Saturday's Met League opener saw over 100 Heathsiders hit the bone-dry Claybury course, where we had some promising individual runs from our young athletes, our women teamed up to make it a winning start to the season, and we finished the afternoon with our two best runners racing it out at the front end of the men's field.
Read MoreEighteen heathsiders ventured north of the M25 on Sunday to take part in the ever popular Ridgeway Run in Tring (this year it sold out well before race day). This is a beautiful, but "challenging", 15k trail race over bridleways and footpaths.
Read MoreThe highlights this week include 10Ks in and around London, half marathons in Ealing, Cheltenham, Winchester and Texel, marathons in Berlin and Loch Ness, as well as an open-water swimming event.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreWhile 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:
Read MoreDespite unpromising skies and a suspended overground connection, we had a flood of Heathsiders at the Middlesex 10k, the latest instalment of our club road race champs. We managed to get 52 over the finish line, ably supported by a small but cheerful rabble of non-participating clubmates.
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreThe 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).
Read MoreHeathside’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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