It’s been a month of relays, team work and the start of cross country. We have seen so many examples of brilliant Beagles running from local schools races to national championships. The training is paying off and the results are amazing! Well done to everyone who has started their off track season so well.
English National Road Relays
The English National Road Relays in Birmingham saw Brentwood Beagles as the only club in the Country to pick up two National team titles thanks to our amazing U13 and U15 girls!
Despite the threat of Storm Amy, the relays in Sutton Park went ahead without incident although the windy conditions did make for a tough run. With all the junior teams running 3.88km per leg, our U13 girls kicked off the day with another absolute display of domination to finish 1st by almost 3 minutes with each team member the fastest runner in their leg and Madison Kindler taking the fastest leg overall in the race. The girls got off to a fantastic start with Sophia Davies calmly dealing with the craziness of the start line and making her way to the front of the pack, then building a lead, with a great run of 13:44. Lianne Esterhuysen took over and extended the lead to create some real space to the rest of the field with her run of 14:28 before Madison took over and continued to push the pace to extended the lead with her run of 13:25.
The U15 girls race was a much more competitive affair with another tough starting pen dealt with superbly by Heidi Woodley who ran very strongly to put the team just behind the lead runner with her effort of 13:25. Sophie Bickerstaff continued to apply pressure to the lead runner, swapping places with her several times throughout her leg and reaching the handover point just behind her – 14:20. Summer Smith took over and bided her time well to ensure that she was best placed to take the win with a really well judged run of 13:16. Well done girls – a brilliant win!
Finally our U17 women also had a good day in Birmingham finishing 13th out of the 58 teams taking part. With a good first leg from Evie Warn who battled well with the busy conditions to find her space and push on with her run of 14:27. Isabel Forrest took over and ran well keeping a nice consistent pace to allow a strong finish – 15:30. Zara Morley ran the final leg strongly, picking off several teams to ensure the excellent finishing position – 14:38.
English Schools Cup Round One
One of the first big schools races of the year is the English Schools Cup first round. With three Essex events which saw the schools teams facing each other, we saw some great performances from our athletes. The first round has no times, just positions:
Race One
Senior Boys
Jude Hearn – 6th
Inter Girls
Sophie Bickerstaff – 1st
Senior Girls
Zara Morley – 1st
Race Two
Junior Boys
Robert Barke – 1st
Robert Pearson – 43rd
Junior Girls
Madison Kindler – 1st
Sienna Linnen – 33rd
Inter Girls
Heidi Woodley – 1st
Esme Thomas – 7th
Belle Bazely – 18th
Sophie Halford – 21st
Senior Girls
Isabel Forrest – 5th
Millie Cameron – 8th
Race 3
Junior Boys
Max Cheetham – 4th
Edward Garwood – 17th
Oliver Corcoran – 23rd
Oscar Gander – 33rd
Mason Tredgett – 36th
Jude McNicholl – 39th
Max Massarella – 55th
Henry Pinato – 66th
Inter Boys
Will Hughes – 1st
George Bangs – 4th
Ollie Johnson – 13th
Joe Sandford – 17th
George Alder – 24th
Luca Tredgett – 39th
Joshua Lever – 41st
Sean Mooney – 60th
Senior Boys
Max Sanderson – 2nd
Matthew Jones – 16th
Mattie Delea – 24th
