Couch to 5k

If you would like to get fitter in the new year then come and join our free 8 week program for absolute beginners, starting on Wednesday 5 January 2022. We run this course in conjunction with Hillingdon Council. Please email jack.nisbet@talk21.com to let him know you want to attend.

Session locations

There will be 2 led sessions each week. These will take place at the following locations.

  • Hayes and Harlington Community Centre
    Albert Road, Hayes, UB3 4HR
  • Stockley Park
    Meet at Colham Green car park, UB8 3LL (small car park, just off the roundabout where Park View Road meets Stockley Road)
  • Black Park Country Park
    Black Park Road, Slough, SL3 6DS

Session dates

Week1st session2nd session
1Wednesday 5 January, 6.30pm to 7.30pm
Hayes and Harlington Community Centre
Saturday 8 January, 9...
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Copenhagen Half Marathon

So we decided to visit Copenhagen for a weekend of parkrun and a half marathon. On Saturday the 12th of September they ran at Amager Faelled parkrun in Copenhagen where they were warmly welcomed by Anne Petersen and her volunteer team. After the run many local runners were very keen to speak to the runners with a number of possible return visits promised. The following day, five of the travellers participated in the Copenhagen Half Marathon, together with about 22,000 others. A great weekend which also saw the celebration of Annette Sissons birthday, her 50th parkrun and Dan Evans’ 100th parkrun.


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Target Zero 2015

So what turned out to me a rather wet Target Zero ended up with 9 brave soles competing to not be the fastest, not be the slowest, but to be the closest to their estimated time, and the results are below!

Predicted TimeFinish TimeDifference
Fran Smith0:40:350:38:280:02:07
Jack Nisbet0:33:000:31:350:01:25
Brian Skinner0:42:000:43:07-0:01:07
Paul Evans0:47:300:46:340:00:56
Denise Nisbet0:46:030:46:55-0:00:52
Michael Harper0:45:000:45:33-0:00:33
Andy Allen0:29:200:29:37-0:00:17
John Shaw0:36:000:36:11-0:00:11
Alan Tilly0:30:150:30:20-0:00:05

Also check out a little timelapse of our BBQ below:

and there’s a few snaps below, check out the full album on our fan page here!

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Summer League 2015

We have competed in the summer league series for 3 years now and last year we had some reasonably good turn outs and very nearly didn’t come last. These a good fun set of  five runs (5mile or 10Km) across London which are cheap to enter and blessed with cake and other comestibles. We have entered as a club again this year, and each club member turning up to run only pays £1 on the day. Dates for 2015 are I believe as below:

Dulwich Park 9.30am 31st May
Headstone Park 9.30am 14th June
Perivale 10am 5th July
Regents Park 9am 19th July
Battersea Park 9am 16th August.

The link below gets to the event page for the summer league which shows maps etc for the runs. Some stuff on the web site is out of date, in particular the date for the Battersea Park run which is 16th Aug, not 9th.

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Beginners Sessions 2015

Our first session went well despite the rain, well done to the seven people that came along. Anyone who missed the first session is welcome to come along and join us at any time during the course.

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More Parkrun News 15/11/14

Also well done to the members who did Northala Park Run, John, Tunde, Annette, Mark, Agnes & Anna. It was a great day for PB’s

John Shaw 23:02 PB
Tunde Adekoya 26:25 PB
Annette Sissons 27:37 PB

It was also great to see Sarah & Angela, from our Beginners Sessions there.

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Parkrun 15/11

So another Saturday and another parkrun comes along, this time it was time for Jack to face off against Alan, in a fiercely contested 5K with Alan just managing to pull away with a time of 20:24 and Jack chasing hard to finish in a time of 20:43. This is his first parkrun for a while with minor injuries putting him out of last weeks Time Trial, I’m sure they’ll push hard over the winter months and continue to get closer to that sub-20 finish the both want at Black Park! In other news Linda also managed to take nearly 3 minutes off her time 2 weeks ago, getting ever closer to that PB that has eluded her for so long.

Plus we’d like to say that Fran and Andy’s puppy is super super cute, and thank them for bringing him along to support!

Today’s Results

Alan Tilly
20:24
29
Jack Nisbet
20:43
36
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Another Successful Beginners Session Finished

Following another well attended & successful Beginners Course, the Beginners completed the Black Park Run 5k. Thank you to everyone who attended and well done. Thank you also to the club members for running the course and to Anne who was unable to run but came along to support.

The next course starts on 3/1/2015 at 9:15 am, Stockely Park. (We meet in the car park at Colham Roundabout UB8 3LL). All welcome.

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Piece by Mark Collins who attended the Beginners Session

Back in June of this year I had no desire to run, not even for a bus. As a keen photographer I thought it would be a good idea to go and watch the Color Run at Wembley Park. It was indeed a good idea, as I got some really good photos there...

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Final HHRR times etc for 2014 Summer League runs

HHRR results for the last 3 Summer League runs (first 2 are in earlier post). We very nearly didn’t come bottom of the league this year.

Perivale 6th July

5 mile

Pos TIme Name Gender Cat Points Score Total
170 00:45:05 Rachel Farrance F FV45 10 237 247
186 00:47:25 Laura Williams F FV45 10 226 236
191 00:47:34 Agnes Mealin F FV45 10 223 233
215 00:53:49 Denise Nisbet F FV50 15 206 221
15 00:29:31 Gary Nisbet M SM 0 286 286
54 00:34:09 Peter Furness M V55 20 251 271
88 00:37:39 Amrit Garcha M SM 0 229 229
91 00:37:48 Stuart Williams M V50 15 227 242
93 00:37:52 Jack Nisbet M V50 15 225 240
104 00:39:02 John Shaw M V65 30 219 249
Regents Park 20th July

10 Km

79 00:43:30 Andy Allen M V40 5 234 239
117 00:47:47 Stuart Williams M V50 15 210 225
125 00:48:31 St...
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Beginners completed Black Park 5k 28/6/14

Congratulations to everyone who attended our last course of Beginners Sessions & went onto complete the Black Park run. You all did brilliantly! Eunice, Anna, Angela, Sarah, Yemi, Fola and Bonnie. Thank you to club members who ran the course, Annette, Jack, Jacqui, John, Peter, Tunde & Mike

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Our next course starts 6/9/14, everybody welcome

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