Heathside won our first silverware of 2006 with an excellent victory by our women in the Middlesex Cross Country Champs, comfortably retaining the trophy they had taken the previous year. It was almost a double victory, with Jo (pictured on the home page) in a battle for 1st place throughout until finally being shaken off in the last mile, while Anna (above, left) completed the full set of medals by coming home in clear 3rd place. There were great runs too for the other team members, with Angela (above, right) making it difficult to believe that she really hates Cross Country and Katie, running over a distance way beyond her preferred 800 Metres, putting her foot down in the last mile to take a few extra places. Below the scoring 4 Felicity in particular had an excellent race, the extra distance clearly suiting her, and had 'B' teams been allowed to count ours would have finished 5th.
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