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27Mar/100

Winter Tour Awards, Social (and arm wrestling)

awards

Our annual winter prize giving and social evening will took place at Twickenham Green Cricket Club on Friday 26th March. Read on for details of who won what. Continue reading

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19Dec/090

King and (Snow) Queen of the Mountains crowned

santaThe annual tempo and devil-take-the-hindmost hills competition took place on Saturday with the crowns going to Rebecca Killip and Ross.

Ross edged out Bradley in a closely fought men’s competition.  Grant and David had excellent sessions.  Christina and Molly were 2nd and 3rd behind Rebecca.

Rebecca won last year’s plate competition and it was the turn of Mum Liz… Continue reading

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31Oct/090

English XC Relays, Mansfield – 31st Oct. – U17 men 9th, Jivendra 3rd fastest

An early start and a quiet coach up to Mansfield was the start a day which produced some good runs and some very good runs.  It is always nice when we can travel home knowing nobody has had a stinker!

Here is how the day unfolded.

First up were the U15 boys in which we had 5 runners, just short of two full teams.  Fast-improving Tomm Daborn lead… Continue reading

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16Oct/090

Shoe4Africa

Shoe4Africa

Shoe4Africa

This organisation started off taking used shoes to Kenya for people with no shoes to use.  They then got involved with bringing people together through running and now they are planning on building a children’s hospital in Eldoret, the town where many of the world’s best athletes are based.

Some of the videos… Continue reading

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17Sep/090

SMRAC Open

It was great to see so many people out running and picking up awards at the SMRAC Open and Presentation.

Best performances came from the steeple chase debutants Jessica and Maddie, with Maddie shooting to 6th on the UK U17 lists and running what is likely to be the qualifying standard for next year’s English Schools Championships.

Liz Killip picked up a good win in the 1500, being… Continue reading

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24Aug/090

SMRAC Open on September 13th

St Mary’s Richmond AC’s annual open meet takes place on Sunday 13th September.  It would be great to see all the squad there, running whatever distance you feel like…. 3000 for those who can’t decide (1500 for U13 and bottom year U15s).

The Open Meeting is followed by the club’s award giving and bbq – please hang around for these as they are a good opportunity to recognise people’s… Continue reading

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