Highgate Harriers held their early Spring Open Track and Field Meeting on the evening of the 20th of April at Parliament Hill Fields. Quite a few personal best performances were achieved, but credit...
Thomas Chadwick, an Under 17 Highgate Harrier, won the BMC Race 'C' 800m in a personal best time of 2:11.1. He is bound to improve on that time, which he did at the Linford Christie Stadium, Wormwood...
Ellen Donald, who first ran for Highgate Harriers when she was 11 and is now 18, has been selected for an England Under 20 team to compete at Cardiff over 5k on the 1st of May. Recently she was the...
On the 15th of April, Alex Lepretre of Highgate Harriers came straight off a successful road and country season to run his second best ever 5000m track time of 14:29.84, in the Elite Race 7 at...
It was very unusual in the history of Highgate Harriers for both the women and the men to get major team medals in a National Championship on the same day but that happened at the National Road Relays...
Highgate Harriers Women’s team made history at Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield on Saturday 9 April by finishing second in the National Six Stage Road Relay Championships, which first started in 2000...
The whole Highgate Men’s 'A' Team, that were a creditable second in the Southern 12-Stage Road Relay, have been selected for the National 12-Stage Road Relay. That was the sort of faith Ben Pochee has...
Highgate's Over 40's Men’s team was the first team in the first race of the day, over tufted and the lightly undulating Trent Park course. The 4- Man scoring team were all over 50, which was...
In the Southern 12-Stage Road Relay held at Milton Keynes on 27 March Highgate had a strong team out, that will be well worth watching when they go for medals in the 'Big' one in the National 12-Stage...
In the last Friday of the month 5k road race on 25th of March, near the Serpentine in Hyde Park, John Gilfedder of Highgate Harriers came fourth in 16:02 out of a field of 182. That followed his two...
One of Highgate's top runners did a Finsbury Park Parkrun record on 5 March. Jacob Allen's new course record was timed at 14.58 and he was well ahead of the second man Sam Mills of Kent AC, who ran 17...
On Saturday 19 March Highgate Harriers won the team award with London Heathside second and Victoria Park & Tower Hamlets third at the Mike Penman Victoria Park Open Five Mile race. The race was won by...
Hannah Viner was the first Middlesex runner in the Senior Women’s Inter-County Cross Country Championship at Loughborough on Saturday 12 March. She finished 17th in 33:09 out of 274 finishers. She had...
Highgate Harrier, James Ross, came 3rd in the Wimbledon 5k Dash, around the roads of Wimbledon on Sunday morning the 13th of March. It was out of a field of 136 finishers. Ross had won the Deal half...
Highgate Harrier Alex Leprete continued his good form this season with an incredibly fast time and a course record to win the Paddock Wood half marathon on 13 March. Alex ran 1hr 4min 39 sec to easily...
Ron Hill MBE ‘A Legendary Character’ (March 2022) Ron Hill will go down in athletics history as one of the ‘Greatest’ all-round distance competitors, not just as a ‘Big’ Championship marathon winner...
Looking Back The first ever World IAAF athletics Cup was held in Dusseldorf, West Germany on the 2-4 of September 1977 and, in some ways, more exciting than the following one’s. Perhaps Dusseldorf...
Highgate’s Senior Men’s team finished sixth out of 132 teams that finished in the National Cross Country at Parliament Hill Fields on Saturday 26 February. There were an amazing 2,089 runners who...
After the storms on Friday (18 February), and after discussions with Enfield Council, the fifth and final Start Fitness Metropolitan League fixture due to be held at Trent Park on 19 February was...
On the 19th of February Highgate Harriers’ senior men go for their eighth consecutive victory, out of 21 clubs, in the Metropolitan League Cross Country at Trent Park, Cockfosters. They have an...
Highgate Harriers’ Senior Men’s team men gained silver medals in the South of England Cross Country Championships at Beckenham Place Park on Saturday 29 January. It was over a winding, undulating, but...
After the fourth Start Fitness Metropolitan League fixture at Wormwood Scrubs on Saturday, 15 th January, Highgate Harriers men’s team are in first place in the top Division One, with 6,046 points and...
In damp muddy conditions at Greenford, Hannah Viner, who was second in the Middlesex Cross Country Championships in 2017, was in great form winning well, out of 97 competitors. Hannah, a previous Met...
Thomas Chadwick, an Under 17 runner, who as an Under 15 came 11th in the recent Metropolitan CC League race at Uxbridge on 4 December and ran two personal best times on the track in the Summer with 2...
Alex Davidson, was the first ‘Over 55’ in the ‘Last Friday in the Month’ 5k road race at Hyde Park organised by Serpentine RC on 31st December. He was 21st of 176 overall in 18:00. He certainly looks...