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8th Mar, 2022, Alastair Aitken

Ron Hill MBE ‘A Legendary Character’

Ron Hill MBE ‘A Legendary Character’ (March 2022) Ron Hill will go down in athletics history as one of the ‘Greatest’ all-round distance competitors, not just as a ‘Big’ Championship marathon winner...
5th Mar, 2022, Alastair Aitken

Highgate's Senior Men's team finish sixth in the country

Highgate’s Senior Men’s team finished sixth out of 132 teams that finished in the National Cross Country at Parliament Hill Fields on Saturday 26 February. There were an amazing 2,089 runners who...
22nd Feb, 2022, Alastair Aitken

Highgate men win clearly without a fight!

After the storms on Friday (18 February), and after discussions with Enfield Council, the fifth and final Start Fitness Metropolitan League fixture due to be held at Trent Park on 19 February was...
9th Feb, 2022, Alastair Aitken

League Glory Day Approaches

On the 19th of February Highgate Harriers’ senior men go for their eighth consecutive victory, out of 21 clubs, in the Metropolitan League Cross Country at Trent Park, Cockfosters. They have an...
6th Feb, 2022, Alastair Aitken

Highgate Harriers Silver Lining

Highgate Harriers’ Senior Men’s team men gained silver medals in the South of England Cross Country Championships at Beckenham Place Park on Saturday 29 January. It was over a winding, undulating, but...
23rd Jan, 2022, Alastair Aitken

Highgate ignite in the mud

After the fourth Start Fitness Metropolitan League fixture at Wormwood Scrubs on Saturday, 15 th January, Highgate Harriers men’s team are in first place in the top Division One, with 6,046 points and...
9th Jan, 2022, Alastair Aitken

Highgate women excel in the rain

In damp muddy conditions at Greenford, Hannah Viner, who was second in the Middlesex Cross Country Championships in 2017, was in great form winning well, out of 97 competitors. Hannah, a previous Met...
2nd Jan, 2022, Alastair Aitken

Thomas Chadwick wins Bottomist Cup

Thomas Chadwick, an Under 17 runner, who as an Under 15 came 11th in the recent Metropolitan CC League race at Uxbridge on 4 December and ran two personal best times on the track in the Summer with 2...
2nd Jan, 2022, Alastair Aitken

No stopping Alex

Alex Davidson, was the first ‘Over 55’ in the ‘Last Friday in the Month’ 5k road race at Hyde Park organised by Serpentine RC on 31st December. He was 21st of 176 overall in 18:00. He certainly looks...
2nd Jan, 2022, Alastair Aitken

James Barber wins

James Barber, who has been as high as 27th in the Metropolitan Cross Country League this season, finished first in a Sunday League race at Stevenage on the 19th of December. 421 finished the race. His...
15th Dec, 2021, Alastair Aitken

Highgate Harriers on fire

Highgate Harriers took no prisoners, as they went further ahead in the Start Fitness Metropolitan League Cross Country on Saturday 4 December. In the Senior Men and Woman’s races, in the third fixture...
3rd Dec, 2021, Alastair Aitken

Highgate Harriers defeat the cold and rain

On Saturday 27 November Highgate Harriers won the Fraternity Cup cross country race at Trent Park. In the cold wind, over a new course, the first to set off ahead of the 215 finishers were Ash Harrell...
27th Nov, 2021, Alastair Aitken

Ghafari wins his first Championship

Seyed Taha Ghafari won his first senior Championship race in 33:57 at the London Cross Country Championships on 20 November. For the first half of the London Championships he fought a battle with...
21st Nov, 2021, Alastair Aitken

Highgate continue to race ahead in the League

After the first two Start Fitness Metropolitan League races, the Highgate Harriers' Senior Men continue to lead in the League table. The first three are Highgate with 1,554 points; 2, Thames Valley...
14th Nov, 2021, Alastair Aitken

Tim Johnston - a 'Class Act'

The Olympian and GB distance runner Timothy Frederick Kemball Johnston died in October 2021, aged 80. Tim went to Bedales public school, where he wrote some new records on the books, and then won two...
13th Nov, 2021, Alastair Aitken

Fred Baker R.I.P - by David Ainsworth

One of our all-time ultra-distance walking greats has passed-on, aged 88. Legendary Fred of Highgate Harriers completed 19 UK sub-24 hours' 100 miles races, commencing with a 22:30.13 timing in the...
6th Nov, 2021, Alastair Aitken

Highgate's veteran runners do well

All over 50-year old runners from Highgate Harriers were well up the field in the North London Cross Country Championships at Uxbridge on Saturday 30 October. Alex Davidson an 'over 55' athlete was...
31st Oct, 2021, Alastair Aitken

Amazing 12 of Highgate

On 16 October, Highgate Harriers finished their scoring first team of men in the first 35 of 372 finishers in the first Start Fitness Metropolitan League cross-country fixture at Claybury. The race...
13th Oct, 2021, Alastair Aitken

Mel the Great

Mel Watman, the great athletics journalist, died on 17 September 2021 from cancer aged 83. To my mind, Mel was the best international athletics journalist of the last 65 years coupled with being a...
13th Oct, 2021, Alastair Aitken

Highgate still amongst the best

Highgate Harriers senior men were 8th of 75 clubs that finished in the National Six Stage road relay on Saturday 9 October at Sutton Park near Birmingham. Yet, they had three of their top men missing...
13th Oct, 2021, Alastair Aitken

Creagh leads the way in London

Highgate Harrier Gareth Creagh (M40) was the first Highgate Harrier in the 2021 London Marathon in 717th position in the mass men’s race. His time was 2:46:35 improving his personal best of 2:53:12...
13th Oct, 2021, Alastair Aitken

Roger bows out

For the first time in the London Marathon, since it started in 1981 Roger Low of Highgate Harriers, decided not to run this year. "Not bad!” said Press Secretary Alastair Aitken, who ran the first 19...
3rd Oct, 2021, Alastair Aitken

Highgate Harriers compete well in SOAR MK Relays

Highgate Harriers’ men finished two teams in the top 10 in the most prestigious road relay in the South, when they came 4 th and 9 th out of 40 complete teams in the SOAR MK Road Relays on 26th...