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As we wave a tear-stained farewell to the Olympic Games, it's time to turn our attention once again to this week's Heathside race results. Actually, there was a bit of a lull in racing this week as everyone was too busy watching the Olympics.
Read MoreIt seems the massive effort needed to simply watch world class athletes perform, and the heady business of getting around to various venues in London at the crack of dawn throughout the past week, has caused a bit of a dip in this weekend's racing activities. However, the usual great results from Parkruns remain undimmed, excellent times at the Battersea Park Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcence 10K were achieved and a transatlantic trophy was regained!
Read MoreA second place finish for Paul Lemmon in the V45 British Masters 3000m steeplechase on Sunday was Heathside’s most high profile performance of the weekend, despite a disappointing time on a personal level, with others contending with an unfamiliar heat in longer races such as the Dartford Half and Harrow 10.
Read MoreWe witnessed a brace of impressive performances by London Heathsiders over the past week – with our runners giving their blood, toil, tears and sweat (well, maybe not too much of their blood) on muddy fields, wind-swept tracks, water-logged roads, and for the mad few, the seas and oceans too.
Read MoreLily Beckford clocked a sub-60 second 400m on Wednesday to move into the top 20 UK rankings for her age group. Knocking 2.65s off her previous PB she ran 59.68s to win her race at the Watford Graded Open. That time places her at number 19 in the U17 400m rankings.
Read MoreStar performer this weekend was Jacob Wilson with a bronze medal-winning long jump in the South of England U20 Champs at Crystal Palace, although with a first place age group finish for Jackie Wastell in the Bournemouth tri, LICC PBs, and more great running by Elspeth the good news doesn’t end there.
Read MoreThe main club fixture this weekend was the penultimate Southern Men’s League match, in Mile End, with our team turning out in impressive numbers to finish a very creditable third. Earlier in the week Mo was the fastest of eight Heathsiders tackling the 1500m in Watford, in a PB of 4:10.76.
Read MoreThis weekend was busy, despite the rain, with a good turnout at the Park Runs on Saturday (Elspeth Storrer was first woman in the Hampstead Heath race), and of course with our very own Hampstead Midsummer 10k.
Read MoreThe weekend was dominated by the 4th fixture in the Rob Jackson road race champs, the Bishop’s Stortford 10 mile race which was a brand new addition to the champs this year. I feel I should apologise to those runners who turned up rightly expecting a race in the road race champs to be on a surface which would at least resemble … road. I suppose the only excuse for misinformation is that for many years this was a road race (Jacob Howe and Caroline White, having run it pre 2005 would testify to this fact…). So the dozen or so Heathsiders who started the race were more than surprised to hit deep mud within the first mile, followed by all manner of bumpy surfaces including rough farm tracks and long grass. But I am sure they nevertheless enjoyed their frolic in the countryside and we did return home with not only muddy legs and suntans, but also the ladies’ team prize and an individual prize for Gavin. A great morning’s work by all as this was indeed a tough course, described as ‘Orion light’ by those in the know. (Orion 15 being the toughest cross country race in the UK…).
Read MoreHighlights for this week’s race report include Katy placing first woman in the St Albans Half in a new PB, a decent turnout at the track & field fixtures with some vital support from our U17 ladies in the SAL Parliament Hill match, and belated news from the Comrades Marathon in South Africa and the Stockholm Marathon
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