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...
Rachel Hunter (August 2016) RACHEL HUNTER, Born on 30/8/03, is a charming lady hammer thrower for Shaftesbury Barnet AC, who won the English & Inter Counties title for West of Scotland with 62.74 on...
Alasdair Ross (July 2016) ALASDAIR ROSS in March 2015 at Torun, Poland won three M60 gold medals in the European Masters Indoors over 200/400 & the sprint relay. But on Monday 4th of July 2016 he...
The Ickenham ‘5’ (July 2016) The Ickenham 5 miles road race has been run in fine weather every year. The fastest two runners in the history of the race were Firstly in 2012 Somalian, Olympic 1500...
Alan Perkins (June 2016) Alan Perkins is not a name known much at all, outside of the older athletic fraternity in Essex. Perhaps a possible reason is because of his family connections. His first wife...
Nick Rose (June 2016) Nick Rose was born 30th of December 1951 in Bristol, a town he still loves passionately and, although he has done some coaching in the past, it is running that he has always been...
Night of the PBs and Olympic Trials - May 2016 (Part 4) 10K’S Races 1 to 4 (May 2016) Race 4 MOHAMUD ADAANS’ run would not have been out of place in the Elite Olympic Trial & British Championships...
Night of the PBs and Olympic Trials - May 2016 (Part 3) MENS 10K Race 5 at PHF (May 2016) Part 3 of Night of 10,000m Personal Bests at Parliament Hill on 21/5/2016 organized by Ben Pochee Race 5 was...
Night of the PBs and Olympic Trials - May 2016 (Part 2) Somehow, because of the atmosphere generated for every one of the 25 laps covered by the athletes, in all six races, there appeared barely...
David Bedford OBE at the Night of the PBs - May 2016 (Part 1) Highgate Harriers fourth, Annual Night of the PB’s, set up by Ben Pochee, has become a tremendous night of exciting racing and was billed...