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Report #177, Alastair Aitken

NATIONAL INSURANCE CHAMPIONSHIPS (JUNE 2013)

NATIONAL INSURANCE CHAMPIONSHIPS (JUNE 2013) On Wednesday Evening, June the 19th, was the 'Annual National' Insurance Track & Field Championships held at the Millennium Stadium, Battersea. The...
Report #176, Alastair Aitken

HIGHGATE HARRIERS FIRST OPEN 10K (6th June 2013)

HIGHGATE HARRIERS FIRST OPEN 10K (6th June 2013) BEN POCHEE, the fastest M40 over 3 & 10k in 2012, organised three 10k races in the cool, slightly windy evening at Parliament Hill Fields track. As...
Report #175, Alastair Aitken

FRANK SALVAT (30th of October 1934 to May 2013)

FRANK SALVAT (30th of October 1934 to May 2013) Eric Shirley Junior got in touch (29/5) to say that Frank Salvat had died recently age 78. Salvat ran with his friend Olympic Steeplechaser, Eric...
Report #174, Alastair Aitken

MIDDLESEX Track & Field CHAMPIONSHIPS (MAY 2013)

MIDDLESEX Track & Field CHAMPIONSHIPS (MAY 2013) Lee Valley Although the middle distance events were very depleted there were a few encouraging performances in the field and the sprints. The latter...
Report #173, Alastair Aitken

JIM McNAMARA an IRISH LEGEND (May 2013)

JIM McNAMARA an IRISH LEGEND (May 2013) Jim McNamara (74), is a well known in Irish Athletics and has been with Donore Harriers for 50 years now. He has been an Olympic athlete, a 'World Class' Master...
Report #172, Alastair Aitken

Mike Gratton Looks Back (April 2013)

Mike Gratton Looks Back (April 2013) I talked to Mike Gratton (Born 27/11/54) at the London Marathon Exhibition on the 20th of April, 2013, where he had his '2:09 Stand', for his successful '2.09...
Report #171, Alastair Aitken

Aldershot Champions Again (April 2013)

Aldershot Champions Again (April 2013) Aldershot & Farnham's Women's team ran their second fastest time for the Sutton Park course with 1:37:56, in the National Six Stage Road Relay Championships on...
Report #170, Alastair Aitken

NATIONAL 12 STAGE ROAD RELAY (April 2013)

NATIONAL 12 STAGE ROAD RELAY (April 2013) Belgrave Harriers pulled out all the stops to win the National 12 Stage Road Relay. The event was combined with the Area road relays too at Sutton Park, near...
Report #169, Alastair Aitken

VICTORIA PARK WOMEN'S RACE (April 2013)

VICTORIA PARK WOMEN'S RACE (April 2013) 60 Women ran in the 47th Victoria Park '5' in brilliant sunshine and the surprise winner was Sarah McDougall of Serpentine RC, in what must be considered one of...
Report #168, Alastair Aitken

VICTORIA PARK 5 WITH MARTIN & HICKEY (April 2013)

VICTORIA PARK 5 WITH MARTIN & HICKEY (April 2013) History dictates that in 1966 John Roberts, the South London Harrier, an International cross-country runner, won the first Victoria Park 5 miles road...
Report #167, Alastair Aitken

World Trial and Inter-Counties Part Three (March 2013)

World Trial and Inter-Counties Part Three (March 2013) McCain Challenge It was interesting to see that, with both the Under 20 Men and Women, the first six in each race at Crofton Park were selected...
Report #166, Alastair Aitken

World Trial and Inter-Counties Part Two (March 2013)

World Trial and Inter-Counties Part Two (March 2013) Louise Damen followed up her National win with another fine performance by winning the McCain World Trial & Inter-Counties Championships at Crofton...
Report #165, Alastair Aitken

World Trial and Inter-Counties Part One (March 2013)

World Trial and Inter-Counties Part One (March 2013) Southern Champion, Frank Tickner, the 'National Champion' of 2009 at Parliament Hill, virtually led from the start to the finish over the four lap...
Report #163, Alastair Aitken

Southern Cross Country Champs - Part Two (February 2013)

Southern Cross Country Champs - Part One (February 2013) FRANK TICKNER was tipped by his brother Ben, who won the Southern Senior last year, to win this year which he duly did in style.When Tickner is...
Report #162, Alastair Aitken

Southern Cross Country Champs - Part One (February 2013)

Southern Cross Country Champs - Part One (February 2013) FRANK TICKNER was tipped by his brother Ben, who won the Southern Senior last year, to win this year which he duly did in style.When Tickner is...
Report #161, Alastair Aitken

MIDDLESEX CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS (January 2013)

MIDDLESEX CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS (January 2013) CHRIS SMITH was a comfortable winner of the Men's race over a muddy course at the 'Scrubs' on the 5th of January. Thames Valley Harrier Smith...
Report #160, Alastair Aitken

HARRY TEMPAN RETIRES AT 87 (December 2012)

HARRY TEMPAN RETIRES AT 87 (December 2012) HARRY TEMPAN (Born 20.5.25) has finally hung up his running shoes. " I do love running but I don't intend racing again or being a member of a club " He told...
Report #158, Alastair Aitken

FRANK SANDO (14/3/31 - 13/10/12)

FRANK SANDO (14/3/31 - 13/10/12) Frank Sando was born in Maidstone, Kent. There are several reasons Frank Sando stands out in my memory. As a boy of 12, I saw Frank Sando emerging from the changing...
Report #157, Alastair Aitken

GREG RICHARDS (October 2012)

GREG RICHARDS (October 2012) When I talked to Greg Richards and his wife Nina Anderson at their home in North London in late September I found Greg Richards very modest about his achievements as a...
Report #156, Alastair Aitken

THE MIDDLESEX & OPEN 10K (September 2012)

NINA ANDERSON (September 2012) Nina Anderson (Born in Newcastle on Tyne - and a 'Northerner through and through' 26th of January 1972) has already accomplished a lot at veteran level. Double World...
Report #155, Alastair Aitken

NINA ANDERSON (September 2012)

NINA ANDERSON (September 2012) Nina Anderson (Born in Newcastle on Tyne - and a 'Northerner through and through' 26th of January 1972) has already accomplished a lot at veteran level. Double World...