How to join our Tuesday club runs - Read More
How to join our Tuesday club runs - Read More
First of all I’d like to say a huge thank you too all of those involved in the seamless running of the club. Richard for getting everyone registered and everyone involved back in December and Phil for organising race 2…
During the week before I ran October’s Abingdon marathon, I was lucky enough to get one of the HPH club places at the London marathon in April 2017. I promised to blog about the training and the build up ……
Roundhay park hosted the final PECO round of the season and the final round of Hyde Park Harriers Club Competitor championship. The club competitor covered 40 rounds which was all the road, off road and fell championships. Plus it was…
Why I Run Every Day or: What exactly are those numbers on your Strava?! If you’re on Strava you may have seen me prefix my run with a number – a few of you have asked me about it so…
The 4th round of the PECO XC saw 48 Harriers (28 men and 20 ladies) head to Barnbow fields to continue there fight to stay up, or there push for promotion. There has been something missing at the first 3…
Manchester Marathon 2017 training blog week 13/20 The Liversedge Half is one of my favourite races, and it is always part of my spring training calendar building through to the marathon. It’s relatively local to Leeds, it’s an unrepentant tough,…
With both the Women’s and Men’s Fell Championship winners still to be decided, Hyde Park Harriers took to the hills for the final race of the season, enjoying a brutal 10km slog around Ilkley Moor. The amount of mud on…
The 2016/17 HPH parkrun Championships concluded this week with 57 Hyde Park Harriers out parkrunning at 16 different venues. These included Tom Pollard continuing his New Zealand trip with a parkrun at Cornwall Park in Auckland which also happened to…
There were 53 Hyde Park Harriers out parkrunning at 18 different venues on the penultimate round of the HPH parkrun Championships. These included Richard Edwards who was the first Hyde Park Harrier to parkrun at Dudley. Nicola Forwood and Poppy…
There were 57 Hyde Park Harriers out parkrunning across 20 different venues this week. These included Liz and Chris Jones who were the first Hyde Park Harriers to take on the five lap course around the school playing fields in…
Well that’s it, the club road championship wrapped up at the Dewsbury 10k. This year it was 10 rounds with the best 7 scores to count. We started with the 10k at Wakefield before the best score from 3 attempts…
Manchester Marathon 2017 training blog week 12/20 With the training for the Manchester Marathon starting to build, I’m now in a period where I’m juggling racing and a high weekly mileage. I know this isn’t ideal, but we’re fighting to…
I managed a PB for the course, an improvement of 4 minutes from last year, with a finishing time of 3:hr 55mins. ( ) The race starts in Guiseley, climbing up over Baildon Moor then Rombalds Moor, a loop round then back…
The final round of the club road championship and there was 29 Harriers (17 men and 12 ladies) ready to take on the out and back 10k route in Dewsbury. Its not quite flat but with just a slight climb…
There were 66 Hyde Park Harriers out parkrunning across a record breaking 26 different venues this week. These included John Blatherwick who was the first Hyde Park Harrier to turn out at Gibside, Gateshead. Nicola Forwood continued her trip Down…
Well that’s it the 2016/17 Hyde Park Harriers Off Road Championship is done and dusted. It was to be a 10 round championship with the best 7 scores to count but we lost one round when it was cancelled so…
28th & 29th January 2017 What a weekend! The “Sir Titus Trot” marathon started at Saltaire on Saturday at 9:30am not too bad I thought until I got there and it started raining. Not too badly but it doesn’t fill…
There were 52 Hyde Park Harriers out parkrunning at 21 different venues across three continents this weekend. These included Tom Pollard at Western Springs, Auckland, New Zealand; Nicola Forwood and Poppy at St Peter’s Park in Sydney, Australia and Sue…
While my personal running has gone from strength to strength, there has been a contrasting undercurrent of failure. Just like a duck on a pond – on top everything was going smoothly, but underneath the ducks legs were in serious…
The 3rd round of the PECO XC saw the clubs arriving at West Park for an approx. 5.2 mile course. It also doubled up as the final round of the HPH Off Road championship. It was our best turn out…