Hail and Hilly

The big race of the weekend (in terms of Heathside participants) was, of course, the London XC Champs on Hampstead Heath, where in relatively mild and dry weather conditions, 47 Men and 27 Ladies competed in club colours. Heathside's Ladies continued their glorious xc season with Ella Waldman, Kelly Thorneycroft, Rebecca Bunting and Sue Rust securing a team 1st place with less than half the points of the 2nd team, all four finishing in the top 15. Kelly, Rebecca and Sue finished in a group of 5 runners, separated by only 2 seconds, in what must have been a thrilling sprint finish to watch!

London HeathsideNovember 23, 2016Comment

Not the Met League or the Sunday League

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.

Caroline WhiteNovember 16, 2016Comment

Met League Stevenage

Stevenage saw yet another monster turnout with again over 100 Heathside vests brightening up the forest free course.

London HeathsideNovember 16, 2016Comment

Sunday League Grovelands Park

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.

Mark GeorgeNovember 16, 2016Comment

Super Mario run in New York

With 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.

Emilia VynnyckyNovember 9, 2016Comment

Coughing Swan swoops to Beachy Head triumph

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.

Gavin EvansNovember 2, 2016Comment

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.

London HeathsideOctober 26, 2016Comment

Half century of Heathsiders take on soggy Cabbage Patch

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.

London HeathsideOctober 19, 2016Comment

Heathside's ladies lead the way in Met League opener

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.

London HeathsideOctober 12, 2016Comment

Marathons, trail runs, NWLYA XC, Last Friday of the Month 5K, Regents Park 10K and much much more

Caroline WhiteOctober 5, 2016Comment

reports

Have a read about the Heathsiders competing in blue, red and gold every week - the team put together a summary of recent competition which gives a flavour of some of the achievements of the club. Reports date back years and you can read through all of them below.

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