.48s
High Jump: Wale Olatunji 1.45m
Adrian Essex 1.30m
Shot Put: Aidan Ishack 7.91m
Eddie Bayne 6.97m
Daniel Ishack 6.31m
Peter Snell 5.92m
Discus Throw: Aidan Ishack 20.13m
Eddie Bayne 17.53m
Peter Snell 16.84m
Javelin Throw: Eddie Bayne 26.33m
Peter Snell 18.32m
Hammer Throw: Adrian Essex 18.20m
Overall Match Result (Men):
1st London Heathside 124
2nd Shaftesbury Barnet 118
3rd= Woodford Green 88
3rd= Enfield & Haringey 88
5th Highgate 47
6th Barnet 22
Overall Match Result (Women):
1st Woodford Green 118
2nd Shaftesbury Barnet 81
3rd London Heathside 30
4th Barnet 27
5th Enfield & Haringey 24
6th Highgate 20

Southern Under 13 Inter Counties Champs, Kingston, 27/7/08:
Girls:
100 Metres: 4th B Parise Hinds-Green 13.77s
200 Metres: 9th A Parise Hinds-Green 28.17s
Boys:
100 Metres: 3rd n/s Colin Kpodonu 13.68s

Harlow 10 Mile Road Race, Harlow, 27/7/08:
9th Richard Browne 59m 06s
31st Ken Heney 63m 46s
44th Dominic Ross 65m 32s
67th Mark Derry 68m 53s
132nd Karen Levene 76m 50s
145th Fiona Holland 77m 42s
248th Charles Verrall 86m 47s
310th Resi Dzialdow 93m 12s
376th Marilyn St Hilaire 1h 40m 20s

Watford Track & Field Open Meeting, Watford, 30/7/08:
400 Metres:
Matthew Bates 58.37s
800 Metres:
Jacob Howe 2m 06.80s
3000 Metres:
Fiona Holland 12m 06.61s

Southern League Division 4 North, match 5 (of 5), 2/8/08:
Overall Match Result (individual event results not yet known):
1st Huntingdonshire 199
2nd West Suffolk & Diss 170
3rd London Heathside 55
4th London AC 34
Final League Table:
1st Huntingdonshire 30 868.5
2nd Queens Park 27 754
3rd West Suffolk & Diss 27 753
7th London Heathside 16 378

Indian Queens Half Marathon, Cornwall, 3/8/08:
22nd Pete Crockford 81m 51s (2nd V50)

Civil Service Track & Field Champs, Solihull, 13/8/08:
800 Metres: 5th Tony Killilea 2m 13.9s
1500 Metres: 7th Tony Killilea 4m 45.7s

Watford Track & Field Open Meeting, Watford, 13/8/08:
100 Metres:
Luke McNally 11.30s
Mohamed Mohamed 12.38s
Colin Robertson 12.44s
Remel Wickham 12.60s
Eden Confino 12.73s
Nicky Famodun 13.03s
Rani Lewinson 14.40s
Deborah Famodun 15.04s
200 Metres:
Luke McNally 23.03s
Bill Awere 23.59s
Colin Robertson 24.81s
Mohamed Mohamed 25.75s
Eden Confino 26.64s
Remel Wickham 26.66s
Nicky Famodun 26.90s
Natalie McQueen 28.47s
1500 Metres:
Jacob Howe 4m 28.80s
Pete Crockford 4m 57.09s
Hammer Throw:
Peter Snell 15.08m

Due to me working in Brussels I haven't been able to do my usual results e-mails for the last couple of weeks, so I will have a lot to catch up on when I get back to London next week! I have just about got time to list the detailed results from Saturday however along with the final league table. John has already described the events of the afternoon in his mail, so I will just say thanks to everyone for turning up on the day, espceially to Kabir and the Weston family who did the officiating so that we could concentrate on competing. Special congratulations to Bill who got a deserved PB from a very gutsy 400M run, to Richard for his excellently judged 5000 Metres and to Lanre and Ricardo for their fight to the death in the last event of the day, the Discus, which Lanre took with the final throw of the competition due to his having a longer 2nd best throw. One final point, you will see that despite us winning 20 of the 36 events on the day, we are still complete rubbish at the Hammer! Surely there must be a couple of you out there who fancy learning how to throw the thing over the winter and thus becoming vital members of the team in Div 2 next year? Full results as follows:

Southern League Div 3 South, match 5 (of 5), Kingston, 2/8/08:

100 Metres A 1st Moses Arthur 11.0s
B 1st Luke McNally 11.3s
n/s Jean-Paul Hazeley 11.8s
200 Metres A 1st Moses Arthur 22.1s
B 1st Luke McNally 23.1s
400 Metres A 1st Bill Awere 53.0s (PB)
B 2nd Nathan Cyrus 57.7s
n/s Mohamed Mohamed 58.8s
800 Metres A 3rd Jacob Howe 2m 07.5s
B 3rd John Flahive 2m 09.1s
1500 Metres A 3rd John Flahive 4m 29.5s
B 3rd Jacob Howe 4m 37.2s
5000 Metres A 2nd Richard Browne 16m 42.0s
B 1st Julian Ferraro 16m 53.1s
110 Hurdles A 1st Ricardo Beckford 15.5s
B 2nd Adam Zeniou 20.2s
400 Hurdles A 1st Israel Nworgu 63.1s
B 1st Didier Sorel 65.1s
3000M Chase A 1st Paul Lemmon 10m 53.1s
B 1st John Flahive 11m 00.8s
4x100 Relay 1st Lanre, Moses, Ricardo, Luke 44.0s
4x400 Relay 2nd Bill, Adam, Sian Simpson, Jonathan John 3m 41.0s
n/s Mohamed, Daniel Aka, Nathan, Jacob 3m 51.9s
Long Jump A 2nd Ibrahim Idoniboye 6.10m
B 2nd Emmanuelis Stasaitis 5.92m
High Jump A 1st Lanre Ali-Balogun 1.80m
B 1st Luke McNally 1.60m
Triple Jump A 1st Lanre Ali-Balogun 13.74m
B 2nd Emmanuelis Stasaitis 12.13m
Pole Vault A 3rd Nathan Cyrus 3.00m
B 1st Didier Sorel 2.80m
Shot Put A 1st Lanre Ali-Balogun 11.81m
B 1st Adam Zeniou 10.18m
Discus Throw A 1st Lanre Ali-Balogun 36.78m
B 1st Ricardo Beckford 36.78m
Javelin Throw A 3rd Ricardo Beckford 39.95m
B 2nd Nathan Cyrus 38.92m
Hammer Throw A 4th Jacob Howe 17.42m
B 4th Russell Weston 14.43m

