As you may have heard, Hercules AC are petitioning the London Borough of Merton, who own the athletics track in Wimbledon Park, to formally support them in their efforts to raise money for urgent repairs to be done. They are not asking the council for any money, but the council is currently not even responding to their request. If the track is not relaid next year, it could lose its licence and we Windmilers will Read more…
The club committee approved an updated club privacy statement on 24th August 2021. The statement has been re-worded in line with the current England Athletics template, thereby clarifying the legal bases under which we process different categories of member data and the reasons we process the data under each legal basis. The privacy statement now include online registration platforms such as Eventbrite in the list of third party platforms where member data is held. We Read more…
Well done to all our finishers and a big thanks to the helpers at last night’s 2021 Windmile on the Common. It’s good to be back staging these events again after such a long time away. Results are now up on the website. The race was closely fought with Daniel Reynolds continuing his great form to take first place (after a tussle with 2019 winner, Kevin O’Gallagher, who took the lead in the middle sections Read more…
Windmilers may have heard the sad news that one of our oldest members, Joyce Smith, passed peacefully away in August. Joyce’s son Stephen has been in touch to say that he and his sister Vicki were with her, and that it was a peaceful passing with no pain. Joyce, he goes on to say, really did consider the Windmilers as a big second family where she spent so much of her time after she caught Read more…
A terrific evening tonight at the Windmiler summer handicap invitational swimming relays. Many thanks to Simon Kibble and SOLD for hosting us, and to swimmers from Thames Turbo and the Kitkat club for joining us.Eight teams of three competed for the title. With Charles Leonard calculations based on estimated swim times we managed to get all teams exiting the water very tightly packed at the end! Congrats to the winning team of Kayleigh, Simon and Read more…
Wimbledon Windmilers were the hosts of the event that marked its return last Tuesday evening on Wimbledon Common. We were joined by an excellent turnout of runners from the other running clubs in the MABAC league, who all came to run either the long course of 5 miles or the short one of 2.5 miles. Both routes were tough, having been freshened up by recent rain. 46 Windmilers ran the 5 mile course, and 7 Read more…
Finally, some good news in these uncertain times – the Windmile on the Common is back! We’re trying out a Friday evening fixture (August 20th) for the first time so as not to displace training sessions, and also make it more of a fun summer’s night out. The course is a reasonably flat point-to-point route along a track on the common over an accurately measured mile. It’s been resurfaced and much improved since the race Read more…
Morning Windmilers, The Surrey Road Relays are back!, This year the event will be on Saturday 4th September at Wimbledon Park track, we are waiting for final conformation but it should start at 12;pm. Each leg is 2.9 miles, and starts and finishes at the track if you would like to enter please Email the mens and ladies captains.
Hi Ladies, We hope that everyone is healthy and is enjoying the return of running events. It’s been a while since we had news of any events to pass on to you, but it seems like there are events beginning to be organised for the remainder of the summer and moving into autumn: 1. Wimbledon Dash 5k (Surrey County 5k Road Championships) This takes place on Sunday 15 August in Wimbledon Park starting at 9am. Details Read more…
There will be no training sessions tonight, since the Windmilers are hosting the first MABAC event of the year. Click here for details.