On the 20th 0f January in the British Cross Challenge (Incorporating World Trials) Hugo Milner, the tall Derbyshire runner was leading the 10k but, closely followed by Tom Evans &, Mohammed Mohammed...
Highgate Harriers Officials mapped out a course on Hampstead Heath, supported by City of London Corporation, for a top-class cross-Country competition. on the 20th of January. It was the brainchild of...
Highgate Harriers, Allen and Lepretre, representing England, ran, just a few seconds, outside their personal best times in the Valencia Ibercaja 10k road race in Spain, on the 14th of January. Over...
Perhaps, the most sensational Olympic 800m Final ever held was in 1972 at the Munich Olympic Stadium when, I saw ‘The Head Waiter’ with the white golfing cap on, snatch victory, after being very well...
Highgate Harriers have now been top of the Metropolitan League 4 times out of 4 this season, with the final 5th one at Trent Park on the 10th of February. Out out gf the 23 or so clubs' the scores on...
In the 'Bottomists' cross-country race, starting at Parliament Hill Fields and then over Hampstead Heath;18 runners took part at 11'0'clock in the morning, straight after the Christmas festivities on...
Terry Fawden won the Middlesex cross country Championships senior race, at Berkley Fields Greenford on Saturday, 6th of January, over glue like mud all through the course . Fawden has now won every...
Sadly, one of the most outstanding officials to keep the Middlesex County Association going, in the last 100 years, was Roy Stratton, who died peacefully on the 23rd off November. Roy of Enfield &...
Alex Lepretre ran the Telford 10k. He finished in 29:06, to come 7th of the the 187 runners that finished the Telford 10k road race on Sunday the 10th of December. Alex was running in what was...
One of Highgate Harriers high scorers in the Metropolitan league, James Ross, won the Alan Green Memorial 10 miles road race, sponsored by Thanet Road Runners, on December the 4th. Ross ran 54:12. A...
TONY SIMMONS By Alastair Aitken Tony Simmons, perhaps the most underrated ‘Middle to long distance’ runner the UK has produced in the last seventy odd years. His longevity as a ’Star’ performer is...
In the Milton Keynes Winter half marathon, on the 10th of December, two Highgate Harriers ran at their best. Jemima Renfer, married to Highgate 'Star' runner Sean Renfer, ran a personal best half...
On Saturday, the 2nd of December, with the temperature hovering over one degree centigrade, a brook to be negotiated. a hill to go up and a wood to go through, at Hillingdon House Farm Highgate...
In the Fraternity Cup which was run for the 90th year, on the 25th of November at Trent Park Highgate Harriers, had three runners in the top six of 223 finishers; In a race won by Seyfu Jamaal of...
Three Highgate Harriers ran in the European cross-country Trials and Cross-Challenge in Liverpool on Saturday, the 25th of November. All three Highgate Harriers were amongst those near the front of...
Highgate Harriers women, without several 'Star' athletes missing, which included last year's winner Hannah Viner, who was side lined with a very recent fracture in her foot; Highgate still did very...
DOMINIC NOLAN (28) went into the lead after 2 miles. Alastair Aitken reports. Nolan had been running with Seyfu Jamaal and Jack Ramm with Andrew Penny just behind that. “It felt so comfortable so...
Highgate Harriers men go further ahead in the Metropolitan league, in the top Division One, out of 21 club teams. and their 'B' team were higher than they have ever been in Division One, in the the...
On November 4th, In the 75th running of the Men's race for the Liddiard Cup, won previously by top runners like Dave Bedford, Richard Goodman and Mike Barratt; 138 finished this year in the the...
Looking back to the 1970’s- 80’ there were several British distance road & cross-country runners, amongst the top 30 in the World as track runners, like Dave Bedford; Tony Simmons; Brendan Foster...
Highgate Harriers men came 3rd in inclement weather, in the National 4 stage cross-country relay, at Mansfield on Saturday, the 4th of November, ahead of good clubs like Shaftesbury Barnet, Morpeth...
Three lads who did well for Highgate Harriers in the National road races recently, were out coming 5th of 17 club teams in the Southern Under 17 three stage relay, at Wormwood Scrub, on the 21st of...
Jacob Allen, who won the 1st leg of the Southern and National six stage road relays, ran into second place in the 'High Quality' Great South Run behind international Zak Mohmmed, who ran 46:41 for the...
Highgate Harriers put their marker down by being top of the 32 clubs in the first annual, Fitness First Metropolitan League cross county. Held at Claybury, Woodford on Saturday, the 14th of October...
Highgate Harriers, ran in warm sunshine, in the National Six Stage road relay, at Sutton Park, near Birmingham on the 7th of October. They finished ahead of 'close rivals' Tonbridge, Bedford & County...