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 […]

There was a rather chilly start to January with the Hampshire Cross-Country Championships, which saw Charlie, Les & Roger placing well in their age categories.   Stubbington 10km was very popular again this year, with 23 Harriers competing. The conditions were ideal for good times, and Les proved he was on top form by achieving […]

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! […]