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Last year we tried a new format for our parkrun championship and Hannah Marshall and Chris Jones were the winners. We are very lucky at the club that we have Ken Fox pulling all our parkrun info together and doing the…
In 2017/18 Clare Evans and Philip Goose came out on top of the clubs Road Championship. Can anyone knock them off top spot this coming year. The competition is open to all first claim members who compete in…
Who’s going to follow in the footsteps of Rebecca Gray and Scott Watson and be crowned Hyde Park Harriers Off Road Champions for 2018 The competition is open to all first claim members who compete in these designated races…
So you’ve reached a certain age, you may be starting to slow down or just getting into your running and may be wondering what is else is going on in the world of athletics! I came back to running in…
Borrowed from the Trail Running magazine – Ambassador Matt Armstrong is sailing through his #Run1000Miles challenge Over the last month I have been running for Dementia UK, having taken on the #dementia496 challenge – running one mile on March 1,…
In the original Italian-Some faults in translation such as gender 50 km of gear for Davey Molly March 25, 2018 The not yet twenty-year-old British nationality, but now Romagna as he lives in Santarcangelo di Romagna since he was 4…
“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…
As one of seven Mental Health Ambassadors for the #runandtalk campaign, my job is to encourage people to talk about their own experiences of mental health, in the hope of breaking the stigma. So, here goes… I shan’t go into…
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…
DT40 trail marathon didn’t go to plan. It was a run of 2 parts. My last race before this was the #UGB200 miler a month before recovery had gone well and my energy levels were starting to get back to normal, but…
When it comes to taking part in classic events, you can’t get much more classic than Burnsall – the clue is in the name. The race has been a fixture in the fell-running calendar since the 1870s after a group…
On a distinctly autumnal afternoon, twenty intrepid Harriers met at Leeds-Bradford airport for a weekend sojourn to the Rhine valley. After a short flight to Dusseldorf, we caught the train to our destination, Cologne. A special mention here should go…
I seem to have become a bit of a trail runner in recent months – if there aren’t hills, mud and a bit of a scramble then i don’t seem to be interested…this is what can happen with that attitude…
The Leeds Country Way is always a popular event amongst Hyde Park Harriers and the 2017 edition proved no exception. 2017 saw HPH put out 5 teams which meant we had 60 runners descending on little corners of Leeds and…
One of the most famous mountain ultra-races in the world is the UTMB (Ultimate Tour of Mount Blanc), a 171km race around the Mont Blanc Mountain range. This race is part of the Race week in Chamonix, during the week…