Middlesex Championships (May 2016) 15th of May - Lee Valley The standard of sprinting at the County Championships was high, as it has always been. However, except for reasonable field events results...
Victoria Park ‘5’ (May 2016) Darren Deed of Bedford & County AC, celebrated being 38 on the 7th of May when this race was run. He finished ahead of 91 runners in very strong winds, that blew and...
Mens National 12 Stage Relay (April 2016) Highgate Harriers won the Men’s National 12 Stage road relay Championship, on Saturday April 16th, which was a surprise to most, considering the history of...
Mike Baxter (March 2016) Nobody to Somebody! MIKE BAXTER, born near Leeds on the 28th of May 1945, was the most prominent athlete to compete for Leeds City Athletic Club in the earliest days of the...
Inter Counties Championships (March 2016, Part Two) Outstanding, National and Northern ‘Under 13’ Champion, Tommy Dawson, was surprisingly beaten at the British Inter-Counties and Cross Challenge at...
Inter Counties Championships (March 2016, Part One) In the Senior Men’s race over 12k, the conditions were good with mild weather at Crofton Park, Longbridge, despite the recent cold winds and rain...
Arthur Keily (18/3/21 to 2/3/16) He had five brothers Jerry, Bill, Dominic, Joe and Michael and, was part of a very successful club Derby & County AC. Arthur Patrick Keily, died aged 94, which was a...
Andy Ferguson (March 2016) Andy Ferguson, one of the older Highgate Harriers, was a real lively character. He sadly died on the 1st of March. Andy was passionate, in his days, for Highgate Harriers...
John Disley (20/11/28 to 9/2/16) John Disley CBE was born in Corris Wales, was educated at Oswestry Boys School and Loughborough Colleges before becoming a teacher. Maybe, in recent years he will be...
START FITNESS Metropolitan League (February 13th 2016) PAUL MARTELLETTI, on 100 miles a week and, six days after his very clear victory in the hilly Watford half marathon in 67:32, won his first...
Southern Cross Country Champs (February 2016) Ben Pochee, the Manager and Robert Wilson, the Captain of the Highgate Harriers cross country team, predicted the club could win a ‘Big One’ which was...
Start Fitness Metropolitan League 4 of 5 (January 2016) Run at Horsenden Hill, Perivale on the 16th of January RICHARD GOODMAN, who won the first two Start Fitness Metropolitan league races, made it a...
Middlesex Cross Country Championships (2016) Wormwood Scrubs, January 9th The Middlesex cross country had been won by many good runners since the 1950’s. Olympian Ken Norris won it four times in the...
Sylvester Stein (January 2016) A MAN OF MANY PARTS 95 Not Out! Sylvester Stein, who was 95 on Christmas Day, died on the 29th of December 2015. He joined Highgate Harriers, as a 53 year old sprinter...
COLIN KIRKHAM (December 2015) COLIN KIRKHAM (Born 30/10/44) was an outstanding marathon runner that many may not have heard of. One of the main reasons was that, if you went down to the changing rooms...
Start Fitness Metropolitan League (December 2015) 4th of December START FITNESS METROPOLITAN LEAGUE Wormwood Scrubs PETER CHAMBERS won an enthralling battle, in strong winds on the exposed Scrubs...
Fraternity & Sorority Cup race (November 2015) CROSS COUNTRY NOVEMBER 28 The Fraternity Cup race was first awarded by the Hampstead Harriers in 1933 and, under their new banner Barnet & District AC...
North London Cross Country Championships (November 2015) Hackney Marshes 21st Of November 2015 JOHN FRANKLIN had a comfortable win in the cold winds on the marshes. However, the race of three laps had...
London CC Championships (November 2015) Parliament Hill Fields - 14th November 2015 CHRIS SMITH, won his fourth London cross country, after coming third last year. There was continuous rain for all...
Graham Taylor (November 2015) Graham Taylor, born 4th of May 1945, was the second man over 70 years of age, in the Surrey Veterans Cross Country Championships. That was run at Richmond Park on October...
Start Fitness Metropolitan League (November 2015) Cross country at Fairlands Valley Park, Stevenage on November 7th Richard Goodman, won his fourth cross country race in succession at Stevenage. There...
Start Fitness Metropolitan League (October 2015) Cross country at Claybury Park, Woodford on October 10th RICHARD GOODMAN showed why he is a ‘class act’ as he went clear of the field for the last of...
Andy Maud (October, 2015) Born 28/07/1983 On the 3rd of October, 2015 the biggest surprise was not just that a young Tonbridge AC team won the Men’s Six Stage road relay or that Swansea Harriers won...
Chat with Dave Clarke (September 2015) (The tall impressive blond haired runner, an ideal choice for being one of the ‘Great’ cross-country runners for the UK with his extensive time as an...
Festival of 5k’s - Wimbledon (August 2015) The 5k Festival Night was experiencing the same success that Ben Pochee’s first ‘Night of Personal Best 10k’s’ at Parliament Hill experienced three years ago...