OMM ‘Lite’ Grasmere – Sat-Sun 28-29 May
From John Hayes… Photo credit OMM and John Hayes… There are now two OMM Mountain Marathons per year in the UK. The main one in October involves two days in the hills, carrying all your kit (including tent and sleeping bag) and invariably being lashed by rain/hail/snow. The other is the “OMM Lite” held in […]
Kettlewell Half Marathon – Sat 28 May
From Jill Ezard… When last at a Due North event I wasn’t feeling one hundred percent I was not in the zone And did nothing but moan Up the hills and down every descent So today for the Kettlewell run I decided to just have some fun The first up was quite tough And the […]
Evensplits 5K Leeds – Wed 25 May
From Petra Bijsterveld… The May instalment of the Evensplits Leeds 5k series and Club Championships saw 14 Harriers turn out at the Brownlee circuit on Wednesday evening. A lovely evening though a tad blowy, with the wind direction ensuring that runners had to face the headwind on the uphill stretch of the circuit. Several of […]
Cookridge Community Run – Sun 22 May
From Peter Shelley… The Cookridge Community Run enjoyed a good turnout of 363 runners on its third iteration including a numbers of Harriers motivated by its inclusion in this year’s race league. It’s a multi terrain 10k run on the outksirts of Cookridge in northern Leeds, using bridleways and tracks in and around Golden Acre […]
Cardiff Bay 10K – Sun 22 May
From Lucy Williamson… A lovely sunny day for a run around Cardiff Bay. The route takes in the centre of Cardiff Bay and then out and back along the barrage which was beautiful. Results 1 29:07 Omar Ahmed (Birchfield Harriers) 129 39:10 Lucy Williamson
Manchester Half & 10k – Sun 22 May
From Oli Murphy… Zoe and I signed up for the Great Manchester half in January with a big group of university mates, full of promises to put the excesses of Christmas behind them. Fast forward five months and predictably all but one of them had made varying sheepish excuses, and dropped out of the Whatsapp […]
Old County Tops Fell Race – Sat 21 May
From Jann Smith… This iconic, long standing fell ultra is based on visiting the three highest peaks on the old counties of Cumbria: Westmoreland (Helvellyn), Cumberland (Scafel Pike) and Lancashire (Coniston Old Man) starting and finishing in Langdale. It is a tough, epic, hard route which involved scrambling pathless in the clag down the back […]
HDSRL #1 (Nidd Valley) – Tue 17 May
From Paul Stephens… A slightly humid evening with a little rain at the end for us slower runners, but it didn’t dampen our enthusiasm or the atmosphere. There were 371 finishers and a great turnout from Ilkley for the first race of this year’s Harrogate and District Summer Race League. Jon Denniss was the first […]
Calderdale Way Relay – Sun 15 May
From Kate Archer… Billed as Britain’s biggest club run off roader, the Calderdale Way Relay is organised by Halifax Harriers and is a fantastic event to be involved in. There are six legs each run in pairs. Legs differ in length and profile but all are tough with plenty of climb, but runners are rewarded […]
Jack Bloor Fell Race – Tue 10 May
From Michael Odell… It was a fine evening, almost like summer, as 185 runners lined up at Darwin Gardens to commemorate the memory of Jack Bloor, now 38 years after his death. The route was not marshalled but rather included six way points at relatively well known features on Ilkley Moor: Badger Stone, Swastika Stone, […]