
The start of the senior men’s race at the 2018 National at Parliament Hill
(Picture: English Cross Country Association)One of the great amateur events in English sport comes to London this weekend as the National Cross Country Championships return to their spiritual home at Parliament Hill.
Usually a canvas of almost unbroken green, Hampstead Heath will on Saturday be littered with flags, banners, tents and vests in the colours of every athletics club from Cumbria to Cornwall.