This week saw one of the pinnacle events of the UK Track and Field season for young athletes – the English schools competition which offered a great new experience for four of our athletes. We also saw great performances elsewhere through the week – well done all!

English Schools Championships


A great first day on Friday at the English Schools Championships for our Beagles with Olivia Forrest taking gold in the intermediate girls 3000m event with a dominant performance in a time of 9:26.01.

The junior girls 1500m heats were hotly contested with a strong run from Heidi Woodley in hers to finish just outside her PB and qualification in 4:41.94. Summer Smith battled hard at the front of her heat to finish first with a dip over the line and qualification to Saturday’s final – 4:35.57 (PB)

In the inter boys 3000m, Max Sanderson led the pack most of the way before a strong finish by several boys saw him finish second to qualify for Saturday’s final – 8:47.32.

Day two and Max Sanderson took on the inter boys 3000m final – a very closely contested race with all competitors running in a tightly packed group for several laps before Max broke away with a handful of other boys. Taking the lead with 600m to go Max strided strongly but couldn’t quite hang onto the line finishing in a brilliant 5th place – 8:36.88.

The junior girls 1500m was a similarly competitive race with a slow first lap followed by much jostling for position. A breakaway group saw Summer Smith fight with the leaders and give her best before falling back to 6th – 4:39.42.

The day also saw the parade of counties really emphasising the scale of the event and number of athletes involved.

Well done again to all four ESAA Beagles – an amazing experience and we know there is even more to come for you all!


Watford Wednesday

A small turnout of Beagles at Watford this week but still great performances. The 800m focused evening saw Isabel Forrest running first with a good performance just marginally behind her PB – 2:35.81. Louis King also took to the track with a great front running performance which rewarded him with a brilliant new PB – 2:11.19.

Crown to Crown

A great performance for Jake Mitchell at this month’s 5k Crown to Crown saw him not only take 3rd place overall but also saw him first under 18 to pick up the chocolate prize! A great new course PB too – 19:26.

London 10k

It’s always amazing to run on the closed streets of London, and this Sunday Dean Savery took the opportunity by running in the London 10K event. A brilliant run saw him finish second in his age group and 75th overall. Hitting 5k in 17:09, Dean finished the 10k in 35:30.

Parkrun and Junior parkun round up

Brentwood parkrun celebrated its 400th event on Saturday and there was a big turnout of just under 200 runners. Beagles had a strong showing as Alex Young (19:58) led the way for the club, finishing 5th overall and 4th in the male category. Madison Kindler (19:58) also made a notable impact, securing 4th and claiming the top spot in the female category. Other top male finishers included Callum Goodey (20:56), who placed 10th overall, and Stuart Crowther (22:20), who came in 18th. Ellie Gray (22:16 PB) performed excellently, finishing 17th overall and 2nd female, achieving her best time over the course by 30+ seconds. Francesca Gordon (22:39) was 22nd overall and 4th in the female category.

Additional performances from the club included Elliot Worth (22:34), who placed 20th overall and Robert Barke (23:10), finishing 26th. Isabelle Young (23:18) was 30th while Dylan Hussain (23:51 PB) finished 39th overall, collecting his course best. Daniel Smith (27:19) and Joshua Barke (31:42) completed the run in 82nd and 123rd overall positions, respectively.

Meanwhile, at Raphael Parkrun, Simon Knightbridge* (19:13) was the first Beagle home, finishing 10th, with Jemimah Knightbridge* (21:03) 21st and 1st female. Aria Sabado (22:15 PB) was 38th and 3rd female while also enjoying their 5k runs were Freya Brewington (29:56) and race walker Stuart Bennett (31:54).

As Brentwood celebrated its 400th run, Billericay enjoyed its 300th. Three Beagles were running with Phil Price (20:08) finishing 3rd, Sophie Bickerstaff (20:12 PB) 9th and 1st female, as well as picking up a PB and impressive age grade of 80.61%. Isaac Norris (25:51) ran the course for the first time, finishing 82nd.

We had several runners touring: Keith Thornton (20:32) 16th at King’s Lynn, Adam Armour (19:55) finishing 13th at Lowestoft, Mara Thomas (20:55 PB) 48th at Worthing and Amalie Twydell (21:16 PB) 13th and 1st female at Markshall Estate.

Finally, closer to home at Chelmsford, just the one runner as Frankie Edwards (21:23) finished 69th from over 700 runners.

A sunny morning greeted our junior 2k runners with some impressive performances as usual. At Hutton Rec., Beagles dominated the top 3. Colm Forrest (07:58) finished clear out front with Daniel Smith (08:17) running progressively through the field to take 2nd, while Cameron Kidd (08:25) took 3rd. Liam Worth (09:02 PB) ran positively from the start to take a new PB by 12 seconds, finishing 6th. Nora Heidemans (09:24) was not far behind in 9th while Baille Abrahams* (10:58) took 20th, and Elise Gosling (11:30) 27th.

At Harrow Lodge, Matthew Jones (07:37) ran well again taking 3rd while Emily Brewington (08:21) took 7th and 1st female. Finley Smith* (09:07) was 13th, Lily Tyler* (9:14 PB) was 14th, Willow Smith (09:17 PB) picked up her course best by 3 seconds finishing 15th and Freya Brewington (10:32) ran well to take 38th. Jack Collier* (17:53) was 94th.

At Lake Meadows, 2 newcomers to our newsletter with Ivy Kernohan (10:34) finishing 38th and Sage Kernohan (11:57 PB) 60th and collecting her best ever 2km time, well done!

Last but certainly not least, a great result at Chelmsford with Beagles finishing 1st and 2nd. Congratulations to Adam Armour (07:36) who collected his first 1st finisher token, just crossing the line ahead of Oliver Weston-Stokes (07:45) in 2nd.

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). And if you ran, and aren’t featured at all, then please add the club to your profile so we can find you!!! Feel free to contact us if you need help setting this up.

Triathlon News

Bridge Triathlon

A very early Sunday morning start for our Beagles at the Bridge triathlon taking place under the Dartford crossing. Worth it with some great results:

Summer Smith – 2nd in Tristar 3 – 28:10

Blossom Smith – 4th in Tristar 1 – 19:16

Chesham Kids Triathlon

Ollie Trevor travelled to Chesham for his triathlon – a new event set up to encourage younger triathletes. Ollie performed brilliantly with an overall time of 23:30 earning him a bronze medal.

Tri-force Triathlon

The Tri-force junior triathlon saw a number of our Beagles earn qualification to represent the East region in September at the inter counties event. Congratulations to Heidi Woodley, Sophie Bickerstaff and Madison Kindler.

Some brilliant results on the day too:

Oliver Kindler – 5th in Tristar 1 – 14:57

Madison Kindler – 1st in Tristar 2 – 17:44

Sophie Bickerstaff – 4th in Tristar 2 – 17:55

Heidi Woodley – 1st in Tristar 3 – 22:49

Coming up

Another very busy week for our Beagles with the final EYAL round of the season taking place on Sunday in Hemel Hempstead. We also have midweek action at Sutcliffe Park and at the Lee Valley Sprints Night. Finally Olivia Forrest is out in Slovakia this week with the GB Team at the U18 European Championships and will be running her 3000m on Saturday – this can be viewed via the live stream link here: go.beagles.org.uk/WatchMe (free registration is required). Good luck all!