Junior Girls
Lianne Esterhuysen – 1st
Isobel Larner – 4th
Elsie Martin-Bouchareb – 16th
Inter Girls
Summer Smith – 1st
Aria Sabado – 7th
Amber Walker – 20th
Senior Girls
Daisy Willingale – 20th
Essex Sportshall
Congratulations to all the Beagles who took part in the first round of the Essex Sportshall event in Chelmsford, we saw brilliant enthusiasm and great efforts from everyone who competed. Well done to:
Milena Nevill – U11. Over Under Race – 20.2, Obstacle Race – 24.2, Standing Long Jump 1.64m, Standing Triple Jump – 4.90m, Speed Bounce – 43
Evie Foley – U11. Over Under Race – 19.8, 2 Lap Race – 25.0, Standing Long Jump 1.72m, Vertical Jump – 38m, Hi Stepper – 15.4, Target Throw – 10, Speed Bounce – 49, Javelin – 11.75m, Balance Beam – 42
Nadia Price – U11. One Lap Race – 13.6, 2 Lap Race – 27.4, Standing Long Jump 1.59m, Vertical Jump – 33m, Speed Bounce – 41, Javelin – 8.5m, Balance Beam – 19
Macey Pitts – U13. One Lap Race – 13.3, 2 Lap Race – 25.4, Obstacle Race – 22.6, Shot – 3.62m, Standing Long Jump 1.84m, Vertical Jump – 48m
Elsie Martin-Bouchareb – U13. 2 Lap Race – 24.3, Obstacle Race – 21.5, Standing Long Jump 1.90m, Vertical Jump – 44m, Speed Bounce – 74
Florence Magee– U11. Obstacle Race – 25.0, Target Throw – 11, Speed Bounce – 40
Isla Foley – U13. 2 Lap Race – 25.5, Shot – 4.95m, Standing Long Jump 1.73m
Harry Collier – U11. Over Under Race – 19.9, One Lap Race – 13.7, Hi Stepper – 18.1, Speed Bounce – 46, Javelin – 11.4m, Balance Beam – 14
Rafi Mather – U13. 4 Lap Race – 52.6, 6 Lap Race – 1:22.9, Standing Long Jump 2.04m, Vertical Jump –40, Speed Bounce – 69
Zac Niyazi – U13. 2 Lap Race – 23.7, Standing Long Jump 2.05m, Vertical Jump – 40, Speed Bounce – 62
Oliver Nevill – U13. Standing Long Jump 2.14m, Standing Triple Jump – 6.53m, Vertical Jump – 42,
Other Schools Races
Well done to our junior Beagles at the Havering primary cross country Year 5 & 6 races. In particular Lily Tyler – 1st Yr 5 Girl, Leia Broadhurst 3rd Yr 5 Girl, Blossom Smith – 1st Yr 6 Girl and Bertie Allen – 1st Yr 6 Boy.
Elsewhere in district races, Colm Forrest was 2nd in the Yr6 boys race, Jude Deal was 6th in Yr6. Amelia Forrest 5th in the Yr 3 girls race, Alexandra Johnson 1st in the Yr 4 girls race, Mia Holme 12th in year 5 girls and Isabelle Holmes 1st and Thea Clark 5th in the Yr6 girls race.
Well done to the following who took part in the Primary schools race at Hylands this month – we apologise for anyone we may have missed!
Jude Deal Yr6 – 2nd
James Fitzgerald – Yr6 – 3rd
Thomas Howlett – Yr6 – 5th
Leo Rowell Yr6 – 8th
Luke Morris Yr6 – 9th
George Kyprianou – Yr6 – 10th
Jacob Irons – Yr6 – 36th
Liam Worth – Yr6 – 46th
Zac Robinson – Yr5 – 3rd
Theo Irons – Yr5 – 9th
Jesse Rowell – Yr4 – 2nd
Karthik Prabhu – Yr4 – 9th
Ethan Ballantyne – Yr4 – 25th
Sophie Lobo – Yr5 – 9th
Isabelle Lobo – Yr5 – 37th
Nadia Price – Yr6 – 2nd
Isabelle Henry – Yr6 – 3rd
Rosie Fenn – Yr6 – 10th
Nora Heidemans – Yr6 – 11th
Bailee Abrahams – Yr6 – 18th
Camilla Nash – Yr 6 – 22nd
Amelia Saliah – Yr6 – 25th
Summer Austin – Yr6 – 37th
Alexandra Johnston – Yr4 – 1st
Essex XC Relays
The Essex Cross Country Relays in Hylands Park which saw an amazing 39 Beagles running. And of course they gave us much to celebrate with our U13 and U15 girls becoming Essex champions and our U13 girls B team and our 15 boys taking home bronze medals. We also saw so many brilliant individual runs and great progress since last year. Well done to everyone!
