We hope everyone had a lovely time over the Easter bank holiday! For some of our runners it was business as usual with a great turnout at the Good Friday Crown to Crown. Well done too to all our primary school runners that qualified for the Essex XC final – some great results there too.
Crown to Crown
It was a “good” Friday for our Endurance runners who headed to Westley Heights to take part in the @pitsearc Crown to Crown 5K event. One of our favourite but most challenging runs! Course conditions today were muddy but our runners did brilliantly taking 9 of the first 15 finish positions!
Taking 3rd place overall and 1st U18 male was Max Sanderson with a new course PB of 17:32. Following close behind was Preston Taylor in 4th (17:39 – debut) and Dean Savery in 5th (18:18 – course PB). Overall first female finisher was Olivia Forrest who was also 7th overall (18:46). Jude Hearn finished in 8th (18:56 – debut) with Robin Smith 10th (19:01 – course PB)
Running close together, and all making their course debuts, were Reggie Edwards 12th (19:25), Orly Morton 13th (19:41) and Louis King 14th (19:49). Slightly further back, Ollie Johnson also had a great run in 20th (20:22 – course PB) as did Isabel Forrest (21:00 – course PB) in 25th.
Frankie Edwards held off Laura Durn finishing 36th and 37th respectively (22:09, 22:20). And Sophie Bickerstaff got the better of Stuart Crowther in 43rd and 44th (22:38, 22:45). Esme Thomas ran well to finish 47th (23:03). And Aisling O’Leary made a strong debut in 75th (25:07). Daniel Smith was our final Beagles finisher with a nice run to finish 87th (26:17).
Special thanks for the finishing hill shots by Laurence Sanderson.
Essex Primary Schools Cross Country
Congratulations to all our primary school aged Beagles who qualified to run in the Essex final at Garons Park Southend. Unfortunately we have no official results to share but thank you to those who have confirmed their own results.
Madison Kindler – first in the year 6 girls race
Lianne Esterhuysen – first in the year 5 girls race
Luke Morris – 15th in the year 4 boys race
Well done to all who qualified and ran – a brilliant achievement and great experience.
Parkrun and Junior parkun round up
Down in Cornwall, Lianne Esterhuysen (20:47) and Daniel Esterhuysen (22:24) took on the Eden Project parkrun, with over 600 other runners, both doing well to finish inside the top 100.
Closer to home at Raphael, there was a mass of Beagles taking part. They were led in by Preston Taylor (16:41 PB) who finished 2nd and comfortably picked up a course best. Finishing 15th and also picking up a best time was Callum Goodey (19:51 PB) while just a couple of places behind in 17th was Ollie Johnson (19:54). In 22nd was Matthew Jones (20:48), equalling his best time, while next in was Paul Johnson (20:51 PB). In 40th was Hugo Wilks (22:06), 55th was Emily Brewington (22:56), 62nd Aria Lily Sabado (23:12) and 299th went to Freya Brewington (33:34).
We had 4 runners at Billericay, Elliot Worth (19:32) finished 6th, Sophie Bickerstaff (21:44) 17th, Nora Heidemans (25:12) 72nd , Camilla Nash (30:30) 158th and Bailee Abrahams* (30:47) 161st.
At Mile End, Madison Kindler (18:18) took on the course for the first time, another very impressive performance finishing 6th and 1st female and registering an age grade of 93.26%, comfortably the highest of all participants on the day.
We had 3 runners at Chelmsford with Adam Armour (20:28) in 37th, Nadia Price (21:52 PB) 84th and Phil Price* (21:52) 85th. Finally, at Brentwood, just the one runner with Robert Barke (25:24) finishing 18th.
On Sunday we had 3 junior runners at Hutton Rec., with Daniel Smith (08:59) finishing 1st with Ethan Wilson (09:36) in 4th. At Harrow Lodge, Isabel Forrest came 1st (08:00) with Aria Lily Sabado (08:11 PB) just behind in 2nd & picking up a 1 second course best. In 5th was Jack Collier* (10:58), and 7th Harry Collier (11:54).
Finally, just the one runner at Lake Meadows as Magnus Wilks (10:00) finished 12th. Well done to all our runners this weekend. Note for parents, if your child has an * by their name, please help our editors by adding Brentwood Beagles as their club under their parkrun profile (groups). Feel free to contact us if you need help setting this up.
Coming up
It’s a return to one of our very favourite events for many of the endurance squad – Watford Wednesdays! A bi-weekly opportunity to take on some of the best runners from across the country with the 1500 and 3000 on offer this week, 13 of our athletes are making the trip. This weekend also sees a plethora of events – the Lee Valley track Open, Orion Harriers Pentathlon, National 5K, Havering Open and Essex Road Relays. Next week’s news will be long! Good luck to everyone.
