Press Report 6th October 2020  

Oct 052020
 
Press Report 6th October 2020

Open Meeting Jim Peters Stadium 3rd March 2020  With gale force winds and rain predicted for the weekend, not much was expected from the open Meeting at the Jim Peters stadium at Barking, last Saturday. However the young middle distance squad produced some great performances and achieved  8 personal bests  Joseph Grange was the only member of the group to do a 1500m and he had a very good run to record a time of 4.47.24 a pb by 16seconds.  Jordan Hinds was feeling ill before her race, but despite this she gave it a go and ran a time of 2.29.36.  U13’s Ryder Islam, Samuel Crane and Aaron Hick could count on one hand the amount of track races …Read More

  Robert Dobson  

Oct 052020
 
Robert Dobson

Name:  Robert (Bob) Dobson Born:  04/11/1942 Date Joined: 1979  Personal Bests: 3k 12m 40.4s 5k 21m 50.4s 10k 44m 16s 20k 1h 30m 2s 30k 2h 27m 28s 50k 4h 07m 22.4s 100k 9h 56m 34s 12 hours 118.805km (world best) = 73.822miles 24 hours 204.330km = 126miles 1709yds   First Club Race: 21/5/1963 (with Essex Beagles) Favourite Race: Hastings to Brighton (38 miles) 6 times winner   Notable Performances: Completed 125 races of 50k – 29 of which were UK Champs & all finished in first 9 positions. 49 years in the top 10 UK All time list at 50kms. 1974 Set UK National & British Commonwealth 30 miles & 50kms records ( 4.02.29.2) (4.11.,22)   When winning Invitation  50kms Track Race …Read More