Three Heathsiders achieved outstanding results at the  Comrades Marathon at the weekend, and Rebecca Bunting was 1st woman at the South Downs 50k. Other races varied from a trail marathon, 5000m at Battersea, a 7 mile trail run, 10ks and half marathons. And of course parkruns.

This week’s report includes the SEAA Southern championships (including U18 Louis Charlwood’s promising 3rd place in the 3000 in 9:09  and U20 Dylan Mills’s  4th place in 4:17 in the 1500) a preliminary report on the southern veterans meeting in Stevenage (where our men took first place), Ivan Ross’s bronze medal and V50 club record at the British Masters, a fuller report plus plenty of pictures on the last SAL meeting at Finsbury Park and a tasty 15.36 for Sam Macaulay at the hilly Finsbury Parkrun.

This week features MYAL action from Harrow with records tumbling, plenty of marathon running from Edinburgh to South Africa. There were outstanding performances on the track at the Hurdlesfest in Chelmsford and in Loughborough Elkie Baker achieving UK Qualifying Standard for the European U18 Championships to be held this summer in Italy. Several Heathsiders also excelled at the Oxford v Cambridge varsity match as well as London University Championships.