The fifth and final round of the Southern Athletics League took place on Saturday at Lee Valley, where despite many good performances our second place finish wasn’t enough to gain promotion, for which we needed a win. We had many new athletes who made their debuts this season, often in new events, and hopefully will hold us in good stead for 2015.
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Top honours in this week’s race report goes to Djanira Costa for winning silver in the U20 hurdles in the Southern Intercounties on Sunday, a day after she turned out for her club for the final SAL fixture, while Gavin’s account of his London tri – “a long litany of idiocy” – cannot fail to make you laugh, as luckily it did him, too. [report updated]
Read MoreRelatively slim pickings this week, what with summer holidays and all, but pride of place goes, once again, Tom Aldred who won the Civil Service 10k last Wednesday by a massive margin in 32 minutes – a time made even more impressive by the baking heat.
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Pride of place goes to James for a brilliant midweek 800m, first place and inside two minutes. Happily, if you have just shy of 120 seconds to spare, there's video footage on YouTube, courtesy of Zac. If you don't fancy hearing Zac's commentary, you can always pop your favourite two-minute song in your earphones. At the same meet, Lauren ran an excellent PB in the 800 and Myles got a PB in the High Jump.
Read MoreThe 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.
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