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While many in the club were at the Surrey League XC second match, a hardy group of fast runners headed to Brighton, ignoring bad weather warnings as Storm Claudia wreaked havoc in the north of the country. Their efforts were rewarded with some excellent times. Leading the way was Pam Whitter who won her age group with a time of 43:47 which was also within the England Masters qualification time. Scott Singleton was the first Straggler to finish in 34:42, followed by Andrew S

Fears that Storm Claudia could deliver treacherous conditions to the weekend Surrey League XC fixtures proved unfounded, and both teams produced solid performances. The women competing in division 1, in Beckenham Place Park, finished 11th with Nic Douglas our first finisher in 34th, with a time of 22:02, followed by Sophie Biggs and Lucy Chambers. Tracey Lenthall and Carla Cotton also scored. The men competing in division 2, were racing at Hurst Green and with 30 participati

While the rest of the club decided 4k of climb at the Leatherhead 10k was enough for them this weekend, Sophie Biggs and Malcolm Calder opted for something a little more challenging. Both competed in a trails event in West Sussex. Sophie was first female in the 5 trails ultra (50k), finishing 5th overall in 4:54:01, while Malcolm finished 19th in the 3 trails half marathon with a time of 1:58:30. Congratulations to both of them!

Nine brave Stragglers tackled the notorious Parliament Hill course for Saturday's London XC championships. Alistair Hall was the fastest finisher from the club completing the 10k course in 43:03, followed by Steve Clelland (50:38) and Gareth Pritchard (51:59). Katrin Metcalfe and Lynda Chase were the only Stragglers competing in the women's 6k race and finished in 30:45 and 43:09 respectively. Jason Venkatasamy (52:08), Philip Scard (52:40), Ted Fraser (53:00), Martin Vivian

Stragglers headed for the Big Apple last weekend to compete in the New York marathon and clock up another one of the Abbott six major marathons. Denis Mustafa came home with two medals having completed his Abbott challenge when he finished in 3:56:07. Ian Robertson and Alex Mason both have one more of the six to complete, New York having been their fifth major. Ian finished in 4:42:46 having had to walk a lot of it after feeling sick. Alex who ran with her daughter Emily, fi

Our women retained their title as fastest women at the Reigate Priory relays on Saturday. The team of Lisa Baily, Nic Douglas, Lucy Chambers and Sophie Biggs took the team prize after finishing in a time of 1:06:57 and 10th overall. They were almost five minutes ahead of second-placed Crawley AC. Lisa was fastest woman (25th overall) and Nic second fastest. The B team finished 6th in 1:21:44 while the men's team were 19th in their event in 1:21:58.

Stragglers helped Bushy parkrun offer an additional pacing week with 16 club members pacing every minute from 20 to 35 on Saturday. Congratulations to the following, some of whom were pacing for the first time: Carol Dickinson, Phil Davies, Richard Patient, Tracey Lenthall, Sally Boulton, Andy Howarth, Chris Meara, Heather Horler, Tony Finn, Izzy Grindal, Aaron Israel, Scott Singleton, Tina Sheppard, Alex Willson, Wendy White and Anne Williams. And thanks to photographer Dona

While many of the club were pushing themselves on local circuits, Chance Rowan travelled to Wales to race this weekend, choosing Marathon Eryri in the Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park. Chance completed the race which takes in the Llanberis Pass in 3:46:43. Closer to home nine Stragglers raced at the Surrey Masters XC in Nonsuch Park. The men's team of Ted Fraser, Phil Hammett and Malcolm Fletcher took silver in M65, while the women - Tara Holt, Pamela McHutchon and Merilyn

Merilyn Davis won a British Master bronze in her age group at the Abingdon Marathon last weekend. Merilyn has run over 100 marathons and Abingdon was her third this year. She finished in 3:52:49. Lisa Bailey also qualified for the event but was unable to run on the day.

We celebrated our junior runners who participated in this summer's series of handicap races last week. William Gregory was overall winner, with Evie Beandeira finishing second and Tilly Gregory third. Georgina Warner won the Minis series while Maddie Kirk was second. Fourteen participants attended all six events, and as such took home Hero awards. They were Annabel Bailey,   Beatrice Bailey, Eve Bailey, Evie Bandeira, Miguel Bandeira, Tilly Bandeira, Rafi Faiz, Harry Grego

Stagglers women successfully defended their team title at the Cabbage Patch 10 on Sunday. Sarah Holt led the team home, finishing in 57:54 and fifth among the women. Phoebe Law was 8th, Nic Douglas 15th and Harri Daniel 23rd. Over 65 Stragglers competed in the race while many more volunteered. Oli Bowers was the club’s first finisher in 25th and a time of 56:48. In total 1625 runners finished the race which was won by Joe Wigfield in 49:41. Annabel Gummon was first woman

Weeks after taking silver in the European sprint triathlon championships, Lynda Chase has done it again with a bronze in the World triathlon championships in Wollongong, Australia. Lynda finished third in her age category, W70-74, and is pictured above with silver medallist Lesley Kernaghan. While mixing with the world's best triathletes she also took the opportunity to grab a picture with Olympic silver medallist Hayden Wilde.

Sophie Biggs was tackling another Ultra this weekend, this time in Suffolk. She was the first woman to finish with a time of 4 hours and 24 minutes Closer to home Oscar Murphy ran the Royal Parks Half in 1:48:29 while Chris Coates notched up a new PB of 1:17:47 at the Great Eastern Half.

There was a good turnout of both men and women at the first Surrey XC league match on Saturday. Both teams produced solid performances...

It was another successful weekend for Stragglers as many took to the road for some autumn road racing. Oli Bowers led the way by winning...

It was anothersuccessful year for the annual junior handicap series, writes Merran Sell. Approximately 45 young runners participated and...

Bushy Park Sports Clubis holding its next quiz night on Friday November 7 at 7pm. There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd finishing...

Lisa Bailey finished 7th woman in this weekend’s Vitality 10k competing in a top class field which included Eilish Mccolgan who won the...

Where to start? Everyone seemed to be racing this weekend. The largest contingent of Stragglers were at West End in Esher, where 58...

As the summer draws to a close Stragglers were gearing up for marathon season with some serious competitive running. At the SEAA relays...