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25th Sep, 2025, Kathrin Hake

Success for Judah Quinn at National Championships

Big shout-out to Judah Quinn who took part in the CP Sport National Athletics Championships last weekend. Not only did he compete in the 200m, 400m and 800m races, but he also got his World Para...
18th Sep, 2025, Sharaz Badr-Eddine

Highgate Harriers Masters Athletes Achieve Superb Results

The masters athletics team at Highgate Harriers continues to go from strength to strength, with several athletes posting incredible results and showing remarkable determination this season. Leading...
11th Sep, 2025, Jen Lovell Hickson

Reasons to be Cheerful About Cross-Country

With the cross-country season beginning soon, there may be some of you wondering whether to take the plunge, perhaps for the first time. One good reason to go for it is that Highgate Harriers are...
27th Aug, 2025, Sharaz Badr-Eddine

Sprinting Into His 70's: James Lindsay

When James Lindsay joined Highgate Harriers in April this year, nobody – least of all James himself – expected that within a few months he would be ranked number one in the UK for the men’s 75+ 100m...
30th Jul, 2025, Kate Jenrick

Young Harriers Finish Strong at MYAL Final

The Middlesex Young Athletes League came to a close with a well attended final fixture at Parliament Hill on 20th July. Highgate Harriers’ U11 boys finished on a high by winning their group and...
23rd Jul, 2025, Errol Peak

Sonny Shines at English Schools Championships

Sonny has had a remarkable 2025 season culminating in her recent appearance at the English Schools Championships. She qualified to run in both 1500m and 3000m and after much discussion decided on the...
25th Jun, 2025, Alima Diabate

Southern Athletics League Success!

First place with 425 points Highgate achieved a thumping win at Parliament Hill with our combined team Mornington Chasers. 67 Highgate athletes competed across 18 track and 16 field events, we scored...
28th May, 2025, Simon Baker

UYDL South - Division B

The club's U17 and U20 athletes, who compete in a combined team with neighbouring club London Heathside, continue to reach new highs this season securing a comfortable 2nd place in the second UYDL...
28th May, 2025, Alastair Aitken

Tribute to Tim Johnston

As a member of the RRC, having run 21 marathons (the first 19 in London) and interviewed thousands of athletes over many years, I felt that one deserved a strong mention in the RRC magazine— Timothy...
21st May, 2025, Alima Diabate

Southern Athletics League - Match 1

📅 Saturday, 17th May 📍 Perivale 🏆 Final Standings: 2nd place – 360.5 points I was supposed to be on the sidelines cheering—but somehow, I found myself competing in the Shot Put… and throwing a PB...
14th May, 2025, Alima Diabate

Middlesex Young Athletes League - Match 1

Match 1 – Saturday 3rd May at Perivale Equal 5th place with TVH and E&H, currently on 50 points. We had a good turnout of athletes at the first league match. From the results, some athletes competed...
14th May, 2025, Alima Diabate

Middlesex Championships 2025

Saturday 10th May 2025 & Sunday 11th May 2025 A total of 23 athletes competed last weekend, achieving multiple personal bests, five County Champions, and two Championship Records. Under 17 Women...
14th May, 2025, Martin Holland

The First London Marathon?

Richard C returns: "My memory has woken up and memories have flooded back. The most iconic yearly marathon held in this county was The Polytechnic marathon, ‘The Poly’. It ran from 1909 to 1997...
7th May, 2025, Alima Diabate

Youth Development League - Match 1

Last weekend, we competed in the first Youth Development League (Under Age Group) at Withdean Stadium, Brighton. We finished in 3rd place with 452.0 points - a fantastic result! Many athletes achieved...
9th Apr, 2025, Dave Ainsworth

Happy Birthday, Bill Sutherland

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...
27th Mar, 2025, Jen Lovell Hickson

Karima Harris Keeps Breaking Records

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...
20th Mar, 2025, Alima Diabate

Indoor Middlesex Championships

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...
13th Mar, 2025, Kate Jenrick

Young Athletes at the North-West London League (Part 2)

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...
5th Mar, 2025, Kate Jenrick

North-West London Young Athletes Cross-Country League

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...
19th Feb, 2025, Manish Agrawal

Met League Junior Report

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...
12th Feb, 2025, Teresa Allen

London Schools Cross-Country Championships

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...