Night of the 10k PBs (May 2018) - part 4 Lorenzo Dini & Fionnuala Ross (May 2018) Lorenzo Dini (Born 2/10/94) wiped out his personal best of 29:31.11 to do 28:30.01, to win the 'B' race at Parliament...
Night of the 10k PBs (May 2018) - part 3 Ancuta Bobocel & Katrina Wootton (May 2018) Chemtai Lonah Salpeter, the Kenyan born runner, competing for Israel was the clear favourite for the women’s ‘A’...
Richard Ringer - Night of the 10k PBs (May 2018) On the Evening of the 19th of May 2018, Richard Ringer, (Born 29/8/89) from Germany won, probably the most exciting race ever seen at the historic...
Dave Bedford O.B.E at the 10k PBs (May 2018) About the Night of 10,000 PB’s, the last British runner Dave Bedford, to hold the world record for 10k (27:30.60 achieved in 1973.) Here he is talking a...
Steve Brace (May 2018) Steve Brace (Born 7/7/61) a well known official, organiser, and of course at one time an International marathon runner, from Bridgend AC. The club he has always belonged to...
Bruce Tulloh (29/9/35-28/4/2018) May 2018 MICHAEL Swinton ‘Bruce’ Tulloh, was born on 29th of September 1935 and died at home in Marlborough on 28th of April 2018. BRUCE TULLOH made an immense...
Mike Gratton on the Marathon (April 2018) I talked to Mike Gratton of Invicta AC; at the London Marathon Exhibition, the day before the 2018 London Marathon. (The 38th). Mike is the man who set up ‘2...
The Snow King (TFKJ) - April 2018 At 78. I now look back over the many years I have had and, realise there were three British runners who were my heroes because, they meant so much to me at the time...
Herts & Middx Vets CCC (March 2018) 25th of March 2018 ANDREW LEACH 54, whose son is International Matt Leach, who ran for the UK in the Europa Cup 10,000 last year, was a comfortable winner in 33:44...
Rory Leonard & Grace Brock (March 2018) Rory Leonard The first 3 in the very muddy, Final Cross Challenge and Inter-Counties For Under 17’s was 1 Rory Leonard (North East) 20:34; 2 Thomas Keen...
Thomas Mortimer & Jake Hayward (March 2018) Tom Mortimer (Stroud AC) was 3rd behind Mahamed Mahamed (Southampton AC) and Emile Cairess (Leeds City) in the National Junior (U20) cross country, at...
Mahamed Mahamed & Adam Hickey (March 2018) Mahmed Mahamed was the overall Cross-Challenge winner and Inter-Counties cross country Champion, who two weeks before won a comfortable first place for...
Phoebe Law ‘Triple Winner’ & Gemma Steel (March 2018) Phoebe Law, with her light frame, moved over the ground with consummate ease, to win the Southern Cross Country Championship, at Brighton in...
Start Fitness 5th MET LEAGUE (February 2018) Start Fitness METROPOLITAN LEAGUE 10th of February by Alastair Aitken Trent Park PETER HUCK was to some, a surprise winner of the fifth Metropolitan League...
Bob Parker - A Special Person (February 2018) Bob Parker, who died in his 80’s in January (2018) made a fantastic contribution to athletics coaching, in his own special way with tremendous enthusiasm...
Start Fitness Metropolitan League 13/01/2018 Wormwood Scrubs RICHARD GOODMAN won his third Metropolitan league race of the season in a thrilling battle, right up to the finishing straight. Hillingdon...
Quality 800/880 runners 1938-2017 (part 3) Paul Ereng I talked to Paul Ereng twice at the Queens Hotel, Upper Norwood, Crystal Place and I found him a charming and modest individual when we first met...
Middlesex Cross Country Championships (January 2018) Berkeley Fields, Greenford Saturday 6th of January 2018 ABDI ABDULLE and Southern Masters Champion, Chris Smith long time member of TVH, battled...
Quality 800/880 runners 1938-2017 (part 2) Quality 800/880 runners Part 2 (December 2017) Andy Carter Andy Carter’ best time for 800m was in 1973 when he ran to a UK & British all comers record of 1...
Metropolitan League (December 2017) METROPLITAN LEAGUE 2nd of December, 2017 RICHARD GOODMAN, who won the last (2nd) Start Fitness Met League at Welwyn, won again at Hillingdon House farm, over much...
Quality 800/880 runners 1938-2017 (part 1) I enjoyed cross country, like the first Met League in 1966 and, doing the first 19 London Marathons (Best was at 42—2:47.58) BUT to me, the event on the...
Metropolitan League (November 2017) Welwyn Garden City The second league match 11/11/17 RICHARD GOODMAN, who was badly spiked in the National Cross Country, according to Shaftesbury official & coach...
Surrey Masters Cross Country Championships (2017) MATT ATKINS, followed up his victory of last year with, another win, in a tight race in Richmond Park, on the 21st of October. In strong headwinds and...
Metropolitan League (October 2017) Claybury, Woodford, October 14th 2017 By Alastair Aitken ADAM KIRK-SMITH, whose previous Start Fitness Met League best, was 3rd at Claybury and 2nd at Stevenage last...
Ben Pochee (October 2017) Ben Pochee The 'Great Motivator' With Alastair Aitken (Talking to Alastair Aitken at the National Men’s Six Stage Road relay Final, where Highgate Harriers came 9th of 83...