Report From The
London Business Houses Bridges Relays 17th June 2015
Civil Service Women Retain Their LBH Bridges Relays
Title Winning Team Gold and it was Team Bronze For Civil Service Men.
Natasha Sheel and Tom
Aldred are LBH Individual Silver Medallists and Megan Roberts Claimed the
Individual Bronze.
On Wednesday evening 17th June the London Civil
Service Athletics Team upheld their impressive record in the annual London
Business Houses Bridges Relays at Westminster with our Women's A team winning
LBH team gold to retain their title (5th women's team overall) and our men's A
team came so close to retaining their team title but had to be content with LBH
team bronze only 1 second off team silver and a mere 3 seconds off team gold!
Our fastest runners from the men were Tom Aldred
who was the LBH individual silver medallist (6th overall). Tom completed the
2.3 mile course kicking us off on the opening leg in an impressive 11:30.
Although this was 6 seconds down on last year. Tom did have a valid excuse for
his dilly dallying as, in fairness to him and indeed to all the runners, there
was a strong gusty wind to contend with this year. Dan Steel clocked in at
12:25 on the 2nd leg. Alastair Locke, recently back from injury, put in a good
shift on the 3rd leg with 13:19 and Steve Norris closed for the A team with
13:09. We had a third man go sub 13
minutes for the Civil Service, it was Adam Lewis who recorded 12:53 for the B
Team. Not bad at all considering Adam has never been attached to any UKA
affiliated club. With potential like he has shown I can't see him remaining an unaffiliated
athlete for long!
Natasha Sheel was the
fastest Civil Service female with a time of 14:29 recorded on the 1st leg for
the women's A team and secured her the LBH individual silver medal (10th
overall). Natasha wasn't finished there though as she
stoically went out and ran the anchor leg in 15.49 for our mixed open C team to
ensure that they closed. Megan Roberts clocked in at 14:31 on the 2nd leg which
also bagged for herself the LBH individual bronze medal (13th overall). Ilona Bagi brought the A team
home on the glory leg recording 15:11 and thus ensuring team gold!
Congratulations Civil Service women on ensuring
that the Civil Service remain the LBH Bridges Relays Champions!
Rose Baker 15:54, Maureen Noel 16:27 and Elizabeth Marchant 15:31 formed the B Team and put up a good solid
performance to finish just outside the LBH medals, coming home just ten seconds
behind the Metropolitan Police. Our men's B team Crispin Allen 13:24, Adam
Lewis 12:53, Kimon Doulis
13:37 and Gareth Ward 16:31 were solid too finishing 16th out of 91 LBH open
teams and 28th out of 119 overall.
Our C team of Jonathan Cody 18:37, Colin Armstrong
18:47, Matilda Curtis 19:38 and Natasha Sheel 17:21
(2nd run) were 78th LBH team and 105th overall did well with a fair number
of teams trailing behind them. Likewise
our women's C team of Linda Ingram 17:05, Eniko Nadas 18:37 and Christine Munden
21:11 also put up a valiant effort.
The event was as popular as ever selling out weeks
in advance of the closing date, attracting just under 600 runners. The Civil
Service have built up a good record in the LBH Bridges Relays over many years
and it was good to see us well represented once again and bringing home the
medals. At one point we had 40 runners prior to the withdrawals so to still
come away with so many medals shows what good strength in depth we have in the
Civil Service.
Civil Service Open A Team (4 x men)
Overall Time
3rd 6th 50:23
Leg A Leg B Leg
C Leg D
Tom Aldred 11:30
Dan Steel 12:25 Alastair Locke 13:19
Steve Norris 13:09
Civil Service Open B Team (4 x men)
16th
28th 56:25
Crispin Allen 13:24 Adam Lewis 12:53 Kimon Doulis 13:37 Gareth
Ward 16:31
Civil Service Open C Team (2 x men x 2 women)
78th 105th
1:12:52
Jonathan Cody 18:39
Colin Armstrong 18:47 Matilda
Curtis 19:38 Natasha Sheel
15.49 (2nd run)
Total Closing Teams 91 119
Civil Service Women's A Team (3 x women)
1st
5th 44:09
Natasha Sheel 14:29 Megan
Roberts 14:31 Ilona Bagi
15:11
Civil Service Women's B Team (3 x women)
4th 12th
47:52
Rose Baker 15:54 Maureen Noel 16:27 Elizabeth Marchant
15:31
Civil Service Women's C Team (3 x women)
10th 27th 56:52
Linda Ingram
17:05 Eniko Nadas 18:37 Christine Munden
21:11
Total Closing Teams 15 33
Full results can be seen here.
Dropbox link to photographs taken by
Tim Mead here.
Well done everyone.
Regards,
John
Acting Team Manager
London Civil Service Athletics Team