Bunting wins at Beachy Head / Tom and Mimi win at NoTT Cross Country

A real mix of running this week, with some headline successes for Tom Archer and Mimi Blake in the U17 events at the North of the Thames Champs and Rebecca Bunting at the Beachy Head marathon. Elsewhere, Mike Stocks had the honour of representing team GB & NI and taking on the world's best ultramarathoners at the IAU 24 Hour World Championships event in France and there was a sub-16 time for Jem O'Flaherty at the monthly Serpentine 5k race. 

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Benjy Bediako wins Minithon 600m

There were several outstanding performances from Heathsiders over the last weekend. Our speedy 11-year-old Benjy Bediako broke his own club record in winning the 600m in the Minithon in Lee Valley in a time of 1:42:37. Marco Serena ran a PB in Amsterdam in 2:37:51 and Heathside’s women came 6th out of 45 teams in the Southern Cross-Country Relays, with Rebecca Piggott running the fastest (anchor) leg. And we had a record number of six wins in Parkruns.

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All Hail King Rob!

On an historic weekend for distance running, history makers -the ladies team, returned to the mud to slay the opposition, Rob Shulman stepped up for a 100 mile race, some bloke ran 1.59 in a marathon somewhere and some woman broke a world record in another marathon somewhere: 

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Medals in Middlesex, PBs in Berlin and cross-country kicks off in Horsenden Hill

The most popular event of the fortnight for Heathside was the Middlesex 10K last Sunday, featuring 58 Heathsiders, numerous PBs, county medals and a few age category prizes.  These were helped by the apparently ideal weather conditions reported by the organisers - “mild moderate wind, dry but wet ground”.  First in for Heathside was Seyfu Jamaal, who finished in a swift 31:15 and an impressive 3rd in a quality field.  Tom Aldred finished 12 seconds after that to finish 4th overall, followed by Andy Barnes.   Martin Potter and Pete Crockford ran well to finish first in their age groups, with Pete awarded the county gold medal.  Other county medals in the men’s race were awarded to Seyfu (bronze), Tom Aldred (gold, V40), Martin Potter (silver V50) and Gavin Evans (bronze V50).

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Middlesex Road relays

There were medals galore at the Middlesex Road relays as well as some impressive running elsewhere around the country, including at the Isle of Wight three-eventer, the Purbeck Festival, the Richmond Running Festival and the Harrow Half.

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Celine Bradley shatters Dingle marathon record

There was plenty of Heathside action on the track, roads and trails over the past week. Top billing this time is shared by our U20 star Seyfu Jamaal who ran a fine 14:59 PB at the Highgate Harriers Autumn Open on Hampstead Heath on Wednesday evening, and Celine Bradley, who not only won the very hilly Dingle Marathon in Ireland on Sunday 8th, but shattered the record by 12 minutes and came third overall in an astonishing time for that course of 2:53:35.

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The crowned Jules

Julia Bijl held her nerve and obliterated her main rivals whilst putting the boys up front under some serious pressure to take a scinitllating overall Ladies' victory with a glorious PB to boot!  Andrew Mcgeary was close behind taking 6th overall and 1st Vet, with Rachel Tranter taking 1st V50.

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