Posts from — October 2012

Great runs came from Hillingdon AC in the Great South Run on Sunday 28 October. HAC Member & Olympian Julia Bleasdale  was ninth in the ten-mile women’s race in 55: 35 minutes, departing from her normal 10K or 5K in a major event, although her Olympian team mate Jo Pavey won in 53 minutes with a clear lead.

There were 20, 000 runners or so in this high profile race in Portsmouth and Hillingdon club runners certainly kept the red striped vest in the front sections.

Dave Martin led them with a respectable 71:44 (818th) minutes , Clive Wickham, despite knee problems, made 1351st place with 74.52, Lesley Conway ran a personal best of 77.34, 2007th, Andy Maton 83.17, 3815th, Lucy Duncan 85.55, 4781st and Angela Duncan 94.07, 7958th. Our female vets did particularly well in that Angela was second in her female age group (70-74 years) and Lesley was fourth in hers (55-59).

Great South Run full results are here.

The Lido relays are a popular event over the festive period for both adults and children reports David Smith. The course is three laps of the lido and you can configure your teams however you like. For example, one runner may do two laps and another one lap, or you may be a team of three and do a lap each. Of course if you are feeling fit you can do all three laps yourself.
For a number of years an urban myth has been doing the rounds that this event is organised by Gavin Collett. As I understand it, the last time Gavin organised this event was fifteen years ago! Remember, no organiser, no race. So please can we have a volunteer to step up and organise this popular race on Saturday 29th December in order that it can once again go ahead this year. Please register your interest with me at davidalan.smith2@gmail.com

Hillingdon AC’s Senior Men’s finished in fourth place at the North London Championships on a cold and windy day at Horsenden Hill.

The race was won by Highgate Harriers who had race winner Ryan McKinley and third place Henry Dodwell in their scoring six with Serpentine second and Barnet & District third team but Hillingdon secured fourth place thanks to Dan Thompson, Martin Bateman, Sam Blanshard, James Manley, Dave Newman and Dave Smith. Hillingdon also had a large number of competing athletes with nineteen members finishing the race.

Full results may be found here: North London results 2012

A third and final sales window of this year is now open to order the new HAC Nike club kit. The order deadline is mid November. All items should arrive in early December which will be in good time for anyone buying garments as Christmas presents.

To order and see what is available please click here.

It was a muddy Claybury course that many first timers to cross country met, reports Dianne Gibbons. Despite this, they tried really hard representing Hillingdon AC . In the u13 boys Sebastian Mills was 10th, Christopher Corker (25th), James Forde (32nd), Abdi Hamud(33rd) and Arthy Manivannan (38th). In the u13 girls Hollie Acraman was 24th, Anna Talbot (25th) and Esme McLellan was 29th. In the u15/17 race, Ruben Vos came 10th, Sam Lloyd came 22nd and Dominic Speight 39th. In the u15/17 girls race, Chelsea Pledge came 37th and Lily Fawsett came 44th- unfortunately Faiza Hamud had to pull out with an injury. A good start to the cross country season – the next fixture will be the North West London League at Horsenden Hill next Sat- we hope to see a lot more of the Juniors there. More information will be available shortly.

The senior women had their largest turnout in the Met League for many years with thirteen athletes competing for the club, (reports Paul Leppard) boosted by Esme Stallard, Heather Gibbons, Sarah Nicholson and Caprice Beggs making their senior cross country debuts. Led home by Hannah Wells in 62nd position, the women’s A team are placed fifth in Division 2 after the first fixture whilst the B team sit in fourth place in Division 3.

In the senior men’s race Matt Fayers was first scorer for the club in eleventh place and was closely followed by Robert Thompson in fifteenth whilst there were cross country debuts for Daren Roscoe, Dean Burch and Stuart Reilly as part of a total turnout of twenty six. The men’s A team finished in sixth place in Division 1 with the B team in fifth place in Division 3.

Results here.

On saturday 14th 4 HAC Race Walkers raced the penultimate meeting of the 2012 Enfield League. All achieved year bests; most notably – Fabian Deuter scorched around 5 miles in 37.29. This is a personal best for him by a large margin, beating his club record by nearly 2 mins – CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Photos here.

On Saturday 29th September the Junior section held their Summer Athletic Presentation Evening.  During the season the juniors competed in the National Young Athletes League, National Junior League and both boys and girls in the Alder Valley league.  The awards were presented by Hillingdon Athletic Club celebrity Olympic Torch bearer Roy (the torch) Cnudde.

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Some days it seems it’s just not your day. For Hillingdon AC’s senior men’s team  Saturday 13 October 2012 was one of those days.

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An Evening with Chris Copley and Rock Classic Group “Large Portion”

Sat. 10^th Nov. at the Clubhouse  7-30 to Late

Tickets:  £4-50 or £5 on the night

Bring your own food

Tickets:  On sale at the clubhouse or Contact Chris on 07941 245 758

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