Night of the PB's Part 3 (May 2017) Women’s Race ‘A’ In the women’s 10k, Beth Potter who runs for Scotland’s Victoria Park, City of Glasgow but in England competes for Shaftesbury Barnet. She broke...
Night of the PB's Part 2 (May 2017) Men's Race A ANDY VERNON, who runs for Aldershot Farnham & District, who had a poor race last year, made up for it with a good win at Parliament Hill winning in 28...
David Bedford OBE at Night of the PB's Part 1 (May 2017) Not to forget the last British person to hold the World 10k track record was Dave Bedford (27:30.8), which was done at Crystal Palace in 1973...
Middlesex Championships (June 2017) 13th of June, Lee Valley The most well contested events were the sprints again but, the Championship Best Performances came in the field. One must remember that...
Jonathan Mellor (May 2017) Jonny Mellor, was born on the 27th of December 1986, at Birkenhead and, comes from the Wirral. His club Liverpool Harriers were third in the National 12 Stage relay in 2017...
Dewi Griffiths (April 2017) Dewi Griffiths, is a remarkably friendly and natural character from West Wales. On the 8th of April 2017, in the sunshine, his club Swansea won the National 12 Stage Road...
Stan Curran (April 2017) Stan Curran may not be a name that people, outside of the North of England and particularly the Manchester area, have heard of as famous sportsman but, there were many good...
Howard Williams RIP (March 2017) (Howard Williams died in his 80’s in the weekend of the 25/26 of March, 2017) There are those in athletics who work tirelessly as officials for no remuneration, to...
Jane Furniss-Shields (March 2017) Jane Shields (City of Sheffield AC) was born in Sheffield, on 23rd of August 1960. She married David Shields, who was a keen 800m runner. They live near Graves Park...
Inter Counties CC Part 3 (March 2017) At Prestwold Hall, Loughborough 11th of March 2017 Under 20 Men (8000m) First Six of 163 finishers 1 Jonathan Shields (Yorkshire) 27:13; 2 Scott Beattie (North...
Inter Counties CC Part 2 (March 2017) At Prestwold Hall, Loughborough 11th of March 2017 First six of 262 finishers over the 8000m course: - 1 Jessica Judd (Essex) 34:03; 2 Clare Duck (Yorkshire) 30...
Inter Counties CC Part 1 (March 2017) 12,000m at the Prestwold Hall Course, about 3 miles from Loughborough Station. The first 10 of 283 County finishers. 1 Andy Vernon (Hants) 37:50; 2 Alexander...
Mike Smith Revisited (March 2017) Mike Smith was one of those genuinely modest coaches, who was not a person who promoted himself in the media, as a lot of people do. Obviously he was known in the...
Herts/Middx Vets Championships (March 2017) Berkeley Fields, Greenford, Ealing. 19/2/17 DAVID SULLIVAN (Watford Joggers), who was 40 in December, won his first Championship. “This was my best ever...
Derek Ibbotson (My Obit, March 2017) George Derek Ibbotson MBE was born on June 17th 1932, in Huddersfield, West Riding, and Yorkshire and died 23rd of February 2017. He attended King James Grammar...
John Steed (February 2017) At 81, John Steed is remarkable, having run all Five Start Fitness Metropolitan League races in 2016/7 season. At 80 he also was the oldest runner, when he ran all the...
Fifth Metropolitan League (February 2017) Start Fitness Metropolitan league Alexandra Palace Park 11th of February 2017 Janice Bowman, the Administrator for the League “Things have gone very well for...
Mike Turner (February 2017) (Born 6th of May 1939. Died 7th of January 2017) The most impressive thing about Mike Turner was that, athletes and many others he met were inspired by him as, he imparted...
Mike Turner (February 2017) (Born 6th of May 1939. Died 7th of January 2017) The most impressive thing about Mike Turner was that, athletes and many others he met were inspired by him as, he imparted...
Metropolitan League- Trent Park (January 2017) Start Fitness Metropolitan Cross Country League Trent Park 14th January 2017 RICHARD GOODMAN won his third of three Met Leagues he has done this season...
NAT A FORGOTTEN ‘STAR’ (January 2017) Nat Fisher of Harlow AC, died June 2016. He was born on 1/10/36. He was a very good veteran runner, doing 1:57.74 for the 800 in his 40’s and was good as an M50...
John the Most Inspiring (January 2017) The most inspiring runner I have interviewed since 1962, was not the outstanding Olympic winners like Usain Bolt, Seb Coe, David Rudisha, Mo Farah, Haile...
Metropolitan League- Wormwood Scrubs (December 2016) Start Fitness Metropolitan Cross Country League Wormwood Scrubs 3rd December 2016 MOHAMUD AADAN, who last won a Met League race in February 2015...
North London Championships (December 2016) And Fraternity & Sorority Cups 26th of November 2016 Trent Park, Cockfosters ROB THOMPSON (born 14/1/91), a British Telecom engineer, won his first ever...
Metropolitan League- Stevenage (November 2016) START FITNESS METROPOLITAN LEAGUE Stevenage 12th November 2016 RICHARD GOODMAN found the second Metropolitan league of this season the most testing race...