MIKE TAGG 1960 and 70's Top Youth/Junior/Senior (August 2012) MIKE TAGG is not a name many people would possibly remember as being a ' Great' runner but I assure you he certainly was. I last spoke to...
SOUTH OF ENGLAND TRACK [heading] FIELD CHAMPS (June 2013) When you look at County Championships these days, you realise they are not supported as much as they were in years gone by but the Southern...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Southern Cross Country Champs - Part Three (February 2013) UNDER 20 MEN (82 Finishers) Ian Bailey the winner from Aldershot, looked good at the head of a group going up the hill at the half way stage...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Running Still - 133 years of Highgate Harriers (August 2012) There was a private viewing of 'Running Still' - 133 years of Highgate Harriers, on the 10th of September at the Camden Local Studios and...
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...
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...
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...
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...