The highlights this week include an impressive performance in Loughborough from Heathside’s rising star, Ruairi McGonigle, new national champions and club records at the British Masters championships and super-fast times in the Finchley 20 and half marathons in North London, Surrey and elsewhere.
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Twenty three Heathsiders travelled to Watford on Sunday to run in the penultimate fixture of the Sunday cross-country league. The numbers were considerably down, compared to the previous day’s mass turn-out, but the runners made up for it with their enthusiasm – something that was much-needed, given the conditions.
Read MoreIt was a great week-end for cross-country. One hundred and eleven Heathsiders travelled to the end of the Piccadilly line this week-end to discover Trent Park, venue of the penultimate fixture of the Met League. It has idyllic scenery, which, when translated into cross-country language, equates to undulations and long, long hills…lots of them. The recent rain meant that there was enough mud in places to keep even the most hardened cross-country runner reasonably happy, although it failed to transform the course into the mud bath that many had feared.
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In this week’s race report, we have exciting results from Wilian, where numerous Heathsiders ran in the Sunday cross country league and there was both an impressive debut run by Phoebe Crockford and a welcome return to cross-country from Charles Hardy and Tim Marshall. We also have results from the Velopark 10 mile race and belated results from the Inter-counties cross-country championships.
Read MoreWith bitterly cold conditions and less than a week to go until the next Met league cross-country race, only a few hardened Heathsiders were out racing this week. The highlights include stunning runs in New York from Mario Cadete and Jason Bredhauer, great runs in the Marlow, Stevenage and Lancaster half marathons and various races in Kent, involving some of Heathside’s best-known married couples.
Read MoreThe highlights this week include 10Ks in and around London, half marathons in Ealing, Cheltenham, Winchester and Texel, marathons in Berlin and Loch Ness, as well as an open-water swimming event.
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This week’s highlights include another club record for Adam Kirk-Smith and numerous successes at the Battersea Park 5k, the latest race in the club championship. This saw a stunning win by Olivier le Polain and over half of the 30 Heathsiders achieving PBs of up to 96 seconds.
Read MoreThere were relatively few races to report on this week, suggesting that the Brexit referendum had even influenced the running community. The highlights include Adam Kirk-Smith's run in Fast Friday, where he set the track record, Satu Hietanen’s record-breaking performance in Hyde Park and Jo Irwin’s dramatic come-back in the Herculean triathlon.
Read MoreWith many Heathsiders away at the Sandy Balls training week-end, only a few braved the searing temperatures to race this week-end. The highlights this week include Adam Kirk-Smith’s tantalising PB in Hackney, the Velopark duathlon and an epic race against the car in Cambridge.
Read MoreIt was a busy week-end. Highlights include the South of England Road Relays, an update on the Road Race championship, great achievements at the indoor athletics in Lea Valley, numerous half marathons and two new club records.
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