On Sunday, our Harrier men and ladies were in action in the Cross Country season finale at South Park Darlington. Although this is part of the XC season this is 100% on path but both our men and women’s teams did great, the ladies winning their race with the men an excellent second place behind […]
This year’s NYSD Cross Country Series has provided another excellent season of competition. Now all the points have been totted up, the final results have beenpublished, so if you haven’t seen already, here’sa brief summary of how things went for our Junior Harriers…..There have been many notable performances highlighting the quality and dedication of our
Last week we had four of our Harriers at the Tees Trail race, the 5km race at Tees barrage. Results are now in and Colin Taylor was once again top dog finishing in a speedy 17:20 with Tony Winward also putting in a good run to finish 4th in 17:39. Young gun Harry Lyons finished
Last Saturday morning saw a number of Harriers take on the High Cup Nick. Results are now out for this event which saw Darren Gee finish 75th in a high class field in 1:18:43, Val Clarke 282nd in 1:40:06 and Julian Waller 324th in 1:45:45. Other Harriers competing on the day including off road captain
The Blyth Sportshall Athletics Series came to an exciting conclusion last weekend, with two of our juniors flying the flag for Darlington Harriers. Hugo Douglas-Reeves and Daniel I’Anson were back for more running, jumping and throwing action in what was the fourth and final meeting of this popular series. Hugo certainly finished in style by
The landscaped grounds of an historic country house were, once again, taken over by thousands of cross country runners and spectators last weekend. The popular Harewood House played host to the annual English National Cross Country Championships, where athletes from Under 13 up to Senior level turned out in their droves to compete.For some, it
We had 8 club members representing us at the Tees Barrage 5km Trail race today. Well, results are now in and Phil Teece was first Harrier home despite running the High Cup Nick the previous day. Some excellent performances from our club runners on the day. Well done to you all. 6th – Phil Teece
It doesn’t seem long since the first of the 6 NYSD cross country meetings kicked off at Acklam back in October. There have been thrills and spills on the way, injuries to contend with and a few new faces we’ve introduced. But here we are, at the final meeting of what’s been a fantastic series
Darren Thompson was back in action at the Leicestershire half marathon, a race which he ran in 2018 in aid of the MOVE Charity. Darren, who has recently returned to running and not in top shape just yet still put in an excellent performance to finish 43rd in 1:26:33, not bad for a lad who’s
Hilary Bevan celebrated an iconic film hero with Saturn Running’s ‘Runners of The Lost Ark’ run. This is a 7 hour timed event where runners choose their distance from 5km to ultra.Runners complete as many laps of a 3.28 mile (5.3km) out and back, course along the River Wear as they wish within the 7
Richmond was the venue for the final race of the Cross Country season on late Sunday morning. This course is a multi lapper for both men and women and despite being a nice course to run, is quite exposed to the elements.Results have yet to be released, but well done to everyone who wore the
On Sunday morning at Newcastle’s Town Moor we had a 8 of our club runners in action over three events. In the Couples 10km event, Barry and Louise Talman finished 3rd from the 40 runners on show with a combined time of 38:32 with Zoe and Steve Rogers 18th in 46:58. In the 10km race
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After a lot of deliberation, Under 15 sprinter, Darcey Garbutt has made the difficult decision to move on from Darlington Harriers. From now on she will be competing for North East rivals Gateshead Harriers. Darcey has found that she performs better when competing against faster athletes. So her aim is to improve as much as
Peter Armstrong was one of a number of Harriers who was competing at Snake Lane on Sunday morning but got a little bit more than he bargained for when opening a cubicle which wasn’t locked to find a runner from another club giving himself a “Stand up wipe”…..maybe this is where ‘snake lane’ originated from?
On a busy week for the club runners the final race of the weekend was at Tees Barrage. Now it looks like Colin Taylor may have received a belated valentines card but as the results have yet to be released around this race, this is another race we will cover next week,Well done all harriers
Harewood House, Leeds was the location for this years National XC which sees many top runners from far and wide testing their ability against one another. India Pentland kicked off proceedings in the U17 event finishing a fantastic 2nd with team mates Megan Noble and Amelia Grayson both putting in strong performances over the 5km
We had seven of our athletes in action on Wednesday evening at the Tees Trail Pie and Peas 5km race. This was a well supported event with over 200 runners on the evening, all armed with headtorches and ready for the post race Pie and Peas….if anything is going to make you run faster this
John Gray was in dog racing action (not dogging , please see Paul Keedy’s blog for that insight) at Dalby Forest. This popular event sounds like it get’s people slightly enraged but actually these Canicross events have the opposite impact to the participants as it takes them round a scenic 5km route through the stunning
As reported last week the cross country finale took place at Richmond. Results have now been released which saw Darlington Harrier Ladies finish 4th overall and the men 6th.Well done everyone who has competed over the cross country season.
