Early morning at Wimbledon Park on Sunday 11 April and the buzz was tangible as athletes lined up in their socially distance waves at the start of the HW Club 5K Road race, raring to race again.
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New York-based Ben Toomer set a half marathon PB of 66:35 in Greenville, South Carolina on 27 February (pictured below), a time which saw him top the UK Rankings for 2021 for six whole days until Mo Farah spoiled the party by clocking 63.06 in Djibouti!
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Before it became clear that the country was headed for a new national lockdown, Matt Kiernan of Croydon Harriers, with help from the community of local clubs, staged a successful test cross country event at Lloyd Park.
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Last Saturday should have seen the HW Senior Men's team defend their South of England Cross Country Relay title only a week after jostling with 200-odd athletes on the start line at the first fixture of the Surrey Cross Country League, all revved up for the fight to win back the League Trophy from Kent AC. Instead 10-men teams from HW, Kent and eight other clubs were at Wimbledon Park Stadium lining up politely in socially distanced waves…
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Pete Mulholland's family and HW members have been stopping for a moment of reflection at his memorial bench
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The 2020 track season will be remembered for starting and finishing in a matter of weeks, but HW athletes have been making the most of every opportunity to race in the short window.
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Yes, you read it right... the results edition! After months of virtual racing, finally the real thing is back. Not quite as we know it, of course, thanks to the new norm of Covid-19-guidelines, but what a joy for all concerned to take part in some proper competition after months of race starvation. And not just one event but two distance meetings and a sprint competition in the space of a week.
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This week we feature two valiant solo challenges taken on by two HW athletes, Lisa Thomas and Richard McDowell, who in the absence of organised competitions, decided to test themselves in very different ways.
While most of the HW distance runners have been grateful for the challenge of some virtual 5K competitions during these unprecedented times of no racing, marathon runner Richard McDowell decided to test himself much, much further.
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Kent AC would like to offer its condolences and thoughts to Pete Mulholland's family, his friends and clubmates at Hercules Wimbledon. He was a familiar and friendly face on the athletics scene for many years and will be greatly missed.
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This is the newsletter that we never wanted to post. The one in which we are paying tribute and sharing our personal memories of Pete Mulholland, 'Mr. Hercules Wimbledon' who so sadly passed away on Wednesday (25 March).
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Competing in one of the last major meetings to be staged before the current suspension of events due to the coronavirus outbreak, a handful of the Club's athletes were in tremendous form, returning from the British Masters Indoor Championships at Lee Valley with seven gold medals between them.
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The Club underlined its appeal to all age groups over the last two weekends, with successes for the U11s on Epsom Downs, and a contingent of vets at Lee Valley.
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More than 30 HW athletes were in action in testing, muddy conditions in the Saucony English National Cross Country Championships at Nottingham’s Wollaton Park on Saturday.
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Freddie Arkell, the England Indoor and Outdoor U15 Champion over 200m in 2019, took the silver medal for the 60 metres in his first major event as an U17 in the Surrey Indoor Championships at the David Weir Leisure Centre in Carshalton last weekend in a warm-up for this weekend's National Indoor Championships in Sheffield, where he goes in the U17 60m and 200m. Efe Peters will also be competing in the U17M 60m, and Missy Cooper in the U17W 60m.
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HW's young women and girls teams emphasised the strength in depth of their squad last Saturday in Richmond Park as the U17 Women clinched the title in the final match of the Surrey Cross Country League season. The U15s finished second in their league and the U13s third.
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Three HW athletes were celebrating personal bests last Sunday at the finish of the 29th Chichester 10K road race, which culminates in a lap of the iconic Goodwood motor racing circuit.
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HW's Senior Men posted their best team performance for almost half a century when they finished just outside the medals in the South of England Cross Country Championships at Parliament Hill Fields on Saturday.
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