Our junior teams all ran 3k and the senior teams ran 6k. Results as follows:
U15 girls – 1st – 32:38
Heidi Woodley 10:32
Sophie Bickerstaff 11:26
Summer Smith 10:40
U13 girls – 1st – 33:22
Sophia Davies 10:59
Lianne Esterhuysen 11:37
Madison Kindler 10:46
U13 girls B – 3rd – 37:12
Emily Brewington 11:59
Isobel Larner 12:27
Isabella Davies 12:46
U15 girl B – 12th – 40:16
Amalie Twydell – 12:20
Robyn Colyer – 14:54
Amber Walker – 13:02
U17 women – incomplete team
Zara Morley – 11:13
Isabel Forrest – 11:59
U13 boys A – 7th – 36:30
Oscar Gander 12:06
Edward Garwood 12:07
Austin Lever 12:17
U13 boys C – 14th – 38:06
Edward Cornwall 13:13
Dylan Hussain 12:01
Henry Pinato 12:52
U13 boys B – 15th – 38:07
Mason Tredgett – 12:55
Jude McNicholl 13:16
Robert Barke 11:56
U15 boys – 3rd – 31:30
George Bangs 10:17
Ollie Johnson 11:07
Will Hughes 10:06
U15 boys B – 17th – 36:37
Luca Tredgett 11:47
Joshua Lever 12:13
Adam Armour 12:17
U15 boys C – incomplete team
Henry Greenwood – 13:40
U17 men – incomplete team
Jude Hearn – 9:48
Matthew Jones – 11:01
V40 men – 4th – 1:08:29
Mark Tredgett 23:33
James Wilson 23:03
Robin Smith 21:35
V50 men – 6th – 1:16.48
Simon Knightbridge 24:46
Keith Thornton 26:36
Aiden Kerr 25:26
Senior women – incomplete team, 2nd after 1st leg.
Demi Eves – 24:17
East Region Volunteer Awards
We want to say a huge well done to the brilliant John Armour who is a superb representative of our club. John was named as the runner up in the England Athletics East Region Volunteer Awards for being an inspiring official because of all he has given to the sport over the last year, particularly working in start teams.
#teambeagles isn’t just about the people competing, it’s about everyone who gives up their time to support our athletes, be that coaching, officiating, serving on our committee or just general helping. If you want to get more involved then speak to Vicky on any training night – we always need more help!
Chicago Marathon
Huge congratulations to Scott Brooks who flew to Chicago to compete in the marathon and produced yet another strong effort of 2:54.35.
YTP
Huge congratulations to Beagles Olivia Forrest (3000m) and Evie Warn (Steeplechase) who are both in this year’s England Athletics youth talent pathway (YTP) cohort. The girls spent a very busy weekend in Loughborough at the kick off event for the programme.
Minithon
Well done to all the junior Beagles who took part in the first Lee Valley minithon of the year. A very exciting event with great opportunities to experience an indoor track. Well done to:
Sean Connor – 36.51 – 200m, 2.51m – long jump, 7.25m – turbo javelin
Anaiya Obika – 9.74 – 60m, 34.19 – 200m, 2.66m – long jump
SEAA XC Relays
The South of England Athletic Association cross country relays took place at Wormwood Scrubs.
At the relays our U17 women’s team started the day strongly with a brilliant 5th place finish. The team consisted of Evie Warn (10:25), Sarena So (11:21) and Zara Morley (10:23) who each ran 3k.
The U13 girls race saw our A team take the win and become Southern champions! Whilst our B team also looked strong – and definitely were our most consistent team of the day leg time wise – to finish 9th. Our A team were Sophia Davies (7:16), Lianne Esterhuysen (7:25) and Madison Kindler (6:49). Our B team – Emily Brewington (8:04), Haysan So (8:02) and Isabella Davies (8:06). The girls all ran 2k.
