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8May/100

County champs – 9 Gold, 5 Silver, 7 Bronze

Far from ideal conditions this weekend, but lots of pbs and medals none the less. Great to see lots of people supporting the event. Continue reading

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25Apr/102

London Mini Marathon

Rebecca Killip - better on the flat!

Rebecca Killip won the Mini Marathon, building on a month of fantastic training. There were several other top 20 performances and it was encouraging to see those who had been stuck in Portugal put in pretty solid runs after two weeks of twice a day training – now for some speed! Continue reading | 2 Comments

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21Mar/101

English Schools XC – Results

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A large contingent of smrackers competed in the English Schools Champs with a mixture of fortunes. Continue reading | 1 Comment

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16Mar/100

Liz Killip 5th in Southern XC

Congratulations to Liz Killip who finished 5th in the W45 category of the Southern Masters XC Championships at Trent Park on Saturday. Although not confirmed, the results suggest she was 2nd in the Middlesex Champs being run in conjunction with the Southerns. Continue reading

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17Feb/104

Liz is 2nd Senior at Surrey Champs

Liz Kipling, 2nd Senior Woman

Liz Kipling had another great run to pick up her first individual medal at these championships. Lloyd Park provided a good challenge with many undulations and some wet sections. Continue reading | 4 Comments

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13Feb/100

U17s win 2 Met League titles

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The last round of the Metropolitan XC League threw up a surprise league victory for the U17/U15 boys as the U17/U15 girls defended the title they had won for the last three years.

Numbers were down from SMRAC and from other clubs in the age group races following on from the Middlesex Schools Champs on Thursday and with the Essex version being held today.

Jacques was our sole… Continue reading

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11Feb/100

Molly wins and 13 make the Middlesex team

A successful day for SMRAC distance saw 13 athletes named to the Middlesex team for the English Schools Championships.

The outstandingly talented (!) Ben Killip got things off to a good start winning the Y8/9 race; not bad in only his 2nd race of the winter.  Ben is also a goalkeeper at the Chelsea academy and national kayak champion.  Jivendra made his first schools team in 5th.  Jamie was… Continue reading

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7Feb/100

Inter County Gold for Maddie

Running for Surrey Maddie picked up a team gold medal in Saturday’s South Eastern Inter County match.  Maddie was 8th of the 64 finishers and 4th Surrey scorer.  Such was Surrey’s domination of the event, Maddie finished before any other county had two runners home.  I hope this run will have secured her place on the Surrey team at the English Schools XC for the first time.  Once you’re on… Continue reading

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6Feb/100

Hounslow and Hillingdon Mini Marathon

At Lampton Park Bradley (14:36),  Jivendra (17:40) and Rebbecca all picked up wins in the Hounslow trials, with Jack (14:53)  finishing 2nd to Bradley in their race.  Multi-eventer Tulsi won her 13-14 race.  I suspect that the advertised 5km distance may not have been accurate!!

Christina won her age category in the Hillingdon trial round Ruislip Lido… Continue reading

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23Jan/102

Middlesex XC Champs Results

Some great results and some clear signs of progress for those athletes turning up to training session in, session out…. Well done everyone. (Pictures and results at the foot of this page…)

U13 Girls – Rebecca went in to the race as favourite and lived up to that in style with a commanding victory, spreading the field out and opening up a winning margin of 23 seconds.  Rebecca was… Continue reading | 2 Comments

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