Night of PBs 2019 - Part 4 10k Night of PB’s Race 4 16:30 Race 4 1 Hanne Verbruggen (KAB) 33.30.67; 2 Julia Mayer (VBWIE) 33:53.69; 3 Abbie Donnelly 9LINCW) 33:56.13. “I have been Belgian Champion...
Night of PBs 2019 - Part 3 10k Night of PB’s Race 3 (July 2019) Third 10k race race at 15.45 29 finishers First 3:- 1 Sean Fontana in a season’s Best of 30:02.81. He competes for Inverclyde/City of...
Night of PBs 2019 - Part 2 10k Night of PB’s Race 1 (July 2019) At 14.15 on the 6th of July, was the first race and the first seven home of 30 finishers did Personal Best times, showing the meeting...
Night of PBs 2019 - Part 1 PAUL MASKELL is the North London, Leisure & events Manager and communicator for Hampstead Heath “I have worked for the City of London for 23 years and, this undoubtedly, is...
Ken Mathews (June 2019) Kenneth Joseph Mathews MBE of the Royal Sutton Walking Club 27/6/34 to 2/6/19 In the 1960’s Great Britain had some of the best race walkers in the World. Surrey walker, Paul...
Middlesex Track & Fields Champs (May 2019) Lee Valley - 11/12 May 2019 It was the sprints again, that kept the standard of competition at a good county level Roy Stratton, a Senior Official with...
BERNIE PLAIN MBE at the Relays (April 2019) Bernie Plain (Born 3/12/46) is someone I had interviewed before but, felt like asking his opinion on the fact that quite a lot of the top runners do not do...
Tim Hutchings ‘At the Time’ (March 2019) (Born in London, 4th of December 1958, Educated at Worth School in Sussex.) It was in Sussex he also organised and founded the Brighton Marathon but, these...
Chris Finill & Jim Cooper (March 2019) Chris Finill, an outstanding Ultra & Marathon man, ran 3,100 miles across the USA with Steve Pope in 2011. It was from San Francisco to New York in 79 days 22...
Start Fitness Metropolitan League (February 2019) Alexandra Palace 9th of February 2019 WILLIAM RYAL-HODGES and ROGER POOLMAN ended the fifth senior league race, finishing more like high hurdlers...
Memories of Munich 1972 (January 2019) Although the majority of interviews I conducted, after Munich were in Mel Wattman’s Athletics Weekly I did have one long one in the Athletics Arena Olympic...
Start Fitness Metropolitan League (January 2019) Wormwood Scrubs Park. 12th of January ROGER POOLMAN improved massively, since the last cross-country season to have his best run in the Metropolitan...
Middlesex CC (January 2019) Berkeley Fields, Greenford, 5th of January PHIL CROUT won an intriguing battle with Alex Lepetre and Christopher Wright over the 12,000m course of fairly firm ground...
Looking Back at Tokyo (January 2019) Remember that song, they played on the radio, when the 1964 Olympic Games was on “Good Morning Tokyo!” I recolect that in Tokyo there were attractively dressed...
Fraternity & Sorority Cups (December 2018) Trent Park Saturday November 24th and organised by Barnet & District AC ALEX LEPRETRE had the previous Saturday come third in the London Championships, at...
START FITNESS METROPOLITAN LEAGUE 3 (December 2018) Hillingdon House Farm, Uxbridge 1st of December PAUL MARTELLETTI had his second ever win in the Metropolitan League and following his London victory...
Mexico 50 Years Later (November 2018) Perhaps, the last really unusual venue and amateur Olympics was, in Mexico City in 1968. I went to Mexico with ‘Red Dragon Travel’ and, the bus that took us from...
Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister, was born in Harrow on the 23rd of March 1929, was married with four children. He died on the 3rd of March 2018. Back in the 1950’s his Personal Best times were 800/1:50.7...
Hercules Festival 5k’s (August 2018) HERCULES WIMBLEDON 5000m FESTIVAL NIGHT 15th of August The Festival 5k’s was a success again in good conditions, with 19 runners bettering 15 minutes and, 70...
The Legendary John Gilmour (1919-2018) John Gilmour (Born May 3rd 1919) John Gilmour, The most inspiring runner I have interviewed, since I started doing that in 1962, died at the age of 99 in...
Hercules Festival of 3k’s (August 2018) HERCULES WIMBLEDON 3000 OPEN GRADED MEETING Wimbledon August 1st The seven 3000 races put on were considered by the organiser Ben Noad, to be the First Hercules...
The ‘Great’ Irena Szewinska (July 2018) (Born Leningrad 24/5/46 died Warsaw 29/6/18) Irena Szewinska is in the Jewish Hall of Fame. Another fact. She was elected onto the IAAF on the 3rd of August...
Dick Quax (1/1/48-25/5/18) Just before the ‘Great’ trio of British middle-distance runners Seb Coe, Steve Ovett & Steve Cram led the World of middle distance runners in the 1980’s, an equally...
Night of the 10k PBs (May 2018) - part 9 Alastair Watson (June 2018) (Night of 10,000m PBs - Race 4) When did he decide to go ahead? “Jack Grey was in a little trouble holding his side and, we were...
Night of the 10k PBs (May 2018) - part 8 Joe Morwood (May 2018) (Night of 10,000m PBs - Race 4) Joe Morwood has something else to celebrate, other than winning at Parliament Hill. He is getting...