Sarah Swan retained her Beachy Head marathon title on Saturday, despite running with a pesky cough – and a vow to treat it as ‘just a training run’. Also on the marathon front Sergio Manzaneque put in an impressive PB of 2:41.42 in Frankfurt.
Read MoreThe cross country season is barely a few weeks old but Heathside can already celebrate our first piece of silverware as the Women set the standard once again by winning the relays at Wormwood Scrubs. Pete Holland has captured the mood perfectly, so his report is included in full just below. The men were hampered by some honesty (who said it prospers?) and a subsequent DQ, while away from West London there were PB laden marathons aplenty from Essex to Oxfordshire, the Basque Country and rural Italy.
Read MoreUndeterred by weather that you wouldn't send a duck out in, a cheerful crowd of more than 50 Heathsiders descended on Twickenham on Sunday to contest the Cabbage Patch 10, the latest round of the club's Rob Jackson road race championships.
Read MoreSaturday's Met League opener saw over 100 Heathsiders hit the bone-dry Claybury course, where we had some promising individual runs from our young athletes, our women teamed up to make it a winning start to the season, and we finished the afternoon with our two best runners racing it out at the front end of the men's field.
Read MoreEighteen heathsiders ventured north of the M25 on Sunday to take part in the ever popular Ridgeway Run in Tring (this year it sold out well before race day). This is a beautiful, but "challenging", 15k trail race over bridleways and footpaths.
Read MoreThe highlights this week include 10Ks in and around London, half marathons in Ealing, Cheltenham, Winchester and Texel, marathons in Berlin and Loch Ness, as well as an open-water swimming event.
Read MoreA bitty report this week. Highlights include Adam Kirk-Smith’s bronze medal in the Belfast Half (in a huge PB time of 69.13), Rebecca Bunting winning the off-road Royston Runners half, Heathside’s men’s fourth place in the Middlesex Road Relays and Gaby Johnson and Ciara Owens competing in the ITU World Triathlon Championships in Mexico.
Read MoreWhile it wasn't a massively busy week by the Heathside often busy and far flung standards, there was a full bingo card of running events over the past few days which included success for the youngsters at the Middlesex Road Relays to one of Europe's biggest half marathons, a track meet, a trail race, a triathlon and parkrunning. If there's a type of run going on somewhere, chances are a Heathsider's doing it. So without further ado, time for the weekly run down:
Read MoreDespite unpromising skies and a suspended overground connection, we had a flood of Heathsiders at the Middlesex 10k, the latest instalment of our club road race champs. We managed to get 52 over the finish line, ably supported by a small but cheerful rabble of non-participating clubmates.
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