17th March 2019. The day of the Fleet Half Marathon. Imagine the setting…. It’s 05:30 on a Sunday morning, your alarm sounds like a baby with colic when you’ve not slept for days, you have a two-hour journey ahead of you (half of which is on a ferry) when only a couple of hours before […]
17 hill loving Harriers travelled to Wiltshire on 9th March 2019 to take part in the Larmer Tree Races hosted by White Star Running (like the GHM but a bit less SAS!) A favourite with the club every year, the 5 different runs (10 miles, 8 mile night run, half marathon, 20 miles and full […]
Sunday the 10th February was the date chosen to hold a trial run of the IWRR future cross country event. Runners from Island running clubs were invited to sample a 13 mile route concocted by the IWRR’s inhouse punk rocker, Dean Pike. If this new event wasn’t exciting enough, I had the added privilege of […]
Sunday 3nd February saw 483 finishers take part in our annual Ryde 10 Mile Road Race. The biggest field ever recorded for the event with a huge 50 Ryde Harriers taking part themselves. The undulating course started from Ryde canoe lake at 11am and took in the beautiful scenery of Ryde, Nettlestone, St Helen’s, The […]
Sunday 13th January saw 23 Ryde Harriers join over 1,700 other runners to take part in the first HRRL event of 2019. The Stubbington 10k is billed as a flat PB course but many of us use it as a bit of an ar*e-kick into the marathon training season and as our post-Christmas blow-out redemption! […]
The week between Christmas and New Year when we all identified with Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, when we attempted to justify eating a month’s worth of food in a few days, when ‘one’ Quality Street ends up being ‘one tin’ and when it was perfectly acceptable to alternate a mouthful of something unrecognisable wrapped […]
December 2018 arrived in style with an inflatable reindeer called Brian and a fair bit of rain for the Harriers last weekend (1st, 2nd) as we were spread far and wide across the country. Saturday saw club cross country runners Nat Rose and Ken Beak compete in the HXCL Popham Airfield Race, while Sunday brought […]