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Lisa Bailey retained her title as first woman at the Ranleagh Half Marathon, taking nearly two minutes off her 2025 winning time. Lisa finished in 23rd place in a time of 78:31. Simon Mumme was our first finisher in 16th position and 77:14. The event was doubling up as the Surrey Half Marathon Championships, meaning Lisa also took that title and won her age group in the county championships. Merilyn Davis and Michael Holden also won their age groups in race as well as the

Our summer handicap series started on Thursday and almost broke the record for participation with 87 runners completing the 5k. Heather Hodge was the overall winner, finishing in a time of 30:16, followed by Wing Chung Kwan and Lynton Nicholson. Lisa Bailey was fastest woman, flying round the course in 16:58 while Oli Bowers took the prize in the Open category with a time of 16:48. Alex Willson was also a winner having predicted his finishing time exactly.

There was age-group glory for Stragglers racing in the first of the Wimbledon Trail Series. Donovan Duffy won MV50, finishing in 32:43, while Sophie Biggs finished as third woman and won WV50 in a time of 32:51. Andrew Roberts was also a winner taking MV60 in 34:47. James Ruskin was the first Straggler to finish in a time of 30:23 and 11th place. In other results, Ed and Sarah ran the Worthing Half, finishing in 1:57:26 and 2:09:22 respectively, while Dave Curtin ran the Es

Warm weather created challenging conditions for our weekend racers. Jo Taman travelled to Southampton to complete the half marathon and finished as 31st woman in a time of 1:45:19. The race was a warm up for the marathon distance which Jo will be tackling in Cape Town. While Jo had to contend with a high of 20 degrees, Rachel Simpson was racing in Prague where the temperature peaked at 28 degrees. Which made her 5-minute PB - Rachel finished in 4:01:58 - all the more impre

There were 31 Stragglers (that we know of) running the streets of London yesterday, giving those who went up to support, a steady stream of yellow vests to cheer. Leading the pack was Sarah Holt who set a new PB of 2:37:46, finished 12th among the women at the mass start and won her age group. Phoebe Law was our second fastest runner finishing in 2:51:35 while Scott Singleton was third in 2:53:06. Four hours separated our first and last finisher. Some like Merilyn Davis (3

Our latest Couch to 5k programme opened on Tuesday with a great turnout - 27 out of the 37 who had registered for the 8-week course. And almost half of them turned up for the second session on Thursday at Bushy Park Sports Club, which doesn't always happen due to the distance between the two locations. Having started with a 15-minute work out the group will progress to 21 minutes next week and the aim is to get them to 'graduate' at Bushy parkrun on June 21. This is the fo

The Summer Grand Prix continued this weekend with a sunny Sutton 10k acting as the second event in the series, attracting a big, yellow crowd as 26 members competed. Emma Henston was the first finisher from the club and first woman overall, with a time of 36:32 which gave. her 32nd spot, while Austin was our first man in 36: 33 and 33rd Both notched up new PBs for 10k. Pamela McHutchon won her age group in a time of 50:09. Elsewhere a group of Stragglers travelled to Guern

Oli Bowers wiped more than 10 minutes off his marathon PB at Newport this weekend, finishing 7th in 2:29:18. Five Stragglers travelled to Wales for their Spring marathon. Jim Desmond finished in 3:08:49 with Duncan McConnell right behind him in 3:08:52. Roy Kemp (3:26:37) and John Taylor (3:55:58) also competed. Stragglers also raced at the Manchester Marathon where Simon Mumme was the first to finish in 2:50:15 followed by Andrew Dell'anno (3:46:59), Paul Moore (5:00:32)

While some of our members were completing the Brighton Marathon on the roads this Sunday, Sophie Biggs was tackling the Trail version. Sophie finished second despite breaking her hand in a fall half way round the course. She still finished in a time of 3:46. In France Liza Houghton was also racing over 26.2 and produced a PB of 3:24:28 at the Paris Marathon. Meanwhile In London Nick Davidson competed in London Landmarks Half and finished in 1 51:54, improving on his time s

The Spring marathon season ramped up this weekend with members racing from Milan to Brighton. David Sheldon was in Italy - raising funds Kingston Hospital's neo-natal unit - and completed the 26.2 miles in 3:16:51, while Freysen Maritz notched up a PB in Linz when he finished in 2:59:52. Closer to home Alistair Hall raced in Boston (Lincolnshire) and also produced a new marathon PB of 2:59:26, while Simon Brazil and Trevor Ford tackled blustery conditions on the South Coast,

