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In the run up to the latest edition of PECO I thought I would do a brief history of how the club has been doing in the competition over the years, telling you the story of the highs and lows…
by Lucy Rider I work in recruitment, or rather I did work in recruitment, at the moment I’m having a small break which is giving me much needed time to do a few very important things and one thing I wanted…
Hi, my name is George Webster and I’ve been joining the Hyde Park Harriers sessions for 3 weeks; one Group 2 run and two Interval sessions. I’ve been really enjoying these sessions and running with my friends from parkrun and…
Why do we race? Many people do it for a personal best or the sense of achievement – accomplished by a well-designed and marshalled course. Others race for the atmosphere, or to be part of a big event. So why…
After arriving in Zermatt the weekend before, I’d spent the last week doing my final preparations before taking part in the Ultraks Matterhorn skyrace, a 49km long trail race with approximately 3600m of climb! Arriving at 6:30am for a 7am…
Everesting? What is it? Everesting is an activity in which cyclists ascend and descend a given hill multiple times, in order to have cumulatively climbed 8,848 metres. (the elevation of Mount Everest). The first event described as “Everesting” was by…
May was the start of the new year with our 2020/2021 Committee. After a busy month of AGM prep, our virtual Awards Do, and more quizzes than you can shake a stick at, it’s great to sit back and reflect…
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t struggle with anxiety. As a child I’d obsessively count syllables in sentences, trying to make them add up to ten, repeating the sentence over and over in my head until it sounded…
I had two aims for 2020. Firstly, run a marathon. Secondly do 1000km in a year. Through various reasons, I’d never achieved this before. I set my Strava targets to 1000 km for the year and 20km a week (For…
February marked the first nominations that will be included in next year’s awards – and the start of me not updating the blog with our monthly winners! So this is a bumper-bumper issue of three months worth of Harriers of…
Sprint distance400m Pool swim17.6 Km Bike5km RunSaturday 5th October. So that’s it then. The car is loaded up and I’m double checking I’ve remembered everything! I really can’t be bothered to drive for 2.5 hours to find I’m missing a…
Dear Members, Thank you very much for attending our annual awards evening this year online – it’s unusual circumstances to be celebrating our awards but I hope that everyone enjoyed the event. I wanted to write a quick blog to…
Part 1 By the end of this year I should finally be over the 20 different parkruns mark and onto the leaderboard on the website. That would be 15 new parkruns this year but what has been the highlight, and…
WHY? Lots of people have asked me why I entered the Lakeland 50. It’s a valid question for someone who hadn’t done a marathon on road when I entered this race. I have been doing triathlons for 5 years and…
It wasn’t meant to be like this, I hadn’t planned it so and if I’d known then what I know now I would have chosen to do things so differently. I’m standing at the end of the Outlaw X –…
In a COVID-19 world, where all of our races, competitions and motivations/targets are taken away, it’s been a great time to sit back and take stock on the reasons why we run. I’ve been reflecting on my running journey, how…
What is running? Other than the obvious physical attributes of putting one foot in front of the other, running it appears is so many things to so many people. For me running was a way to raise money for charity…
Monday 16 March 2020 Dear members and friends, We have been monitoring the situation with COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and how this will affect club activities. In today’s press conference the Prime Minister said “now is the time for everyone to stop…
I got to ST. Edmund’s Church Hall at 07:15 ready to go at 08:00 only to be told my start time was 09:00. Quickly changed that to 08:00! I did not want to hang around given today’s weather especially the…
This Harrier Of The Month is the final announcement of recipients to be considered in our annual awards evening for the main Chair’s and President’s awards – but remember, to build the suspense just because someone didn’t receive a single…