8:10am Thursday 2nd September 2010
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 park run, while Philip’s performance showed how variable the quality of the park runs 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 to 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
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