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The first championships of the new distance-running season, the South of England road relays, took place at Crystal Palace on Sunday and it was business as usual for Aldershot Farnham & District who claimed four sets of gold medals. The under-15 boys’ event would have yielded silver medals too but for the rule that clubs … Read more
The AFD senior Womens of Katie Bingle, Jo Harvey, Phillipa Bowden and Emily Hosker-Thornhall won the Southern 4 stage road relays for the 11th time in 12 years. At the same meeting on 24th September at Crystal Palace the Under 15 boys (E Henderson, R Martin,D Spencer, and W Barncoat) also won. Other teams in … Read more
Charlotte Purdue running only her 3rd Marathon clocks 2hour 29minutes and 23seconds to be the second British Women and gain automatic selection to the World Athletics Championships latter this summer. Charlotte also broke the AFD record. Well done Charlotte
Louise Small led Great Britain’s runners home in the senior women’s event at the World Cross Country Championships on Sunday. The Aldershot Farnham & District athlete moved through the field to finish 38th, the highest position achieved by a Briton at the meeting in Uganda. Small and club mate Emily Hosker-Thornhill formed half of the … Read more
Aldershot, Farnham & District’s runners regained the senior women’s national four-stage road relay title and retained the under-17 women’s at Sutton Coldfield on Saturday. Louise Small, the only survivor (and non-teenager) from last year’s quartet that surrendered the senior crown after eight consecutive victories, again had the anchor leg but this time set off in … Read more
Aldershot, Farnham & District’s runners were unaffected by the loss of Rushmoor Arena for the South of England’s road relays, winning both senior races by huge margins, providing the first two teams to finish the under-13 boys’ event and Lucy Pygott displaying the best smile of the day as she anchored her trio to victory … Read more
Some provisional results curtesy of Mike Boucher of the London 10K whichwas the British Championships. Men 2 Andy Vernon (GBR) 00:29:04 7 Ellis Cross (GBR) 00:30:40 20 Matthew Arnold (GBR) 00:31:57 194 Mike Boucher (GBR) 00:35:41 205 Rob Wakefield (GBR) 00:35:49 216 Richard Lovejoy (GBR) 00:36:02 298 Ashley Quinlan (GBR) 00:37:13 322 Brendan Cottrell (GBR) … Read more
AFD Vet men travelled to Sutton Park for the British Masters Road Relays Championships on Saturday May 14th. The weather was cold in the morning, however the sun rose and we were treated to a glorious warm, sunny Spring day. The V45-54 race was pretty hot too! AFD, Champions last year in this age group … Read more
Aldershot, Farnham & District’s under-17 women won the National road relay title at Sutton Coldfield on Sunday. They hit the front on the second leg where Lucy Pygott, having taken over from Tabitha Bowden in eighth place, ran what turned out to be equal fourth fastest time of the race. Third fastest was Niamh Brown … Read more
Aldershot, Farnham & District took two titles and three sets of bronze medals from the South of England road relay championships which they hosted at Rushmoor Arena over the weekend. The under-13 boys were in the frame from the first leg which Alfie Spear completed in third place. He handed over to Sam Bodoano who … Read more