Category Races

For the past couple of summers I have taken part in a local running series called Country Trail Races. These involve starting at a local pub, getting a list of instructions and self-guiding yourself around a 10k run on local…

My Journey to the Lakeland Trails 55k (08/07/18) If you’d told me a year ago that I would be entering an ultramarathon in 2018 there’s no way I’d have believed it. I had only run one marathon (Yorkshire Marathon 2015)…

. It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. Sir Edmund Hillary   66 Miles. 42 Peaks including the highest mountain in England. 28,000 ft of climb – equivalent to scaling Mt Everest. One team of Hyde Park Harriers.…

Dan Donnelly at the Tour de Yorkshire and Leeds ITU Ever been tempted to nip over to the Dark Side? Come on, you know you have – especially as there’s a super-motivating friendly HPH triathlon club now! I’m a runner…

Stadium, Nuneaton (Sun. 29th Apr.) Unseasonably chilly weather greeted all at Nuneaton for the annual RWA Inter-Area match, but this did not prevent several personal bests being set. And it was a “One-Two” for the North of England and Hyde…

It’s the biggest marathon in the UK. Some might say the biggest marathon in the world. The London Marathon went off with a bang last week, and my legs have just about recovered, so it’s time to look back and see…

It was after the VoY half last year that I started to think about having another crack at the marathon distance. I’d always planned to do another one (Yorkshire 2016 was my first) but wanted to be in a position…

Sunday is the inter-area match at Tamworth (North v Midlands v South v Wales). A record number of HPH athletes have been selected for the North team. Morgan Price has been selected for the first time in the Men’s 10kmw.…

“I told you it was kicks. It’s all kicks man” – Dean Moriarty After a fairly injury strewn 2017 that had some great moments, I turned my mind to 2018 and set myself two principle targets: the Manchester Marathon and…

The London Training – “When I left you I was but the learner. Now I am the master.” So at the end of week sixteen of this training block, I’m now only four weeks away from race day. I usually…

Sunday 11 March 2018 New HPH members Agata Kowalska and Erika Pontarollo both got a mention in England Athletics race preview last Wednesday () with an expectation of a good “…head to head…”. This wasn’t how it turned out on…

I really enjoyed the Rombalds Stride Winter challenge this this last weekend… it lived up to its name and there were beautiful snowy moors with snow coming down as well, but no wintery pics from me just the aftermath of…

It’s important to get a good night’s sleep before a big event so I wasn’t particularly excited to be still up at 1am chatting to a guy from Yorkshire Water about the water flooding up through the floor into my…

I was pretty happy with VLM ‘17 (marathon 8) as it was the first time I’d held marathon pace for the whole 26.2 miles. But I’d missed breaking 3:30 by 15 seconds. So the target for Chester was clear! Training…

Today was tough, and running a marathon is tough, so it should be tough.   Over the last few weeks my training has been reasonable – 22 – 23 mile sightseeing run in New York (ok not at pace, but lots…