It was a quiet weekend for the Harriers on April 23rd and 24th as only 4 athletes took part in organised events outside of Parkruns and only a handful of runners got up early on Saturday to run a Parkrun. The largest concentration of GVH runners gathered at Gadebridge Park on Saturday morning in the warm early sunshine to take …
Easter weekend is not a busy one for races in general as most races take place on Sundays and most people are too busy visiting relatives, rolling hard-boiled eggs down hills or recovering from a two day hangover while eating chocolate eggs to bother with racing on Easter Sunday. Parkrun is oblivious to such concerns however and thus the Saturday …
Saturday 9th April saw Gade Valley Harriers make the first stop on their summer Parkrun tours. Organised by head coach Ed Price, the club tries to get as many people together at the same park run, away from the local favourites such as Gadebridge and Rickmansworth, to enjoy a run that wouldn’t necessarily be on the usual agenda. This time …
On the weekend of 2nd and 3rd April the Spring Marathon season got underway as there were more age group records broken and half marathon action for a handful of GVH runners. Saturday morning saw an unusually low number (for no obvious reason) of Gade Valley runners taking on the local Parkruns. Vince and Lewis Ellerby took on Black Park …
In the past news publications were at the mercy of print deadlines. This could make for some interesting headlines, particularly when sports events took place on the far side of the world. This could lead for some particularly interesting cricket reporting from Australia when the journalists knew they had to file reports long before the day’s play had ended. On …
It was a quiet weekend of racing for Gade Valley Harriers as many of the club dialled back their efforts to get ready for the Manchester Marathon (3rd April) and the Brighton Marathon (10th April). Despite the lack of general competitive action, there were still 3 Harriers competing at 3 very different races and the usual complement of runners taking …
The weekend of 12th and 13th March was a quiet one in terms of racing but a busy one for Gade Valley Harriers as it saw the return on Sunday of the club’s Marathon Training Runs on Sunday as well as a handful of runners taking on the Parkruns on Saturday morning. 5 Harriers went to Rickmansworth on Saturday morning …
The weekend of 5th / 6th March saw the return of the Berkhamsted Half Marathon after it wasn’t staged in 2021. The Berkhamsted race was one of the last to take place before the first lockdown, back on March 1st 2020, when the world thought that Cabin Fever was a thing that only happened in Stephen King novels, toilet paper …
On 12th April, 2004, 6 months before Parkrun was founded in Bushey Park (as the Bushey Park Time Trial) and 4 years before it changed its name to Parkrun, Brian Lara became the first, and so far only, cricketer to score 400 runs in a single test match innings. While that record appears fairly safe, Vince Ellerby achieved some kind …
The weekend began with Parkruns on Saturday morning but in a taste of further disruption to come, many of the 5k time trials were cancelled because of damage or enduring unsafe conditions caused by Storm Eunice on Friday. Two local Parkrun casualties were Rickmansworth and Black Park, causing some GVH regulars to look elsewhere for their Saturday morning run. 6 …