The weekend saw Heathsiders at several half marathons around the country, with some excellent results. Notable performances this weekend are podium finishes from Mark Anderson at Dorney (third place with a 77min17sec PB) and David Hellard at Richmond, and a 10k PB from Alex Weatherhill at the Eastleigh 10k.
Read MoreOn a sun-kissed weekend four Heathside teams delivered accomplished performances at the star-studded Southern road relays, the Fleet Half produced several PBs, several of our YAs ran in the English Schools XC and there were also promising results at the county indoor track & field champs.
Read MoreIt was a weekend of glory for Heathside’s best, brightest and fastest. It is hard to know where to start, but perhaps we should go with age because 63-year-old Adrian Essex not only picked up a PB in coming second in the pole vault in the British Master’s National Championships; he came first in the 60-plus age group in the 60m hurdles in 11.86, making him a British champion.
Read MoreThe biggest Heathside turnout of the weekend was at the Reading Half Marathon, where we had 17 finishers.
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It was a busy running weekend with glorious sunshine and a good mix of distances, but the longer runs definitely coming in thick and fast now, as Spring marathons approach. Tom Aldred stormed in to second place in the Brighton half, and the last Sunday league XC ended in disaster!
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London Heathside rounded up the Met League part of its cross-country season in impressive style last weekend with the women’s veterans A-team taking first place, and the men’s veterans A-team, second place, while Sarah Swinhoe walked off with a cool £250 after taking fourth place in the women’s ranking for the year.
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The 2014 Watford Half was held in glorious sunshine although there was evidence of the previous week's foul weather in a couple of spectacular water hazards out on the course, much to the despite of anyone who'd plumped for new shoes.
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It is probably fair to say that Parliament Hill has never proved such a tough course as it did for the Southern Counties cross-country championships on Saturday. Not only was the mud somehow muddier than before, the hills somehow hillier, but the latter stages of the Senior Men's race was further insulted by a thunder storm the like of which makes Lear's heath scene look like a summer picnic. The Wessex King himself, disguised as a Barnet AC Vet, was brave enough to take what was coming to him. But where was the Fool?
Read MoreThis weekend saw a large contingent of Heathsiders at the first race of the 2014 Rob Jackson Road Race Championships, the Fred Hughes 10 mile race in St Albans. We had 34 Heathside finishers and returned home with the second men's team prize and first male vets. Elsewhere Julia and Tom took part in a tough challenge in Anglesey, covering ultra distances in deep mud - perhaps taking their Met League training for Wormwood Scrubs to extremes.
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