This Weeks races- Sunday 27th September 2026
Steve Smith, from Striders of Croydon, ran well to win the Phoenix Retro Challenge at Crystal Palace, completing the undulating 18-lap course (28.9 miles) in 5:16:49. Angela Seesurrun completed 17 laps (27.2 miles) in 5:01:30.
ArunKumar Rajagopalan completed the Berlin Marathon in 4:30:42. In the Shoreditch Half-Marathon, Paul Thomas was 18th in the M40 age-group (1:23:25), while Irene Josa ran 2:06:35.
In the Eridge Park 10-mile race, Stephen Harris placed 18th out of 140 finishers (1:23:01). Martin Filer was 23rd (1:24:37) and Grace Drewell 97th (1:57:17).
On Saturday, Kara Boaks was the first woman to finish the South Norwood parkrun, placing eleventh overall (21:17). Phil Coales was second in the Lloyd parkrun (17:41), while Andy Morcombe was second in the Willie Blake Community parkrun in Tucson, Arizona (25:31). Striders had a total of 123 finishers in the various weekly parkruns. In the Lloyd junior parkrun on Sunday, Zoe Siu was the first female finisher, placing fourth overall (8:34).
Striders had 36 finishers in the Vitality 10K, starting and finishing at Westminster. Peter Johnson was tenth in the M60 age-group (39:45), while Niamh Vincent was tenth in the W40 age-group (42:48). Striders’ other runners included Marc Burrows (37:13), Stephen Papararo (39:05), Erik Schrijnemaekers (40:03), Tom Vincent (43:19), Josef Freedman (43:33), Kechong Nguyen (43:33), Steve Massey (44:16), Anna O’Sullivan (44:36), Keith Murkin (45:34), James Benjamin (45:38), James Burree (45:39), Michael Smaldon (45:39), Grace Champion (45:40), Chris Green (46:14), Darren Woods (46:17), Matthew Bollington (46:21), Sam Ban (47:37), Lottie Nusca (47:57), Maili Singh (53:40), Mark Stanford (53:45), Jennifer Creed (54:42), Emma-Jane Humphreys (55:04), Benjamin Burton (55:04), Caroline Whittaker (55:15), James Harrison (59:11), Paras Kothari (1:02:36), Emese Ban (1:02:39), Sheena Hammond (1:07:14), Elsa Santana (1:08:09), Gopinath Radhakrishnan (1:15:22), Maninder Singh (1:17:59), Michael Joseph (1:22:19), Stephen Tyler (1:27:49) and Yasmin Anderson (1:59:06).
