Three Hillingdon athletes competed in these races around St. James’s Park, starting in The Mall and finishing in front of Buckingham Palace reports Doug Milsom. In the elite women’s race, the Senior British Athletics 1 Mile Road Championships won by Alison Leonard of Blackburn in 4:33, Julia Bleasdale just missed out on the medals, coming 5th in 4:38.
In the open races held much earlier in the day, Clive Wickham was 89th in 5:18 and Doug Milsom was 691st (2nd V75) in 7:39, out of 1013 men finishers. Fastest was Lloyd Kempson of Nene Valley in 4:32. 848 women also finished.
Full results may be found here.