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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
James Barber, who has been as high as 27th in the Metropolitan Cross Country League this season, finished first in a Sunday League race at Stevenage on the 19th of December. 421 finished the race. His...
Highgate Harriers took no prisoners, as they went further ahead in the Start Fitness Metropolitan League Cross Country on Saturday 4 December. In the Senior Men and Woman’s races, in the third fixture...
511 finished in the inclement weather at Sefton Park, Liverpool in the senior men’s British Athletics Cross Challenge on Saturday 27 November. The Highgate finishers were Seyed Taha Ghafari in 13th in...
On Saturday 27 November Highgate Harriers won the Fraternity Cup cross country race at Trent Park. In the cold wind, over a new course, the first to set off ahead of the 215 finishers were Ash Harrell...
Seyed Taha Ghafari won his first senior Championship race in 33:57 at the London Cross Country Championships on 20 November. For the first half of the London Championships he fought a battle with...
After the first two Start Fitness Metropolitan League races, the Highgate Harriers' Senior Men continue to lead in the League table. The first three are Highgate with 1,554 points; 2, Thames Valley...
The Olympian and GB distance runner Timothy Frederick Kemball Johnston died in October 2021, aged 80. Tim went to Bedales public school, where he wrote some new records on the books, and then won two...
In the English Cross-Country Relay Championships on Saturday 6 November at Mansfield, Highgate recorded their best result ever by coming second in the Senior Men’s event. 147 teams completed...
One of our all-time ultra-distance walking greats has passed-on, aged 88. Legendary Fred of Highgate Harriers completed 19 UK sub-24 hours' 100 miles races, commencing with a 22:30.13 timing in the...