With the Spring marathon season concluded most of the Harriers who were racing returned to the more mundane pursuits of the club league at the Pednor 5 (mile) race on the Bank Holiday Monday. Three members took on the half marathon in Milton Keynes and clearly nobody told ultra specialist Chris Dowling that the marathon season was over as he …
On Saturday 22nd April the GVH Parkrun tour paid a visit to Buckingham Parkrun. With several Harriers otherwise engaged over the weekend there was still a healthy turnout of 8 athletes at Buckingham. Jon Roberts showed his enduring class, finishing 1st for the Harriers, 4th overall and 1st in his age category, in 18:30 while Helen Cook was the first …
The Easter weekend was a long one and clearly too long for every result to be reported correctly. Somehow rumours of a 5k race in Beaconsfield on Easter Monday had surfaced earlier in the weekend but then by the time of writing, nobody could remember exactly who had mentioned a 5k race and where it was. To cap it all, …
Angeline’s Magic Results Fairy has been failing in its duties recently. After she missed Jon Roberts’ V50 5k record on 26th March it transpired that she was also AWOL on 2nd April and failed to report Merlin Allan’s run at the Kew Half Marathon. Initially suspicions were raised that she was in Wales, watching the marathon, but then it was …
The weekend of 1st and 2nd April saw the first marathons of the spring marathon season, this year fully populated with the big city marathons as London and Manchester return to their usual berths for the first time since 2019. On Sunday 10 Harriers took on the Brighton Marathon, 4 GVH tourists made the trip to the Llanelli coastline for …
The weekend of 25th and 26th March saw Gade Valley Harriers continue their Parkrun tour, the return of a local favourite trail race and some more marathon preparation races. On Saturday, the club’s Parkrun tour visited Harrow. Unfortunately, a combination of reluctance to travel outside of the local postcode, and perhaps a lack of awareness of the schedule (even though …
As ever the running weekend kicked off at 9:00AM on Saturday as about 20 Gade Valley Harriers took on various Parkruns around the country. Vince Ellerby made his weekly trip to Black Park (finishing 14th), 7 Harriers made the trip to Rickmansworth, most of them running the 12 miles or so from Hemel Hempstead as part of marathon training and …
After the mass attendance at the Berko half Gade Valley Harriers resumed more normal looking weekend business with around 20 runners taking on various Parkruns on Saturday morning, 5 taking on the MK 20 (mile) race at the Milton Keynes festival of running on Sunday morning and 7 attending a different running festival in Paphos, Cyprus (OK, that is far …
On Saturday February 25th Gade Valley Harriers continued their monthly Parkrun tour with a visit to Rushmere Parkrun near Leighton Buzzard. Rumours that head coach Ed Price had chosen the location primarily for its proximity to his house were dispelled when those that had previously not visited the beautiful Rushmere Country Park took in their surroundings. Roland Kendall summed up …
The weekend of 18th and 19th February started early for many of the Harriers as those that were preparing for marathons in the spring were mostly on duty throughout Sunday morning on the GVH Marathon Training Run and were thus doing their own long training runs on Saturday morning. So despite the fact that there were no organised races taking …