Parkrun on Saturday

Saturday 15^th October

Roundshaw 5k Time Trial

 

Following recent cancellations, this weekend sees the team meet at the School Sports Pavilion at Plough Lane to walk the short distance to the start of the Roundshaw 5k Parkrun.

 

There are thousands of these 5k (3.1 miles) races every Saturday all across the UK and wider world – it has become a running phenomenon. It is a public event open to anyone and is free to enter. Therefore, if any parents or siblings want to run this Saturday you are more than welcome.

 

The race is 2 laps of the old airfield behind our playing fields and the boys will be timed and the results are published later that day on the website.

 

The distance will be a challenge to a lot of our runners, especially the younger age groups, but running in a public race has always been an enjoyable experience and the more miles in the legs the better!

 

Information can be found at www.parkrun.org.uk/roundshaw/

 

We will meet at the Pavilion at 8.15 as the race begins at 9.00. If you want to meet us at the start of the race itself, details are on the link above, but basically the start is near to the Battle of Britain Memorial on Purley Way.

 

If you have never run a Parkrun you will need to register before the race online. You will then have to print off a barcode which you carry in your pocket when running. This is then used to link the time to the runner.

 

I will be available in Room 1 (The ICT room) Friday lunchtime for any runners who need to register and print off their details.

Juniors		Inters	Seniors
John Hilario 7B Marcus Littlewood 7C Oliver Boxall   7K Raziel Abiels-Zuriel  7M  Matthew Conway  7N     Leo Ostinelli  7T Paul Hewitt 7B Jonnie Miles   7C              Jacob Horle 7K	Alfie Smith 8C James Parker  8N Joe Roberts  8B Alex Romanowski 8F Jonas Bekit 8M Ebuka Nkamuo  7N Luke Davis   7C                Charles Kitchen  7N	Jude Watson   10N Joseph Logue   10F Peter Edwards   9N Luke Barclay   9K Saul Harvey 9C Luca Gerges 9B Galvin Biju 9N Ben Hopley 9M	Oscar Halfacre 13STE Joseph Halfacre 13STE Ricky Lutakome   13SHA Fabien Daburn 12SHA Ryan Galvin   12ND Alex Galvin   12PAR Finlay Wells 12PAR Gianluca Ercolano   11N Jacob Jones   11B Daniel Hodgson 11B

 

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL DAY ON THE COMMON

Wednesday 5th October saw the Senior Squad travel to Wimbledon Common for the prestigious Kings Trophy.

This is an extremely prestigious event which draws all of the big guns of school XC, including the 2 top schools in the country St.Albans and Judd.

A 5th place finish last year was fantastic, but Ricky Lutakome also found himself mis-directed along with several other front-runners by an errant steward and so was denied the chance to compete for the medals. He was keen for revenge!

The weather was perfect, if the parking of the minibus was not, and unusually we arrived in plenty of time for the start.

The course is a 4.5 miles mixed terrain with woodland and open field, it included a water feature around half way around, and the added danger of flying golf balls!

Alfie Smith, currently a Year 8 had been picked to see how he did over the longer distance, he would as it turns out have a fantastic race.

The results are below with the 2015 times in brackets

 

    2 Lutakome  25.04

     35 Ercolano  28.45 (2015 - 31.06)

     39 Wells  29.02

     47 Galvin A  29.22 (29.33)

     52 Jones  29.51 (31.11)

     55 Smith A  30.03

     92 Daburn  32.07

    105 McAllister  33.09 (33.42)

    107 Halfacre O  33.13

    114 Halfacre J  34.17 (35.42)

    138 Hodgson  38.42

    144 Galvin R  inj

                            155 runners              

                         21 teams

Team Result:

   6^th   A Team

   17^th  B Team   (4^th B team)   

 

Some fantastic performances put in by all the runners

 

Well done Ricky on finishing 2nd, close to being the first JFS student to win this race since 1985 - next year maybe!

 

Gianluca showed his summer practice has paid off by storming into the 2nd Fisher finisher

 

Alfie Smith defied all pre-race expectations to finish in the top 6 JFS finishers and thus A Team with a great time (he is 5 years younger than some of the runners!)

 

Unfortunately Ryan was running a strong race before injury got the better of him

 

Below are some photos of the day!

Skipper McAllister rallies the troops

Last few seconds before the start

Ricky eyeing up the competition 

A large field

Here are some action shots of the runners!

Alex Galvin

Dan Hodgson

Finley Wells

Jacob Jones closely followed by Alfie Smith

Joe Halfacre

Oscar Halfacre

Ricky Lutakome (and Mr Fell's shadow)

Ryan Galvin (pre-injury) and Gianluca Ercolano

Skipper Sean McAllister

 

This weeks fixtures!

SENIOR CROSS COUNTRY

Wednesday 5^th October

Kings Trophy on Wimbledon Common

 

McAllister (capt)

Halfacre O

Halfacre J

Galvin R

Galvin A

Lutakome

Erne

Daburn

Wells

Ercolano

Jones

Hodgson

Smith H

Smith A

 

                                                         

INSTRUCTIONS

Meet at the minibus at 12.50 prompt. Be changed as we will go straight to the start on the Common.

