Former Irish Olympic runner Sonia O'Sullivan showed she still has plenty of enthusiasm for racing as she competed twice in just over 12 hours over the weekend.

The 38-year-old mother of two daughters, who lives in East Molesey, toed the starting line with more than 500 other runners in the annual Wedding Day seven kilometres road race at Hampton Hill cricket club, Bushy Park, at 7.30pm on Friday night and then returned to the park the following morning to compete in the weekly Bushy Park time trial from the Diana Fountain car park at 9am.

She had a fine run on Friday night and was first woman over the line finishing 17th in 25 minutes 20 seconds, posting the top women's age-graded performance and lifting the veteran women's prize.

She successfully defended the women's title she had won last year but she was about a minute slower than her winning time 12 months ago of 24:25.

Previously, she won the Wedding Day race four years on the trot from 2002 to 2005, setting the course record of 22:47 in 2004.

Ranelagh veteran Marie Synnott-Wells was second woman in 27:57.

O'Sullivan led Thames Hare and Hounds to victory in the women's team contest ahead of Ranelagh and Wimbledon Windmilers.

On Saturday morning, she finished 14th out of almost 400 runners in the Bushy Park time trial. She was second woman and first veteran woman and again posted the top age graded performance with her time of 18:07. It was 19 seconds faster than she managed over the same course in May but well outside her course record of 16:22.

Runners from Thames Hare and Hounds, for whom O'Sullivan was competing, dominated the Wedding Day race.

Thames runner Darren Talbot, who was also the first local man, controlled the men's race for most of the way to score a comfortable win as he reached the finishing line almost 100m ahead of new Thames recruit Stuart Major.

Talbot also led Thames to the team prize as he won in 22:36 with Major second in 22:51 and Epsom and Ewell's Will Clark third in 23:00. His Epsom clubmate Phil Sanger was fourth in 23:30 with Thames's third finisher Tom Kingsnorth fifth in 23:43 and Ranelagh's Darryl McDonald sixth and first veteran in 23:53.

Second veteran Andy Weir completed the Thames scoring team finishing seventh in 24:02.

Thames took the men's team prize from organising club Stragglers, for whom veteran Roy Reeder was the first finisher in 24:23, with Ranelagh third.

The men's course record of 20:50 was set by former Commonwealth Games runner Jon Solly of Bingley in 1990 although Teddington-based Aussie Craig Mottram got close with his 21:00 victory in 2003.

Best age graded performance of the night was posted by Hercules Wimbledon's former marathon international Steve Badgery who was first veteran over 60 in 25:39, beating all the over 50 veteran runners in finishing 20th.

Badgery also returned to Bushy Park on Saturday morning where he finished 18th in 18:20 to pst the top men's age-graded performance.

British international Vicky Gill posted the best age-graded effort as she won the women's race in 16:40 finishing sixth overall.