The main club events this weekend were the season’s first Southern Men’s League and Young Athletes League fixtures, although results were not available at the time of writing. A Whitstable 10k, coastal half marathon and parkruns make up the rest, while going further back Lily and other young athletes have been putting down markers on the track.
Read MoreAt least six Heathsiders toed the line at UK marathons this weekend despite absolutely miserable conditions, while some decided it was just too grim to even bother. On the continent fine weather blessed those running in Hamburg, where Mike Lee achieved a whopping PB.
Read MoreAfter a week of worrying about rain and cold temperatures conditions could hardly have been better for this year’s London Marathon and Heathside was out in full force with 35 crossing the finish line, split almost perfectly evenly between our male and female runners. We saw terrific performances from Tom Aldred, George Stewart and Matt Convery, with Katy Webster and Sarah Swinhoe leading the ladies, both the latter right on their sub 3 hour targets. With 7 of our runners breaking 3 hours, and 5 ladies finishing in under 3h30m we had an excellent day overall.
Read MoreFirstly, I would like to say thank you to Jerry & John for offering me position of men's A team manager and thank you to anyone who has given me tips & advice, I'm sure some of it came in useful somewhere.
Read MoreSpring marathon madness has arrived! In the run-up to London next weekend Heathside was represented in the Brighton, Milan, Paris and Rotterdam marathons. Dan Madams ran a perfectly timed race in Rotterdam, I hear, to post the fastest time of the weekend for our lot, while Sandra was unlucky enough to land a faulty chip in Paris, but will hopefully be consoled by a great self-timed run of 3:40:57.
Read MoreBar the Victoria Park 5 and Maidenhead 10 the Easter bank holiday weekend was all about parkruns, with club members winning five out of 13 of these races featuring Heathsiders, while Mo and Michael took part in the first Watford Open of the season last Wednesday.
Read MoreElsewhere on Sunday we had some great performaces at various half marathons and Sue Rust had a podium finish at the Old Deer Park 10k, returning home with an impressive trophy for first woman.
Read MoreSteve was the sole Heathside representative in the last cross-country fixture of the year on Saturday, coming in first at the North of Thames champs after a car breakdown prevented him from making the Inter-Counties a week ago, with indoor track races, 10ks and a 20 miler also among this week’s results.
Read MoreJames and Johnny wrapped up their cross-country seasons with quality runs in the English Schools Championships in Somerset on Saturday, with James among the young athletes honoured in an inaugural club cross-country awards ceremony on 8 March.
Read MoreThis latest batch of results goes back to the end of February, and provides good news in the form of four Heathside men making the top 20 in the Milton Keynes half, a win for our hastily cobbled-together women’s team in the Horsenden Hill cross-country relays, and PBs from Jo and Rob.
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