Great North, Duathlon, Big Half and Last Friday of the month

Two half marathons and the Hampstead Heath duathlon made for an exciting racing weekend for many Heathsiders. Other race results can also be found in the report below.

Big Half, London 07.09.25

Here's Gavin Evan’s report:

“Sam Macaulay and Rebecca Piggott were the first of the 46 Heathside men and women in the Big Half, both finishing in 15th place in their gender categories. Sam’s time was 1:07:54 and Rebecca’s 1:21:10.

The race (which covers part of the London Marathon course, run backwards) involved nearly 25,000 finishers who ran in unusually hot and humid conditions, with the temperature reaching 27 degrees. Runners were warned several times not to go for PBs.

Among the 30 Heathside men, Sam was followed by Tsegay Behane in 1:10:52, Barry Kelly in 1:11:32 and Andy Barnes in 1:12:26.

Among the 16 Heathside women Rebecca was followed by Monica Newton, who was the second V45, in 1:26:31, Tatyana Potiyenko in 1;34:42 and Emily Eldred in 1:40:24.

In addition to Monica, age group top 3 places went to Rob Shulman (running under his son’s name) was unofficially the second V55 in 1:23:41 and Matt Beard was officially the third V55 in 1:24:18. Gavin Evans was the 2nd V65 in 1:31:49.”

Results

15th Sam Macaulay 1:07:54

26th Tsegay Behane – 1:10:52

55th Barry Kelly – 1:11:32

46th Andy Barnes – 1:12:26

87th Arthur Hawkes – 1:15:01

128th Peter Gould – 1:17:02

186th Sammy Keenan – 1:18:55

262nd Jose Sabroso – 1:20:24

268th Kazuya Saito – 1:20:34

293rd Rebecca Piggott – 1:21:10 (15th W)

400th Bart Etcheverry – 1:22:56

452nd Daniel Taylor (Rob Shulman) – 1:23:41 (unofficially 3rd V55)

496th Matt Beard – 1:24:18 (3rd V55)

653rd Monica Newton – 1:26:31 (2nd V45 W) PB

682nd Alexander Carr – 1:26:54

700th Scott Coller – 1:27:12

778th Harry Owrid – 1:27:49

886th Kevin Mciver – 1:28:35

1204th Tom Watts – 1:31:24

1142nd Gavin Evans - -1:31:49 (2nd V65)

1280th Oliver Hilton – 1:32:41

1508th Tim Chapman – 1:33:41

1546th Matthew Humphreys – 1:33:58

1640th Tatyana OPotiyenko – 1:34:42

2434th Dave Mann – 1:39:25

2666th Emily Eldred – 1:40:24

2781st Claire Sng – 1:41:26

2783rd Gareth Creagh – 1:41:26

2870th Annabel Judd – 1:41:57

2889th Glenn Taylor – 1:42:07

3493rd Kim Butler – 1:45:06

3541st Jim Connell – 1:45:21

3607th Martha Murray – 1:45:40

3634th Alvaro Robledo Vega – 1:45:46

3828th Ania Borowsha-Sonmez – 1:46:50

4065th Philippe Kane – 1:47:55

4129th Georgios Kousouris – 1:48:08

4213rd Ella Inwald – 1:48:34

6162nd Amanda Masarati – 1:56:59

6526th Obafemi Ogunkola – 1:58:16

7422nd Salman Adam – 2:01:46

9655th Stephen Crowley – 2:11:03

11009th Lucie Knights – 2:17:41

11523rd Sue Eedle – 2:20:15

11768th Stephen Murnane 2:21:32

12585th Caroline McGraw – 2:25:53

Great North Run, Newcastle, 07.09.25

Eight Heathsiders ventured further afield to take part in the iconic Great North Run, the largest half marathon in the world. Seyfu was the first Heathsider coming in 10th place in 1.04, with Kader Seyed not far behind in 45th place.

10th Seyfu Jamaal                       01:04:06           

45th Kader Seyed                       01:11:46           

989th Andrew Mcgeary            01:25:54           

2827th Stephen topp                 01:33:41           

2228th Jack Da Silva                   01:44:56           

6650th Jess Critchlow                01:45:21           

11110th Francesca Stocco       02:02:05           

28885th Marianne Gibson        02:02:45

Hampstead Heath Pondathon, Hampstead Heath, 07.09.25

It took a bit of detective work to find the Heathside  participants in the Hampstead Heath Duathlon.  I may well have missed out some results.

And here is a report from Filipe Cardoso: “I’m just sending in a race report for this year’s Hampstead Heath Duathlon aka Pondathon.

The event consists of swimming at the lido and the 3 ponds, as well as running between them.

