The highlights this week include the latest fixture in the Southern Athletics League, a first place finish by Michael Stocks in Clacton and impressive performances in the Herts triathlon from Sebastian Harrison and Clare Sliwerski.
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Plenty of running to report on once again - although Gavin did me a big favour by pinching news of the big turnout at Battersea last week - highlights including a 10k target being hit at Pride, picturesque jaunts round Somerset, Burnham Beeches, France and Belgium as well international honours at the World Beer Mile.
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Highlight of the week was the ‘Hasty Hare’ Sri Chinmoy 5k at Battersea Park, which saw fruity prizes for 13-year-old Rose Garrett as the first under-16 girl, 61-year-old Michael Abrahams as the first V60 and Kelly Thorneycroft as the fifth woman. Meanwhile, 15-year-old Liam Garrett cantered in as the first of 32 Heathsider home and the second boy under 16.
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Adam Kirk-Smith has developed a habit of smashing records, but last weekend he took it to a new level. First he came away with a brilliant bronze medal at the England Athletics Championships by coming 3rd out of 18 in the steeplechase in a PB and club record time of 9:09.49; then, two days later, he picked up another PB by winning the Self Transcendence 2mile at Battersea Park in a club record time of 9.21.
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Heathsiders didn’t let the summer holidays get in the way of participating in a good variety of race distances last week –ranging from a 50 mile Ultra in the Lake District, and a half marathon at the Lee Valley Velodrome, to the Last Friday of the month 5k.
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The latest outing in the Rob Jackson Road Race Championships was the Sri Chinmoy Mile Relays in Battersea Park, wherein teams of three rack up a trio of miles apiece in the search for fruit. (Being all about self transcendence, the organisers give you healthful foods as a prize, instead of materialistic trinkets.)
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The highlights this week include the Middlesex Young Athletes League, an Ultra from Switzerland and the annual club handicap.
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The big news of the weekend is that we won our SAL Division 2 meeting on our Finsbury Park home base - and it was a wonderfully well-organised event, thanks to Jonathan Litchfield and his team.
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An absolutely bumper set of results this week as Heathsiders showed no signs of winding down for their beach holidays just yet, instead turning out far and wide to keep me busy, including pitching up mob-handed at the FASTFriday, tackling some duathlon action, forging on with an ongoing 10-mile challenge, competing in a frankly hideous – sorry, gruelling – sounding ultra-steeplechase event and the usual smattering of runs at the regular 5 and 10k races around London.
Read MoreThursday last saw Heathside play host to neighbours Barnet and District AC at Finsbury Park for their annual Golden Stag Mile, which naturally meant we had a fair number of entrants over the evening's races.
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