This traditional family fun event will take place on Sunday 31st December at 10am near the boathouse at Ruislip Lido. This family focused, fun event consists of three laps of the Lido which you can run as a team of three (i.e. all doing a leg each), teams of two or if you are feeling really fit you can run all three laps yourself! Registration will be at the clubhouse from 9am. Friends and family welcome.

I need five marshalls, a first aider and one person to help time keep so as to meet the terms of the licence issued by the council for this event to go ahead. Please email me if you are able to volunteer on davidalan.smith2@gmail.com

Well done to all our juniors who competed in the 2^nd Met League at Wormwood Scrubs on Saturday; it was a glorious day and our juniors shone as brightly as the Sun!

As always thank you to the coaches, who work tirelessly preparing the athletes and to the parents for giving up their Saturday to fight the A40 and who supported all the team with such enthusiasm.

There were some stand out performance, with Top 20 finishes by William Palmer U11B (11^th); Elsie Fitzgerald U13G (7^th); Dylan Lewis U15B (3rd); Barnabe Lesenne-Ward U15B (5^th); Edey Kestell U15G (18^th).  Full results can be accessed here: Results – Metropolitan Cross Country League (metleague.run)

Hillingdon AC’s senior men finished 17th at the SEAA Cross Country Relays at Wormwood Scrubs thanks to strong runs from Phil Warburton, Abdirahman Hamud and Edward Spencer over the four stage 4km course.

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Hillingdon AC’s senior men made a strong start to the 2023/2024 Met League cross-country season with the A Team finishing sixth in Division One and the B and C teams finishing third and seventh in Division Three.

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A BIG thanks and well done to the 12 ladies who made the long trip down to Essex to compete on a firm but hilly Claybury in the sunshine and occasional odd rain shower and a field of 163 athletes!!

Accompanied all the way round by her trusty water bottle Nikki Penty-Alvarez led the team home in 47th position, followed by Heather Paterson in 65th, and captain Mel Spencer 11 positions later. The rest of the first team packed well together with Zoe Dobbs in 90th, Freya Hollingsworth in 93rd and Elise Delgrange 2 places afterwards. This gave the A team 98 points and an uncomfortable 11th place in the 12 team top division.

Karen O’Rourke led the second team home in 99th position, followed by coach Pauline Fischer in 116th, Alice Coburn in 138th, Nastaran Sepanj in 143rd and the welcome return of Pauline Smith in 154th. This gave the B team a total of 56 points and lie 8th of 12 teams in division 2.

Lucy Duncan scored all the points for the third team finishing in 163rd place.

In the Vets category our A team lie 7th in the 10 top division, but sadly our aim of getting the second team (who were relegated last season) back into division 1 looks challenging as they are currently bottom of division 2. We did not have enough runners to record any points for our C team.

In short the ladies who turned up did very well under the circumstances but we have received a number of promises to participate in the second fixture at Wormwood Scrubs in 4 weeks time and Mel and I are hoping that these are honoured otherwise all the work in recent seasons to elevate all the teams to their current high levels could be undone.

Keep running and stay uninjured!!!!

The arrangements for the funeral of Harry Wild can be found at the following link 

Harry Wild Celebration of Life

Want to start running but don’t know where to begin? Whether you are starting from scratch or coming back after a lay after injury our couch to 5km course will help you gradually build up your fitness and stamina. Run by qualified club coaches the 8 week course, based in Ruislip starts on Saturday 28th October 2023 and costs just £20. If you want to get fit, have fun and make new friends sign up by emailing davidalan.smith2@gmail.com

Hillingdon AC’s senior men finished 37th at the SEAA Six Stage Road Relays at Rushmoor Arena in a high quality, highly competitive race against the top clubs in the South of England.

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It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death on Tuesday 19th September of our dear friend Harry Wild. Over his many years as a member Harry made a monumental contribution to club life in so many ways and the club house could never have functioned without his support. A kind and caring man who was always good company. On club nights after an early evening run he was a magnet that drew people around him to stay and have a drink and a chat. The clubhouse is not the same without him and we will all miss him dearly. Rest in peace Harry knowing that you were loved by us all. Our thoughts are with his family at this time. Details of Harry’s funeral will be posted here once known.

There was a very good turnout for the last 5km training race of the season with a very high standard of competition at the front end. First place was taken by Rob Thomson, in good shape ahead of the Berlin marathon next week, in a time of 15:25. James Lain took second place in 15:43, closely followed by Jamal Ismail in 15:48. Nikki Penty- Alverez was first woman over the line in 20:24 followed by Katie Newman in 21:13. Full results can be found September 2023 Training Race Result

Thanks to the officials Andy Torrance, Phil Welch and Gavin Collett. Also to Keiko and and Alan Tilly for the excellent food and Ellie Henderson for being quizmaster. 

A good field of 21 competed at Rochester Road hill in the 2023 edition of the annual Devil Takes the Hindmost.

After a brief drizzle subsided on the chilly evening, the competition was split into two; the eight women plus two men over 60 and the remaining 11 men under 60. Early exitees from both then contested a plate competition.

Ultra-star Kallum Pritchard held off the youthful challenge from Stevan Dokic’s training group to be crowned Club champion. New over 60 Steve Hirons celebrated in style by holding off Nicky Alvarez-Penty, whilst Jeremy Cox defeated Andrew Malyan in the Plate contest.