RunThrough Victoria Park, Malaga Marathon and Welwyn Festive 5

No cross country this weekend, but plenty of other races to keep people busy. Chris ran a fast five miler at the Welwyn Festive Five, a small group headed to Malaga for some winter sun and a marathon, and there were some PBs at the Christmas Victoria Park 5k, 10k and Half marathon, and a late report from Liam from his Angkor Wat Half where despite the heat he managed a PB.

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Met League consolidation at Uxbridge..

The senior women were missing almost a handful of A-team scorers from previous fixtures but still managed to come second on the day, which is really impressive -- and a relief. We're still top of the league, above Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets and Highgate.

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Julia Bijl runs 2:47 in Valencia

There’s a huge menagerie of results from Heathsiders this week, with several outstanding performances: Seyfu Jamaal ran 14:40 in the Dulwich Parkrun (5k), the fastest in the country, Julia Bijl ran a PB of 2:47:24 in the Valencia Marathon, putting her in the top 50 in the country; Rebecca Piggot ran a PB of 36:19 in winning the Grizzly Bear 10k at Battersea Park; Tom Aldred was the first veteran in the Perivale 5 in 26:34; Rosa Serafini and Catrin Tyler ran PBs of 17:50 and 17:52 in the Ladywell Winter 5000 in Catford while at the Lee Valley Open our juniors broke seven club records.

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Heathside storm San Sebastian

Four Heathsiders made their way to the culinary capital of Spain this weekend, in search of Pintxos and PBs - for the 42nd Edition of Zurich Maratón Internacional San Sebastián.  San Sebastián has a reputation for being wet and wild at this time of year and you could see why on Saturday with ‘blustery’ conditions threatening to make Sunday hard work.

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Heathside juniors and senior women win in Welwyn

This week’s big event was the second Met league cross-country race in Welwyn, which saw a huge club turnout (94 adults and 29 juniors) and many fantastic performances, including wins for the senior women and junior teams, and first place finishes for Thomas Archer and Ben Redland among the juniors.

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Stevenage Half, North London XC Champs and Wendover 10

A strangely quiet weekend for early November - but we made up in quality what was missing in quantity. In the Wendover 10, Heathside placed 5 of the top 8 in the men's race, and Louisa was 2nd Lady, Andy Barnes was third in the Stevenage Half, Annabel had a great run in the New York Marathon and in the North London XC champs Roger Maidment came home 3rd man and Evangelista Divertain was second woman.

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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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