Metropolitan League No, 4 (January 2020) Start Fitness Metropolitan League Alexandra Palace Park 11th of January LIZ JANES was an impressive sight as she flowed down the hill, on each lap of the muddy...
Middlesex Cross Country Champs (Jan 2020) Wormwood Scrubs - January 4th NICK GOOLAB last ran in these Championship, when winning in the ‘Under 20’ race at Cockfosters in 2008, the year before he won...
START FITNESS METROPOLITAN LEAGUE Hillingdon (December 2019) Hillingdon House Farm 7th December 2019 DYLAN EVANS, who was seventh in his only other Met League, at Claybury in October, won the third...
FRATERNITY & SORORITY CUPS (November 2019) Trent Park Saturday November 23 ALEX LEPRETRE a trainee solicitor in Chancery lane, London, won his third successive Fraternity Cup. Alastair Aitken reports...
The most outstanding sub-4 minute miler in history (October 2019) Sir John Walker From New Zealand Bows Out The most prolific miler in history, to my mind, would be Sir John Walker, from New Zealand...
START FITNESS METROPOLITAN LEAGUE Claybury, Woodford 12/10/19 By Alastair Aitken After quite heavy & persistent rain, ABDI ABDULLEH, followed up his win in the Middlesex 10k road Championship, of the...
Middlesex 10K (October 2019) Sunday September 29 ABDI ABDULLE, for the third year running, won the Middlesex 10k. He improved each year consecutively 2017 (31:15); 2018 (30:54); 2019 (30:28). His...
The Russian Iron Man (September 2019) *** I remember being at the White City Stadium and, seeing the cinders being torn up by Vladimir Kuts of USSR in the 10,000m. After 4 laps he had an 80 yard lead...
Basil Heatley the ‘Great’ Coventry Godiva runner (August 2019) Basil Heatley’s athletic success has been almost forgotten by many people but, few British distance men could claim the type of success...
The Most Astonishing Race in Tokyo in 1964 (August 2019) The Most intriguing Olympic track final was the Men’s 10,000 in Tokyo Olympics of 1964 It was on the 14th of October 1964, in the Tokyo Olympic...
Liz McColgan (July 2019) (Liz who was firstly married to Peter McColgan, the international steeplechaser. They had five children and one of those Eilish, has become a good international class middle...
Night of PBs 2019 - Men's European Cup Night of 10k PB’s Race 9 (July 2019) 21.30 The Italian moved well in the race and won in a sprint finish 1 Yemaneberhan Crippa (Italy) 27:49.79 (Third last year...
Night of PBs 2019 - Women's European Cup Night of 10k PBs Race 8 (July 2019) European Cup Race - Women’s ‘A’ Race 20.00 1 Stephanie Twell, Aldershot Farnham & District AC 31:08.13; 2 Lonah Chermetai...
Night of PBs 2019 - Part 5 Night of the 10k PB’s Race 5 Race 5 17.15 Still warm weather 22 completed and the first three were 1 Mohamed Mohamed (Hillingdon) 29:00.24; 2 Stefan Julius Gavril (Romania)...
Night of PBs 2019 - Part 4 10k Night of PB’s Race 4 16:30 Race 4 1 Hanne Verbruggen (KAB) 33.30.67; 2 Julia Mayer (VBWIE) 33:53.69; 3 Abbie Donnelly 9LINCW) 33:56.13. “I have been Belgian Champion...
Night of PBs 2019 - Part 3 10k Night of PB’s Race 3 (July 2019) Third 10k race race at 15.45 29 finishers First 3:- 1 Sean Fontana in a season’s Best of 30:02.81. He competes for Inverclyde/City of...
Night of PBs 2019 - Part 2 10k Night of PB’s Race 1 (July 2019) At 14.15 on the 6th of July, was the first race and the first seven home of 30 finishers did Personal Best times, showing the meeting...
Night of PBs 2019 - Part 1 PAUL MASKELL is the North London, Leisure & events Manager and communicator for Hampstead Heath “I have worked for the City of London for 23 years and, this undoubtedly, is...
Ken Mathews (June 2019) Kenneth Joseph Mathews MBE of the Royal Sutton Walking Club 27/6/34 to 2/6/19 In the 1960’s Great Britain had some of the best race walkers in the World. Surrey walker, Paul...
Middlesex Track & Fields Champs (May 2019) Lee Valley - 11/12 May 2019 It was the sprints again, that kept the standard of competition at a good county level Roy Stratton, a Senior Official with...
BERNIE PLAIN MBE at the Relays (April 2019) Bernie Plain (Born 3/12/46) is someone I had interviewed before but, felt like asking his opinion on the fact that quite a lot of the top runners do not do...
Tim Hutchings ‘At the Time’ (March 2019) (Born in London, 4th of December 1958, Educated at Worth School in Sussex.) It was in Sussex he also organised and founded the Brighton Marathon but, these...
Chris Finill & Jim Cooper (March 2019) Chris Finill, an outstanding Ultra & Marathon man, ran 3,100 miles across the USA with Steve Pope in 2011. It was from San Francisco to New York in 79 days 22...
Start Fitness Metropolitan League (February 2019) Alexandra Palace 9th of February 2019 WILLIAM RYAL-HODGES and ROGER POOLMAN ended the fifth senior league race, finishing more like high hurdlers...