Hercules Wimbledon Athletic Club's Tim Livingstone showed tremendous form in the rain and mud of Heaton Park, Manchester, on Saturday, when he helped Surrey take the team silver medals in the junior boys race in the English Schools cross country championships.

Livingstone, 14, who clinched his place in the Surrey team by finishing runner-up in the South East Schools Inter-Counties match at Reigate last month, his only other cross country race this year, was second Surrey finisher taking 31st place in 13 minutes 15 seconds, less than a minute behind the race winner. More than 300 finished the race.

It was an outstanding run as Livingstone managed to finish four places and two seconds ahead of the runner who won the UK Inter-Counties under 13 title at Birmingham the previous weekend.

Four days before clinching a team silver medal in Manchester he took the individual bronze medal in the year nine event at the national junior indoor rowing championships. Almost 150 competitors took part.

Livingstone was the highest placed of a quartet of Hercules Wimbledon runners in action in the English schools event in Manchester. Liam White was 35th out of more than 300 runners in the senior boys race in 24:58 leading the London team home with Joe Toomey, 122nd in 26:33, the fourth member of the Surrey team.

Ed Saywell, also running for Surrey, was the third member of the county team in the intermediate boys race finishing 122nd in 20:50.

Another Hercules Wimbledon teenager to show good form over the weekend was Surrey junior cross country champion Alex Robinson. Fresh from helping Surrey to team gold in the UK Inter-Counties championships in Birmingham the previous weekend, he beat around 550 runners to win the Bushy Park five kilometres parkrun in 16:04. It erased the previous record of 16:07 set by Alex Bodin at Morden Park in May 2006. His time also puts him sixth on the club's all time list for the distance.

Several Hercules Wimbledon runners warmed up for next month's Virgin London marathon with useful runs in the Reading Half-Marathon on Sunday. Ian Horrocks set a club veterans over 35 record in finishing 62nd in 1:16:21, improving on the 1:18:55 set by Gervase King in Stockholm, Sweden, last September. There were 12,300 finishers.

Dave Clarke, three times English cross country champion three decades ago, was second in the veteran over 55 category in finishing 75th in 1:17:13. His was the second fastest ever recorded by a Hercules Wimbledon supervet and he was just 12 seconds outside the club age record set by Steve Badgery in the Wimbledon half-marathon in 1998. Debbie Noel was 972nd in 1:33:21, Zoe Phillips 1509th in 1:36:20, the second best time ever recorded by a Hercules Wimbledon over 40 veteran.

Meanwhile, Kieran White clocked the fastest half-marathon time this summer by a Hercules Wimbledon runner when he finished fifth out of more than 2000 runners in the Fleet half-marathon in 1:12:50. It was also the fastest half-marathon by a Hercules Wimbledon runner since Hussein Ahmed clocked 1:11:37 in Reading in March last year. Matthew Sharp was 56th in 1:19:51. White also took third place in the Inter-Services Championship which was decided in conjunction with the event.

Meanwhile, Tom Cheetham finished 480th out of almost 4000 runners in the Hastings half-marathon in 1:36:33 where Annmarie Seymour clocked the fourth best-ever time by a club veteran over 35 woman of 1:49:39.

* Hercules Wimbledon's track and field training sessions take place at Wimbledon Park athletics stadium on Tuesday and Thursday evenings starting at 6.30pm and Sunday morning at 10.30am. Call coaching coordinator Maurice Sharp on 020 8337 8707.

*Hercules Wimbledon Athletic Club hold mid-week road running training sessions for marathon, cross country and road runners from Lauriston Cottage, 6a Southside, Wimbledon Common, at the junction with Lauriston Road, every Wednesday evening from 7pm. Call Pete Mulholland on 020 8761 4308.