Return by 5.30 after tea.

 

Saturday 8^th October

 

OXTED SUB-MILE RELAY

 

7B	7C	7F	7K	7M	7N	7T
John Hilario	Marcus Littlewood		Oliver Boxall	Raziel Abiels-Zuriel	Matthew Conway	Leo Ostinelli
Paul Hewitt	Jonnie Miles				Ebuka Nkamuo
	Luke Davis				Charles Kitchen

 

 

This will be held at Oxted School, next to the Barn Theatre in Oxted (RH8 0AB)   This is a relay so the Year 7’s will run with the Year 8’s in teams of 4   MINIBUS LEAVING SCHOOL AT 8.45, RETURNING BY 12.30   (Juniors start 10.00, Inters 10.40, Seniors 11.20 – but last 2 may be combined so if going direct and a senior, get there no later than 10.15)     Tell me or  Email if you are going direct dfell@suttonlea.org     Remember to log into www.jfsxc.blogspot.co.uk

 

Juniors	Inters	Seniors
Alfie Smith 8C Freddie Georgiou 8F Ragu Arravanthan 8B James Parker 8N Alex Romanowski 8F Jonas Bekit 8M Joseph Roberts 8B	Harry Smith   10M Jude Watson   10N Joseph Logue   10F Peter Edwards   9N Luca Gerges 9B Galvin Biju 9N Ben Hopley 9M	Oscar Halfacre U6 Joseph Halfacre U6 Ricky Lutakome   L6 Ryan Galvin   L6 Alex Galvin   L6 Finlay Wells L6 Gianluca Ercolano   11N Jacob Jones   11B Daniel Hodgson 11B
MINIBUS LEAVING SCHOOL AT 8.45, RETURNING BY 12.30   (Juniors start 10.00, Inters 10.40, Seniors 11.20 – but last 2 may be combined so if going direct and a senior, get there no later than 10.15)     Tell me or  Email if you are going direct dfell@suttonlea.org     Remember to log into www.jfsxc.blogspot.co.uk

Free Weekend

This weekend sees a gap in the fixture list, but I would urge all runners to take the chance to go on a training run themselves

Next Wednesday sees the Seniors run the challenging 4.5miles King's College Course, and next Saturday sees a return to Oxted for a League race

HOME RACE RESULTS!

Our home league fixture saw a gloriously sunny morning perfect for running. Three local schools were able to attend – Oxted, Trinity and Tiffin. The junior race was very competitive with 48 runners, many of them year 7 getting used to race tactics and a distance of up to 2 miles. They looked very impressive on the start line on the old Croydon airport with fantastic views out over the London Basin as far as Hampstead Heath. Alfie Smith led the junior team home to finish in 2^nd place, one better than last week. All our junior runners aquitted themselves well and hopefully should be feeling a bit fitter now. Well done to Leo Ostinello for being our first year 7 home in 14^th place.

The smaller inter and senior teams started their races together, but split after 800m to run different distances. Harry Smith ran a strong race to finish a close 2^nd to an impressive Oxted runner. Most of Harry’s team mates have moved up an age group this year and found the extra distance challenging so early on in the season. It will get easier lads!

The senior team was a bit depleted as the Galvins are competing in a tough triathlon this weekend – we hope that it went well, especially as you know that your level of fitness still has some way to go! Captain Sean was too ill to run, but gamely turned up to help out at the finish. Ricky was the first senior in, but would readily admit to being under no pressure at all and appeared to treat the event as a bit of a training run. We can’t blame him for doing that. Well done to our new runner Finlay Wells  - he should be very pleased with his 3^rd place and will possibly make our A team selection more difficult this year – a good problem to have! Year 11s Gianluca and Jacob made up the scoring team today as the senior team remains unbeaten in the league. Keep up the training – 4.5miles over the Kings Trophy course on Oct 5th is a long way if you are not fit ….

Many thanks to Mr O’Halloran and Francis for haring and marking the course today and also to Ms Drozd for helping with the timekeeping.

 Junior Results - Out of 57 total runners

	Name	Sc
2	SMITH	JF
4	GEORGIOU	JF
14	OSTINELLO	JF
19	NKAMUO	JF
20	ARRAVANTHAN	JF
21	PARKER	JF
22	HEWITT	JF
23	HILARIO	JF
24	MILES	JF
25	WUDDAH	JF
26	BEKIT	JF
31	BOXALL	JF
34	HESSION	JF
37	KITCHEN	JF
38	DAVIS	JF
41	ROMANOWSKI	JF
43	PERIS Rethus	JF

Inters Results - 12 runners

	Name	Sc
2	SMITH	JF
7	LOGUE	JF
8	EDWARDS	JF
10	WATSON	JF
12	GERGES	JF

Seniors - 15 runners

	Name	Sc
1	LUTAKOME	JF
3	WELLS	JF
6	ERCOLANO	JF
8	JONES	JF
11	HALFACRE O	JF
12	HALFACRE J	JF
15	DABURN inj	JF

Junior race about to begim

Inters & Seniors line-up

Juniors in the distance!

Warm up with Mr O'Halleran