February 2025

10M 195th Pauline Stocker 90:09 (4th W65) 245th Alan Burgin 97:40 (7th M70) (351 finishers) 20M 55th Jess Williams 2:21:49 (1st SW, 2nd female overall) (328 finishers)

Derek reports: Only 5 members decided to tackle the infamous Parliament Hill course at the National XC Championship this year. Based on Oli and Olivia’s comments it was clearly tough going in the mud and so credit to those that that did. Iris Purser not only had a fine run in her first experience at this

Amelia reports: After a 90-minute delay to the schedule due to a kitchen fire at the Utilita Arena, we had no idea what the day was going to bring… but it definitely didn’t disappoint!! With only the 800m heat winner and one non-auto qualifier advancing to Sunday’s final, Tom’s heat, being the last one, was

200m 5th Bruce Grimley 46.65 (M70 Club Record) 400m 6th Bruce Grimley 94.98 (M70 Club Record)

800m: 6th Derek Darnell 2:42.26 (M65 Club Record, beating Geoff Brewster 2:55.61 2025) 800m: 6th Bruce Grimley 3:33.70 (M70 Club Record) 800m: 3rd Lewis Cummins 2:04.54 (indoor PB by 7.58) 800m: 6th Theia Parson 2:58.14 (Indoor PB) 1500m: 5th Brandon Ballard 4:09.48 (Indoor PB by 0.8)) 1500m:2nd Noah Scott-Donkin 4:08.52 (indoor PB by 5.46), 5th Oli Albone 4:22.10 (indoor PB by 3.34)

2nd Ellie Newman 9:38 (PB by 3 secs; 14th in club all-time rankings)

Yinka Opaleye (M50) TJ – 9.02m (7th M50 national rankings) 60m – 7.95s (15th M50 national rankings) HJ – 1.40m (5th M50 national raankings) Sandra Pedley PV – 1.81 (1st W55 national rankings)

At Ferry Meadows parkrun, Seb Darnell led all runners with 18:17 while sister Amelia ran a 7-sec PB in 32nd place with 20:59 to finish as 1st W25 and move from 11th to 10th in the club all-time rankings and while Dad Derek placed 49th with 22:06 to finish as 1st M65.  At Storey’s Field, Lucy Waller finished in 124th place with

U15G 800m:  5th Esme Lydon 2:26.14 (Indoor PB by 4.66; U15G Club Record, beating Katie Wright 2:27.19 2016; 29th U15G National Rankings) SM Mile:  4th Noah Scott-Donkin 4:27.65 (Indoor PB by 8.69; 14th U20M National Rankings) SM Mile:  4th Simon Bowman 4:53.24 (Indoor PB; 3rd M35 National Rankings) SW Mile:  9th Amelia Darnell 5:34.04 (SW Club Record, beating her own 5:42.29 2023;

Yinka Opaleye (M50) SP6K – 9.59m (4th) 60m – 8.06s (SILVER) Geoff Brewster (M65) 800m – 2:55.61 (GOLD) – Club M65 record, beating his own 2:55.81 2024