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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…
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…
Firstly, I must start with apologies that Harrier Of The Month went AWOL with the announcements for November, but that means that we can bring you an extra bumper month of announcements for November and December in this blog. Harrier…
The Chair’s Blog for December comes fresh off of missing the blog for November (which gets written in December) – to be honest this confuses me as well, but each blog is a bit of a retrospective on the month…
Welcome to the Chair’s Blog for October. I’m fully aware that some of you may be wondering where August and September have gone, and the truth is that life has again taken over and the Chair’s Blog seems to have…
In a fit of pique in January when Alan realised that he had a fair few air miles from his credit card (definitely recommend a reward or cashback credit card if you end up putting a lot on for work…
We have previously shared (in August) Women’s Harrier Of The Month, but this month due to the amazing nominations, both the men’s and women’s award will be shared this month – and there’s also a bonus award. So without further…