reports

There isn't a main event to report this week, but Heathsiders were out and about enjoing themselves in a variety of events, including night marathons in Luxembourg,  open water swims in Hackney, and of course following the Brownlee's footsteps at the Hyde Park London Triathlon.  

Nine gold, seven silver, five bronze: thus the medal haul from this weekend’s county track & field champs, where Lily Beckford’s storming 55.43s 400m was the highlight. And then there are triathlons, duathlons, and plain ol' running to report on.

A fair number of Heathsiders kicked off their summer on the track at Watford. Lily ran a PB in the 100, while everyone else plumped for the 1500. Particularly impressive were Ni'ia in her club track debut, and Tony comprehensively demolishing the club V50 1500m record.

This Bank Holiday weekend was fairly quiet race-wise for Heathsiders but there were nevertheless plenty of PBs to report.  Ollie and Vicky Pound both ran PBs at the Worcester Half Marathon, and Gavin and Alice Parish ran 10k PBs at the Self Transcendence 10k Battersea and Regents Park 10k respectively.  Andy Welshman ran 82min45sec in the North Lincs Half Marathon, which he reccomends as a pancake flat half on closed rural roads with fanstastic views.  What more could you want?

Despite some delay (apologies) in reporting them to you the facts of the Easter weekend remain the same: it was a good ‘un for Heathside, with three team podium finishes across the Victoria Park 5 and the London Easter 10k, and cheerful reports of races elsewhere in the country.

Here's a run-down of last weekend's track and field action, with special thanks to John Flahive for the SAL report. LICC results are included at the bottom; a separate report for road races will follow.

We're into the swing of spring and everyone has a spring in their step. Apart from those who did marathons at the weekend and are now waddling like Wombles.