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Yet another month of Lockdown((ish) -when will I be able to stop writing that?), yet another month of awesome challenges set virtually by our fantastic members and some incredible achievements from Hyde Park Harriers including many meters climbed and lofty…
Yet another month of Lockdown, yet another month of awesome challenges set virtually by our fantastic members and some incredible achievements from Hyde Park Harriers. It seems we don’t have to run together to maintain how friendly and awesome we…
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…
Numbers of Hyde Park Harriers out parkrunning were down a little this week with 84 turning out across 24 different venues. This was mainly due to the club taking over Woodhouse Moor parkrun and having an impressive 41 members in…
There were 104 Hyde Park Harriers out parkrunning across 34 different venues and five countries this week. The international parkrunners were Curtis Parker-Milnes at Hasenhide in Germany; Steve Milne at Mbabane in the Kingdom of Eswatini; Tom Williams at Sokolniki…
On the first ever parkrunday to fall on 29th February there were 105 Hyde Park Harriers out parkrunning across 33 different venues. It was a pretty impressive turnout considering the number of local parkruns called off due to waterlogging, flooding…
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…
Numbers were down a little this week with only 82 Hyde Park Harriers out parkrunning across 38 different venues around the parkrun world. Three new venues were added to the Hyde Park Harriers’ list. These were Stranmillis College in Belfast…