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There were plenty of takers for the Imber Court relays enabling the club to field 15 teams, all of them named after a World Cup team Brazil, our fast women’s team, were more successful than their footballing counterparts, taking the women’s title. Lisa Bailey, Nicky Hornzee, Jo Ritson and Phoebe Law finished fourth overall, and Phoebe produced the fastest leg of any woman. Argentina were our second fastest team. Ian Riley. Alert Willson, Bert Smith and Pavel Przepiorski fini

The Claygate 5 saw another huge turnout for the club with 62 members racing. Pavel Przepiorski was our first finisher in 29:40 followed by Kieran Parker in 29:46. Stragglers took five of the top 10 finishers with Austin Molnar, Ian Riley and James Ruskin all finishing in under 31 minutes. Nicky Hornzee was our fastest woman and second overall in 33:00, while Claire Curtin was fourth in 34:21. Tracey Lenthall was first in age group with a time of 34:54. Preferring a longer d

Stragglers made the most of the long summer nights to do some racing during the week. Ian Riley, Ben Osborn and Mark Hacker all competed at the Reigate Priory AC Summer 10k, and finished as third-placed men's team. On Friday a number of Stragglers sampled Ranleagh's new event, the 3k sunset sprints, while those looking for something more challenging headed for Epson for the famous Perch race. Angus Beaumont was our fastest man at the sprints with a time of 9:59 while Nicky

The second summer handicap saw Helen Nance take the honour of being first to finish in a time of 37:44. The first three finishers were all women with Kim Dell'Anno and Jacquie McLelland, second and third across the line. The fastest man was Pavel Przepiorski who finished in18 minutes while Phuong Hoang was fastest woman in 20:55. Rob Allen took the prize fro being closest to his estimate having finished in 26 minutes. 65 members completed the 5k race.

Step aside Harry Kane, Stragglers have their own scoring heroes as Sophie Biggs and Donovan Duffy notched up hat-tricks at the Wimbledon Trail series, winning their age groups in all three races. In the final 8k race Sophie and Donovan were joined by Malcolm Fletcher and Sarah Bell who also won their age groups. Sophie finished the series as second woman.

Our running members weren't the only ones seeking out challenges last weekend as some of the Stragglists were out pushing themselves in the warm weather. Dave Venter and Dave Strange both participated in the 100k Dartmoor Classic, completing the gruelling ride in 5:56:40 and 5:56:25 respectively. Congratulations to both!

This weekend saw some Stragglers tackling very different challenges. Roger Wilson took silver at the British Orienteering Sprint Ultravets Relays in Bristol running for the South London Orirenteers. Roger brought his team home, running the third leg (2.6km) in 18:26. Facing a somewhat longer distrance four Stragglers completed the North Downs 30k in Kent, which attracted nearly 400 participants. Glady Gartland was first home in 2:58;37, followed by Andrew Dell Anno (3:11:37),

Despite the sweltering heat this weekend, Stragglers were out in force at various races. Over thirty members tackled the Richmond 10k where our women's team of Lisa Bailey, Joanne Ritson, Harri Daniel and Lucy Chambers took the women’s title, while the men’s team of Simon Mumme, Jim Lurkins, Matthias Werner and Austin Molnar finished third. Lisa was second overall in 35:52 while Simon finished in 36:07. Also racing at the weekend, Patricia Ronksley was first woman in her ag

Weekends are for running if you're a Straggler, and this weekend saw club members find a number of ways to indulge their passion. A large number of members were at Old Deer Park where the club took on Ranleagh with a parkrun-based mob match. Ranleagh just pipped us on the numbers 75 to 61 and claimed fastest man and woman. Pavel Przepiorski was our fastest man, finishing third in 18:09 while Lex Price was our fastest woman finishing in 21:23. There was an even larger numbe

Last weekend it was time for the club's annual trip to Wales to participate in the Welsh Castes Relay as our 20 runners plus their rhyfeddol (amazing) organisers Robert and Heather Hodge headed to Caernarfon for the 2-day, 20-stage race. The team finished 44th out of 65 teams in a time of 24:33:35 - the club’s best time since 2019. The team produced five Stragglers stage records - Austin Molnar on Stage 7, Tracey Lenthall on 12, Pavel Przepiorski on 16, Ian Hawkes on 17 and

Lisa Bailey produced a season’s best representing England Masters at this weekend’s Swansea Half. Lisa finished first in VW45 and 10th overall in 77:22. She is second in Uk rankings for VW45 in the HM behind our own Sarah Holt.

