Vimal-Pedro Patel’s journey is nothing short of extraordinary. After being diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a rare and debilitating neurological condition, Pedro spent 18 months hospitalised...
Bill Sutherland celebrated his 80th birthday on Sunday April 6th. Bill was an established name from the mid-60s onwards soon coming to the attention of International Selectors, and included among...
Karima is a mother of three children and still works full-time as a partner in a law firm. When her children were young, she kept fit by running to work every day, but since joining Highgate Harriers...
We had 15 athletes compete over the weekend (Saturday 15th, to Sunday 16th) at the Indoors. There were many good performances. I hope you were all pleased with your results and performances. The...
After highlighting all our club champions and runners up last week, here are more details about how our athletes fared in the League itself—both as individuals with their best scores over 4 taken into...
Fixture 5 @ Brent Lodge- 1st March 2025 This was the 5th & final Juniors XC race & brought a close to the 60th season of The North West London Young Athletes Cross Country League at Brent Lodge Park...
For the un-initiated The Metropolitan Cross Country League (Met League) is one of the oldest cross-country leagues in the country. Currently formed of 23 athletic and running clubs from around London...
Teresa Allen Wormwood Scrubs was the venue; Wednesday, the 5th of February, was the date. Arjuna Pflug came in 2nd place in the Intermediate Boys race, which was fantastic considering he was coming...
Thanks to Teresa for sending in a link to the results for the South of England Cross-Country Championships. I invited Teresa to pick out two possibly random selections from the results. "Hmm, okay,"...
We had 10 athletes competing over the weekend at Lee Valley, achieving seven personal bests (PBs). Day 1 Track Aliyah Osman (U17W) – 28.7 PB (200m) Shuowang He (SM) – 25.34 PB (200m) Nick Van Oosterom...
A huge congratulations to 8-year-old Sofiyah Sharaz, one of Highgate’s youngest athletes, for making her debut for the U11s in the North West Cross League at the Hampstead Heath Extension (Fixture 4)...
Another great year - over 40 runners took part - ready to endeavour to keep to the route - face the mud and generally thoroughly enjoy the festive joyful spirit of the event. This race was started...
Great start to the New Year at the Middlesex County Championships. A cold day and tough mud once the top layer of ice thawed at Trent Park. Vital Stats from our Young Athletes: 2 County Champions-...
Note start time: 11.10am Start venue: meet next to Parliament Hill running track Hampstead Heath from 10.30am to register and collect your number. Course: involves a circuit which extends to the field...
Started the season with a warm sunny day in Greenford. By our 3rd NWL with Storm Bert for company, our youngsters were beginning to experience what XC is all about!! A very promising sign from the...
Magnificent Seven Head North for Cross Challenge Seven Highgate juniors ventured to the North West last Saturday for the latest stop in the British Athletics Cross Challenge series. Lauren Russell...
When I joined my two brothers at Highgate Harriers over 50 years ago, the thought of being honoured by the ECCA as its president had never entered my head. Thinking about our sport, what’s changed...
At England Athletics gala evening last Saturday, our own Ben Pochee received the National Volunteer Award for Contribution to Athletics and Running. I was lucky enough to join the celebration, along...
It was an unofficial World record for a '55 year old' woman. She did that in the Oxford Half-Marathon, that attracted a large field, on the 13th of October, Karima Harris ran 1:19.02. The official...
It was a delight to attend the South of England Officials Association annual conference where the inaugural Peter Lee bursaries were awarded to support officials development. Our own Alima Diabate...
As reported in a previous Newsletter, our very own Ben Pochee was given the England Athletics London Region 'Outstanding Contribution to Athletics and Running' award. Ben couldn't be there in person...
2024 QuadKids has signed off for the year with a RECORD. Good attendances from the outset- 60 -70 children had a chance to take part in 4 distinct events in track and field. Very much due to the...
Foreword by Dave Bedford, former 10,000m World Record Holder David Chalfen is our Senior Men's A Group Coach here at Highgate Harriers and before that has a whole wealth of coaching experience from...
The highlight of our Annual General Meeting is the presentation of the Club’s annual awards. These recognise outstanding individual performances, those who regularly participate in Highgate team...