Final Match Result:
1st London Heathside 118
2nd Bracknell 101.5
3rd South London 80.5
4th Paddock Wood 56

Final League Table (top 7 of 16):
1st St Mary's Richmond 20 563.5
2nd London Heathside 19 537.5
3rd Ealing 17 526
4th Bracknell 17 497.5
5th Blackheath 14 482
6th South London 14 447
7th Eastbourne 14 432.5

By the way, the B team finished 3rd in their final match and ended up 7th in Div 4 North. More details of that one next week all being well.

London Heathside’s Senior Men’s track team has secured promotion to Division 2 of the Southern League on Saturday with a win in the final fixture at Kingston. We went into the fixture knowing that a win would take us up and we had an excellent turnout with 22 athletes contributing to our point’s total. The strong turnout was very necessary as promotion rivals Bracknell A.C. came with a strong squad. South London Harriers and Paddock Wood also fielded some strong competitors, making it possibly the highest standard match of the season.

Several events were of an unusually high standard for the division, particularly the closely contested Pole Vault where three athletes went over 3 metres including Heathside’s Nathan Cyrus who had to settle for third in 3.10 but Didier Sorel won the B-string in 2.80. Ricardo Beckford and Nathan threw well in the Javelin only to come up against an exceptional opponent throwing over 50m.

For most of the day it was a nail-bitingly close contest with little more than a couple of points to spare between ourselves and Bracknell, our superiority in the sprints (fine double wins from Moses Arthur and Luke McNally) being balanced by their superiority in middle distance. A double first in the shot (Lanre Ali-Balogun and Adam Zeniou) was offset by Bracknell’s strong hammer throwing in by far our weakest event.

We shared the spoils in the 110m Hurdles, 1st A-string (Ricardo Beckford being in a class of his own) 2nd B-string to their 2nd A-string and 1st B-string. Likewise in the 400m where Bill Awere won the 400m with a finely judged run in a PB of 53.00.

We had double wins in the 400H (Israel Nworgu and Didier Sorel) and Long Jump (Ibrahim Idoniboye and Emmanuelis Stasiatis) to their double seconds and also gained two points in the 5000m where Richard Browne unusually won his a sprint finish with Julian Ferraro not far behind with a big gap on his rival. Thus we began to edge very slightly ahead.

It wasn’t until near the end of the day when double wins in the triple jump (Lanre and Emmaunelis) and 3000m steeplechase (Paul Lemmon and I still holding back the years) where Bracknell struggled in last positions that we opened up a decisive lead.

Final overall match scores were;-
London Heathside 118
Bracknell 101.50
South London Harriers 80.5
Paddock Wood 56

More detailed match statistics will follow shortly.

As team manager I’d like to thank all the athletes, volunteer officials and coaches, for their season long effort. In a Division where only 2 teams get promoted even contributions that might seem modest really mattered. Just a handful of points were the difference between promotion and staying put in Division 3. Thus this was a genuine team achievement.


Best regards

John Flahive
Men’s Team Manager

A fantastic turn out last night saw 36 heathsiders take on the scary prospect of running a mile on the track. The results were

Men

1 Paul McCrossin 5.14.5
2 Steve Monaghan 5.15.9
3 Ahmed Jamaa 5.23.8
4 Gavin Evans 5.24.4
5 Mark Derry 5.27.4
6 Henry Andrews 5.28.3
7 Mark George 5.31.7
8 Jim Hodges 5.37.1
9 Matt Crole-Rees 5.38.7
10 Dave newman 5.41.8
11 Stuart Carcary 5.45.4
12 Ric Hewitt 5.47.4
13 Russel Weston 5.48.5
14 Carl Heap 5.50.5
15 Dieter Perry 5.51.1
16 Dave Browne 5.52.6
17 Jeff Powell 5.57.0
18 Roy McDowell 6.02.7
19 Simon Patten 6.03.4
20 Iranda 6.08.3
21 Andy Dawson 6.12.2
22 Max Heap (u 12) 6.28.0
23 Norbert Reed 6.36.9
24 Ric Baker 6.48.2
25 Sumi Ghose 7.14.4
26 Simon Clarkson 7.16.1
27 Arthur Keitsch 7.20.6


Women

1 Jackie Watt 6.01.7
2 Fiona Holland 6.12.2
3 Emma Humphrey 6.13.0
4 Karen Levene 6.26.0
5 Michele French 6.28.3
6 Emma Bloomfield 6.52.6
7 Marie Shannon 7.25.2
8 Marilyn St Hilaire 7.28.2
9 Claire Holgate 7.28.5

Well done to all and many thanks to Ruth , John F and Jacob who helped out on the night. Round 2 is on Sept 2nd.