Running on Wimbledon Common since 1868
The third round of the Men’s Surrey League on Saturday surpassed expectations. As with the previous League races, the racing at Mitcham Common was high quality and hard fought and it was a day of great results for Thames. Jamie Parkinson made his Surrey League debut with a brilliant victory, a full 22 seconds clear … Read more
The Thames 2019 racing season kicked off in earnest on a chilly first Saturday of the year with the County Championships. The Thames Ladies won a great team silver at the Surrey Championships held in Lloyd Park. Katy Hedgethorne led the team home in 6th with Nathalie Seymour 11th, Rebekah Edgar 19th and Victoria Barthelmess 29th making up … Read more
It feels like a long time ago but, on the last Wednesday night before Christmas, we held our traditional 5 mile run with several stop-offs for Christmas Carols, mulled wine, mince pies etc…
Thames collected an impressive array of medals at the Southern Masters Championships at Horspath (Shotover), Oxford: M40 and M50 team golds, plus individual golds in M40 and M45, individual silver in M50, W60 individual silver and M60 team bronze.
On Saturday December 1st, Thames hosted the 128th Gentlemen’s and 43rd Ladies’ Oxford-Cambridge Varsity Cross-Country Races. With the heavy rain of the previous week, the going was fairly heavy; however, all the teams seemed to cope with the conditions well.
Thames won a second successive mob match against Ranelagh on 24th November in a very closely fought contest. The final result was 1044 for Thames vs. 1055 Ranelagh in a 32-a-side match and there was added excitement as the expected result changed several times as the results were being checked. Thames packed well in the … Read more
The Thames Men are progressing into the 2018/19 cross country season with good results at two recent races. At the second round of the Surrey League the rain was so torrential that at times it was hard to see where you were going. It didn’t affect the quality of the running though with 27 minute … Read more
On a gloriously sunny day with fantastic views over London, an excellent turnout of 10 Thames Ladies took to Parliament Hill for the London Championships. In comparison to recent Parliament Hill courses, the ground was dry and hardly a patch of soupy mud was to be found. It was even quite hard in places, with … Read more
For the Thames Ladies it was always going to be difficult to maintain the heights of our performance at Wimbledon common for match 1, but there were solid runs from the team at Nonsuch park on November 10th. A few muddy corners caused a couple of rather spectacular falls, but other than that there was … Read more
