Welcome to Hillingdon Athletics Club
Hillingdon Athletic Club wants to give every member from aged 9 upwards the opportunity to train and participate at his or her best level, in a professional and happy environment and be recognised locally as such a club.
We are club that provides for it’s members from Junior to veteran ages the opportunty to compete in Track and Field, Road and Cross Country events both locally and nationally. All Standards Welcome!
May 5km training race
Forty five runners turned out on the warmest day of the year so far to participate in the second of the summer seasons training races. First man home was Harry Brown in 18:00 followed home by Dan Thomson in 18:37. Twenty seconds behind Dan was the first female finisher Catriona Paterson in 18:57. Nikki Penty-Alvarez was second female in eight place in a time of 20:23. Thank you to the officials Phil Welch, Andy Torrance , Gavin Collett and Charlotte Cox. Also a big thank you to the clubhouse team for organising the post run social and Ellie Henderson for the quiz, Full race results can be found here May 2024 5K Training Race Result
EA Feel Good Friday mini marathon report
England Athletics have featured us on their instagram account in their brand new Feel Good Friday segment, mentioning our video of the young athletes competing the London Mini Marathon. You can see the article and video here
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Mini marathon 2024 report
By Jeff Shotton
The mini marathon recently seems to be blessed with nice mornings, and this was not one to disappoint – with clear skies, a gentle breeze and weather almost breaking the teens (referring to the temperature in Celsius) . The ACTUAL breaking of the teens (i.e the juniors) happened at the 9am start.
This event first started in 1985, and was held the same day as the actual London Marathon, but since 2022 has been run on the Saturday a day before as a separate affair, and this year will see approximately 14000 children take part. There is an emphasis now on inclusion to allow younger runners to take part and hopefully encourage a new generation to partake in more physical activity. Organisation is excellent, with plenty of marshals to direct, security staff, amenities, and signage. There is a DJ/announcer to keep everyone informed and to schedule, and the music pumping while everyone is preparing.
Runners either enter through their school for the one mile ‘open’ event, or qualify for a championship spot. Each school is allowed up to 50 children and is open to all children aged 17 or under. The championship series is held over the final 2.6km of the London Marathon route, and is selective – each borough or region are allowed six children in each category. As you might imagine, this makes championship spots highly competitive. Each year Hillingdon AC will field several runners for the borough, and this year was no exception, with Rosie Bishop, Edey Kestell, Alastair Burton, Barnabe Lesenne-Ward, Lewis Wake, and Ryan Stoddart all securing the right and running for Hillingdon. Along with former club athletes Annabelle Shotton and Marcus Shotton.
As per previous years, there were 3 age championship age groups for boys and girls, with the U13 consisting of Y7/Y8, U15 belonging to Y9/10 and U17 would come from Y11/12. While London boroughs are each allowed to field their own team of six per category, athletes travel from all over the UK. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland only have one team each – I can only imagine that competition for th