Heathside's alphas in fraternity success

Heathside’s near domination of the North London cross country scene continued apace this week, though this time out at the Fraternity Cup it was a couple of individual results that stood out most as James Wooldridge and Adam Kirk-Smith captured a fantastic 1-2 in the men’s race. The women weren’t far behind though, led home by Rebecca Bunting making a welcome return to Heathside colours. More on the Trent Park races from Captain Chris shortly.

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Heathsiders take gold in Hackney Marshes & Trent Park

Heathsiders triumphed in the Hackney Marshes mud and rain at the North London Cross-Country Championships on Saturday, taking home both team winners’ trophies. Our four A-team women (Rachel Newstead, Cas Wright, Leah Michaels and Bethany Scott) were in the top 15 as were our six A-team men (Adam Kirk Smith, Andrew Brooker, James Woodridge, Andy Barnes, Martin Potter and Chris Norris) plus Tom Livermore. Our vets also took double gold, led by Martin among the men and Ourida Sid among the women.

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Results round-up

A relatively quiet weekend race-wise, with no XC fixtures. The main event for the club was the Stevenage Half, the penultimate event in the Club’s Rob Jackson Road Race Championships, in which Sandra Buckton increased her lead at the top of the Womens, and Robert Bowler picked up some very valuable points to bolster his 2nd position and challenge current leader Andy Barnes in the Mens. 

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OMM! Swinhoe flies around Beachy Head, extreme events and pork pies

It was a week of extreme and (sometimes) eclectic events, with Heathsiders preparing for the next Met League race in many ways.  Sarah Swinhoe continued to amaze with her return to form by winning the second hardest marathon in Britain in style, a few Heathsiders practised their cross-country pacing at the North of the Thames cross-country race, which Heathside’s under-17 boys dominated, Andy Barthorpe tackled a two day mountain marathon Scotland, whilst the McKeown brothers went their separate ways in pursuit of pork pies and chutney (and hopefully finished with a picnic).

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Half Marathons galore, Yorkshire Marathon, Ridgeway 15k

Heathsiders were out in force elsewhere showing that road running certainly isn’t ready to slide into hibernation over the winter just yet. There were half marathon PBs galore at the Royal Parks, Peterborough and Oxford, some of the more evergreen Heathsiders took on the Ridgeway Trail run through Hertfordshire, the Yorkshire Marathon saw another pair of PBs and there was some domestic rivalry at the Peninsula Triathlon.

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