The main news of the weekend is track and field: Lily was excellent again at the English Schools Champs in Birmingham, winning her 400m heat and coming a very close third in the final in 54.90s. Next stop, Oregon!
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You can’t beat this for good tidings: our very own Lily Beckford has been selected to represent the GB&NI team in the World Junior Championships! A stunning track season so far has been wonderfully rewarded with a slot on the 400m relay team sheet. And the beauty of it is that she hasn’t heard the news yet!
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It was a relatively quiet weekend of running - perhaps Glastonbury was to blame. BUT even Dolly was not enough to distract the intrepid gang who braved the Cowman 2014 (half ironman plus) triathlon at Milton Keynes, and who came home triumphant.
Read MoreThe highlight of a hot week was Heathside’s sterling performance in Colchester where our athletes pulled out the trumps in large numbers, coming first by a mile - placing us in close range of a promotion.
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The main event of the weekend was the South of England Athletics Championships at Crystal Palace, where Lily Beckford flew to victory in the U20 400m.
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Masses of races this sunny weekend kept Heathsiders (and now me) very busy – there was the the Ickenham 5 our newest addition to the Rob Jackson Road Race championship, the Blenheim Triathlon, a 1000m Peak Race in Snowdonia, the Jubilee River swim, St Albans Half, Hull 10K and much, much more.
Read MoreThere isn't a main event to report this week, but Heathsiders were out and about enjoing themselves in a variety of events, including night marathons in Luxembourg, open water swims in Hackney, and of course following the Brownlee's footsteps at the Hyde Park London Triathlon.
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Nine gold, seven silver, five bronze: thus the medal haul from this weekend’s county track & field champs, where Lily Beckford’s storming 55.43s 400m was the highlight. And then there are triathlons, duathlons, and plain ol' running to report on.
Read MoreA fair number of Heathsiders kicked off their summer on the track at Watford. Lily ran a PB in the 100, while everyone else plumped for the 1500. Particularly impressive were Ni'ia in her club track debut, and Tony comprehensively demolishing the club V50 1500m record.
Read MoreThis Bank Holiday weekend was fairly quiet race-wise for Heathsiders but there were nevertheless plenty of PBs to report. Ollie and Vicky Pound both ran PBs at the Worcester Half Marathon, and Gavin and Alice Parish ran 10k PBs at the Self Transcendence 10k Battersea and Regents Park 10k respectively. Andy Welshman ran 82min45sec in the North Lincs Half Marathon, which he reccomends as a pancake flat half on closed rural roads with fanstastic views. What more could you want?
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