The main event of the weekend was the Middlesex Track and Field Championships at Lee Valley, where we had a great turnout, a decent haul of medals and some PB performances.
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The weekend before last (April 30th), John Driscoll was in not-so-sunny and very windy NE Spain for the European Age Group Duathlon Championships, held in Soria. He reports
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Heathside opened their Southern Athletics League campaign with a fantastic win in Cambridge where we defeated London rivals Serpentine, Ryston Runners and, most impressively, the host club, Cambridge and Coleridge.
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The outstanding news of the weekend (along with Heathside’s triumph at the Cambridge SAL, which gets its own special report) was that Mike Stocks managed to not only run 100 miles in The Thames Path 100, but to win the race too! Other races include Hackney Half, Maratona Sant’antonio in Padua, Last Friday of the Month, Belfast marathon and a triathlon in Gran Canaria.
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Months of hard training and long runs finally came to an end on Sunday for at least 42 Heathsiders, who ran in the London marathon. Cheered on by Heathside’s bobble hat rabblers and the unique London public, there were great performances and PBs, and an unforgettable day was had by all.
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A few people ran in races away, or, in some cases, very far away, from London. Highlights include the Middlesex Young Athletes League, Watford Open meeting, the Hamburg and Southampton marathons, and the Solitudelauf half marathon.
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Marathon season has kicked in – sometimes hot, sometimes cold: luck of the draw. This week our lot ran the 26.2 (42.2) in the heat of Boston, Massachusetts and the relative cool of Boston, Lincolnshire, after last week’s Paris, Rotterdam, Hannover and Brighton, and next Sunday’s little matter of London.
Read MoreWe had three Heathsiders in action in Brighton, where the field is led out by a fume-spewing Mod-themed motor cavalcade of mopeds and Mini Coopers. Additional points to the organisers for including hundredths of seconds in finishers' times but not bothering to list their running clubs.
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Since it’s Manchester, if I’d left myself more time I’d have thrown in a bunch of laboured Oasis puns but we’ll just have to Roll With It as we reflect on a magnificent effort from 5 Heathsiders who took on the 26.2 miles and enjoyed some Morning Glory, led home by distance king Tom Aldred as he finished in 5th place, with an incredible time of 2:27:08 (perhaps even more incredible that this wasn’t even a PB!).
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Sebastian Harrison competed in a Sprint Tri and reports: "I did the East Leake Triathlon on Sunday just past. It was a sprint triathlon so 400m swim (pool), 22km cycle and 5km run. I got PBs in both the swim (6:28) and the run (17:58), which I am very pleased with.
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