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12th Feb, 2026, Alastair Aitken

A MAJOR CROSS-COUNTRY ON THE HEATH

IN 2024 Eamonn Martin, the Ex-International runner and Manager of British Athletic teams, put on a cross country meeting called the 'London International' at Parliament Hill Fields, which proved a...
12th Feb, 2026, Alastair Aitken

WORLD MASTER RECORD HOLDER AGAIN

Karina Harris who had the the listed World best time for an W55 woman of 36:10 on the road, improved on her own World Best for her '55-60 year' old with time of 35:54 at Chichester in the Chichester...
12th Feb, 2026, Alastair Aitken

EAMONN MARTIN

EAMONN MARTIN Born 9 th October 1958 in Basildon. Height 1metre 82, 68Kgs. By Alastair Aitken When we met, Eamonn worked as a components engineer at Ford Motors. Regarding his ongoing interest in...
12th Feb, 2026, Alastair Aitken

SONNY ALLEN AMONGST THE BEST

In the conditions that had the Metropolitan League final event cancelled due to a waterlogged course, at Trent Park; the UK C ross-Challenge and Inter-Area events went ahead on Saturday, the 7th of...
7th Feb, 2026, Alastair Aitken

SEVERAL ESTABLISHED HIGHGATE NAMES OUT COMPETING

In the London Indoor Games on the 17th and 18th of January, at Lee Valley recently, Highgate Harriers athletes were sharpening themselves for the Summer season ahead. Remy Weinbrecht, coached by Ex-...
28th Jan, 2026, Alastair Aitken

HIGHGATE'S WOMEN OF BRONZE

Highgate Harriers women surprised a lot of clubs with their first really good result this Winter season, with 3rd place in the South of England Women's cross-country Championships, in Beckenham Place...
28th Jan, 2026, Alastair Aitken

FITNESS FIRST METROPOLITAN LEAGUE - WELWYN

THOMAS BUTLER who last won the Metropolitan league race at Horsenden Hill on the 15th of November and was fifth at Wormwood Scrubs on the 6th of December, made no mistake at Welwyn, on the hilly...
16th Jan, 2026, Alastair Aitken

SPANISH EYES SMILING FOR 4 HIGHGATE HARRIERS

In a huge field, where many World class road runners competed, in the Valencia Ibercaja 10k road race, on the 11th of January and won by Andreas Almegren of Sweden in a new European Record of 26:46...
16th Jan, 2026, Alastair Aitken

MOONSHINE FOR LEONI AND FELIX

Back on the 17th of December, in the 'Run Through Chase the Moon 5k' road race in Battersea Park, the winners were Highgate's Felix Kent, who is studying at Durham University. He was, was the first...
16th Jan, 2026, Alastair Aitken

A Remarkable Man

Derek Wood (JD Wood) died at 95, peacefully at home in Enfield his wife Jacqui related. Derek ran at the White City over 3 and 6 miles back in the 1950's, and worked his way up to being a Bank Manager...
16th Jan, 2026, Alastair Aitken

HIGHGATE STILL FIGHTING FOR LEAGUE GLORY

Highgate Harriers Men's team, are still going for their 14th consecutive yearly victory, at their next Metropolitan league fixture on the 7th of February at Trent Park, despite the Cross Challenge...
3rd Jan, 2026, Alastair Aitken

YOUTH WINS HISTORIC RACE!

The Bottomists, Boxing Day cross-country race, run over Hampstead Heath, first started by the Late Ted Fosbrook, a coach & runner for the club but, now organised by his daughter Deborah Laing. It was...
3rd Jan, 2026, Alastair Aitken

 HIGHGATE HARRIERS OUT IN THE COLD PARK

In the Serpentine RC New Years Day, 10k road race, several Highgate runners were in very good form. Out of the large field, in which 200 women took part Karina Harris was the first woman in 37:02 and...
26th Dec, 2025, Alastair Aitken

SANTA'S EARLY SURPRISE

Alex Jackson, finished 48th in the 'Elite Race 2' in the FNUL Christmas 5 mile road event, at Battersea on the 19th of December, where he did a personal best time of 25:42.7, improving on the...
26th Dec, 2025, Alastair Aitken

Jim Ryun

Jim Ryun [Born 29th April 1947 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. Racing Weight 76kgs, 6ft 2inches tall. This gave him a sleek appearance, with an impressive stride. To my mind, he was the ‘the greatest miler’...
26th Dec, 2025, Alastair Aitken

TWO OF THE BEST 200M RUNNERS OF ALL TIME

Usain Bolt, the World record holder of the 100 & 200m and, gold medallist at three Olympics & Don Quarrie, an Olympic 200m gold medallist in 1976, 2nd in the Olympic 100m Final and, six times he...
16th Dec, 2025, Alastair Aitken

Start Fitness METROPOLITAN LEAGUE WORMWOOD SCRUBS

OSCAR BELL, had his best Met League result at Wormwood Scrubs, after improving his 5k track & Road times this year down to 13:45.75/13.52. The first to lead, after the initial rush, at the start on...
16th Dec, 2025, Alastair Aitken

THREE  COUNTY GOLD MEDALS FOR HIGHGATE

Out at Hillingdon, near Hillingdon House farm, Uxbridge on Saturday the 13th of December, it was the younger age groups of the club, who ran so well, in the cross-countries, three of those achieved...
16th Dec, 2025, Alastair Aitken

HIGHGATE STRONGER THAN EVER IN THE LEAGUE

Highgate Harriers had their best result. so far this season, by having their 12 scoring men in the first 38 places out of a field of 372 finishers, in the third of five league matches. It was over the...
3rd Dec, 2025, Alastair Aitken

ROGER KINGDOM

Only two athletes have won the Olympic 110m High Hurdles title in Olympic history and, they were Lee Calhoun (USA) in 1956 & 1960 and Roger Kingdom in 1984 & 1988. However, an interesting comment was...
22nd Nov, 2025, Alastair Aitken

HIGHGATE MAINTAIN THEIR LEAD IN THE LEAGUE

Highgate Harriers men came away from Horsenden Hill, with another victory on Saturday, in the Metropolitan League, in the 2nd of 5 fixtures and, with hopes still high of finishing the season top of...
22nd Nov, 2025, Alastair Aitken

MET LEAGUE FULL REPORT

THOMAS BUTLER, who had been trying to win the senior race for the last half a dozen years, made no mistake at Horsenden Hill, over the comparatively dry course, after the rain in the week Alastair...
13th Nov, 2025, Alastair Aitken

LONDON CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS

SEFFU JAMAAL who came 2nd in the London Cross of 2023, and 3rd in 2022, led all the way to take London Heathside to team victory, over the fairly dry surface. After a mile he was 30 metres up on...
13th Nov, 2025, Alastair Aitken

SONNY ALLEN A 'STAR' IN THE MAKING

Sonny Allen, was first out of 99 finishers in the London Youth Games cross country for fore Under 17's on Saturday the 8th of November. Allen's time was 11.04 and she beat two quality runners Jonjie...