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...
Awards given recently included the trophy for the outstanding senior Highgate Athlete of 2022. That went to consistent Alex Leprêtre, for his great runs on the road and country. The junior award went...
Highgate Harriers senior men were ninth of 200 club teams in the National Cross Country Relay, at Berry Park Mansfield, 5th November. Nobody ran badly but there were so many on the first leg, Highgate...
Zechariah Cohen, the Plymouth University student who runs for Highgate Harriers, ran 14:57.30 in 5000m at the South West Universities Autumn Varsity Open on 26 October. His previous best was 16:03.6...
Rob Wilson, Highgate Harriers men’s cross-country captain, finished first of 100 runners in the North London Championships at Berkeley Fields, Greenford on 29 October. Rob, who ran his fastest ever 5...
Rebecca Johnson of Highgate Harriers was the first woman in the Battersea Park RunThrough 10k on 22 October, with a time of 34:28, and finishing 2 mins 30 sec ahead of the next woman in the race...
21-year-old William Broom, a King's College, London student who trains at Parliament Hill, took Highgate to individual and clear team victory, in the first of the five Metropolitan League races on...
On 9 October four Highgate Harriers ran personal best marathon times. In the Chicago Marathon, Nathan Sayers ran 2:43:51, improving on his time of 2:47:20 at the Boston Marathon in April. Rebecca...
In the National Road Relay six stage at Sutton Coldfield on 8 October Highgate Harriers senior men’s team finished in tenth position of the 81 starting clubs, and the women of Highgate finished 15th...
William De Cothi was another who ran in the Berlin Marathon and the Highgate Harrier finished in a respectable time of 3:05.30. However, his best marathon time is 2:44.54, which he ran in 2019. An...