Thursday 26th September saw the last of the series of 3 race nights at Willesden Sports Centre, completing the 2024 Club Track Championships.
Since the pandemic, track events at the club have been few and far between, but this year has seen a concerted effort to bring track racing back to the club - and all 3 nights were fantastic experience for everyone involved. Whilst the club is known as a longer distance running club over the last few years, it was great to see runners focusing on shorter distances and getting to understand what's involved in a race when the laps are shorter than 5km. Ruben Carvajal showed us what's possible when you concentrate on the shorter distances, with his focussed training and hard work enabling him to bring home 1st in both 800m and 1500m 40-49 Men with the fastest overall times, whilst Yusr Yasin took 1st place in Senior Men in both 3000m and 1500m, the latter less than 2 seconds ahead of Robert Duggleby. The 800's saw the closest finish though, with Mahamat Ahmat fighting off an impressive late surge from Peter Reupke to beat him by less than 3 tenths of a second.
Whilst the men outnumbered the women on track, the efforts and times were no less impressive, Ellie Keable taking both the 3000m and 1500m Senior Women's titles in commanding style.
Congratulations to everyone involved, runners, timekeepers and supporters alike. Here's to an even bigger and better series of events next year.
3000m
Senior Men
1st - Yusr Yasin - 00:10:09
2nd - James Welch - 00:10:51
Senior Women
1st - Ellie Keable - 00:12:24
2nd - Roma Denetto - 00:14:53
40-49 years Men
1st - Sam Sutherland - 00:10:23
2nd - Ruben Carvajal - 00:10:39
50-59 years Men
1st - Peter Reupke - 00:12:59
2nd - Rob Baillie - 00:14:19
3rd - Patrick Haggard - 00:14:33
60-69 years Men
1st - Charles Tatham - 00:16:13
1500m
Senior Men
1st - Yusr Yasin - 04:41.21
2nd - Robert Duggleby - 04:43.00
Senior Women
1st - Ellie Keable - 05:46.64
2nd - Daniela Nolan - 06:13.51
40-49 years Men
1st - Ruben Carvajal - 04:36.90
2nd - Sam Sutherland - 04:55.80
3rd - Dustin Daniel - 05:00.26
4th - Stephen Allison - 05:37.64
5th - Mahamat Ahmat - 05:57.00
6th - Brian Smyth - 06:00.80
50-59 years Men
1st - Peter Reupke - 05:48.67
2nd - Rob Baillie - 06:16.55
50-59 years Women
1st - Gillian Cross - 06:40.55
60-69 years Women
1st - Susan Kennedy - 06:55.70
70-79 years Men
1st - Bill O'Connor - 10:00.91
800m
Senior Men
1st - Harry Brierley - 02:13.58
2nd - Stefan Anton - 02:18.75
3rd - Emmeran Johnson - 02:20.06
4th - Nick Christie - 02:29.12
5th - Hussain Adam - 02:40.08
Senior Women
1st - Nadia Morris - 02:58.02
40-49 years Men
1st - Ruben Carvajal - 02:11.46
2st - Sam Sutherland - 02:18.72
3rd - Dustin Daniel - 02:21.05
4th - Stephen Allison - 02:43.22
5th - Mahamat Ahmat - 02:46.80
50-59 years Men
1st - Peter Reupke - 02:47.09
50-59 years Women
1st - Gillian Cross - 03:12.47
60-69 years Women
1st - Susan Kennedy - 03:23.37
70-79 years Men
1st - Bill O'Connor - 04:51.51
