The annual County Championship weekender saw the various competing Heathsiders win a bumper combined total of 19 medals and 7 athletes crowned as County Champions. Saturday saw the Seniors, U20 and U17s compete in testing conditions at the Lee Valley track with morning rain showers turning into sunshine but hampered by a strong wind.
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The highlight of a busy post-London Marathon week was Jem O’Flaherty’s magnificent sixth place over 10k in the European U20 Road Race Championships in Northern Italy in a time of 31:54 – leading the team to bronze medal position. There was an excellent 3000m PB (8:30) for Jem’s Heathside teammate Liam Garrett and yet another fast marathon for Jim Connell in Milton Keynes (3:02:56) – just two weeks after running the Boston Marathon.
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Despite not racing in London this year i was heavily involved and fortunate to secure a rather good volunteering gig handing out Goody bags to finishers on the Mall. With an early start at 8am, it's quite an operation with over 100 people in my team and around 500 volunteers in the finish area doing all manner of good deeds.
Read MoreSome of the week’s best performances came in parkruns; there were first place finishes for Heathsiders at no fewer than seven different runs.
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What a cracking start to the track and field season. The incredible turn out of volunteers at our home SAL match meant that the day ran perfectly. A huge thank you to all the organisers, officials and volunteers.
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Manchester and Rotterdam marathons kicked off the Spring marathon season on Sunday, and all those hard months of training reaped great rewards for many.
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In part 2 of this week’s race roundup, we report on the Paris, Brighton and Boston marathons, as well as the Droitwich half marathon, Thames Towpath 10 and the Highgate Harriers open meeting.
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A bit of a fallow week this week, with Spring marathoners due a non-racing weekend, but there was still the typical mix of Heathsiders out on the roads, track and trails.
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Seyfu won the London Landmarks Half Marathon by a country mile on Sunday (probably more) as he finished over 5 mins ahead of the field, with Michele Bucci in second place leading the way for a great day at the office for a bunch of Heathsiders who had decided that one half marathon in this campaign just wasn’t enough!
Read MoreThe half marathon season is in full flow. Many of us are training for a full marathon - the likes of London, Boston, Manchester, Paris and Brighton to name a few, and March offers up nicer weather and a chance to put all that winter training to the test in a “tune up race”.
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