The second weekend in February, just before Valentine’s Day typically, normally marks the fifth and final fixture of the Chiltern League Cross Country Season. 2023 was no exception as GVH, and runners from 38 other running clubs, took part in the fixture at Keysoe Equestrian Centre, near Bedford. The Chiltern League hasn’t visited Keysoe since January 2020, just before the …
On the last weekend of January there wasn’t any organised racing action for Gade Valley Harriers so it was a convenient time for the club to continue its monthly Parkrun tour. So it was that on Saturday 28th January that a large cohort of over 20 GVH runners gathered at Leavesden Country Park to take part in a relatively new …
The running weekend of 21st / 22nd January got underway on Saturday morning as a handful of Gade Valley Harriers took on various Parkruns. Most of the Harriers were keeping their powder dry (and probably warm) for the Fred Hughes 10 mile race on Sunday but that didn’t stop Vince Ellerby’s weekly trip to Black Park nor did it stop …
Whilst there is no Christmas break to the running season, in fact there isn’t a running season (it goes on endlessly), individuals have Christmas breaks and there don’t tend to be many big events from about the second week in December until the second week in January. Thus it was that the GVH massive got together for the first time …
As the meteorological winter properly kicked in and the football winter took hold for at least another 18 months, a handful of Gade Valley Harriers took on various Parkruns on Saturday morning and a small group of, it has to be said slightly mad, Harriers took on the freezing conditions of the Milton Keynes Winter Half Marathon on Sunday. On …
On the weekend where the World Cup got serious, Gade Valley Harriers took part in the third match (of five) of the Chiltern League Cross Country season at Stopsley Common in Luton on Saturday afternoon. Earlier on Saturday there were a handful of GVH runners, those that couldn’t, for various reasons, make it to Luton in the afternoon and those …
The Gade Valley Harriers Parkrun tour continued on November 19th with a visit to Church Mead Parkrun in Amersham Old Town. According to Church Mead’s information page, “The course is run entirely on trail paths. Some sections of the course may accumulate mud, leaves and puddles after rain.” According to Harriers Michael Linden and Nick Crowther, the course is, “ridiculously …
Last weekend kicked off as always for Gade Valley Harriers, with Saturday Morning Parkruns on 12th November. As is usually the case on a Cross Country League weekend, the numbers of club runners attending parkruns was much reduced. Vince Ellerby didn’t change his routine as he made the trip to Black Park for his 507th overall Parkrun and his 427th …
It was a quiet weekend of racing for Gade Valley Harriers as only 2 members took part in any organised racing while fewer runners than usual were prepared to go out in the wet for the Parkruns. Before the weekend, the Gade Valley Committee confirmed the dates for the Marathon Training Runs (MTRs) for 2023. GVH has for many years …
On saturday 29th October Gade Valley Harriers continued their Parkrun tour by visiting the Houghton Hall Parkrun in Houghton Regis near Luton. Head Coach Ed Price nominates the venue for the club monthly Parkrun tour and a quick look at Ed’s Parkrun stats reveal that Houghton Hall (with 9 visits) sits second overall on Ed’s list of most frequently visited …