Lily’s running blog | Running with her heart not just her legs…
South of England Inter-county Champs 1500m
Lily ran in the u15 1500m Inter-county champs at Horspath, Oxford, 1st Sept 2019. Came in with a time of 5:06:68 (8th) running a year young so did well. Lily with her friend Nat (Bedford)
St Albans Striders Event at the track…
Some of the older St Albans AC athletes were invited to the Striders event on 14th August. The team won the 1 mile relay... so fun to watch! Lily looking mini next to some of the Striders!!! Winning team!
First 3000m on the track!
Hertfordshire County 3000m Championships 1st July 2018, Hemel. Lily was the only girl in the race running alongside men and boys! Despite the heat and beating sun, Lily ran well with a time of 11:06.3.
Hertfordshire Schools Champs 1500m
Running for Parmiter's School 9th June 2018 at Hemel - Lily comes 2nd in the 1500m on the podium with Aimi Weightman (Shaftesbury Barnet) and Antonia Jubb. Aimi - 4:50.23Lily - 4:57.45Antonia - 5:01.49
St Albans Park Run – winning female!
Lily's 15th park run and she's the first lady to come in with a time of 19:53 (PB remains at 19:24).
Starring Lily Tse…
Watch this space... we are making a short film about Lily's running journey! Yesterday was day one of filming in a secret location!
NEW PB under 5 minutes!
ESAA English Schools Track and Field Cup 2018 on Friday 18th May 2018 at Woodside Athletic Track, Watford. Well done Lily on getting a new 1500m PB... 4.58.6 and getting 26 points for Parmiters. Shame they didn't get through to the next round...
Herts Country Track and Field Main Champs 7th May 2018
Hot sunny day for a 1500m at Ridlins Athletics Track in Stevenage on a bank holiday Monday. Lily ran the day before at the second EYAL match in St Albans and got a PB of 5.00.0 so she was still buzzing from a great run on her first 1500 of the season. The...
London Mini Marathon 2018
Lily qualified for the Mini Marathon back in January (Herts County Champs) where she came 2nd. The athlete who came first (Ami Weightman decided to run for London where she trains) so Lily was very lucky to be offered a place to run for the second year...
Parliament Hill – National Cross Country Champs 2018
National Cross Country Champs at Parliament Hill. With nearly 10,000 athletes registered to run in 10 races this was a BIG race event with equally big hills! A lovely post-match report from Deborah Steer: A fabulous 6th position for our fantastic under 13...
Chiltern League final match
Chiltern u13 done and dusted for this season! Lily really wanted to run in all 5 matches this year after running in only 2 last year. She came a joint 4th with Ants overall with a score of 17 (behind Abbie Henderson, Natalie Simmons, Holly Henderson). St...
First XC of the season!
Lily's first XC of the season was on Saturday 14th October in Oxford at the Chiltern League. In a field of over 90 u13 girls, Lily made a good start chasing her team mate, Ants to get a quick get away and left the main field in a good strong position. She...
National Road Relays at Sutton Park, Birmingham
Team A: Lily, Mia, Ants After winning the Southern Road Relays 2 weeks ago at Crystal Palace, the club entered the u13 teams into the National Road Relays at the very last minute. After a 2 hour drive and a long queue to get into Sutton Park, the girls...
Road Relay WINNERS!
South of England Athletics Association (SEAA) Road Relay Championships at Crystal Palace. In the u13 girls category there were 49 other teams running. Lily ran the first leg and despite the challenging start on a narrow start line with girls being told off...
Recognition at School
It was the Parmiter's School PE Awards and Review evening yesterday; 2 hours celebrating the sporting achievements of the year. Lily and her friend Lily (yes, 2 Lily's!) were asked to read the review for year 7 girls which was really nice. Lily was...
Open Meets Madness!
A couple of weeks ago Lily took part in her first "Open Meet". Basically it's a crazy event that anyone can enter as long as you run for a club and have an England Athletics Number. Athletes from near and far meet and compete with people at their level...
A busy athletics season!
This is Lily's first proper athletics season and it's been CRAZY and I decided to revamp her blog so lots missing but all events and results available on Power of 10 or on her Races and Results page. One of her main highlights has been running at Sports...
Schools County League (u14)
6 consecutive weeks of County League Athletics for Parmiter's... that should keep Lily busy! Mainly down to do the U14G 1500m but also the odd 4x100! Well done girls in winning the 4x100 today... brilliant race!
London Mini Marathon…. WOW!
Wow wow wow...what an experience! Well done Lily. 3 miles from Old Billingsgate Market, down the Embankment, past Buckingham Palace and finishing down the Mall. Lily ran like the wind and came a brilliant 29th in her age group and got a medal to be proud of!
Our First Park Run – St Albans
www.parkrun.org.uk/stalbans Lily has wanted to do the Park Run #277 for ages so we finally got round to taking her (she's taking a break from her Saturday morning Chinese school). I thought since I was driving her up to Verulamium Park, I may as well do it... it's...
Last XC of the season – National Schools XC
Lily's last race of her first XC season up in Loughborough, Preswold Hall. Great result coming 12th and the team coming FIRST! Gold Medal winners... the fastest Year 7 girls team in the country.
Lufbra Inter-Counties Champs
Another early start on Saturday 11th March 2017... this time to Prestwold Hall in Loughborough. Lily qualified for this race back in January at the Herts County Champs at Hertford Heath where she came second. This race was against other girls in her age group (year...
Social-run-Sundays…
I'm not a runner so not sure if I can put social and run in the same sentence but Lily loves the social run on Sundays. It's basically an all inclusive social-paced run that happens every week for anyone... parent's, siblings, dogs, etc. I did go once (and was very...
Saucony English National Cross Country at Wollaton Park
Saturday 26th February 2017 - Saucony English National Cross Country at Wollaton Park in Nottingham (u13G @ 12:15) Turns out to be a huge race... a bigger and muddier event that we expected! Lily went on the coach with the St Albans Athletics Club team and we waited...
The last race in her first Chiltern League
A snowy day at the lovely Campbell Park, Milton Keynes (must come back for a day out in the summer!) for the last match of the season. Even though she couldn't feel her feet as her toes were frozen she ran well and came in 5th (just overtaken a few metres before the...
Herts School Championships
Herts School Champs @ Verulamium Park in St Albans. Lily's run this race 3 times; twice for Garden Fields School and this year for Parmiter's, Year 7. The last two years have been really muddy but the sun was out this year! The girls set off pretty fast and Lily was...
Parliament Hill
South of England Champs @ Parliament Hill; the home of English Cross Country. Proper hills, lovely views over London! Lily finishes 39 out of 285. Movie of the Girls u13 race Lily gets a little mention in the local paper; Herts Advertiser!
Welcome to Lily’s blog
So I finally got round to creating Lily's running blog; something I've been meaning to do for months. How can I design and build websites all day long without doing one for my children? Oh, she doesn't know I'm doing it but I'm sure she will thank me when she is old...