Our U13 boys picked up some valuable race experience, with each runner still relatively new to the discipline. Finishing 36th the team, who also ran 2k each, were Robert Barke (7:51), Patrick Connor (9:56) and Jacob Stanley (9:30).
The U15 girls team also had a good race finishing 14th overall with each leg 2k. Amalie Twydell (8:04), Robyn Colyer (9:03) and Sophie Bickerstaff (7:24) making up the team.
Finally Demi Eves had a good run over 3k in the senior women’s race, with her leg time of 10:28.
Essex XC league – Round One
It was a superb turnout from the Beagles at the first Essex XC league event of the season at One Tree Hill. And an amazing turnout also equalled amazing results with 4 Beagles race wins and 5 Essex vests collected!
We particularly want to celebrate our amazing senior men who turned out in great numbers to run 8km.
Max Sanderson – 12th 27:14
Robin Smith – 46th 29:39
Scott Brooks – 49th 29:56
Alex Young – 55th 30:15
Mark Tredgett – 80th 31:45
James Wilson – 113th 33:11
Kurt Brooks – 126th 33:49
Jamie Smith – 132nd 34:13
Phil Price – 151st 35:31
Daniel Esterhuysen – 158th 35:45
Keith Thornton – 161st 35:50
Aidan Kerr – 169th 36:17
Stuart Crowther – 175th 36:27
Craig Morley – 190th 37:18
Ben Morgan – 211th 39:00
Dan Stanley – 230th 40:22
The team finished 3rd in senior men division 2 and 3rd in the vets men category. Well done!
The first race of the day was our U11s who ran 1.5km and who all gave it their all in what was, for many of them, their first taste of the league!
Congratulations to our girls who were first team:
Blossom Smith – 1st 5:37
Isabelle Holmes – 2nd 5:41
Evie Foley – 9th 6:24
Nadia Price – 10th 6:26
Thea Clark – 11th 6:28
Isabelle Henry – 15th 6:32
Mia Holme – 29th 7:14
Maggie Denham – 31st 7:18
And the U11 boys – who came 5th team:
Bertie Allen – 9th 5:44
Ethan Wilson – 22nd 6:11
Theo Irons – 34th 6:29
Jacob Irons – 38th 6:39
Ralph Hope – 39th 6:39
Magnus Wilks – 46th 7:02
Our U13s also looked strong over their race of 3km with the girls once again leading the way and finishing as first team:
Madison Kindler – 1st and Essex vest 11:43
Lianne Esterhuysen – 2nd and Essex vest 12:39
Emily Brewington – 9th 13:23
Isabella Davies – 14th 13:32
Haysan So – 16th 13:41
Grace Lander – 32nd 15:18
Poppy Monk – 41st 16:33
And our boys results – 6th team:
Hugo Wilks – 15th 12:52
Robert Barke – 26th 13:11
Cameron Young – 29th 13:16
Austin Lever – 30th 13:18
Oscar Gander – 35th 13:40
Jude McNicholl – 47th 14:20
Sid Allen – 48th 14:23
Jacob Stanley – 59th 15:53
Patrick Connor – 62nd 17:02
The distance for our U15s increased to 4km but that was no concern for our athletes! The girls results, finishing 2nd team:
Heidi Woodley – 1st and Essex vest 14:21
Izzy Young – 8th 16:17
Esme Thomas – 10th 16:51
Amalie Twydell – 14th 17:12
Robyn Colyer – 36th 21:02
And the boys, finishing 6th team:
Will Hughes – 5th and Essex vest 14:17
Ollie Johnson – 26th 15:35
Adam Armour – 40th 17:18
Frankie Edwards – 43rd 17:27
Joshua Lever – 56th 19:38
The U17s ran 6km and also put on a brilliant display despite being our smallest teams of the day!
