Ickenham 5 Miles Road Race (June 2014) The second Ickenham Road race was a success, despite the sudden change in temperature RICHARD GOODMAN, who last raced when winning the Inter-Counties cross...
Job Kinyor of Kenya (June 2014) Job Kinyor (Born 8th of May 1990) Job Kinyor, won the 'B' 800m in the Nike Prefontaine Classic in Eugene Oregon, at the end of May 2014. His time was 1:44.70. In second...
Night of the 10,000 PBs (May 2014) The event incorporated the English Championships and were Trials for the European Championships. Also, people from abroad were trying to make the standard too, as...
David Bedford Looks Back (May 2014) Talking before the '10,000 Night of the PB's and British Championships on the 10th of May at Parliament Hill Fields. All these years later, 41 years ago, you look...
National 12 stage Road Relay (April 2014) Part 2 April 5th at Sutton Park, Birmingham Leeds City Athletic Club are getting the reputation for being a consistent road and cross-country club as it was...
The Women's National Six Stage Road Relay 2014 (Part One) ALDERSHOT & FARNHAM & DISTINCT AC won their fifth consecutive Six Stage Road relay at Sutton Park, Birmingham. On the 1st Leg the leader was...
GERRY NORTH (1936-2014) It was sad to hear about Gerry North dying on April the 1st (2014). He was such a pleasant and modest man I knew well since the early 1960's. His cross-country record was most...
Hillingdon Half Marathon (March 2014) Brunel University, Uxbridge, Sunday 23rd of March This is the Hillingdon Half that was last run before in 2003. ROBERT THOMPSON, led all the way in the Hillingdon...
Inter-Counties Championships - 8th March 2014 (Part One) RICHARD GOODMAN, the British Universities and Southern Champion raced away from Steve Vernon, the Multi-talented cross country runner for the...
Inter-Counties Championships - 8th March 2014 (Part One) RICHARD GOODMAN, the British Universities and Southern Champion raced away from Steve Vernon, the Multi-talented cross country runner for the...
National Senior Cross Country Championships - 22nd February 2014 (Part Two) Under 17 Women 5k (11 am) In the Saucony English National, at Wollaton Park , Nottingham, soon after the start Bobby Clay...
National Senior Cross Country Championships - 22nd February 2014 (Part One) STEVE VERNON has now got the 'National record' for being 8 times in the frame in the Championships, since the race was first...
The SOUTHERN CHAMPIONSHIPS on 25th January 2014 (Part Two) JESS ANDREWS of Aldershot Farnham & District took up the pace quite early on in the Southern Women's Championships at Parliament Hill Fields...
The SOUTHERN CHAMPIONSHIPS on 25th January 2014 (Part One) RICHARD GOODMAN won an intriguing battle in the senior event, over a muddy Hampstead Heath course. Goodman and Frank Tickner, a previous...
Sir Christopher Chataway (31/1/31 - 19/1/14) I learnt on Sunday afternoonn (19/1) that Chris Chataway had died that morning. The one thing I would like to say was, when I interviewed him in 1986, when...
Andy Holden the Legend (22/10/48 - 5/1/14) Andy Holden set a UK record for 3000 steeplechase of 8.26.4 in 1972, ran in the Olympics, European and Commonwealth Games and was a National Veteran over 40...
North London Cross Country Championships (November 2013) NORTH LONDON CHAMPIONSHIPS Mad Bess Woods, Ruislip 23rd of November TOMAS STASIONIS (28), followed up his third place in the previous weeks'...
THE LIDDIARD CUP (OCTOBER 2013) The Liddiard cross country Cup was first run in 1947 and since then Mike Barratt (who sadly died a year ago) won the event more times than anyone else. The 'Evergreen'...
SURREY VETS CHAMPIONSHIPS (October 2013) STUART MAJOR, now running back with South London Harriers again, as he is coaching at their new track, won his third Surrey Vets cross country title, in four...
RYAN McKINLAY THE VERSATILE CLUB RUNNER (September 2013) I talked to Ryan McKinlay, the day after he turned 27, at Parliament Hill Fields Open Meeting. That evening it rained all the time and he was...
MIDDLESEX CHAMPIONSHIP 10K - 7th September 2013 - Victoria Park MOHAMUD AADAN, on 65 miles a week of running, reduced his best time for 10k from 33:07 to 30:34 over the same course (He last did in...
SHAUN LIGHTMAN (September 2013) SHAUN LIGHTMAN who was 70 on April 15th 2013, was top of the UK rankings for M60, 65 and, currently top of the Over 70 group UK rankings for the 3000m Walk. We talked...
SPRINTING MASTER ALASDAIR ROSS (AUGUST 2013) 61 year old, Alasdair Ross, is a charming Scotsman, who was born back on the 17th of March, 1952 and is Self coached. Before contracting an Achilles injury...
An Appreciation of Charlie Williams (2013) (Charlie Williams died at age 82 in September 2013) I will always remember Charlie Williams, who was recently time keeping at meetings and winning Masters...
JACK PARKER (Looks Back in July 2013) Jack Parker and Peter Hildreth, closely followed in the footsteps of the 'Great' high hurdler, World War Fighter Pilot, Squadron Leader, Donald Finlay, as the two...