Name: Jak Wright Born:  04/09/02 Date Joined:  I started training in July 2017 and joined officially in mid-September 2017 Personal Bests: Track: 400 – 56.9 800 – 2:05 1500 – 4: 11.81 3000 – 9: 08.26 Road: Mile – 4:39 ( virtual time trial!) 2 mile – 10:20 3 mile – 16:41 5k – 16:55 (virtual time trial!) First Club Race:  u15 Essex XC relays. I was 2nd leg with Farris Patel and Aaron Samuel and we came 2nd for the silver medal. Favourite Race:  Mini marathon, the last 3 miles of the London marathon course on the morning of the actual race. Doubles up as the London borough championships and the British 3 mile championships, with 6 runners chosen …Read More

Name:  Sam Malekout Born:  1982 Date Joined:  April 2004. I just moved to London from the Midlands at the end of 2003 and in the Easter break I was looking for some kind of sports activity. Luckily I live in Newbury Park and from Google I found Cricklefields Sports Stadium to be just a 15 minute walk away. I came along one evening and asked at reception when people train, started doing sprints and along Jump. Later on I took an interest in throwing events and that same Summer wood see me compete for a Ilford in the SML (now competing in the SAL) PERSONAL BESTS: 200m: 22.92 400m: 50.50 800m: 2:04.10 Long Jump: 6.29m High Jump: 1.75m Triple Jump 12.40m …Read More

Like so many, Dave commenced race walking through his employer, in his case the Royal Air Force which he’d joined in 1965. While training at RAF Hereford (now SAS HQ) 2 were needed for an Inter-Squadron athletics meeting in May 1966. None volunteered, so the Sergeant in charge of the athletics team called out names of the first 2 on his alphabetical roll call, hence ‘A’ was a selection cert. The Sergeant himself was a celebrity – Irishman Jack Murray – as his sister was the late Ruby “Softly Softly” Murray whose name now lives on in cockney rhyming slang. One of Dave’s instructors was then Flight Lieutenant Mike Shannon, a 4-times’ senior Welsh champion in times when it was …Read More