Over 70 Stragglers competed in the second of the 5k handicap series on Thursday with Denis Mustafa crossing the line first. Pavel Przepiorski was the fastest runner in the Open category, finishing in 17:34 while Phuong Hoang was fastest woman in 20:20. After two events Jess Saulet leads the rankings with 35 points but there are still three more events, with scores based on the best three results. The next handicap is on Thursday 2 July.

There were some strong performances at mid-week races on Wedneday. A large crowd of Stragglers competed at the Wimbledon Trails race which was a Summer Grand Prix event. Alistair Hall was our first finisher in 14th position with a time 30:11 while Sophie Biggs was our fastest woman and third overall in a time of 33:15. Sophie won her age group - VW50 - and her time gave her a mighty 90.58% age grading. Patricia Ronksley won VW60 while Chrissie Glew took the VW70 title. S

The club hosted its first ever Open Day at the weekend, inviting members and local residents to take part in a group run and meet with some local running specialists including experts in biomechanics and gait analysis, to yoga for runners, sports massage and running-focused PTs. Over 50 members turned up for the runs and many stayed behind to meet the exhibitors and enjoy a coffee and a bacon bap from BPSC's own OneGuy&O. Several brave newcomers joined the runs and signed o

Stragglers women tackled some of Cornwall’s challenging coastal paths in last weekend’s The Trail Pursuit St. Agnes Trail Runs. Pamela McHutchon and Leoni Thomas completed the half marathon distance while Jo Newstead and Carol Sloan ran the 10k and Chrissie Glew did the 5k. Along with a friend Fran, had a fantastic weekend running in stunning scenery and by the looks of it, good weather.

While many Stragglers were taking easy or at least running a little slower in the heat, some of our warrior women were taking it on and racing this weekend. Sophie Biggs, never one to put off by daunting conditions, finished the Fox Ultra 62k in Godalming as first woman. Sophie completed the race in blistering conditions in 5 hours 52 minutes. Further afield and only slightly cooler, the Cape Towm marathon beckoned for Claire Curtin and Jo Taman. Claire who raced London la

Our Stage 22 runners in the Green Belt Relay finished strongly, capping a weekend of good performances and excellent planning by Josh Ingold and his team captains. Oli Bowers finished 4th, Freysen Maritz was 10th and Lucy Chambers finished in 18th. Freysen and the rest of the Super Vets team finished second in their category behind Ranelagh, in 26 hours 27:29 minutes - a time that was faster than last year’s winning Super Vets time. The Open Men finished 8th overall and 4t

Stragglers had a good day at the Green Belt relay on Saturday with our Open Men's team finishing the first 11 stages in 8th position overall and 4th in their category, while the Women were 3rd in the category and the Super Vets were 2nd. Austin Molnar on the first leg for the open men's team put in a strong performance to finish 9th while Sarah Winter was 4th woman. Harri Daniel was the first Straggler to finish stage 2, coming in 10th and 3rd woman. Chance Rowan led the te

Chance Rowan travelled to Leeds for his 26.2 mile challenge, completing the Rob Burrows marathon in 3:23:49.

Pam Whitter and Harri Daniel represented England in the international 10K at Bideford on Sunday. Pam was second in FV65, finishing in 44:45 while Harri was sixth in FV45 in a time of 40:08. It was a challenging course , with both wind and hills to contend with on the main road out and then back on the scenic Tarka Trail . Congratulations to both.