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Easter Bunny Kidnaps Magic Results Fairy
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...
Great Marathon Running
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...
Spring has sprung for Marathon Prep
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...
Marathon Training, Marathon Prep, Marathons and Ultra Marathons
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...
20 Mile “Joy!?” and Victory in Paphos
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...
Half the Club at Berko Half
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...
MTR Duty for Harriers
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...
Harriers Find Reasons to Love Cross Country
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...
No Half Measures for GVH in Watford
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...
Blizzard of PBs in Chilly St Albans
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...