Inter Counties CC Part 1 (March 2017) 12,000m at the Prestwold Hall Course, about 3 miles from Loughborough Station. The first 10 of 283 County finishers. 1 Andy Vernon (Hants) 37:50; 2 Alexander...
Mike Smith Revisited (March 2017) Mike Smith was one of those genuinely modest coaches, who was not a person who promoted himself in the media, as a lot of people do. Obviously he was known in the...
Herts/Middx Vets Championships (March 2017) Berkeley Fields, Greenford, Ealing. 19/2/17 DAVID SULLIVAN (Watford Joggers), who was 40 in December, won his first Championship. “This was my best ever...
Derek Ibbotson (My Obit, March 2017) George Derek Ibbotson MBE was born on June 17th 1932, in Huddersfield, West Riding, and Yorkshire and died 23rd of February 2017. He attended King James Grammar...
John Steed (February 2017) At 81, John Steed is remarkable, having run all Five Start Fitness Metropolitan League races in 2016/7 season. At 80 he also was the oldest runner, when he ran all the...
Mike Turner (February 2017) (Born 6th of May 1939. Died 7th of January 2017) The most impressive thing about Mike Turner was that, athletes and many others he met were inspired by him as, he imparted...
Fifth Metropolitan League (February 2017) Start Fitness Metropolitan league Alexandra Palace Park 11th of February 2017 Janice Bowman, the Administrator for the League “Things have gone very well for...
Mike Turner (February 2017) (Born 6th of May 1939. Died 7th of January 2017) The most impressive thing about Mike Turner was that, athletes and many others he met were inspired by him as, he imparted...
Metropolitan League- Trent Park (January 2017) Start Fitness Metropolitan Cross Country League Trent Park 14th January 2017 RICHARD GOODMAN won his third of three Met Leagues he has done this season...
NAT A FORGOTTEN ‘STAR’ (January 2017) Nat Fisher of Harlow AC, died June 2016. He was born on 1/10/36. He was a very good veteran runner, doing 1:57.74 for the 800 in his 40’s and was good as an M50...
John the Most Inspiring (January 2017) The most inspiring runner I have interviewed since 1962, was not the outstanding Olympic winners like Usain Bolt, Seb Coe, David Rudisha, Mo Farah, Haile...
Metropolitan League- Wormwood Scrubs (December 2016) Start Fitness Metropolitan Cross Country League Wormwood Scrubs 3rd December 2016 MOHAMUD AADAN, who last won a Met League race in February 2015...
North London Championships (December 2016) And Fraternity & Sorority Cups 26th of November 2016 Trent Park, Cockfosters ROB THOMPSON (born 14/1/91), a British Telecom engineer, won his first ever...
Metropolitan League- Stevenage (November 2016) START FITNESS METROPOLITAN LEAGUE Stevenage 12th November 2016 RICHARD GOODMAN found the second Metropolitan league of this season the most testing race...
North of the Thames/Liddiard Cross Country (November 2016) NORTH OF THAMES CHAMPIONSHIPS & LIDDIARD TROPHY Kingsbury October 29th 2016 RICHARD GOODMAN retained his 2015 North of Thames Championship &...
Surrey Masters CCC (November 2016) SURREY MASTERS CCC Richmond Park Saturday, October the 22nd MATT ATKINS (41, Kingston & Poly) won a well contested race over a dry course in 34:42. For the first two...
First Met League - 50th Year (October 2016) START FITNESS METROPOLITAN LEAGUE Claybury Park, Woodford 15th October 2016 RICHARD GOODMAN, a man with tremendous potential, who won three Metropolitan...
Middlesex 'Open' 10k with James Connor (September 2016) Victoria Park 4th of September JAMES CONNOR timed his run well. He went in front immediately after the start, doing six minutes for 2k but Andy...
Richard Weir & Mohamud Aadan (August 2016) Richard Weir born 7/8/84 & Mohamud Aadan born 11/1/90. Richard Weir (Derby & County AC) was the 2016 & 2015 English and CAU Inter-Counties 5000m Champion...
Conrad Williams (August 2016) Conrad Williams (Born Jamaica 20/3/82) has been racing on the track in England since his early 20’s and ‘Power of 10’ points to a time at the start of his career, on 12th...
Festival of 5k’s (August 2016) The second, annual, Hercules Wimbledon Festival, 5000m track races, were successfully managed, again by Ex-International cross country runner, Ben Noad, on the 17th of...
Richard Yates (August 2016) Richard Yates (Born 26/01/86) runs for Sheffield & Deane AC and his coach is Stephen Bell. Yates runs for City of Sheffield in the Premier division of the British League...
Aston Moore (August 2016) It could be said that one of the best triple jumpers in the World at the time Aston Moore competed was Keith Connor. Connor who also represented GB. He obtained an Olympic...
Sineade Gutzmore (August 2016) Sineade Gutzmore (Born 9/10/86), as a triple jumper was ranked 2nd in the United Kingdom in 2015 and, at the time of writing, 3rd in 2016. It was interesting to note...
Jessica Judd (August 2016) Jess Judd (Born 7/1/1995) has young sister Jodie Judd, who is also a good runner. Jess had been studying Human Biology at Loughborough University. Jessica Judd was or is...