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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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4Feb/100

Richmond Mini Marathon Results

Lots of people ran round Sidmouth Woods twice and earnt themselves selection to the Richmond team for the mini-marathon.  Well done!

I’m not going to attempt to mention everyone by name here you can see the full results HERE.

A brief mention to those who ran in the Southern and came out and ran again the next day – well done, a couple of easy days… Continue reading

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30Jan/100

South of England XC Champs, Parliament Hill – Results

There were some great individual runs and a fine team result for the U17 men at Parliament Hill today.  It was disappointing that more people didn’t turn up to run, fair enough for the U13s, but I think older athletes could have handled the mini marathon trial and Southern in the same weekend.  The Southerns are one of the big races, the ones we (athletes and coaches) put so much… Continue reading

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29Jan/100

Training for February – updated

Tuesday 2nd – Session at track for all, 18:30

Thursday 4th – Session at Twickenham Green for performance group, 18:00

Saturday 6th – Inter County Schools, Hillingdon Mini Marathon, Hounslow Mini Marathon or session in Richmond Park at 09:45

Tuesday 9th – Session at track for everyone, easy run and strides from track or home for those racing on Thursday

Thursday 11th – Middlesex Schools Championships

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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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23Jan/100

Surrey Schools XC Results

Well done to Maddie and Ollie who had good runs in the Surrey Schools today.

Maddie finished 7th in the Senior Girls race,  a year after finishing 13th in the Inter Girls race.  This is good progress which will hopefully see her selected for her first English Schools Championships.

Ollie also moved up an age group and finished in 18th which was good enough to earn selection  for… Continue reading

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16Jan/102

Ollie wins his 8th Countdown

U15 Oliver Garner has been impressing everyone this week on Countdown.  A string of 8 and 9 letter words have often bettered the efforts of dictionary corner and have seen him notch up the maximum allowed run of 8 wins.  The final contest saw Ollie trailing throughout but he clinched victory on the conundrum (sp?!) which he correctlly unjumbled in 2seconds!

The rest of the squad has been enjoying… Continue reading | 2 Comments

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29Dec/090

Training for January

Happy New Year everyone.  I hope you enjoy many successes in the next 12 months.

Saturday 2nd – Hills for everyone, Richmond Park, 9:45

Sunday 3rd – Long easy runs from home (in groups if possible)

Tuesday 5th – Track session for everyone, 18:30

Thursday 7th – Performance group meeting at track at 18:30 – CANCELLED

Saturday 9th – Session at Marble Hill, starting 09:45… Continue reading

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21Dec/090

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