ALYSON DIXON SIGNALS START OF COMPETITIVE YEAR WITH HETTON LYONS COUNTRY PARK CHAMPIONSHIPS

Commonwealth Games-bound Alyson Dixon, just back after four weeks training at altitude in Kenya, will have her first race of the year at Hetton on Saturday.

She is included in the Sunderland Strollers team for the Royal Signals Road Relay and North East Championship at Hetton Lyons Country Park.

This will be Dixon’s first race of the year and a favourite for judging her form after a spell of altitude training at the London Marathon training base at Iten.

Alyson Dixon Signals Start Of Competitive Year With Hetton Lyons Country Park Championships.

Last year she steered Sunderland Strollers Over-35 veterans’ to the bronze medals. She had lifted the Ashbrooke club from fifth to first on the second leg to send her team on their way for a place in the frame.

She was 20 seconds slower than the previous year when she broke the veterans’ course record with a time of 11.33.

After the Signals Relay, the Olympian will contest The Vitality Big Half Marathon in London on March 4, where she will face an elite field including Lily Partridge, Louise Damen, Charlotte Purdue, Sonia Samuels and Tracy Barlow, among others....

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