SEAA Inter Counties XC & Lee Valley track

South of England Inter Counties Cross Country Championships, Horspath, Oxford         10 Dec

Simon Baker reports 

“ Despite the freezing temperatures there were plenty of great performances in the Southern Inter-Counties race at Oxford on Saturday in particular Amy Kirk's 28th place in what is her first year as an U15 Girl “

U15 Girls (4000m 107 runners)

1st I McGowan (Oxon) 13.16,

 28th Amy Kirk 14.35,

85th Kiara Corkin 15.34.

 Team:- 1st Surrey AA 53 pts,  5th Middlesex AA (MacDonald, Kirk, Panoutsou, Shaw) 110 pts

U17 Men (5000m 99 runners)

1st B Peck (Suffolk) 14.10,

 69th David Baah-Okyere 16.19.

Team 1st Suffolk AA 48 pts, Middlesex AA No Team

Moving on to the Indoor track event at Lee Valley, a number of our Junior athletes produced performances which achieved the national Championship Qualifying standard for their event  ( asterisked below  )

Be Fit Open,   Lee Valley                                       11 Dec

60m Men
R1 H4 3rd Tyree Stephens (U15B) 8.30
R1 H7 4th Miles Cameron (U17M) 7.66 *
R2 H3 1st Tyree Stephens (U15B) 8.15
R2 H6 1st Miles Cameron (U17M) 7.55 PB *

60m Women
R1 H2 1st Lucy Poole (U11G) 10.36
R1 H7 1st Ella Burridge (U17W) 8.29 PB AAA Grade 4 *
R1 H11 7th Martha Jolly (U17W) 8.21 AAA Grade 4 *
R2 H1 1st Lucy Poole (U11G) 10.22
R2 H8 5th Martha Jolly (U17W) 8.22 AAA Grade 4 *
R2 H8 6th Ella Burridge (U17W) 8.38

60mH
R1 H5 1st Gabriel Edwards (U13B) 9.95
R2 H4 1st Gabriel Edwards (U13B) 9.74

200m
H2 3rd Munevver Akesen (U15G) 28.66
H3 1st Ivy Paitoo (U15G) 28.63
H3 2nd Kyra Smith (U15G) 29.06
H8 2nd Magdeline Paitoo (U17W) 26.38 PB New Club Record *
H8 3rd Ella Burridge (U17W) 26.76
H11 4th Helene Kehoe (VW55) 32.07 New Club VW55 Record
H14 1st Gabriel Edwards (U13B) 26.16 PB New Club Record
H15 2nd Malakai David Mackenzie Callum (U15B) 26.24
H15 3rd Tyree Stephens (U15B) 27.16
H16 1st Montana Dennis (U17M) 24.10 PB *
H17 3rd Sam Brown (U17M) 24.12 PB *
H22 4th Chrispin Lema (SM) 34.03

300m
H1 2nd Freddie Burridge (U15B) 44.46

Northern Athletics Indoor open, Sheffield 10Dec

600m

Rachel McDonald                           1m 45.86s

  Dawn to Dusk Winter Ultra                         11 Dec

  Filipe Cardoso found time to fit in a city Ultra in challenging conditions, as he reports below

“ For the 2nd time, I took part in the Dawn to Dusk event organised by the Sikhs in the City Running Club in North East London. You can choose between 10km, 22km, marathon, ultra and team relay ultra. I chose to do the ultra again, where during nearly 8 hours, you try to complete as many 2km loops of a circuit as possible. The conditions were a bit challenging with -2 C at the start and frost on the pavements. For the first couple of laps, my hands were freezing but I warmed up after that. I managed an extra lap this year and matched my 4th place finish. At the end, you didn't have to worry about dinner as you get rewarded with delicious samosas and a chickpea curry to take home.”

4     Filipe Cardoso                         7hr 48m 42s   ( 37 laps x 2km )

 { out of 48 competitors  )

Parkruns

This weeks’s parkruns saw some top finishes, including a double one–two at our local Finsbury Park, respectively for Yann Sevestre 1st 17.13, &  Jonny Forsyth 2nd 17.16, and for Rebecca Piggott  18.31 & Nicola Graham 18.48 ; other notable performances include first place finishes for Jennifer Wing ( Frimley Lodge 21.26 ), Seyfu Jamaal ( Lordship rec  15.21 ), and Chiara Borg ( Pymmes 22.03 ), plus Gareth Creagh 16.44 and James Barnard 17.29 at Burgess

full park run results can be found here

compiled by Mark George, with thanks to contributions from Simon Baker and Filipe Cardoso