Happy Birthday this week to Onochie Achike, Gerald Alterman, Lucy Boggis, Rachel Carter, Russell Devitt, Emma Dwan, Obi Egbunike, Rachael Fatuade, Alex Fugallo, Travis Hudson, Kyle Langford, Nicholas Nieland, William Prior, Yee Yewt Smart

EUROPEAN INDOOR TRACK & FIELD TOUR – England Athletics have selected a number of up-and- coming athletes a great development opportunity to experience International competition.

Congratulations to GREG CACKETT (60m) and SEB RODGER (400m) will be competing in Vienna, Austria on 28 January. Also ELLIE SPAIN has been appointed Team Coach for Vienna, Austria and Linz, Austria on 30 January.

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Happy Birthday this week to Tilly Adams, Manuella Alvarez, Jessica Brew, Josephine Chadwick, Crystal Collins, Charly Doyon, Molly Garden, Matthew Grant, Sam Hynes, Jade Ive, Jamal Lewis, Freddy Nash, Julia Nilova, John Otugade, Joseph Redwood, Chloe Rixon, Jaba Sokoya, Martha Whiting

JOHN KELLY – Congratulations to John who ran his 99th Senior race at the last Metropolitan League, and he is intending joining our other two Centurions at the next race at Wormwood Scrubs on 8 February. John’s first race was on 16 December 1978 (Aged 25) at Woodford, where he finished a respectable 48th (27.00) and was Shaftesbury’s first man home. Other SBH runners on that day were Russell Devitt, Gerry Elmore, John Hutchinson, Dave Mashiter, Ken Tollady, Crosby Walker and Doug Walsh.

The next member of the 100 club should be Philip Cunningham who has now run 94 races. So all you U17/U20 runners are probably looking forward to joining the 100 club in around 2040.

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Happy Birthday this week to Hannah Brown, Rhodri Meredith, Stephanie Paparizos, Mark Pearce, Anya Rodriguez, David Stone, Shaquille Thomas

BARNET SECONDARY SCHOOLS CHAMPIONSHIPS – Takes place this Wednesday 15 January at Allianz Park. Age-groups are Years 7, 8 & 9, 10 & 11, 12 & 13 Boys and Girls. Barnet teams will be selected from this race, to run in the Middlesex schools.

KNOLE PARK CHAMPIONSHIPS, SEVENOAKS – This year was the 40th year of probably the most prestigious race in the Schools Calendar. With four of our runners representing St Albans School they won the Under 19 Championship (9.7k) for the first time in 10 years. With 6 to score they has a total of 106 points, 2nd were Judd School (who had won the championships for the previous 6 years) 162 points and Shrewsbury School were 3rd with 179 points.

Results MARK PEARCE 4th (32.44), ROBBIE LIGHTOWLER 5th (33.31), JOE REDWOOD 10th (34.07), ADAM THORPE 28th (35.52), 42 schools finished a team, 335 runners finished.

In the Women’s Under 19 Championships SOPHIA PARVIZI-WAYNE running for Highgate School finished 2nd, and awaiting results to be published

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Happy Birthday this week to Frank Bailey, Frankie Fox, Julian Goater, Mark Goddard, Taariq John-Clarke, Alexander Journet, Naomi Kendall, Gabriella Kyriacou, Stephen Murphy, Gerry O’Brien, Darel Ritter, Trudy Thompson, Mary Wu

DAVE BEDFORD HONOURED – DAVE was awarded the OBE in the New Year’s Honours List for services to athletics and charitable fundraising.

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