Neil Black

Neil Black dies suddenly

The world of athletics is shocked and saddened to confirm the loss of Neil Black, a dear friend to many in the athletics community who passed suddenly at the weekend. Athletes, colleagues and friends of Neil, who himself had been a superb athlete before a career as a top classphysiotherpist and then Performance Director at British Athletics, have been paying tributes.

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The runbritain rankings system

Coronavirus (COVID-19) and runbritain rankings updates

As all racing and parkruns in the UK are currently suspended, we have frozen handicaps from 15th March 2020. This means that your handicap will stay the same until whenever the suspension is lifted and not rise as it would normally do if you are unable to race or parkrun for some time.

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