London Heathside

[Paul Lemmon]

After 2 weeks where Cross Country was to the fore, this weekend, for the seniors at least, it was a road race that took precedence with the first event of this year’s club championships, the Watford Half Marathon. A good number of Heathsiders turned out on a cold, breezy and dull Sunday morning to take part and it was unsurprisingly Mehretab who led them home with an excellent debut over the distance gaining him 3rd place. Ken and Gavin also had good runs to make the top 50 overall while Robin also had a good result within his age group. As for the women it was Jules who took the Heathside honours, with Emma and Ursula close behind, though Susie had led all of them for the first half of the race. Despite the hilliness of the course there were several PBs achieved, apologies if anyone else did one that I didn’t know about. Unfortunately the organizers managed to make an even worse mess of the team results than last year (when they didn’t give our women a team prize because they thought Jaimie was a man). This time they just didn’t bother to list the club name at all for most of the runners, which almost certainly cost our men either 2nd or 3rd place. The other effect of it was that I may well have missed several Heathsiders in the below results, as in most cases I just had to try and recognize names. Thanks to everyone who helped me by emailing to say they had run and apologies to anyone who I have still missed out.

The previous day the young athletes had rather better weather for their Cross Country race at Copthall. We had at least 2 runners in 6 of the 8 races and there were some very good performances, although none of the teams quite managed to make the top 3 on the day. There was very little to choose between the performances of several of the runners, but I think this time I’d award the run of the day prize to Miron narrowly from Genevieve and Jessica. Results of these and other events as follows:

Finsbury Park 5k Parkrun, Finsbury Park, 6/2/10:
10th Steve Williams 21m 06s

North West London Young Athletes Cross Country League, race 4 of 5, Barnet Copthall, 6/2/10:
Under 11 Girls (1960m):
9th Jessica Godden 9m 51s
18th Phoebe Crockford 11m 08s
19th Nicole Bowen 11m 32s

Under 13 Girls (2360m):
7th Genevieve Weston 11m 58s
15th Harriet Mackinney 12m 43s
20th Ellen Bolger 13m 10s

Under 15 Girls (3050m):
5th Kathleen Jackson 16m 41s
9th Ellen Jackson 17m 44s

Under 11 Boys (2360m):
14th Cameron Mackinney 11m 59s
18th Jan Hellebo 13m 01s
21st Tom O’Shea 13m 42s

Under 13 Boys (3050m):
12th Jasper Crockford 15m 13s
20th Luc Hohmann 16m 35s

Under 15 Boys (3750m)
7th Miron Woldemichael 17m 04s
10th Jordan Tompkins 17m 28s
20th Callum Jackson 20m 05s

Watford Half Marathon, Watford, 7/2/10:
3rd Mehretab Solomon 68m 15s (PB, club U20 record)
25th Ken Heney 78m 01s
40th Gavin Evans 81m 27s (7th V40)
103rd Dominic Jackson 85m 47s (PB)
118th Trevor Wilson 87m 07s
125th Robin Tremaine 87m 42s (6th V50)
161st Graham Bell 89m 05s
198th Mark George 90m 35s
243rd Matt Fassnidge 92m 42s
260th Jules Weall 93m 22s
284th Carl Heap 94m 25s
346th Emma Grayson 96m 02s
371st Ursula Wilson 96m 41s
378th Rick Hewett 96m 55s
407th Ray Yau 96m 33s
465th Susie Brighton 99m 07s
624th Joanne Irwin 1h 42m 45s (PB)
681st Alexandra Czerniewska 1h 44m 04s
784th Simon Clarkson 1h 45m 58s (PB)
995th Gabi Johnson 1h 50m 43s (PB)
1295th Justine Turner 1h 57m 21s
1735th Resi Dzialdow 2h 17m 23s

1846 finishers in all

Mornington Chaser’s winter 10k Series, Regent’s Park, 7/2/10:
43rd Stuart Carcary 41m 28s
110th Martin Hill 45m 53s

[Paul Lemmon]

The club name has now been added to all the results for the Watford Half, and it turns out that I missed 4 Heathsiders. Here rea their results now:

164th Constantinos Stavrianakis 89m 09s
252nd Emma Humphrey 93m 09s
733rd Ruth Forbes 1h 44m 49s
1737th Kerry Hastings 2h 16m 36s