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Kent Cross Country League, Footscray Meadows (Sat. 10th Oct.) The club hosted the first fixture of this season’s Kent Cross Country League at Footscray Meadows on Saturday, with some excellent performances across the various age groups. A big thank you to club members involved in organising the event, as well as our fantastic team of marshals, whose efforts helped make the day a success. Senior Men / U20 Men: The senior men got off to a flying start in the first race of the s

Run Kent Tonbridge Half Marathon (Sun. 4th Oct.) Eight of us enjoyed the Tonbridge Half this year with the Kent countryside looking at its best as the sun burned off the early morning mist, reports Clem Dixon. There are too many undulations for it to be a PB course but with zero wind there were still some impressive times recorded, including by the McGinty's who somehow contrived to miss the start; chip timing came to their aid but they still had to weave through backmarkers.

Serpentine Last Friday of the Month 5k, Hyde Park (Fri. 18th Sept.) The group of club regular runners at the Serpentine Last Friday of the Month 5km was boosted by John O’Mahony, as he stormed to an impressive race win in 16:37. Maggie Illingworth was the first female club runner home, finishing in 62nd place in 21:32. Unfortunately, Stephanie Dungate took a tumble just after halfway and was left a little bruised and shaken up. Thankfully, she has now made a good recovery. Vi

IAU 100 Km World Championships, Ames, Spain (Sun. 20th Sept.) The 2026 IAU 100km World Championships in Ames, Spain, delivered world-class performances on Sunday. Hugh Tibbs finished an excellent seventh in the men’s race in 6:26:54, making him the second scorer for Great Britain & Northern Ireland. In the team competition, nations’ results were determined by combining the cumulative times of their top three finishers. Team USA claimed the men’s team gold with a combined time

101st Glenhurst Handicap, Bexley (Wed. 2nd Sept.) This month's handicap attracted 24 runners to take on the 3.3 mile course of undulating roads around our clubhouse, reports Clem Dixon. The fastest net times were recorded by mother and son Rose and Brett Baker (24:46 and 19:27) but this is a handicapped race where start times are staggered and first over the line, and first to get his hands on the newly repurposed trophy that will now get awarded every month, was 80 year old

Woolwich Thames Path parkrun (Sat. 29th Aug.) Once a year we like to target one of the parkruns in our local area and include it in our road running grand prix competition, reports Clem Dixon. This year it was the turn of the "Curly-Wurly", a quirkier parkrun than most: you run along the Thames Path from Woolwich towards Thamesmead before turning off to summit the mighty man-made Gallions Hill. At 20 metres above sea level it is no fell race and as the path to the top spirals

Some 37 years ago I wrote an article for the Club Magazine entitled A Day in the Life. This was a bit of plagiarism from a song on The Beatles iconic Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. The song included the lyrics: ‘woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head’. At the time this embodied my approach to the 1989 Maidstone Marathon. I just had a vasectomy and was advised to take it easy for a bit. Like most runners this meant going off to do something l

Southern Athletic League, Hemel Hempstead (Sat. 8th Aug.) At the final Southern Athletics League match of the season, it was all to play for, reports Mick Bond. We were top of the division after three matches, but up against the teams who were second and third and with only two to get promoted, we knew we had to finish in the top two otherwise would miss out. It was nip and tuck all afternoon between ourselves, home club Dacorum AC and name sakes Cambridge and Coleridge. We k