Girls team – 2nd:
Zara Morley – 1st and Essex vest 25:52
Sarena So – 7th 28:43
Isabel Forrest – 11th 29:14
Boys
Jude Hearn – 16th 24:16
And our adult womens team – our first one! Amazing team support and enthusiasm from everyone to finish 3rd in division 2. Over 6km:
Demi Eves – 11th 26:35
Lorraine Massarella – 52nd 30:46
Tamar Barclay – 69th 32:24
Sarah Goodey – 119th 36:33
Serpentine 5k
Congratulations to Matthew Jones and Ollie Johnson who both travelled to London for the last Friday of the month, Serpentine 5k event. In the midst of the large race, the boys were closely matched with each other with Matthew just taking the honours in 18:51 and Ollie running 18:55, to finish 36th and 38th overall.
Parkrun & junior parkrun roundup (4/5 October)
At Raphael, 3 Beagles were in action as Emily Brewington (20:05 PB) was in superb form, breaking her course best by 45 seconds finishing 7th overall, and 1st female! Emma Dyos (31:05) and Stuart Bennett (35:15) were also in action while over at Billericay, there was a big show of our runners. Scott Brooks (17:34) took 1st place, marginally outside his course best while finishing 3rd was brother Kurt Brooks (19:22). Isobel Larner (21:12) was in great form taking 13th place (1st female) as well as collecting a new course best by 20 seconds. Just one place further back was Oscar Gander (21:15) while Tamar Barclay (27:47) finished 24th female.
At Barking, Keith Thornton (20:43) was just 11 seconds outside his course best as he placed 5th while at Clacton Seafront, Simon Knightbridge (19:21) made his debut, finishing 2nd.
A strong show too at Brentwood with no less than 7 Beagles taking part. Alex Young (19:20) took 1st with Elliot Worth (21:29) back in 7th, just ahead of Luca Tredgett (21:39). Robert Barke (22:17) placed 10th, Mason Tredgett (23:59) 22nd, Isabelle Young (24:46) 29th and Joshua Barke (27:31) 48th.
On Sunday, Freya Brewington (09:46 PB) was running well at Chelmsford juniors as she celebrated a course best, finishing 23rd overall. There was a PB too for Lily Tyler (08:22 PB) at Harrow Lodge as she finished 2nd. At Hutton Rec. Colm Forrest (07:43) took 1st with Jesse Rowell (08:23) in 3rd. Alexandra Johnston (08:56) was 6th, Elise Gosling (09:38) 10th, Jessica Thomson* (09:47) 11th, Chloe Thomson* (10:01) 13th, Ted Lobo* (10:01) 14th, Sophie Lobo* (10:09) 16th, Margot Zaayman* (10:38) 22nd and Izzy Lobo* (11:23) 29th.
At Lake Meadows, Sophie Bickerstaff (07:01 PB) ran strongly to collect a new course best by 12 seconds, finishing 2nd overall. Oscar Gander (07:35 PB) also ran his fastest at the event in taking 5th while Liam Worth (08:45) finished 12th. Sage Kernohan (12:06) was next Beagle over the line in 76th.
Our 5k male age-graded performer of the week was Keith Thornton (78.12%), while Emily Brewington achieveda fantastic 82.82% rating for her run. On Sunday, Jesse Rowell (74.29%) was our 2k male performer of the week, with Sophie Bickerstaff (82.42%) impressing as our female performer.
Parkrun & junior parkrun roundup (11/12 October)
A reduced number of 5k runners this weekend but there were still some strong performances to highlight. At Raphael, Will Gazzard (17:39) ran well to finish 3rd while Emma Dyos (30:20) and Stuart Bennett (33:19) also took part. At Brentwood, Jude Deal (21:00) was just a few seconds outside his course best in finishing 5th while Nora Heidemans (28:07) was 44th and 6th female.
Touring at Rushmoor was Stuart Crowther (19:55 PB) who achieved a 22 second course best in coming 32nd while at Wickford Memorial, Elliot Worth (20:06) finished 2nd.
