Over the last six weeks Gade Valley Harriers’ Teresa Reason and Chris Dowling have been taking part in the Ultra X Virtual Race World Series. The event started with three qualifiers throughout May. Participants had to run a set distance wherever they wanted on the given dates and points were awarded based on the percentile in which they finished …
Alongside the GVH Virtul Relay on Sunday was the Junior Virtual Relay, which saw six teams of three or four children go head to head to complete ten miles between them. The rules were simple – run from home, run with a parent or responsible adult and only one member of each team can run at a time. With a …
On Sunday the hotly-anticipated, inaugural GVH Virtual Relay took place in a bid to replace a lack of official races and club meets. Club members were placed in evenly matched teams of four and had to complete a total of thirty miles between 5:00 am and 8:00 pm. Only one member from each team could be running at any time …
Since the middle of March there have been no official races pretty much anywhere in the world, due to the coronavirus outbreak. However there have been plenty of virtual events and challenges, and on Saturday Gade Valley Harrier Alistair Flowers hosted the Lockdown 24-hour Virtual Race. The event gave entrants the opportunity to complete as many five mile “laps” as …
Friday the Thirteenth was unlucky this March for thousands of people who had signed up for marathons in the spring as they found out their races had been postponed until the autumn. London, Manchester and Brighton all announced within hours of each other that their events weren’t going ahead as scheduled next month due to the coronavirus outbreak which is …
The Hillingdon 20 is an ideal chance to bank a long run while practising race day routines and therefore has become a great part of preparation for anyone training for a marathon in April. On Sunday, a large number of Gade Valley Harriers took part in the 20-mile race along the streets of the North West London suburb, many of …
Gade Valley Harriers won both the male and female team prizes, and a plethora of club members picked up personal bests (PBs) on a successful day at one of the club’s most popular spring races – the Berkhamsted Half Marathon – on Sunday. The event was the club’s half marathon championship race, meaning a large number of members turned out, …
While Deontay Wilder was battering Tyson Fury in the boxing ring, the winds were furiously battering Hertfordshire’s countryside which put Gade Valley Harriers’ 17 mile Marathon Training Run, which was scheduled for Sunday morning, in serious jeopardy. A whole range of people from 3 hour marathoners to new runners making their debut in the 26.2 mile distance rely on the …
A lot of running clubs in the local area have a junior section and a running track, but Gade Valley Harriers base themselves in the humble surroundings of the Boxmoor cricket ground and, at the present time, have no youth set-up. Therefore, the club has always had trouble competing against its local rivals in the Chiltern Cross Country League and …
Hertfordshire boasts some beautiful countryside and amazing landscapes, made possible by some stunning rolling hills and open valleys. However, when it comes to running in the county, the hills look a lot less appealing when you’re at the bottom and you know the finish line is somewhere at the top of the hill, or the hill after that one. For …