Hundreds of athletes headed for the coast last weekend as Redcar hosted the second NYSD Cross Country meeting of the season. There was an excellent turnout at the Fox Rush Farm Community Woodland and as usual our Junior Harriers were in the thick of it. Here’s how things went…. Under 11’s A 1.7km route through […]
Up & Coming Events Middlesboro 10k – 7th November NEYDL AGM – 12th November Leeds Abbey Dash – 7th November NYSD XC Croft – 21st November Croft 5k – 4th December 10:30 NYSD XC Summerhill, Hartlepool – 5th December Club Handicap – December TBC Jolly Holly Jog – 28th December NYSD XC Ormesby Hall –
It was a return to familiar surroundings on Sunday as the Darlington/Allerton team were back at Middlesbrough Sports Village for another NEYDL meeting. After a solid team performance at the first meet last month, the team were out to match or even improve on the already impressive 3rd place from Meeting 1. It was another
It’s been a long wait, but finally, the North East Youth Development League returned last weekend, as Middlesbrough Sports Village opened its doors to hundreds of young athletes from the region. The last NEYDL Match was pre-Covid way back in July 2019, so it was fantastic to see our DHAC juniors teaming up with Allerton
Middlesbrough Sports Village hosted the second NECAA Open Meeting of the season, attracting athletes from all over the region. As expected, the blue and white vests of DHAC where out in force, including an impressive contingent from our junior section. As usual with the open meetings, events were of mixed age groups/gender, with heats being
Photos from the day’s event can be viewed courtesy of Karen Harland at https://www.flickr.com/photos/93609093@N06/albums/72157716343652217 DHAC’s third and final ‘Back to Track’ series finished on a high last Saturday as a total of 25 club records were smashed, including plenty from our Junior section. There were an astonishing 9 new records set in the U11 to
It’s been a while, but at last, our Junior Harriers enjoyed some cross country action once again, in an inter-club competition on Sunday. Hosted by our friends at Allerton Junior Athletics Club, Knayton Park, near Thirsk was the setting for the DHAC v Allerton showdown as the two clubs battled it out. Most of our
Huge well done to all the athletes that took part in the latest #DHACVirtual event. The results are now in……. Congratulations to Team 1, who lived up to their name and came out on top of the time sheets this time. With Karl Murray clocking 2.28 for the 0.5 mile leg, junior athelte Marissa Boon
Last weekend, some of Bernadette‘s endurance group took part in a 2k relay as part of their weekly training regime. The athletes were split into four teams of three and, of course, each athlete ran their own leg as part of their daily exercise; they then submitted their times to Bernadette who compiled the final
Hundreds of young athletes took another step towards competing at the English Schools Cross Country Finals at the Northern Schools Inter Counties Cross Country Championships. Having gone through Town, then County, stages, it was now time for the Inter-County Championships where teams from Northumberland, Durham, Cleveland, Cumbria and North Yorkshire battled it out for place
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Plenty of Junior Harriers travelled to Bedale for another big event on the cross country calendar – the North of England XC Championships. For the first time, the event was held within the magnificent grounds of the Camp Hill Estate, which proved to be the perfect setting for such a big competition. Hundreds of athletes
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,
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
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
Massive congratulations to all our Darlington Harriers who ran here today. It’s always a tough competition, but usually one that is dominated by our juniors, and they certainly didn’t disappoint today
It was a great turnout from our Juniors for the NYSD’s second fixture last weekend with 21 young Harriers taking part. Once again conditions underfootwere pretty soft but they gave it their all, and as usual produced some excellent results. Under 11 Boys The first of our juniors to finish was Daniel I’Anson, who we’ve
Here We Go Again!Yes, it’s finally here. That character building season filled with mud, wet and tears is now upon us! After a long (and successful) track and field season, it’s time to fit those longer spikes and stock up on the washing powder as we welcome in the new cross country season. As usual,
Under 13 Harrier, Matthew Vest took to the road last weekend in a cycling mega marathon. He rode the famous Coast to Coast route with his Dad, Gavin covering 225km (140 miles) from one side of Northern England to the other! It took them 3 days, and it was all for a good cause –
With the first two meetings going so well for the Darlington/Allerton composite team, thoughts had already turned to the possibility of promotion to Division 1. It’s safe to say the joint venture between the two clubs has been a tremendous success with the increase in the number of athletes making a huge difference. Last season,
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