Welcome to Darlington Harriers Weekly Round-up Report, keep reading to see what has occurred this week and what is coming up for club members. How do I?… Club Championship rules and competitions can be found here and points will be populated here Our club was formed in 1891, but how did the club become Darlington […]
How do I?… Club Championship Points can be found here Race Result You will have seen that our Track will be unavailable to train on as it undergoes a full refurbishment from March 13th. Work has actually already started with the lighting in and around the athletics track. We expect the work to happen over
How do I?… Club Championship Points can be found here DONT FORGET TO VOTE FOR THE UP & COMING AWARDS NIGHT AND BOOK YOUR TICKETS TO THE EVENT. CLICK HERE Race Result The prestigious Saucony English National Cross Country Championships 2023 took place this Saturday at Bolesworth Castle, Chester an event which always attracts top runners across
How do I?… Club Championship Points can be found here Race Results Some of our U11 athletes were competing at the cross country at Barlborough Hall near Chesterfield last week. These races are regarded as one of the premier events for independent schools with over 300 runners taking part across the under 9, under 10
Sunday saw the rescheduled Endeavour 5km races, a series of 5 races around the cycle loop (approx 1km) at Middlesborough sports village with runners placed in heats based on expected finishing times. Due to Covid19, events were split even further by having runners run in groups of four, with up to 10 seconds between start
Event organisers have had to get their thinking caps on over the last few weeks on how to provide a ‘virtual’ version of their particular event, rather than cancelling it altogether. Basically, competitors would run the event locally, adhering to all the social distancing guidelines required, then submit their results to the organisers for comparison
The weekend saw a number of Harriers in Berlin for one of the World marathons. This marathon is where world records are set and broken and the weekend proved to be a close run thing as Bekele missed the WR time by a couple of seconds. The event was surprisingly unorganised, going against the grain
Sunday saw the annual Great North Run take place, a race which two of our club members (Paul Kelly and Harry Singh) have ran since it’s introduction in 1981, an amazing feat! This event attracts tens of thousands of competitors, many of whom raise thousands of pounds for their chosen charity and sees runners making
Today saw the annual Darlington 10km race, and for a nice change the weather was kind to the runners with cool conditions and even a little bit of light rain to keep runners cool. For those who haven’t ran the Darlington 10km before, this race starts behind Boyes leading up to Stanhope road and on
Last week at the Summer Coast 5k race, two of our runners were omitted from the results. This is because the results system that is used doesn’t allow to search by club but by where the athlete lives so not always easy to track! Anyway our boys in Blue (and white) finished 52nd (Adam) in
John Clifford celebrated his 48th birthday by joining a number of Harriers at the Summer Coast 5km race. On a fairly decent night for running with only a slight wind to contend with, it was John who led the Harriers home finishing in 11th place in a fast field in 16:47. Tony Winward went with
On Tuesday night at Middlesbrough we had a number of competitors in the 3000m race, in addition to Andy Harrison and Kate Bower in the 200m/400m races. Andy smashed the field in the 200m finishing his graded race in first place, with Kate Bower also impressing finishing in 31:43. Andy then finished 7th in a
The Whorlton Run is one of our longest lived races, starting as a summer fete event, the fell race emerged. Its a bit of a marmite race for fell runners, with a road start and finish, one main steep climb, shortly followed by a steep disengage your conscious thoughts mile descent. Dave McKenna was top
Ah me lads, ye shudda seen us gannin’, We pass’d the foaks upon the road just as they wor stannin’; Thor wes lots o’ lads an’ lasses there, all wi’ smiling faces, Gannin alang the Scotswood Road, to see the Blaydon Races….that’s more than enough of that!! This 5.4mile race from Newcastle upon Tyne to
At tonight’s Roseberry Romp fell race, Jade Hutchinson showed her skills of downhill running and was best in class as she stormed past many runners on her descent. This fell race is a run (or rock climbing!) up Roseberry Topping and then back down again… A short race, but very tough with a steep climb
We had a number of athletes competing at the NYSD this week in both the 200m and the 1 mile race. Some excellent performances on the night from all of our senior athletes including Hilary Bevan who undertook her first mile event and finished in an excellent 7:48.6. Well done everyone, results below.
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
HUNDREDS of runners flocked to a popular relay race for its 13th annual event. The Neptune Relays took place on Wednesday in Hardwick Park, near Sedgefield, where about 500 athletes from across the North-East competed for trophies and bags of fruit. Each team has 4 runners each running 1.7m, the Harrier team containing Barry Talman,
Sunday saw a number of Harriers make the start line for the Manchester Marathon. After a number of weeks gruelling runs, making it to the start line of the event itself is sometimes an achievement after training claims victims throughout the usual 16 weeks training.Don’t ever play how difficult it is to run a marathon,
