Sion Lewis runs for Wales

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This week’s highlights include Sion Lewis representing Wales in the England v Wales 10 International, Pete Crockford picking up a club age group record in Veterans 5-Mile Champs and Rich Macauley running a PB in the same event, and Tony Killilea running a club age group record time in the England 1500 Steeplechase Championships.

Great Birmingham Run, 10k, Sunday May 5

Sion Lewis was selected to represent the Welsh Masters team in the England v Wales 10k international that was incorporated into the Great Birmingham Run on Sunday.

He writes: ‘On an undulating and twisty course I was pretty happy to finish in 25th place in 34:01. The English team proved too strong on the day but I get another chance to beat them in the Half Marathon in Manchester towards the end of May.’

Result

10k

25th Sion Lewis – 34:01

Veterans AC 5 Mile Champs, Battersea Pk, 7 May 

Richard Macauley, running in the V35 category, picked up a fast PB at this five-mile event, finishing in 26:34 while Pete Crockford ran a season’s best time of 36:07, which is new club record.  

3rd  Richard Macauley                   26:34    1st MV35 (PB)

44th  Pete Crockford                       36:07    3rd MV65 (SB)

54thJerome Boughton Mills        40:33    6th MV60     

Kingston AC & Polytechnic Harriers Open, May 1

400m

6th Adrian Day – 66.54 (SB)

England Athletics Steeplechase Festival, Bury St Edmunds, April 28

Tony Killilea picked up a club record in the 1,500 steeplechase on April 28. He writes that the national steeplechase festival is a ‘wonderful idea – but it’s just a pity the weather was cruelly cold, wet and windy at the track without any shelter’. He adds that the officials ‘coped admirably with the conditions’.

Result

1500m steeplechase

Tony Killilea 6:02.29 (club V60 record)

Parkruns

What might be a record number of Heathsiders – 104 in all – participated in 40 Parkruns on Saturday. There were first places for both Kader Seyed (16:40) and Chloe Wilkenson (19:58) in Finsbury Park; Andy Barnes (17:17) in Valentines; Danny O’Reilly (17:54) in St Helen’s, Fred Beale (18:04) in Ally Pally, Meg Naylor (22:04) in Dalby Forest and James Lynch (20:03) in Horseshoe Bay Reserve (20:03). Full Heathside results here

Report by Gavin Evans, with thanks to Sion Lewis, Tony Killilea and Pete Crockford.