Kirk-Smith takes bronze in Belfast

A bitty report this week. Highlights include Adam Kirk-Smith’s bronze medal in the Belfast Half (in a huge PB time of 69.13), Rebecca Bunting winning the off-road Royston Runners half, Heathside’s men’s fourth place in the Middlesex Road Relays and Gaby Johnson and Ciara Owens competing in the ITU World Triathlon Championships in Mexico.

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Gavin EvansComment
Youth success at Middlesex Relays; Great North Run; Highgate Open Meeting

While it wasn't a massively busy week by the Heathside often busy and far flung standards, there was a full bingo card of running events over the past few days which included success for the youngsters at the Middlesex Road Relays to one of Europe's biggest half marathons, a track meet, a trail race, a triathlon and parkrunning. If there's a type of run going on somewhere, chances are a Heathsider's doing it. So without further ado, time for the weekly run down:

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London HeathsideComment
LICC, triathlon champs, and a bluffers guide to multievents

We had a great track and field turnout at the final London Inter Club Challenge (LICC) fixture at Hendon, where there were some outstanding performances. Of particular note were Jimmy T and Rich Macaulay both coming third in high-class 100 and 800 metre fields respectively, with Rich inside two minutes again, and Charles Hardy leading home the 1500m race by some considerable distance.

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London HeathsideComment
Southern Athletics League #5, Colchester

The track and field season is finally over. This report focuses on our overall track and field performance throughout the summer, rather than individual results from the final SAL match (which was windy and, overall, not really a day for PBs – unless your name is Gokce Baydar, in which case you smash the women’s V35 pole vault club record with a whopping 2.20 m and the triple jump club record with a leap of 8.03 m).

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London HeathsideComment
The Happy Wanderers…

Heathside’s Parkrun Tourism Dept. visited runs at Barnsley, Warrington, Walsall, Market Harborough, Holkham, Glasgow and Edinburgh; Olivier Le Polain kept up his unbeaten record at Aldenham recording his 5th 1st placing in a time of 16:45.

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London HeathsideComment
PBs and prizes at Battersea park

This week’s highlights include another club record for Adam Kirk-Smith and numerous successes at the Battersea Park 5k, the latest race in the club championship. This saw a stunning win by Olivier le Polain and over half of the 30 Heathsiders achieving PBs of up to 96 seconds.

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Emilia VynnyckyComment
Burnham Beeches Half, Pride 10K, 54321 Trail Marathon, Trail des Fantômes and Young Athletes League

Despite being a relatively quiet weekend for racing, Heathsiders managed to produce some excellent performances in various events around the country and beyond. Of special note - Katie Curd came in first woman in her first marathon, and Manuel Yeboa, Sanaa Neunie, Kyerah Scott and Fabien Weston all gained first places in the Middlesex Young Athletes League.

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Caroline WhiteComment