There was a massive double helping of cross country at the weekend with the 2nd Met League on Saturday held in Stevenage and the Sunday League the following day held more locally in Grovelands Park. Both had a great turnout. BUT while we wait with bated breath for these reports to appear, here is the best of the rest.
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Stevenage saw yet another monster turnout with again over 100 Heathside vests brightening up the forest free course.
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Heathsiders were greeted with a bright and sunny morning and almost perfect conditions for the 2nd Sunday league event of the the season at Grovelands Park Southgate, and were rewarded by some fine individual and team results, helped by a large turnout of 46 runners.
Read MoreWith bitterly cold conditions and less than a week to go until the next Met league cross-country race, only a few hardened Heathsiders were out racing this week. The highlights include stunning runs in New York from Mario Cadete and Jason Bredhauer, great runs in the Marlow, Stevenage and Lancaster half marathons and various races in Kent, involving some of Heathside’s best-known married couples.
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Sarah Swan retained her Beachy Head marathon title on Saturday, despite running with a pesky cough – and a vow to treat it as ‘just a training run’. Also on the marathon front Sergio Manzaneque put in an impressive PB of 2:41.42 in Frankfurt.
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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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Undeterred by weather that you wouldn't send a duck out in, a cheerful crowd of more than 50 Heathsiders descended on Twickenham on Sunday to contest the Cabbage Patch 10, the latest round of the club's Rob Jackson road race championships.
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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.
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Eighteen 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.
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