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I thought I’d be sick of marathons by now but entering the Berlin Marathon Ballot back in November 2015 was far too tempting. Fast forward to January 2016, and we (Mike Webb and I) were in as an ‘international pair’.…
My Dad and I decided to enter the Berlin Marathon this year to tick completing a marathon off his bucket list of “things to do when I’ve retired”. We choose Berlin so we could visit the area where my late…
A new event in the HPH Fell Championship this year, and a brilliant addition to the race series. Despite the wet pre-race conditions, the Burley Moor Fell Race has a bit of everything- trail, fell, road, hills, fast downhill sections,…
The Abbey Dash was round 9 of 10 for this years Road Championship. The final round is the Dewsbury 10k in February but some of the divisions have already been won. Ladies Premier – 2 best friends will go to…
What another cracking event for the Hyde Park Harriers. The Abbey Dash is always very popular even if no one really likes running along Kirkstall Road, but it has PB written all over it. 59 Harriers took part (27 men and…
Back in March this year Alan and I booked our first holiday together. I had always wanted to visit Mexico and see Chichen Itza and perhaps add in a Caribbean Island as well, so we booked a trip to Mexico and…
There were 55 Hyde Park Harriers out parkrunning at 12 different venues this week. These included Tom Pollard who continued his adventures in New Zealand with a parkrun at Puarenga Park in Rotorua – the first Hyde Park Harrier to…
Round 8 of the HPH Road Championship saw 17 Harriers (10 men, 7 ladies) take on the Bradford City Runs 10k. New to the club this year, the event includes three races on one course. Based upon a 5K loop of Bradford city centre,…
“I can’t believe I just got overtaken by a guy taking a f**king selfie.” And with those words ringing in my ears, I summited the Auckland Harbour Bridge on the only day of the year it’s open to foot traffic.…
Do we have free will? Can you really experience anything objectively? And is it possible to taper for a marathon if you’ve not really trained? They’re all great philosophical questions of our time, but thankfully I’m only going to be…
The first Tuesday of the month is the opportunity for those who run with Hyde Park Harriers to tackle the seventeen hills that are contained within a one mile stretch along Kirkstall Road. They vary in gradient and they vary…
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 am chuffed to bits about this and am really looking forward…
There were 53 Hyde Park Harriers out parkrunning at 16 different venues this week. All in the UK this time although Helen Williams did make it up to Drumchapel in Scotland where she was the first Hyde Park Harrier to…
So its official, I am now a marathon runner. I can hang up my running shoes now, ok maybe not just yet. So why did I chose York and this year. Well when I started to think about attempting a…
So with the big Autumn race goal of the Manchester Half out of the way, I’ve been in off-season mode. This has meant only running when I felt like it (although this doesn’t necessarily mean not running tough sessions if I…
Sunday 9th October saw the 4th running of the Yorkshire marathon. A big event for many of the harriers but non more so than our very own marathon man Phil Hammond. On the start line with number 100 pinned to…
These days I don’t seem to blog about anything other than holidays or running…the craft has taken a bit of a backseat. Even so I’ve not updated since last August, but then again this is the first time since then…
It’s home to Amsterdam’s most expensive hotel room at £8,000 a night, a members-only club, €15 gin and tonics, and panoramic views of the city. Last Sunday, Hyde Park Harriers introduced Leeds (1am Sunday morning) to the exclusive Amsterdam Tower…
There were 53 Hyde Park Harriers out parkrunning at 15 different venues around the parkrun world this week. These included globetrotters Michael Vargas at Gdansk in Poland and Tom Pollard at Western Springs Park in Auckland, New Zealand. Vicky Taylor…
With a big party of Hyde Park Harriers heading off to parkrun-free Amsterdam to race in various events around the Amsterdam Marathon, the numbers out parkrunning were down a bit this week with 42 at 16 different venues. There were…