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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

There was much less racing action for GVH on 12th and 13th February as most of the Harriers that took on the Watford Half Marathon last week took a break from racing to prepare for the final cross country race of the season at Biggleswade next weekend. On Saturday...

After a quiet weekend with no races at the end of January, 15 Gade Valley Harriers returned to racing action as the Watford Half Marathon made a welcome return to the calendar on Sunday having been cancelled due to Covid last year.  On Saturday there was the usual...

Watt Happened at the Fred Hughes 10…? Sunday 24th January saw a huge contingent of Gade Valley Harriers in St Albans for the Fred Huges 10. Fred Hughes is a popular local race, 10 miles through the countryside between St Albans and Hemel Hempstead. Starting in King...

The weekend of 15th / 16th January saw the Gade Valley Harriers compete as a team in the Chiltern Cross Country League for the fourth (out of five) fixture of the season. The Harriers were still optimistic of returning to the top division at the first attempt, going...

While most of the world was still recovering from their overindulgence at Christmas and a large proportion of the population was still in isolation having got Covid for Christmas, there were a number of Gade Valley Harriers who started 2022 with a Parkrun. Vince...