The Summer Grand Prix launched on Saturday with a mob match against the Wimbledon Windmilers at Morden parkrun. Proving how much we enjoy a mob, 69 Stragglers travelled to Morden park while the Windmilers fielded 44, giving the club a volume victory. However, Stragglers also took the points win, finishing with 1,244 compared to 1,431, as well as coming out top if you calculate the points on age grading order (1,106 to 1,388). Pavel Przepiorski was first finisher in a new par

Last Thursday saw the launch of the new Junior Running group aimed at 12-17 year-olds who want to build their skills and enjoyment of the sport. We had three enthusiastic participants but are hoping for a few more now that the Easter holiday is over. Ian Peggs and his volunteers ran the group through a number of drills, warm up and warm down, in the field at Bushy Park Sports Club. During the winter we are aiming to run the weekly session at a track. If you know of any youn

Pamela McHutchon and Merilyn Davis will both don an England vest this year after strong performaces at the Forest of Dean Trail half marathon which was a British Masters qualifying race. Pamela finished first in F65 with a time of 1:57:05 while Merilyn finished in fourth place with a time of 2:02:57. Pamela was also an age group winner in the British Trail Running Championships. Congratulations to both!

After 12 events over seven wet winter months, the Winter Grand Prix is over and Pavel Przepiorski and Nic Douglas can be crowned as the winners of the Open and Women's events. Pavel topped the Open rankings with a maximum of 175 points from his five scoring events, ahead of Peter Gregorowski (171 points) and Austin Molnar (166). The three of them won their respective age categories, and both Pavel and Austin completed all 12 events. Other age group winners were Crispin Alle

With a number of major marathons fast approaching, many members were tapering this weekend. Lisa Bailey wasn't one of them. Focusing on shorter distances this season, Lisa was at the Top Flight 5k at Battersea where she finished third in 16:52, a new PB. Lisa also set her previous BP - 6:58 - at Battersea last July. Slightly closer to home Oli Bowers competed in the Fulham and Putney Half Marathon. Oli won the event, finishing in 1:15:14.

Pam Whitter continued to impress on the masters circuit after her age group success at the Veterans AC XC in January. Pam clocked up 20:40 at the 5k Masfers race at Battersea Park, finishing 15th among the women.

There was a large turnout for the final event in the Winter Grand Prix, the Cranleigh 7-14-21. T he shortest distance proved to be the more popular one with members but the club put on a good show over all three distances. Pavel Przepiorski was the first finisher over the shortest distance, completing the seven miles in 41:37. He was followed by a pack of Stragglers as the club claimed seven of the top 10 finishers including Liz Fraser who finished as first woman in 9th ove

Our mighty marathoners delivered some big results over half the distance this weekend. Tony Finn led the way, notching up PBs on both Saturday and Sunday (1:32:42 and 1:28:34) having done back to back halves in Prague and Berlin. In doing so Tony completed his Super Six. Andy Anstey (1:37:07) and Alfonzo Pereira (1:41:30) also competed in Berlin. Tony is targeting London and Alfonzo will return to Berlin in Setember. Ten Stragglers competed at the Fleet Half with Oli Bowers

Stragglers were out in force this weekend enjoying the fine weather at races, long Sunday runs or their local parkruns. The biggest race was the Surrey Half Marathon in Woking where the club was represented by seven members. Oli Bowers was the first to finish in 33rd position and a time of 1:12:15, while Sarah Holt was our fastest woman, finishing second in 1:15:35. Lisa Bailey was fourth in 1:18:31. Oli, Sarah, Lisa, Simon Mumme and Austin Molnar all achieved PBs. A small

It was another weekend of longer distance races this weekend, with many members tackling half marathons. Some didn't have to go too far with another Hampton Court Half happening on Sunday. Simon Connolly was the first Straggler to finish in 1:17:56, followed by Adam Davies in a time of 1:28:51. Tony Finn (1:38:50), Ted Fraser (1:44:00), Leoni Thomas (2:09;46) and Joe Tong (2:31:30) also completed the race. Duncan and Wendy pose with their medals with friend Jo Dan Strang (