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After a week of fairly vile weather, conditions weren't too bad for the National XC Championships in Wollaton Park. The course had lost its beloved log hazard, but there was plenty more for the grizzled XC lover to appreciate, combining mud, water hazards, some fast stretches, and a remarkable profusion of tussocks.
Read MoreFirst up in this week's report (and why not) is a splendid double victory for Team Heathside at the RunThrough VeloPark events, where competitors' endurance, patience and even sanity are put to the test by running laps of the one-mile circuit.
Read MoreHeathside successfully hosted the Northwest London Young Athletes League XC on the Heath Extension on Saturday, with a full complement of volunteers. "Everything went perfectly," reports Dave Robertson, qualifying this with: "No-one went off-course or was seriously injured."
Read MoreIn the Met League (results still "provisional" at time of writing), the Junior Men (U17/U15) were 1st placed on the day (7th for the season), Ruairi McGonagle won the U13 Boys event; the Senior Women A's finished 2nd on the day and 2nd overall in Division 1, whilst the B's look like having to face the drop back to Div.2. However, the Women C's finished as the League's highest placed C team at 4th in Div.2.
Read MoreThe two main racing events this weekend for the club were the Gloucester 50k where Mike Stocks cruised home to first place in an incredible time of 3.23.26, and the ever popular Watford Half, where 31 Heathsiders competed, led home by Tom Livermore who came 16th in an excellent time of 1.16.
Read MoreThis week's running mainly centred around one of the longest cross country meets of the year at the Southern Championships, back at our very own Parliament Hill this year. More on that below along with news of some indoor action and club records as well as some speedy times at Hyde Park over 5k and 10k.
Read MoreSix out of seven Heathsiders broke the 40-minute mark in the Victoria Park on Sunday, four of them finishing with personal bests. They were led home by Matthew Cockerill who ran a PB of 36:09.
Read MoreTwenty three Heathsiders travelled to Watford on Sunday to run in the penultimate fixture of the Sunday cross-country league. The numbers were considerably down, compared to the previous day’s mass turn-out, but the runners made up for it with their enthusiasm – something that was much-needed, given the conditions.
Read MoreIt was a great week-end for cross-country. One hundred and eleven Heathsiders travelled to the end of the Piccadilly line this week-end to discover Trent Park, venue of the penultimate fixture of the Met League. It has idyllic scenery, which, when translated into cross-country language, equates to undulations and long, long hills…lots of them. The recent rain meant that there was enough mud in places to keep even the most hardened cross-country runner reasonably happy, although it failed to transform the course into the mud bath that many had feared.
Read MoreThis year's county champs were held in Hillingdon on a course mostly famous for: a) its short but very nasty hill, b) not being Wormwood Scrubs.
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