Lisa Kehler (pictured at last year's meeting) is among the entrants for the HSBC Securities Services Manx Harriers Open on Saturday. The Wolverhampton & Bilston athlete first competed (as Lisa Langford) at the National Sports Centre (then the King George V Park) in the 1983 English Schools Walks. She is listed on the www.gbrathletics.com site as the British  record holder at 5km, 10km and 1 hour on the track and 5 miles, 10km, 12km, 15km and 20km on the roads although she lost the latter record to Joanna Jackson last weekend.

Lisa is a GP who has resorts to training in the early hours of the morning to fit in her family and part time job.

Above: Lisa in action in the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.

Below: Pictured (right) with the Isle of Man's Cal Partington and Lisa's England team mate Karen Smith (later Radcliffe) eight years earlier at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria.

Pictures by Murray Lambden

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