The Snow King (TFKJ) - April 2018 At 78. I now look back over the many years I have had and, realise there were three British runners who were my heroes because, they meant so much to me at the time...
Herts & Middx Vets CCC (March 2018) 25th of March 2018 ANDREW LEACH 54, whose son is International Matt Leach, who ran for the UK in the Europa Cup 10,000 last year, was a comfortable winner in 33:44...
Rory Leonard & Grace Brock (March 2018) Rory Leonard The first 3 in the very muddy, Final Cross Challenge and Inter-Counties For Under 17’s was 1 Rory Leonard (North East) 20:34; 2 Thomas Keen...
Thomas Mortimer & Jake Hayward (March 2018) Tom Mortimer (Stroud AC) was 3rd behind Mahamed Mahamed (Southampton AC) and Emile Cairess (Leeds City) in the National Junior (U20) cross country, at...
Mahamed Mahamed & Adam Hickey (March 2018) Mahmed Mahamed was the overall Cross-Challenge winner and Inter-Counties cross country Champion, who two weeks before won a comfortable first place for...
Phoebe Law ‘Triple Winner’ & Gemma Steel (March 2018) Phoebe Law, with her light frame, moved over the ground with consummate ease, to win the Southern Cross Country Championship, at Brighton in...
Start Fitness 5th MET LEAGUE (February 2018) Start Fitness METROPOLITAN LEAGUE 10th of February by Alastair Aitken Trent Park PETER HUCK was to some, a surprise winner of the fifth Metropolitan League...
Bob Parker - A Special Person (February 2018) Bob Parker, who died in his 80’s in January (2018) made a fantastic contribution to athletics coaching, in his own special way with tremendous enthusiasm...
Start Fitness Metropolitan League 13/01/2018 Wormwood Scrubs RICHARD GOODMAN won his third Metropolitan league race of the season in a thrilling battle, right up to the finishing straight. Hillingdon...
Quality 800/880 runners 1938-2017 (part 3) Paul Ereng I talked to Paul Ereng twice at the Queens Hotel, Upper Norwood, Crystal Place and I found him a charming and modest individual when we first met...
Middlesex Cross Country Championships (January 2018) Berkeley Fields, Greenford Saturday 6th of January 2018 ABDI ABDULLE and Southern Masters Champion, Chris Smith long time member of TVH, battled...
Quality 800/880 runners 1938-2017 (part 2) Quality 800/880 runners Part 2 (December 2017) Andy Carter Andy Carter’ best time for 800m was in 1973 when he ran to a UK & British all comers record of 1...
Metropolitan League (December 2017) METROPLITAN LEAGUE 2nd of December, 2017 RICHARD GOODMAN, who won the last (2nd) Start Fitness Met League at Welwyn, won again at Hillingdon House farm, over much...
Quality 800/880 runners 1938-2017 (part 1) I enjoyed cross country, like the first Met League in 1966 and, doing the first 19 London Marathons (Best was at 42—2:47.58) BUT to me, the event on the...
Metropolitan League (November 2017) Welwyn Garden City The second league match 11/11/17 RICHARD GOODMAN, who was badly spiked in the National Cross Country, according to Shaftesbury official & coach...
North London Championships (November 2017) Berkeley Fields, Greenford 4th of November MOHAMED DAUL MOHAMMED, a week after winning the North of Thames/Liddiard Cup, and suffering with some leg trouble...
Surrey Masters Cross Country Championships (2017) MATT ATKINS, followed up his victory of last year with, another win, in a tight race in Richmond Park, on the 21st of October. In strong headwinds and...
Metropolitan League (October 2017) Claybury, Woodford, October 14th 2017 By Alastair Aitken ADAM KIRK-SMITH, whose previous Start Fitness Met League best, was 3rd at Claybury and 2nd at Stevenage last...
Ben Pochee (October 2017) Ben Pochee The 'Great Motivator' With Alastair Aitken (Talking to Alastair Aitken at the National Men’s Six Stage Road relay Final, where Highgate Harriers came 9th of 83...
Middlesex 10K Road Championships (October 2017) Victoria Park 1st of October ABDISHAKUR ABDULLE, started to go clear with 4km remaining of the 10k but it was a close race for nearly all of the way...
Gordon Surtees (9/9/32 - 1/9/17) Gordon was brought up and lived at Billingham, Durham in the North East but, known by many, all over the World. Right up to when he died at 84, his passing, brought...
Christopher Greenwood (September 2017) Chris was 44 on September 29th 2017. We talked, after he ran 14:52.60 in the Hercules Wimbledon Festival 5k on 23/8/17. Looking back to his start in athletics “I...
Hercules Wimbledon 5k Festival Night (August 2017) Torry, of Serpentine RC, moves to 6th over 40 track, all time, Brtisih list for 5k and ranked 1st in the UK over 40 in 2017 23/8/2017 The third...
Gregory Thompson (August 2017) (Born 5.5.94) Gregory Thompson, at 23 years old in 2017, has a ‘Great Future’ as a discus thrower. His best mark was when he hurled the 2K implement out to 60.28, on the...
Alan Toward (August 2017) (Born Newcastle on Tyne 31/10/92) Alan Toward, a field events exponent, who works as a strength conditioning coach. He is from Gateshead and was at Northumbria University. He...