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Report #254, Alastair Aitken

Fraternity & Sorority Cup race (November 2015)

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...
Report #253, Alastair Aitken

North London Cross Country Championships (November 2015)

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...
Report #252, Alastair Aitken

London CC Championships (November 2015)

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...
Report #251, Alastair Aitken

Graham Taylor (November 2015)

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...
Report #250, Alastair Aitken

Start Fitness Metropolitan League (November 2015)

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...
Report #249, Alastair Aitken

Start Fitness Metropolitan League (October 2015)

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...
Report #248, Alastair Aitken

Andy Maud (October, 2015)

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...
Report #247, Alastair Aitken

Chat with Dave Clarke (September 2015)

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...
Report #246, Alastair Aitken

Festival of 5k’s - Wimbledon (August 2015)

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...
Report #245, Alastair Aitken

Nick Goolab and Jon Davies (August 2015)

Nick Goolab and Jon Davies (August 2015) NICK GOOLALB of Belgrave Harriers (Born 30/1/1990) won the Mile race in the English Championships, which could be considered the ‘AAA’ Mile, at Bedford on the...
Report #244, Alastair Aitken

Gemma Kersey (August 2015)

Gemma Kersey (August 2015) GEMMA KERSEY (Born 6/2/92) First 3 at the CAU Inter-Counties & England Championships in the Women’s 1500 at Bedford, on 2nd of August:- 1 Gemma Kersey (Basildon AC) 4:23.73...
Report #243, Alastair Aitken

Adam Hickey (2015)

Adam Hickey (2015) I talked to Adam Hickey (Born 30/05/1988) and his coach Eamonn Martin, at the CAU Inter-Counties & England Championships on the 2nd of August, 2015. Adam Hickey had just come 2nd...
Report #242, Alastair Aitken

Richard Weir (2015)

Richard Weir (2015) Richard Weir (Born 7/8/1984). I first met at the National Road Relays at Sutton Park in 2014. He always appeared to run very well in those events for Derby AC. It should be noted...
Report #241, Alastair Aitken

Jessica Tappin (August 2015)

Jessica Tappin (August 2015) International Heptathlete, Jessica Tappin (Born 17/5/90), first competed in the 400hurdles on August 16th in 2014 so, it was with some surprise that, in barely a year she...
Report #240, Alastair Aitken

Jodie Williams (August 2015)

Jodie Williams (August 2015) Jodie Williams (Born 28/09/93). I met her after she won the 200m Final in Herts Phoenix colours, at the CAU Inter-Counties/English Championships at Bedford on the 2nd of...
Report #239, Alastair Aitken

Dai Greene (August 2015)

Dai Greene (August 2015) (Born 11/4/86) His best time for the 400 hurdles up to 2015 was 47.84 in Paris in 2012 DAI GREENE, is an impressive hurdler and, he reminded me a bit of powerful and strong...
Report #238, Alastair Aitken

Southern Counties Track & Field Champs (July 2015)

Southern Counties Track & Field Champs (July 2015) Interviews at the Southern, 8 Counties Track & Field competition at Crawley on the 12th of July DOMINIC KING (Three times a winner of this event) A...
Report #237, Alastair Aitken

The Great Ron Clarke AO, OBE (June 2015)

The Great Ron Clarke AO, OBE (June 2015) RON CLARKE AO,MBE (21/2/37- 17/6/15) RON CLARKE, first started his working life as an accountant. He became a Company Secretary and finally retired from his...
Report #236, Alastair Aitken

Southern Interviews (June 2015) Part Two

Southern Interviews (June 2015) Part Two 3000m Women Seniors and Under 20 Under 20 First 3 1 Sophia Parvisi-Wayne (Shaftesbury Barnet) 9:59.98, PB; 2 Georgia Fear (Highgate Harriers) 10:10.75; 3...
Report #235, Alastair Aitken

Southern Interviews (June 2015) Part One

Southern Interviews (June 2015) Part One LEE VALLEY 13/14 June South of England AA U20/Senior Championships 110 Hurdles 1 Jack Hatton (Reading/Bath Spa University) 13.75; 2 Jack Kirby (Harrow) 13.93...
Report #234, Alastair Aitken

TIM HARTLEY (June 2015)

TIM HARTLEY (June 2015) TIM HARTLEY, 47 in June 2015 is impressive, as one of the best Master/Veterans over the country, road and track. His 31:33.9 for 10k on the track in 2014, as an M45, was his...
Report #233, Alastair Aitken

Third Night of 10,000 PBs (May 2015)

Third Night of 10,000 PBs (May 2015) On the evening of Saturday the 15th of May at Parliament Hill Running Track, was the third ‘Annual’ 10,000m Night of Personal Best’s, with the British and England...
Report #231, Alastair Aitken

Dave Bedford OBE (MAY 2015)

Dave Bedford OBE (MAY 2015) Alastair Aitken, who has known Dave since he was 15 and run in cross country races with him as a senior, all be it much further back, put his particular brand of questions...
Report #230, Alastair Aitken

John Whetton (Interview 1964 & 69 updated) April 2015

John Whetton (Interview 1964 & 69 updated) April 2015 JOHN WHETTON, was never quite a household name in the way Roger Bannister & Derek Ibbotson were or Coe, Cram and Ovett, for that matter but, to my...