We made a steady start at the first fixture of the North West London cross country league last Saturday. There were some good results, but a number of key runners were absent through illness or injury. Mukhtar Farah was the only representative in the under 17 men’s race, but he […]
The club entered teams in almost all categories, and there was an excellent turn out across the female age groups. There were some pleasing performances, especially from the Under 15 girls and the Veteran men. Amongst the junior athletes, the stand-out team result of the day came from the club’s […]
The first competitive race of the winter season saw us bring home two sets of medals in the Middlesex Young Athletes Road Relays at Minet Park in Hayes. Despite the forecast of gales and torrential rain, our young athletes turned out in force, fielding teams in most age groups. The […]
While the younger athletes were contesting the Middlesex road relays, three of the club’s distance runners enjoyed success at the Bristol Half Marathon. In a field of 11,000 entries, Steve Elson finished in the top 50. His time of 74:41 represented an impressive three-minute improvement on his previous best. Veteran […]
On Sunday morning, we took second place in the annual River Relay organised by Kingston-based running club The Stragglers. The event covers the 26.2 miles along the Thames from Virginia Water to Kingston in five stages. On a fine, bright morning ideal for racing, thirty-nine teams toed the line – the largest […]
This year’s 3.5 mile race was held on a fine balmy evening, so Pitshanger Park was full of people strolling, walking the dog, cycling, and using the tennis courts. There were even plenty of other runners (mostly taking things at a much more relaxed pace). The first person across the line was […]
The Club was very sad to hear the news that Charlie Williams, one of its honorary members, had passed away on 18th August. Charlie’s association with us was as a timekeeper for track meetings and road races at Perivale and for club and schools cross country meetings at Horsenden Hill. For […]
Well done to all of those who took part on Sunday. Pictures in Facebook here. Results in PowerOf10/RunBritain and on the Serpentine website. Sunday is the final Summer League race of this year’s series – we won the fixture at Regents Park so have closed the gap on leaders Mornington […]
Sam Shindler-Glass celebrated his seventeenth birthday in style at the Maccabiah Games in Israel in July, bringing home two medals. This event, often dubbed the “Jewish Olympics”, is held every 4 years, and this year saw 9,000 athletes competing from 77 countries. On day one of the athletics, Sam took […]
Details below and attached for the penultimate Summer League race of the year on Sunday. SUMMER LEAGUE – REGENTS PARK 10K Anybody is welcome to run – we want as many runners a possible to help close the gap to the leaders! As usual the main race will be followed […]