A superb marathon and weekend away. So Saturday morning bright and early with a few snacks (not mentioning excess baggage!!) off the Harriers went to Manchester. With well organised transport arrangements and seamless links (thanks to Mr Warren), we arrived in the northern capital. Hotel check in completed and baggage unloaded, we made full use […]

March has been unpredictable weather wise as usual, with snow days causing the Eastleigh 10km to be postponed, and then almost spring weather the following week. Despite the weather lots of harriers have managed away days on the mainland, some even as far away as Paris and Cyprus. We actually did some running while we […]

Running a half marathon for charity is challenging enough, but add travelling in a severe snowstorm with many services cancelled and you can understand why my first overseas race was so memorable. The challenge began innocently enough last September- my husband and I were comparing bucket lists and discovered neither of us had been to Paris. […]

I was told that the Ryde Harriers Cross Country series, had the tradition of running “proper” cross-country courses and described as a ‘mudfest’, and that this year’s new course out towards Nunwell House has already gained popularity compared to previous courses, with its interesting new feature ‘Screaming Woman Wood’ and some of the old favours […]

January has been a rather busy and very muddy month. It started off with the Hampshire cross country championships and the league fixture at Prospect park, in which Les Cupis performed very well and came home with 1st Vet 55. We managed to field full teams for both events, but our numbers weren’t as high […]

November has been a busy month with the 2nd HXCL fixture, two HRRL races, and a host of other races. Peter Young performed very well in the Leeds Abbey Dash 10km again this year, clamming 1st Vet 70, and even beat the time of the 1st vet 65. There was a record turnout of 16 […]

I have been asked by our club captain to share my experience of the IOW Marathon. So, how did my race all come about? The good old fashioned new year’s resolution had struck on this one. The resolution was to lose weight, I was a fairly hefty 96kg in January this year, which is a […]