English Schools Cross Country Championships, 17th March 2018, Temple Newsam Park, Leeds
‘The weather forecast is brrr….with strong cold winds bringing maybe about 20mm… of snow…perhaps….no more. This is normal cross country weather in England and the Championship will go ahead as planned. This is your chance to decry the increasing perception that kids nowadays are ‘snowflakes’! Turn up. Run. Get cold. Get muddy. Enjoy getting warm […]
Fiona comes of age with three British Masters gold medals
The main athletics action for Herne Hill Harriers took place at very contrasting venues, with athletes over the age of 35 racing indoors at the BMAF Championship at Lee Valley over the weekend and some younger athletes representing their county teams in the UK Inter Counties Cross Country Championship on an extremely muddy course at […]
Big Herne Hill runs at the Vitality Big Half Marathon
The Vitality Big Half Marathon in London, starting at Tower Bridge and finishing close to the Cutty Sark was the scene of a big breakthrough run from Herne Hill Harriers second claim athlete Ryan Burling, who is a member of Harriers British Athletics League track and field team and competes for the club in Surrey League Cross […]
Historic Senior National Cross Top 10 for Lewis Lloyd
Saturday’s English National Cross Country Championship took place at the iconic venue that is Parliament Hill Fields on a very cold, but gloriously sunny day and witnessed an individual racing performance from Lewis Lloyd of historic proportions in the context of his club, Herne Hill Harriers. Fantastic is a much over used adjective, but Lloyd’s exceptional seventh […]
Herne Hill national medals double with British Indoor Championship silver for Snowden and Australia bronze for Tighe
Herne Hill Harriers female 1500m running is currently better than ever in the long history of our club. This was well illustrated over an exceptional weekend during which two athletes from the club claimed senior national championship medals on opposite sides of the world. Katie Snowden brought home an excellent British Indoor Championship silver medal in Birmingham on […]
World Indoor Championship qualifying time for Snowden in Belgium and local cross country success for Herne Hill teams
On Saturday in Belgium Herne Hill Harrier Katie Snowden ran her first 1500m race of 2018 and produced a very good performance to finish in second place behind a good Ethiopian junior athlete. Snowden’s of 4.10.09 is a big indoor PB, easily the fastest indoors ever run for the distance by a female club member […]
Australian Triumph for Herne Hill Harrier Chloe Tighe
A week after the fantastic team gold medal winning performance from the Herne Hill Harriers under 15 girls at the South of England Cross Country Championship in Brighton led by Eva Holland’s fabulous fifth place and in the absence of any club team events, this weekend’s club celebrations turned to a regional gold medal won […]
Fabulous South of England cross country gold medals for Herne Hill U15 Girls Team
On a day when the weather was not for the faint hearted, with blustery winds and as the day progressed, heavy driving rain blowing across the South Downs, the South of England Cross Country Championship in Stanmer Park in Falmer, just outside Brighton yielded a fantastic result for the under 15 girls team from […]
Strong start to the year for Herne Hill’s Ore Adamson at Lee Valley
On what was a quieter weekend of local club athletics action for Herne Hill Harriers, the number one Under 17 women’s long jumper from the 2017 UK rankings Ore Adamson leapt into 2018 with an emphatic win at the London Under 13/Under 15/Under 17 Games indoors at Lee Valley on Saturday. With a best jump […]
Georgie Grgec stars for Herne Hill women as under 13 girls team win again
Herne Hill Harriers under 13 girls cross country team stormed to yet another emphatic victory, this week in the Surrey League Division 1 races on Wimbledon Common, while the senior women’s race saw new star Georgie Grgec finish a fabulous third in a strong field of 264 finishers as a follow up to her fine […]