For only the second time in about 110 years Highgate Harriers achieved the All England title by being the top road relay club in 2023, when winning the 12 Stage road relay at Sutton Park, near...
In Cassiobury Park, Watford on Sunday 26th March, in constant rain, Highgate's Over 60 three-man team, were victorious on the mud and grassland course. The M60 team were 1st Alex Davidson, who has...
In the Friday Night 5k races Under The Lights at Battersea on 17th February Highgate Harriers men and women were firing on all cylinders, in the cool evening air. Alex Bampton, the University College...
On Saturday 11 th March, in the important CAU Inter Counties Cross Country Championships, that attracts counties from all parts of the country, Hannah Viner was the first Middlesex woman home in the...
On Sunday 5th March 1,220 runners completed the Cambridge Half Marathon in under one and half hours! Several Highgate Harriers were well up the field and running good times. Samuel Jinks ran 68:08...
With the great success of the Highgate Harriers men's cross country runners, with first team place in the Southern and fourth in the Nationals, one could be forgiven for overlooking some of the...
181 ran in the Serpentine Last Friday of the Month 5k road race, on 24th February, and there were several Highgate men well up the field. 18 Russ Ashford (M35) 16:55; 20 Jack Billingham 16:57; 20...
Twenty three clubs lined up in chilly conditions for the final Metropolitan League Cross Country meeting over the Cockfosters course at Trent Park on 11th February, and Highgate Harriers senior men...
Highgate Harriers senior men's team of six runners, finished all their scorers within the first 33 places, out of 665 finishers, in the South of England Cross Country Championships on Saturday 28th...
On 21st January at the Middlesex Centenary Cross Country Championships, well organised by the City of London Corporation & Highgate Harriers on the Hampstead Heath course, the senior men’s and the...
The Old 'Fox' has gone! That was the friendly term used to describe George Harrison's style of racing in the press, when he ran in the 1960's as a canny cross-country runner, or as a top class...
On Sunday 15th January in the 10K Valencia Ibercaja road race, two Highgate Harriers ran for England. Jacob Allen did a personal best chip time of 28:45 and came 35th in the race, and also doing a...
Highgate Harriers edged further ahead in the 4th of 5 Start Fitness Metropolitan Cross Country League fixtures at Standborough Park, Welwyn Garden City on 14th January. Out of 357 senior men runners...
In the Annual Bottomist Cup race held on the morning of Boxing Day - which was always supported by legendary coach Ted Fosbrook and now by his extended family - the cup was retained by last year's...
Nina Griffith was the second female finisher in the Serpentine New Year’s Day 10k road race, her time 36:13. She ran a fast personal best marathon of 2:36:45 in August 2021, and in October was the 1st...
The 60m sprints at Lee Valley New Year's Open on 2nd January produced new personal best's for quite a few Highgate Harriers and here they are:- Arthur Shaw (U15) 8.65; George Sayles 8.29 (He also did...
Alex Leprêtre and Jacob Allen, who have had some great runs on the road and cross country this year, were the first two finishers in the England Championship 10k at Telford, on 11th December. The...
On 4th December at Lee Valley Indoors, Highgate Harriers had some good runs. Sam Amdor (U20) ran 39:55 for 300m. Remy Weinbrecht ran a 60m hurdles in 8.95, to win his race in a personal best time...
Seyed Taha Ghafari came 49th in 31:34 in the senior men's European Cross Country in Piemonte, Italy on 11th December. He was the seventh runner from a British club in the result. Ghafari ran all his...
180 runners competed on the road, at Battersea, in the British Masters 5k Road Championships on 4th December. The best Highgate result was Duncan Burbidge who, as an M50, came in 36th overall in 16:57...
On Saturday, over a surprisingly dry course after the rain, except for the brook to negotiate at Hillingdon House Farm, and in cold conditions, Highgate Harriers senior men were still out ahead in the...
Alex Leprêtre won the Fraternity Cup race very convincingly over grass and mud at Trent Park on 26th November. He was running for his second claim club Barnet AC but was running for Highgate in his...
Nathan Sayers, who ran his personal best marathon on October 9th with a time of 2:43:51, was out again on November 6th doing the New York Marathon in 2:54:58. Elsa Shabani, an Under 17, looks like a...
Hannah Viner has had a busy few weeks racing, which included a result of 56:34 in the Cabbage Patch 10-mile road race. Over the fairly fast but hilly grassland course in the London Cross-Country...
Alex Leprêtre led from the start to win the second Fitness First Metropolitan League, in warm sunshine, over a Wormwood Scrubs grassland course on Saturday 12th November. Out of a field of 458 and...