On Sunday, Lily Tyler (08:19 PB) ran well to pick up a new course best and finish 5th at Harrow Lodge, while Jacob Stanley (08:45) was not far behind as he finished 8th. At a busy Hutton Rec., first Beagle to finish was Liam Worth (09:00) in 5th, closely followed by Alexandra Johnston (09:09) in 6th. Bailee Abrahams (09:16 PB) finished 9th in a new course best, 1 place ahead of Jessica Thomson* (09:26). Chloe Thomson* (09:27) was 11th, Ted Lobo* (09:59) 14th, Joshua Thomson* (10:19) 18th, Sophie Lobo* (10:26) 19th, Margot Zaayman* (10:33) 22nd, Izzy Lobo* (11:21) 36th, Camilla Nash (21:12) 83rd and Nadia Price (21:13) 84th. Finally, at Lake Meadows, Oscar Gander (07:36) took 1st from 133 participants, finishing just 1 second outside his course best.
Our 5k male age-graded performer of the week was Stuart Crowther with an impressive83.43% rating while Nora Heidemans achieveda 60.70% rating for her run. On Sunday, Oscar Gander (73.6%) was our 2k male runner of the week with Lily Tyler (74.27%) our female performer.
Parkrun & junior parkrun roundup (18/19 October)
We start our round-up again at Raphael where Will Gazzard (17:16) finished 4th, just 3 seconds outside his course best. New PB’s however for both Luca Tredgett (19:12 PB) and Mason Tredgett (21:20 PB) who finished 13th and 33rd respectively. Just the one runner at Billericay as Dylan Hussain (22:03 PB) was another to collect a course best, improving on his previous time by over a minute.
At Sandwell Valley, Tamar Barclay (27:35) finished 47th while on Clacton Seafront, Simon Knightbridge (18:39 PB) took 1st place and a 42 second course best. At Brentwood, Heidi Woodley (19:47) made her debut at the event, finishing 2nd and 1st female, while in 3rd place overall was another of our junior runners as Jude Deal (21:15) impressed.
At Foots Cray Meadows, Keith Thornton (22:02) took 6th, while at Wickford Memorial, Liam Worth (25:37) was 77th, followed in by Elliot Worth (25:38). Over at Chalkwell Beach, Stuart Crowther (19:59) was in sub-20 minute for again as he finished 25th.
On Sunday, there were more impressive performances from our juniors as Emily Brewington (07:37) finished 1st, with Freya Brewington (09:21 PB) 11th and celebrating a new course best at her 100th junior event. Jack Collier (10:53) was 28th.
At Hutton Recreation Ground, Alexandra Johnston (08:51) was first Beagle across the line, finishing 4th with Liam Worth (09:01) in 6th. Jessica Thomson* (09:14) was 7th, Chloe Thomson* (09:31) 10th, Joshua Thomson* (10:02 PB) 15th, Margot Zaayman* (10:36) 17th and Nadia Price (12:59) 29th.
Finally at Lake Meadows, Oscar Gander (07:32 PB) was in form again, finishing 1st by 3 seconds and collecting a new event best time.
Our 5k male age-graded performer of the week was Stuart Crowther with an impressive83.15% rating while Heidi Woodley achieveda 79.44% rating for her run. Our 2k performers of the week were Oscar Gander (74.29%) for the boys and Emily Brewington (79.10%).
Parkrun & junior parkrun roundup (25/26 October)
There was a go
Well done to all our parkrun representatives. Can we please remind you that we can only pick up your results in the parkun club report if you register yourself as being part of the club in your parkrun profile. Unfortunately, the automatic club report only works on the Saturday parkruns so we are unable to spot performances at junior parkruns beyond the local ones we monitor (Harrow Lodge, Hutton Rec., Chelmsford, Lake Meadows, Great Notley and Northlands). Feel free to contact us if you need help setting up your profile or if you want to tell us about your runs further afield.
Coming up
November will continue to see a focus on cross country, with the second Essex XC league event, London Youth Games cross country, the first cross challenge and the next round of the English Schools cup. Good luck to all competing!