The highlight this week was the final SAL last Saturday, which included great contributions from the team of Heathside helpers and fantastic performances from many Heathside athletes.
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In the latest in the series of the club Road Race championship, Heathside was led home by Jack Hardy in 31st place, with Rebecca Piggott coming in 2nd female overall. Other highlights were 1st places in the V60 catgories for Sue Eedle and Nick Dodd, high placings in the V50 category for Martin Potter and Mark Jefford, and a number of PB’s throughout the field
Read MoreA brief race report for the week of 30th July with strong performances all round.
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The heatwave and summer holidays don’t appear to have dampened Heathsiders enthusiasm for racing. At the final Middlesex Youth Athletics fixture of the season, our participants were not going to let summer holidays stand in their way and had wins in both A and B streams for the U11 boys and U15 girls 800m.
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Another relatively quiet week as we all sweltered away in tropical London, but first up we go back a bit further to Saturday the 14th and glow in the reflected glory of Heathside’s latest home fixture in the Southern Athletics League. Over to captain Noelle for more details of what is turning into another promotion push:
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Relatively slim pickings this week by our usual standards, but the highlights include a first place for Annabel Litchfield in the hot and hilly Orion Forest 5 (33:04); another club V60 record for Pete Crockford in the Sri Chinmoy 5k at Battersea Park (in 18:41); another gruelling ultra for Lenny Martin (this one a 101 km mountainous course in Switzerland) and a sprightly PB for Sion Lewis in the Standard Chartered Great City Race (16:34).
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A successful 5000s was held at Finsbury Park on 5th July which was: ‘a very slick and successful open meeting, with so many volunteers making it a delight.’ Other highlights of the racing week were Dualthon World Championships, Run Through Regent’s Park and the Eastbourne 10k.
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The main event of the week was the aptly named Fast Friday event, although along with the fast times there were some lap counting errors adversely affecting 3 of our runners, as Gavin reports ;
Read MoreHeathside celebrated a win in the Men’s match and a second place in the Women’s match at the penultimate meeting held at Lee Valley Athletics Centre. Next stop Hemel Hemsptead on Monday 23rd July for the 4th and final scheduled match.
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In part 2 of this week’s report, we have some outstanding performances in the hot and hilly Trent Park Triffic Trail 10k, where Heathside ladies won a prize in almost every category, great performances in memory of George Stewart at the Hillingdon triathlon and another successful record-breaking day for Pete Crockford.
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