Thursday night saw another large turnout at the NYMAC relays at Stewarts Park. This event is always well organised and an excellent chance for members to get together and form teams of 4 regardless of speed. Some great performances of the night including a 1st place for Bernadette Caygill, Sue Phillips, Linda Noble and Tori […]
Sunday saw the club enter teams into the Northern Road relays at Birkenhead for the first time since 1977, an event which sees runners run laps of 4 or 8km. Fantastic performances from both our men and women teams,the men qualifying for the nationals by finishing in the top 25. Big thanks to Karl Hume
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.
It was another great turnout at Ormesby Hall today with many great performances from both our junior and senior athletes. Many of our age categories claimed 1st team overall for the day making this yet another successful day for our club. Full results can be found here
At last weeks cross country, both teams again had a good turnout with excellent results. In the ladies race, Bernadette Caygill was 6th across the line, sisters Sue Phillips and Linda Noble 17th and 18th respectively with Val Clarke 23rd making it a strong top 4. Nicky Young finished in a solid 37th place, Sarah
On Saturday morning, the club put on another race which could be an annual event based on the popularity seen so far with over 200 runners signed up before the start of the 5km race at Croft Circuit. Results are still being worked throughby the Run Nation team as there was a few anomalies. There
On a busy Sunday morning, a large contingent of Harriers headed to Ripley near Harrogate to run the Guy Fawkes 10 mile event, an event which has some challenging hills and more importantly lots of chocolate goodies for all finishers!! A good event and one which Nev Ford was first home for the club finishing
Harrier ladies had a fantastic opening race to the cross country season at a wet and muddy Acklam. Ellie Phillips put in a superb performance to finish 8th ahead of mum Sue Phillips 11th and Auntie Linda Noble 16th with Pauline Brown and Megan Noble fighting it out for 28th and 29th places. Millie Grayson
On late Sunday morning into early afternoon a number of hardened Harriers headed to Acklam to take on the first of the seasons XC events.The weather had been pretty awful for a few days leading up to Sunday and unfortunately the weather didn’t get much better on the day with heavy rain throughout the races
Last Sunday saw the first race of the Cross Country take place at the Flatts, Thirsk. Results are now out which saw our ladies senior team take 3rd spot and the men in 6th. Great to see many Harriers making their debut on the day.
Sunday saw the first race of the Cross Countrytake place at the Flatts, Thirsk. Each runnermust run 2 laps of a course of a little over 1 mile which features an undulating route which sees runners run up and down banks before returning to the comfort of flat grass. Results have yet to be released
On Sunday morning a high number of Harriers headed north to run the famous Great North Run Half Marathon a race which has been on the go since 1981 and one which two of our runners, Paul Kelly and Harry Singh are part of an exclusive club of under 100 people who have run every
On Thursday evening, Paul Cook organised the Move Festival in support of the Move Charity which helps young people who have had cancer, get active through sport. The founder of the charity, Gemma Hillier-Moses kicked things off with a warm up with the kids in the 1 mile run while husband Lewis was the man
With the nights rainfall and cool morning temperatures, for once athletes were looking forward to a cool run probably for the first time in several months. Despite the pretence of a cool run, the conditions for runners were once again ‘muggy’. Some fantastic performances on the day with many personal bests, Justin Hindmarch passing the
Sunday afternoon took four of our runners to the Kilburn Feast 7. The 7.3 mile course gets off to a flying start slightly downhill for about a mile and then the promised ‘undulations’ begin. After climbing up into Coxwold village the route flattens out slightly continuing onto Bylands Abbey. The remaining 4 and half miles
As the sun continues to shine kindly on England over several weeks now, the Everyone Active 5km race, Middlesboro, on Sunday morning proved to be another race where the sun made running difficult for all abilities. For those who haven’t done this race before, it’s a fast and flat circuit until you reach the stadium
Sunday brought another large Harrier turn out, this time to Northallerton from the clubs 10k league. This course is literally a run of two halves as runners head to the hills after an initial run through the high street before a quick decent back into the high street to the finish. Colin Taylor was first
David McKenna was the first Harrier home at the Gribdale Growler, a 5.5m race with over 280 metres of ascent near Great Ayton. Some great performances on the day including Val Clarke 1st V55, Linda Noble 2nd V50 and Sarah Tomlinson 2nd V40. We also saw Allan Harder, Michael Watson, Tony Williams, Barry Foster and
New Marske’s road race series always proves popular to local athletes who want to improve on their personal bests or get an early marker in the sand for the up and coming 10k season. Wednesday night proved to be no different as Louise Talman led a number of excellent performances leading to 12 new personal
A popularrace on the racing calendar is the Marina 5miler at Hartlepool, an out and back event along the coastline. This event is completely flat for runners taking them 2.5miles out, around a cone and back to the start point. Flat and fast and known for producing good times. With London marathon only a week
