Hyde Park Harriers – Club Competitor

Road / Off Road and Club competitor updates 24/11

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor , Off Road Championship , Road Championship

I have updated the road championship points after the Abbey Dash results. There is two chances to score left. On Wednesday it is the final chance to score at the Brownlee 5k, then in Feb we have the Dewsbury 10k […]

29th November 2018 0
Coiners Fell Race 7 May 2018 – Paul Dickens

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor , Fell Championship

Coiners, the start of the club Fell championship and my first ever blog, coincidence? Yes, no one else wanted to write it. A few of us arrived early, time Rick used wisely by hanging around to make sure he picked […]

6th June 2018 0
Brownlee 5k – May

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor , Road Championship

May at the Brownlee 5k and the second chance to post a time to count towards round one of the club road championship. 29 Harriers were out on a lovely evening for what is turning into a great chance to […]

30th May 2018 0
Bluebell Trail

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor , Off Road Championship

29 Harriers headed to Halifax for the 2nd round of the club off road championship at the Bluebell Trail. A lovely challenging race that has a bit of everything, woods including the bluebells, hills of which Trooper Lane is the […]

30th May 2018 0
Guiseley Gallop 2018

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor , Off Road Championship

What better way to spend Easter morning than taking part in the 23rd Guiseley Gallop, which also kicked started the Hyde Park Harriers Off Road and Club Competitor championships. 20 Harriers took part (12 men, 8 ladies) and they were […]

10th May 2018 0
HPH Club Competitor

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor

The Club Competitor of the Year is a competition within the club that goes some way to meeting three aspects of the Club Ethos by: encouraging members to compete to the best of their ability, encouraging members to get involved […]

21st April 2018 0
Burnsall Classic – Tom Thomas

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor , Fell Championship

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 […]

11th October 2017 0
Leeds Country Way – Clare Evans

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor , Relays

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 […]

9th October 2017 0
RACE REPORT: Firefighters 5 2017 – Phil Goose

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor , Road Championship

I didn’t need to finish this race to know things were going well. I was only two miles into the five miles of the Firefighters 5 (previously the West Yorkshire 5) to know that my day’s work was done. Last […]

13th September 2017 0
Running and Mental Health – Aron Hinds

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor

So having been accepted as a mental health ambassador and now being part of a monthly #runandtalk session, I thought it would be a good time for another blog. My plan is to be open and honest about mental health, […]

13th September 2017 0
Eccup 10

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor , Road Championship

Sunday 2nd July saw Round 4 of the club Road Championship the ever popular Eccup 10. 46 Harriers (21 men and 25 ladies) took part and it was also great to see past road champion Stan Karanasios taking part while […]

4th September 2017 0
Summer Mile 2017

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor

June the 28th and our Summer mile at Woodhouse Moor took place. We had sold out well before the event and all was looking good, well apart from the weather on the night. Heavy rain this year left the course […]

15th July 2017 0
Beamsley Beacon – Thursday 22nd July.

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor , Fell Championship

Ten Hyde Park Harriers made the short trip up to Addingham for the latest round in the Fell Championship: Beamsley Beacon. A serious crash on the A65 had myself and Paul (who had kindly picked me up from work so […]

29th June 2017 0
Pudsey 10k

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor , Off Road Championship

The British summer chose the Pudsey 10k weekend to be at its warmest and so it was that 25 Harriers (12 men and 13 ladies) made the short trip to Pudsey Leisure Centre for what was to be a scorcher […]

24th June 2017 0
Otley 10 mile

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor , Road Championship

26 Hyde Park Harriers (16 men and 10 ladies) headed to Otley on a Wednesday evening for the 10 miler which was round 3 of the club road championship. Its a challenging route but can produce some good times. The first […]

19th June 2017 0
Pen-y-Ghent Fell race – Rebecca Gray

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor , Fell Championship

This weekend saw the start of the fell racing championship. Colin didn’t want to ease us in gently this year so instead he chose to add a new race into the championship, an AS route up one of Yorkshire’s 3 […]

6th June 2017 0
Apperley Bridge Canter 2017

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor , Off Road Championship

Thursday 1st June and it was time for round 3 of the club Off Road Championship at the Apperley Bridge Canter. A roughly 10k route which has a mixture of road, gravel, grass and hills which I seemed to have forgotten. […]

5th June 2017 0
John Carr combined times

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor , Road Championship

Well what a 3 weeks it has been. An amazing amount of Hyde Park Harriers took part in at least one of the 3 5k races. For club points we would count your best time from the 3. So 29 […]

21st May 2017 0
John Carr Race 3

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor , Road Championship

Well the final John Carr race of the series and 27 Harriers (16 Ladies and 11 men) made the start, 7 of whom were at there first John Carr of the year. In total over the 3 races 28 ladies […]

20th May 2017 0
Realising you need to get back on it…

By Richard Edwards | In Club Competitor , Road Championship

John Carr Race 1 I generally spend a couple of weeks after a big race taking it easy – not having a training plan, relaxing the regimen, running when I like and spending more time eating and drinking unhealthily for […]

20th May 2017 0