It was a glorious sunny morning this Sunday in Hampstead Heath, where for another year some Heathsiders took part in the Pondathon.

This year the organiser’s decided to change the wave system at the lido by starting with the fastest group, then the slowest, then the 2nd slowest, 3rd slowest and so on.

I started on the penultimate (10th) wave which meant that by the time I started, the fastest group had already finished. However, this also meant that I always had people ahead of me leading the way. This was useful as the last time I raced the event, I missed the final turn and took longer routes than I had to in the ponds. I finished with a PB time of 39:40.”

 Results

47th Filipe Cardoso 39.40

67th Patrick McHugh 40.34

79th Lenny Martin 41.15

105th Katie Belkin 42.37

186th Renata Moriconi 47.02

225th Rick Hewett 48.40

235th David Ingamells 49.06

317th Cindy Berman 53.11

339th Afiya Rufaro 54.14

Last Friday of the Month 5k, Hyde Park,

Five Heathsiders took place in this race last week. Isaac Edwards led the pack home coming in in second place overall

Results

2nd       Isaac Edwards  16:26    SM       

33rd     Matthew Beard             18:45    V55       (1st V55)

63rd     Mark Jefford                  20:10    V60      

79th     Mark George                 20:51    V55       (3rd V55)

80th     Leo Pemberton             20:52    V45      

Highgate Harriers Late Season Open, Parliament Hill, 3.9.25

100m

R1 H5 2nd Cosmo Miller (U15B) 12.26s

R2 H4 4th Cosmo Miller (U15B) 12.23s

400m

H1 1st Artie Feeny Willings (U20M) 61.83s PB

H1 4th Adrian Day (V65) 67.35s

H2 5th Ben Ryan (U20M) 63.61s

1500m

H1 3rd Rose Schofield (U17W) 5:31.15

H2 5th Hugo Cox (V50) 4:59.17 PB

H2 9th George Graham 5:24.41

H2 10th Lila Blustin (U17W) 5:27.06

H2 12th Ruby Walls (U20W) 5:57.60

H4 2nd Christopher Gracie (V35) 4:15.79

H4 5th Richard Macaulay (V40) 4:17.17

H4 11th Alex Kirk (U15B) 4:30.93

3000m

H1 2nd Chris Hartley (V60) 10:55.27

H1 3rd Jonathan Litchfield (V50) 11:21.17

H1 8th Sky Parke-Antonis (U15G) 12:32.74

H2 1st Wayne Morley (V35) 9:26.35

H2 7th Rebecca Piggott (V35) 9:57.51 PB

H2 8th Ennio Kaloukian (U15B) 9:58.24

H3 3rd Barry Kelly 8:46.38 PB

H3 7th Ben Hampshire 8:56.69 PB

H3 10th Tom Aldred (V45) 8:59.96

H3 11th James Hurrell (V35) 9:02.23

Long Jump

5th Skye Murray (U15G) 3.54m

Shot (5Kg)

3rd Robin Hardy (V60) 8.46m PB

Shot (3kg)

6th Skye Murray (U15G) 6.28m

Discus (1Kg) 

1st Elkie Baker (U17W) 39.63m

3rd Robin Hardy (V60) 31.33m  

Be Fit Today Track Academy. Lee Valley 30.08.25

4th Walid Saleh 100m 15.17

Watford Open, Watford 3.9.25

3000m

H1 18th Charlie Nicolson (U15B) 8:54.77 PB NCR (previously held by Koppany Szentes with 9:34.18) Charlie is now ranked 5th U15B in UK

BMC Regional Races, Gillinham,06.09.25

800 m

1st Ben                            Hampshire        M          SEN                     1:59.64

2nd Dylan         Mills                    M          U17                     2:01.14

5th Richard       Macaulay          M          V40                     2:00.71

6th Tam             Mergia               M          U17                     2:09.89

LGN Wellbeing Property 5K, Regents Park, 04.09.25

Monika Newton was delighted to get a PB in this 5K in Regent’s Park during the week.

20th Monika Newton 19.06 PB

Parkruns

120 Heathside runners took part in a parkrun this week. Congratulations for first places go to Tom Livermore (Finsbury Park), Fred Beale (Conkers parkrun), Federica de Caria (Gunpowder parkrun), Katie Brown (Fountains Abbey parkrun), Annabel Litchfield (The Old Showfield parkrun), Emma Simpson (Sharpham Road playing fields parkrun) and Ula Cartright-Finch (Bug Hunter waters parkrun).  Full results can be found here

Compiled by Caroline White with thanks for contributions from Gavin Evans, Filipe Cardoso, Simon Baker and photos from Hannah Yip