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Ten Heathsiders travelled to the outskirts of London on Sunday to run in the Ickenham 5 mile race, the latest installment in Heathside’s road race championship. It’s reputedly fast and flat, despite the the occasional sharp corner, but the warm conditions on Sunday may not have helped everyone.
Read MoreCongrats this week to everyone who turned out to contribute to an overall Heathside victory in the second match of the SAL. Special mention too to Mike Stocks who completed Comrades in a fantastic time of just a shade over 7 hours, and Phoebe, Liam and Ruari for some excellent performances in the Youth Development League.
Read MoreThis Bank Holiday week-end was dominated by wins and PBs. We have some belated results from the famous night of the 10,000 PBs last week, where Tom Aldred and Adam Kirk-Smith ran fabulous times, with Tom’s time being the best that that a Heathsider has achieved for many years. The highlight was the Middlesex Athletics Championship last week-end, where Heathsiders came away with 12 medals. There were many outstanding perfomances and PBs, notably from Rachel Seckl, Henry Damon, Adam Kirk-Smith, Jacob Philips, Darnell Plummer. Heathsiders also excelled in the Herts triathlon and achieved PBs in various other road runs.
Read MoreDoo doo doo doo doo dooooo do...apologies both for this week’s report being somewhat slower to arrive than Dirty Den's comeback from the dead and also for the excruciating CrouchEnders ‘gags’, partly inspired by the fact that Minty from Phil's garage started the week’s big event, the Hornsey/North London YMCA 10k. There was no suspense or cliffhangers in sight as the stellar cast of Team Heathside cleaned up more thoroughly than Dot Cotton’s launderette, with Rebecca Piggott crowned Queen (Vic) of the women’s event (more to come on the ladies’ fantastic performance later) while Heathside picked up both the men’s and women’s team prizes and young Liam Garrett strode home to win the u-16s race in the junior events.
Read MoreThis has been a good season so far for Heathside Track and Field and another good peformance from the Vets on Monday 18th May at Stevenage brought another solid mid-table result, and a cluster of PBs, SBs and club records. More details below.
Read MoreLondon Heathside has made its first venture into a Veterans' League.
Read MoreRight at the top of this week's report is the second running of the Hackney Half Marathon. No one contributed much of an account of this so it's down to me, although I'm definitely not going to go for the usual lazy stereotype of "Hackney = hipsters, blah, blah, blah".
Read MoreSparser pickings than usual this time, with the major thrust of the marathon season nearly over (still Edinburgh to come). Three of us competed in the Milton Keynes Marathon, one in the MK Half Marathon, one in the 10k Gaddesden Gallop, and 31 Heathsiders took part in parkruns on Saturday. Late addition: Six of our athletes took part in the Regent's Park 10k on Sunday, with a second place for Adam Kirk-Smith. And another late addition: 20 of our junior athletes took part in the YDLL Southern NE in Eltham, with first places for Liam Garrett, Ruairi McGonogle and Fabienne Weston.
Read MoreHeathside's U15 track and field team achieved a fine turn out for the first match of the season, with more than 20 taking part. For details of performances see this fuller report. The U15s train at the Finsbury Park Track on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. See youtube videos of U13 and U15 boys 1500m races
Read MoreMADNESS! plus Lily Allen, The Kinks, Ralph McTell, Gerry Rafferty - just some of the artistes, to name but a few, who have had hit songs about London, but none of whom (as far as I am aware???) have ever run it - unlike the 48 Heathsiders (at the last count) who started the 35th Virgin Money London Marathon on a fairly cool and drizzly Sunday morning.
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