A true mix of events this week with Met League, Valencia marathon and opening Indoor Open all taking part, The Met league saw Rebecca Bunting 2nd in her first XC after injury, Sam Macaulay was the fastest Heathsider in Valencia and the first open meeting of the year at lee valley saw 4 new club records set.
Read MoreThis week features Championship athletics from Horsenden Hills with Charlie Nicolson finishing 2nd in the U15Boys Inter-counties. Others took part in the Masters XC. There was also Road racing form Florence and Indoor athletics. Elsewhere there was good representation at the Hatfield 5. In Battersea Rebecca Piggott was 1st woman in the British Masters 5Km while James Hurrell was 4th in the men’s race.
Read MoreCross Country at Trent Park was to the fore this week, where Peter Gould finished first Chingford League runner ( taking 2nd in the Fraternity Cup ), while the Men’s and Women’s teams took 1st and 2nd places respectively in the Div 2 team competition ; there was also the 3rd NWLL meeting of the season for our junior athletes, featuring individual wins for Lettice Gundry and Dylan Mills
Read MoreRebecca Piggott was first senior woman over the finish line at Horsenden Hill Met League and Charlie Nicolson was the first Junior male. Excellent results too at Fulham and Brighton 10K
Read MoreThis was a fine week for our cross-country runners, both junior and senior. At the London Cross-Country Championships at Hampstead Heath our men’s team (headed by Seyfu Jamaal, who took first place) won the event and our women’s team (headed by Rebecca Piggott, who took seventh place) came fourth. At the London Youth Games, also at Hampstead, U15 Charlie Nicolson took the silver medal and led the Haringey boys to a silver team medal.
Read MoreLots of international road racing by Heathsiders this week with 4 racing in New York and one in Auckland. Closer to home Sam MacAulay won the Chingford League race while both Juniors and Seniors races XC at Fryent Park as well as Sunday League in Trent Park.
Read MoreThis week’s report features the North London cross country championships, the Eryri marathon and parkrun.
Read MoreThe main event was the SEAA Cross Country relays where Heathside achieved Top 10 places for four of our teams, including 2nd for the U15 Boys ; elsewhere there were a number of Autumn marathons, particularly at Abingdon and Amsterdam where Heathsiders produced good runs, and an epic 100 miler in Oxfordshire .
Read MoreThe first Met League of the season was well attended by juniors and seniors. Conditions were unusually dry for this time of year, so it was a gentle start to XC for newcomers . There were some great results at Manchester Half and the Great Eastern Run.
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