Retro reports part 2: The lockdown continues and the life of Jerry
In these strange days, normal life has been firmly placed on the back burner, the masses are forced to stay at home, while the “few” have taken up the fight against the relentless COVID-19 Virus which is covering the world, infecting people and taking lives. It is a scary time, and for those of us who are not fighting on the front line as Healthcare workers, Key workers and Shop workers, we must do our bit to help turn the tide. Its quite simple, we’re not being conscripted to fight in battlefields, we are being asked to stay at home. Stay home watch TV and help to stop the spread of infection.
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Retro reports part 1: Cross-country review and Jerry's life of running
This week’s report is different from the usual one, as you might expect. To give you even more of a reason to stay indoors, we bring an extra-special report, covering a roundup of the youngsters’ cross-country season, stories from your training this week and highlights from the archives, reminding us of life before COVID-19 took over. Most special of all, we have a report from Chairman Jerry, answering all the questions you’ve probably wanted to ask him in the past about his running life…or at least, the first installment of it, covering life before he went to America.
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Junior Cross Country:- Season Round Up - NWLL Final Places
Round up of the Junior Cross Country Season.
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Archer 6th at National Schools XC, County Indoor Track Championships & Half Marathon action
Somewhat ironically in what is likely to be the last weekend of racing for a while, there was plenty of varied racing activity at the weekend. This included the last race of the XC season the National Schools Champs, where Thomas Archer took the kudos with a 6th place finish, the Tri Counties Indoor Track championships, and road races with the Brentwood and Bath Half Marathons and a 20 miler at Gloucester. The majority of the local park runs also went ahead.
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Gold at Middlesex Masters XC
10.03.2020 It was a busy weekend of racing generally, with a special triumph for Ruth, Sue and Fiona at the Middlesex Masters XC in Stanborough for winning the V45 team gold. Some impressive results were also seen at the Hillingdon 20, and a number of club records were smashed at the British Masters Indoor track and field.
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Inter-Borough Challenge Results
The Provisional Results for the races held at Finsbury Park on Sunday 8th March 2020.
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Massive showing at the Big Half
Great runs at the Vitality Big Half with over 50 Heathsiders taking part. There was a New Club Senior Record in the Women’s Indoor 60m and some great Park Run Performances.
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Seyfu 6th in Nationals & Essex wins pentathlon gold
This has been a busy week for Heathside’s athletes with several club records falling in track events, and impressive performances in cross-country and off-road. The big one was the National Cross Country Championships in muddy Nottingham, which saw Seyfu Jamaal coming 6th in the country in the U20 event. Meanwhile Adrian Essex won the V65 pentathlon gold medal in the British Master’s championships, and our U13 star Martha Jolly leapt 4.44 meters in the long jump, putting her in 11th place in the UK this year.
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Storm Den can't stop our 'Liv!
18/02/2020: With Storm Dennis blowing a hooley all over the British Isles, many race fixtures were called off making it a very quiet weekend for racing.
With the XC season nearly finished, February is more a of heavy training month as we are all getting ready for Spring racing. There were but a few fixtures featuring Heathsiders as well some great Parkrunning performances …..
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Trent Park Met League : Heathside Women take Met League title for 3rd year in a row, Individual success for Jake Evans in the Junior Men's race
The week’s report is all about the final Met League fixture at Trent Park, which saw the Women’s Senior team emerge once again as Metropolitan League champions, as well as winning on the day. in addition there was a great individual win from Jake Evans in the Junior Men’s U17 race. Unfortunately Heathside was pipped into 2nd place for the Howard Wilson trophy, which combines Senior Men & Womens results, only on countback having tied on points with the winners Highgate
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