Glory for Heathside Women at XC Relays; Marathon PB extravaganza

The cross country season is barely a few weeks old but Heathside can already celebrate our first piece of silverware as the Women set the standard once again by winning the relays at Wormwood Scrubs. Pete Holland has captured the mood perfectly, so his report is included in full just below. The men were hampered by some honesty (who said it prospers?) and a subsequent DQ, while away from West London there were PB laden marathons aplenty from Essex to Oxfordshire, the Basque Country and rural Italy.

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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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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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