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18th Jan, 2025, Alastair Aitken

HIGHGATE HARRIERS IN A GOOD POSITION

Highgate Harriers senior men, still hold sway over their rival clubs and tough course at Welwyn on 11th of January. Alex Lepretre, who knew the course well, was a good winner over the undulating...
6th Jan, 2025, Alastair Aitken

Hertfordshire/Middlesex Championships

Hertfordshire and Middlesex combined for their cross championships at Trent Park on the 4th of January. That made it an exciting senior race in the cold, with Brett Rushman, who won the first Met...
6th Jan, 2025, Alastair Aitken

John Anderson

(Born in Glasgow 28/11/31 died on 27/7/24) Very few coaches ever could point to having a more varied career than John Anderson. Over his 92 years of life, he was the Chief Referee for the Television...
6th Jan, 2025, Alastair Aitken

Boxing Day Race

44 runners from Highgate Harriers turned up for the historic Bottomists Cup race on Boxing Day morning .The winner was Thomas Chadwick in 17:23, 2nd Joseph Hayes in 17:24 and 3rd Arjuna Pflug in 7:25...
30th Dec, 2024, Alastair Aitken

THREE HOLIDAY SUCCESSES

Seyd Taha Ghafari ran the fast time time of 29:43 to come 12th in the Ribble Valley 10k road race, on the 29th of December. Two other Highgate runners did well, Alex Jackson was 47th in 31.50 for the...
21st Dec, 2024, Alastair Aitken

IMPRESSIVE HIGHGATE ROAD TIMES

In the Telford 10k road race on 15th of December, that attracted international class runners from a field of 2000 odd, i n the race won by International Jack Rower of Aldershot & Farnham in 28:01...
20th Dec, 2024, Alastair Aitken

Alan Simpson ‘Rotherham-Super Miler’

Born 22 of May 1940 & Died 25th of October 2024 In a way one could think of Alan Simpson, as a ’Nearly Man’, not having achieved a gold medal in the major outdoor Championships’ but, looking back and...
17th Dec, 2024, Alastair Aitken

Highgate's Rachel Docherty & Adam Lennox run well

Rachel Docherty, was the first woman in the Last Friday in the month Serpentine RC 5k, on the 29th of November. Her time, as a 'W35' was 18:02 and she was placed 43rd of 243 runners who completed...
16th Dec, 2024, Alastair Aitken

HIGHGATE PUSH ON

On the 23rd of November at Hillingdon House Farm, Highgate Harriers had all their 12 scorers in the first 53 places out of 407 seniors that finished, in the 3rd Metropolitan League of 5. Like last...
30th Nov, 2024, Alastair Aitken

FRATERNITY CUP

Alex Davidson was a Middlesex Champion runner in his 50's & 60's (60 in 2023) and ran for Highgate even back as a young man. He was one of the Highgate Harriers who turned up to run the Fraternity Cup...
30th Nov, 2024, Alastair Aitken

LAUREN RUSSELL IMPRESSIVE

Considering Lauren Russell only recently started studying at Oxford University, after being at Highgate School, she did particularly well in the European Trials & British Cross Challenge race at...
23rd Nov, 2024, Alastair Aitken

ARJUNA PFLUG impresses again

In the London Youth Games cross-country, at Parliament HIl Fields on the 26th of November, in the the Under 15 the race the winner was Arjuna Plug, the young Highgate Harrier running for CAMDEN . His...
23rd Nov, 2024, Alastair Aitken

LONDON CROSS-COUNTRY Championships

ANDREW PENNEY, was pleased to win his first big cross-Country, over the grass land Hampstead Heath course, in good conditions. Alastair Aitken reports. Penney considered himself to be a road and track...
14th Nov, 2024, Alastair Aitken

Highgate Blast their way to the Top

Highgate Harriers Men were beaten by Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets on the 12th of October for the top spot in the first Metropolitan cross country league of the season, which was the first league...
9th Nov, 2024, Alastair Aitken

Ashley Scott-Wilson of Highgate back on form

On Saturday in the North London cross country Championships, run at Wormwood Scrubs parkland, Ashley was 3rd in the Women's race in 31:03 behind the winner Kathy Casterton of Serpentine in 30:28. 46...
9th Nov, 2024, Alastair Aitken

Jacob and Alex in the England Frame

Jacob Allen and Alex Lepretre, two Highgate 'Star' road runners finished 2nd and 3rd out of 24,000 odd in the Manchester Half Marathon recently which was an England Half-Marathon Championship. The...
27th Oct, 2024, Alastair Aitken

World's best road Performance by Karima Harris

It was an unofficial World record for a '55 year old' woman. She did that in the Oxford Half-Marathon, that attracted a large field, on the 13th of October, Karima Harris ran 1:19.02. The official...
27th Oct, 2024, Alastair Aitken

Emily Chong Features

Under 23 runner, Highgate Harrier Emily Chong, came 4th of 118 women in the London Universities & Colleges League cross-country race, at Parliament Hill Fields, on the 25th of October. Daniel White...
27th Oct, 2024, Alastair Aitken

METROPOLITAN LEAGUE Claybury, Woodford

BRETT RUSHMAN, The Hertfordshire cross-country Champion, who last won a Metropolitan League race, as an Under 18 runner, on the 10th of November 2018, lead at the start, down the pathway into the...
20th Oct, 2024, Alastair Aitken

HIGHGATE'S CROWN SLIPPED SLIGHTLY!

Highgate Harriers had been top of the Men's Metropolitan league, out of 23 clubs, for 12 years but on Saturday at Woodford, they slipped into 2nd position with1721 behind Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets...
12th Oct, 2024, Alastair Aitken

HIGHGATE AWARDS PRESENTED

Amongst the Highgate Harriers club awards presented at the club's AGM, on the 7th of October, 2034 were - Priority Award for club senior Athlete of the year Alex Lepretre and, the Junior Jewell award...
12th Oct, 2024, Alastair Aitken

JACOB ALLEN AND SEVENTH HEAVEN

In the 6x's one lap of Sutton Park, HIGHGATE HARRIER JACOB ALLEN was only 3 seconds behind the the outright winners' Leed's lead off man on the first leg. Leeds City won in 1:44.09 but, that was not...
6th Oct, 2024, Alastair Aitken

LONDON AWARD FOR BEN POCHEE

Highgate Harrier, Ben Pochee, the successful organiser of the 10,000m races at Parliament Hill track in the Summer, was the winner of the Regional Volunteer award by England Athletics 2024 for LONDON...