text: The Guernsey Long Distance Running Club staged the Church to Church Run on Sunday March 18th and the event brought together athletes training for a spring marathon and members of Guernsey’s ultra community. Run as a timed self supported training run (think “orienteering for road runners”) the course takes in…
  Alex Rowe quite literally made great strides last year over the middle distances and looked well at home as he eased to victory in the fourth and final race of the Chertsey House series. The rangy eighteen year old Elizabeth College student was joined by Jim De Garis on the…
  Sophie Porter produced the pick of the Guernsey performances at the England National Age Group Indoor Championships at the EIS in Sheffield over the weekend. She claimed the senior island 400m record by 0.02sec in winning national bronze in the indoor two lap event. She clocked an outstanding 56.32sec in…
  Burling and Perrio defy conditions with course records. (image: Phil Nicolle – soon after the start and with Ryan Burling already out of shot a large group forms in his wake). In what has quickly become a regular occurrence, Ryan Burling ran another course record to continue his sequence of…
  A day and a half after being awarded the U13 Most Improved Athlete of 2017 at the Guernsey Athletics Annual Awards evening, Macy Ozard (bottom, left) produced outstanding performances over both 60m and 60m hurdles at Lee Valley Indoor Athletics Centre. Now top of the two-year age group, she claimed…
  Record numbers on course, record numbers on clock in Imperial 10 – by Jamie Ingrouille, image Phil Nicolle Ryan Burling and Louise Perrio claimed impressive victories in a blustery Chertsey House Imperial 10 miler, with the former setting a new course record. Burling stormed away to leave behind a record field…
  Joe Chadwick has already showed great age-group promise in athletics with an unexpected national U15 medal in the high jump back in 2016 – he repeated the trick of producing the unexpected with a big break-through performance in the 200m at Sunday’s Scottish U17/Senior Indoor Championships. The 16 year old…
  It was a record event in two dimensions as Ryan Burling led home a record field of 118 finishers in a new course record of 24 minutes 45 seconds to win the 5 Mile opening race of the 2018 Chertsey Road Race series. 23 year old Burling recently moved…
  Always up for a challenge, eh? One of the group heard about my exploits in Parque el Bosque and suggested going that little bit extra. How about doing a bit of guerrilla gardening in front of the famous/infamous guerrilla himself, Che Guevara.
  I bought the plant at at a little organoponica place on Neptuno in Central Havana, near Viejo Habana. Between five and ten blocks up. Not far from Passeo de Marti approaching Padre Varela.
  Anyway, we met up at the corner of Parque de la Fraternidad and got the P12 bus outbound. It took a few minutes, but our precious cargo got special treatment. A seat!
  You can see the obelisk to Jose Marti from afar, so we got off at Avenida de la Independencia and walked over. Slowly, slowly, catchy monkey.
  There are several large organoponicas in this area similar to the one in Alamar, east of Havana that we visited. Organoponica Vivero Alamar.