Michael Cattini stormed to victory as he won the Middlesex County 10Km title this morning at Victoria Park in a swift 31:24! Jack Whitebury (34:04) and Tejus Hirani also ran strongly (35.26) – not sure if there were team titles at stake but well done all!
Also featuring well at the Ealing Half Marathon today, was Terry Mackin who ran 79:25 for the 13.1 miles and this a week after winning the tough Moor Park 10Km in a shade under 38 minutes. Issy Jones had great run to finish in 92:21 with dad Nick not far behind in 1:42:05. Tim Allman ran 1:43:43, Graham’s time is unknown and Bruno was pacing at the 2:20 mark!
Saturday was the turn of the younger athletes in the seasons opening NWLL fixture held at Horsenden Hill – thankfully dryer and warmer conditions greeted the athletes after the challenges of the previous week and Thursday! Results just posted.
Very warm weather greeted the senior teams for the afternoon road relay races at Aldershot yesterday although I think our junior athletes had somewhat wetter conditions to cope with in the morning.
Our senior mens team was somewhat weaker than last year but we did field a masters V60 team which placed 5th in a time which would have won last years event! Mark Cursons ran the overall quickest v60 time of the day by 2 seconds so hopefully a medal will eventually arrive in the post.
In the junior races we fielded a U17 womens team of Amae, Sian and Annabelle who placed 20th and a foundation to build upon for the balance of the winter season 😉
In the U17 mens race Luca and Samuel were short of a runner to complete their team so hopefully we can improve there and well done Luca for being just 10s adrift of his excellent track 3Km time with 9:55.
We had 2 teams in the U15 girls with some strong performances resulting in positions of 21st and 39th – well done Katie, Beth, Nilou, Grace, Millie and Lara!
Thanks to Nick, Louise, Hazel and Issy for their support and helping with the photography!
Following a pause in news reports following the global cyber incident last month, below is a selection of recent news events sent to me during that time and congratulations to all the athletes concerned!
Nia Wedderburn-Goodison booked her place in the final of the World U20 championships held in Peru last week. Team captain Nia clocked 11.39 to qualify joint fastest. Nia placed an agonising 4t in the final in a time of 11.46.
At the other end of the age scale super vet Mark Cursons was in Sweden last month for the World Masters event where he also finished 4th in the final of the 5,000m with 17:16.
Another masters athlete still going strong was Chris Finill who won the British Masters M65 2Km steeplechase title at Derby in late July with 8.08!
Finally some very late results from the last few months which included the following very notable performances –
Sunday saw Harrow athletes travel to Woodford for round 2 of the league where the weather certainly tried to play its part on the proceedings! Harrow finished second on the day to a resurgent TVH and there’s a good report of the match on the NAL website here with team manager Tony Bush’s team report below.
Harrow’s NAL team finished second in the Woodford NAL on Sunday 7 July to set up a mouth-watering finale with TVH at Birmingham’s Commonwealth Games Stadium on Saturday 3 August. Eleven withdrawals (injury, illness, car accident, flight delay) in the last week ravaged the team and made it impossible to repeat the victory at Eton.
The men’s team won at Woodford by 27 points from TVH, headed by fantastic field event results. Victories by Conor (javelin PB, 66.57), Tayo (B HJ), Joe (B PV), Chuko (B TJ), Zac (B shot), and Kane (B discus) were backed up by great results elsewhere. There were superb track results also, headed by Terry’s 2000m S/C win with a PB of 5.56.63.. There were also B string wins for Michael (400) and John (3k).
The women’s team was hit hard by the withdrawals but still finished second on the day. Joy won the 200 with an impressive legal PB of 23.46, while Marli took the sprint hurdles with a fast 13.45. Joy and Marli later teamed up with Hilary and Susan to set a new Club record of 45.63 for the sprint relay, which is also the fastest Club time in the UK this year. There were also B string wins for Ioana in the 400 and Suzie in the 800. The mixed relay team of Alex, Poppy, Connor and Rachel, who is in the Irish 4 x 400 team for Paris, set a new Club record of 3.25.60.
