Many Heathsiders travelled to the other side of London last Saturday to take part in the latest exciting instalment of the Met league, featuring a ski slope, a near a vertical hill and of course, THAT river crossing, all done twice.
Read MoreThis weeks report sees Beth Hawling produce another fine run to finish 20th in the Cross Challenge in Liverpool while a band of hardy souls braved Storm Arwen to compete in the Fraternity and Sonority Cups at Trent Park which also incorporated the Chingford League and NWLL (however these results are not yet available). The Senior Men were 3rd and Women 5th place. Adam Kirk-Smith finished 3rd in the Malcolm Cup meeting in Belfast. Adrian Essex also organised a clean up of the Finsbury Park Pavilion’s roof.
Read MoreSenior Women win Bronze in the London XC Championships, Thomas Archer was 1st U20 Man in the Men’s race, Milly, Hattie and Izzy win silver for Haringey in the U15 Girls London Youth Games. Rob Shulman also completed the Hardwold 80 mile race.
Photos can be found at https://www.leonardmartin.photo/london-xc-champs-2021
Read MoreThe second Met League xc race of the season was the big event of the weekend with 115 Heathsiders taking part. Also over the weekend there was the ESAA XC and Regents Park 10k
Read MoreThis week saw a break from cross country action, with Heathsiders taking the opportunity to participate primarily in longer distance events . The highlight was the 3rd and 4th places at the World Duathlon Championships from Kelly Thorneycroft and Karina Kaufmann respectively in their age groups. There was also a rapid time recorded at the Reading Half by Sefyu Jamaal, and other good performances at different events over the 10K, Half Marathon, and Marathon distances
Read MoreEva wins the North London XC Championship title, a successful NWLL XC meeting for the Juniors and Adrian Essex gives a review of a very successful Masters Athletics Season.
Read MoreCross-country action continues this week, with the main highlight this week being an impressive performance at the Southern Cross Country Relays, with the women winning silver. We also have action at the Chingford League and a 10K and half marathon, and of course, parkrun.
Read MoreThis week’s highlights include a very successful opening Met League fixture with the Senior Women victorious and individual wins for Beth Hawling (SW), Kiara Corkin (U13G) and Oliver O’Connor (U20M). Plus there was Sunday League Cross Country Action. Alysia Sawicka finished in an excellent fourth place in the Autumn 100-mile race, Rob Hynds producing a big PB in the Paris Marathon as did Luke Parker in the Oxford Half.
Read MoreOver 80 Juniors took part on Sunday’s Autumn Quadkids Competition.
The leading U9 Boys were Ylone Carels and Kingston Bennett both with 173 points and the top U9 girl Yinke Oluseye with 127 pts. In the U13 competition Sam Turner with 276 points was the top Boy and Grace Wood top Girl with 174 pts.
The results can be found using this link
Read MoreManchester marathon and half marathon dominated the racing scene this weekend, with some terrific results. Some excellent running was also seen at the Royal Parks and Brighton Half marathons, the Boston Virtual marathon, the Ridgeway Trail, Hyde Park 10K and the Islington 1 hour race
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