Hundreds of athletes descended upon Middlesbrough last weekend for two days of full on competition at the North East’s premier track and field meeting. Clubs from all over the region were represented, in all age groups from Under 13 and above in the ever popular NECAA Championships.The weather had settled and the athletes could look […]
Middle distance legend and broadcaster, Steve Cram, visited Hummersknott Academy last week to speak to a specially selected group of Academy students, made up from their successful cross country team and a small group of budding sports stars from Abbey and Mowden Primary Schools. The group included several of our Junior Harriers including Abbey pupils
We had three of our athletes taking on the Wainstones events this weekend. Strangely the 10km race is 9.5miles, the Half Marathon is 16.5 and the marathon 28.5miles. In the 10k Matt Capsey finished in an impressive 7th place in 1:24:48 while Penny Skilton battled away in the half to finish 157th in 6:09:22. David
On a very busy week for the club we had four Harriers head to Durham for the Outlaw Trail 10 mile event. The 10 mile route starts in Durham City before heading down along the rivers Wear Dale Way, through the local woods of Shincliffe and Croxdale, running along some trails to keep runners interested
We had three of our athletes at the Leeds Half Marathon this weekend. This race Starts on The Headrow, in the heart of the City Centre, before taking runners out of the City Centre, via New Briggate, towards the village of Meanwood.At around the 9-mile mark, runners pass Kirkstall Abbey before returning to the City
Last week, on a cold, wet and windy day, Under 13 Harrier, Libby Hammond was in action at Middlesbrough Sports Village. She was representing her school, the Ian Ramsey CE Academy at the Stockton District Athletics Championships. She had a busy day competing in the 800m, the long jump and the 4 x 100m relay.
After her most successful cross country season to date, India Pentland returned to the track recently in her first BMC meeting of the year. As well as being her first track race of the year, it was also a step up in age group, to the heady heights of Under 20!India travelled to Leeds to
So here we are again. The sun is shining, the stadium is filled with the chatter of teenagers, and the English Schools track and field season gets under way. For those of you unfamiliar with the Track & Field Cup, basically it’s a competition between school teams which is held over three rounds. The preliminary
Sam Richardson was on her travels this weekend, this time over the lake district. Whilst on her travels, a chance arose to run the Staveley Kentmere 10km Trail (which actually turned out to be 11.6km…but who’s counting). This trail race climbs out from Staveley (above the Kentmere valley) before returning along the valley itself past
A handful of Harriers headed to Jarrow to take part in the 3 person relay event, each runner completing 3km per leg. With three competitive teams representing the club on the evening all runners did themselves proud. The ladies V35 team finished in 2nd place only to the Athletics Giants Morpeth while the mens V35
Tony Winward was the lone Harrier at the South Shields Monthly Mile race. Tony who has continued his good form throughout 2019 finished 2nd in a new best of 5:06,second only to Tyne Bridge’s Sparrow Morley, a very accomplished runner who finished in 4:48.Great running Tony.
A race which was omitted from last weeks report was the Hamsterley Forest 10km race. A race which pretty much takes runners up for three miles then has a 3 mile descent making it a race of two halves.We had two runners on show, Mark Haymer was first of our two runners back finishing 23rd
It was an exciting start to the long awaited first match of the North East Youth Development League last weekend. Last season it had become very apparent that the smaller clubs stood no chance of competing against the clubs with more athletes in the overall standings. So this year, to equal things up a bit,
In previous years, hosting of the NYSD T&F meetings has been shared between Middlesbrough and Darlington. This year however, all six meetings are to be held at Middlesbrough Sports Village, so our juniors returned to one of the North East’s top venues for another dose of track and field action. It was another exciting evening
Following an amazing cross country season including a second place at the English National and wins at the Northern, Inter Counties and English Schools Championships, Darlington Harriers & AC has recognised the amazing achievements of U20 athlete India Pentland with a £100 voucher for sports clothing / equipment.India is pictured here receiving the voucher from
Sunday saw nine of our Harriers head to the big smoke for one of the six Major marathons, London. With weather conditions slightly cooler than 2018 (at least 10 degrees!!) it was a great day to experience the amazing experience of London. Despite his chip timing not working, Paul Cook was first across the line
Darren Gee headed off to Ingleton to do The Fellsman. This race, which is advertised as 61 miles and 11,000ft of climb, clearly wasn’t enough for Darren who, thanks to a detour on the course, clocked a staggering 62.65 miles and 12,800ft of climb…it was some day. Grim weather, with plenty of wind and rain,
Saturday saw one of our ultra runners in action at the Three Peaks fell race. Peter who is quite an experienced runner over this distance now took on the Three Peaks Race which traverses the famous Yorkshire Dales mountains of Pen-y-ghent, Ingleborough and Whernside And is one of the oldest, most famous and best organised
Washington Trail 10k winds its way around the wonderful James Steel Park and picks its way around some beautiful woodland trails along the banks of the River Wear. Our five Harriers were part of a field of 473 runners on the day, Danielle Clark the first of the group to finish in 63:17, Ian Threadkell
