Juniors Excel At North Easterns Photos courtesy of Stuart Whitman Photography The picturesque Northumberland countryside was the setting for one of the major events on the North East XC calendar last weekend. The 114th North Eastern Counties Cross Country Championships were this year hosted by Alnwick Harriers with a difficult course looping round Alnwick Pastures, […]
Nova Tarn was competing today at the ‘Christmas Cracker Half Marathon’, run by It’s Grim Up North, a race which takes runners out and back along the canal at Kirkstall Leeds. The course which is described as perfectly flat by the organisers and is a great course to bag a personal best. On the day,
Juniors Head Back To Acklam. Photos courtesy of Jo-Anne Tarn & Karen Harland. Because of a change in venue, our juniors visited Acklam Grange School for the second time this season; the last NYSD meeting before Christmas. It was a cool, fresh day and numbers were down slightly on the usual attendance, but as you’ll
Dynamic Duo Head Indoors In the midst of all the cross country action going on at the moment, two of our top junior athletes were more tempted by the warm and dry of the indoor track last week. For Kate Williams and Charlotte Rutter, it was their first taste of indoor action this season so
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from our young allrounder, Ashton Harrison. Unfortunately, he’s been prevented from joining his pals at the cross country meetings due to an injury, but you’ll be pleased to hear he managed to attend one of the Valhalla training sessions recently, to help with his throwing skills. A couple
This Saturday saw two of our athletes in action in the Lanzarote 10km race, an event which is a testing course for runners with the added weather conditions which seemed to be kind on the day despite a turbulent few days leading up to the race. Of the two, Iain Girard was first back finishing
Sally Dale was the only Harrier on show at Dalton Park Winter 10km. There are a few of these races scattered throughout the year over the same course which is flat and fast. On the day Sally finished in 123rd position in a time of 72:17. Well done Sally.
On a very cold Saturday morning, Croft Circuit saw a great turnout of runners including many Harriers for the 2nd year of our latest club event on the racing circuit. We had a number of club members supporting the event in various capacities, including Race Adjudicator, Starter, Marshall, Timekeepers, Registration, Photographers, and generally just supporting
Last weekend we had three of our off road runners in action at the 9 mile Esk Valley eureka Fell race. A race against the elements as runners battled against the mud, ice, hills and even flooded sections of the course.On the day it was Nicky Young who was first home finishing in 120th place
So This Is What Circuit Training Is For! Photos courtesy of Karen HarlandLast weekend, 192 athletes swapped the running track for the motorsport track as they pounded round Croft Race Circuit. The 5k run organised by Darlington Harriers attracted runners of all ages and abilities, and there was no separating into different age groups; it
Only 71 runners turned for the Run Hamsterley Santa Dash 7km trail event on Sunday morning in the heart of Hamsterley Forest. The route follows a waymarked trail path for competitors to follow and runners encouraged to wear fancy dress on the day. Of our three ladies it was Shirley Gibson our F70 who was
Saturday saw the annual North East Cross Country Championships at Alnwick, an opportunity to compete with the very best in the area across tough terrain. In the U17/20 women’s race Lucy-erin Hunter was in fine form taking the win in 19:06 over the 5km distance while John Russell had a strong run in the U17M
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Our Under 13 Harrier, Libby Hammond was in action again last week, competing for her school at the Stockton Town Cross Country Championships. She was running in the Year 8/9 category, and as Libby is still in Year 8 it was going to be a tough race. She started well and kept up with the
With all this cold weather about, Under 13 Harrier, Libby Hammond was staying where things were a little warmer as she competed indoors last week. She was representing her school, The Ian Ramsey CE Academy at the Stockton Schools Sportshall Athletics competition. She competed in two of the endurance events, the 600m and the 800m
Law Sunday saw the latest instalment of the NYSD Cross Country Season, a season which has to date seen really strong performance from both our Mens and Ladies teams. This week was to be no exception as our women finished with an excellent 3rd position overall and our men topped the pile finishing 1st, helped
Photos courtesy of New Marske Harriers Under 11 Girls There were no U11 boys competing this week so it’s straight on to the girls, with two of them in action today. Regular Lottie Graves put in another strong performance to produce her third top 10 finish in a row. This was her best to date
Last weekend, Alex Boyer competed at the British Modern Biathlon Championships at Nottingham. The Harvey Hadden Sports Centre was the venue for the event which attracted hundreds of athletes of all ages over the weekend, with Alex taking on another 30 athletes in the Under 13 category on the Sunday. As you probably know by
Colin Taylor was a winner and a loser at last weeks Muddy Roads Santa 5km Trail run. Despite going over on his ankle mid race he was able to run through the pain to finish 2nd from the 110 runners on the day. Brian Burdon was next home for the club in 59th place, one
Huge congratulations go out to Savannah Tarn who competed at the South West Durham Schools Cross Country last Tuesday. She was running for Barnard Castle School in the Year 7 Girls race, and took home a nice shiny gold medal for 1st place! Yet another win from one of our juniors running for their school.
