Depleted HHH team struggles in latest NAL match
Herne Hill Harriers’ flagship senior men’s and women’s team travelled to Bedford on Saturday to compete in the second match of the National Athletics League season, writes Geoff Jerwood. A perfect storm of a long bank holiday weekend, school and university exams and deadlines and some injury and illness led to what was a struggle […]
British Championship Qualifying Time for Arlo and Caspian tops UK age rankings
Two two risings stars of 1500m running within Herne Hill Harriers emerged over the weekend as Under 23 athlete Arlo Ludewick and Under 13 Caspian Holmes climbed up their UK age group rankings with strong performances on Saturday. Ludewick raced in Manchester where he currently studies and he more than justified his place in the British Milers Club Grand […]
Herne Hill Veterans Track & Field A Fine Show as Vets T&F Season Starts: Men sneak a Win, Women 3rd.
Battersea Park Millennium Stadium. Monday 16th May 2022. A great meeting win, but oh so close, was achieved for our men on our return to Track and Field competition assisted by the collaboration of the highly talented and the willingness of all to cover less familiar age group events. Equally, our HHH women competed in […]
Snowden Opens her Season with a World Championship Qualifying Time
Herne Hill Harriers Tokyo Olympian Katie Snowden kicked off her season on Friday evening in California and made a very encouraging start. In her first track race since last September’s Diamond League Final she placed third in a stellar women’s 1500m race at the Sound Running Track Meet at San Juan Capistrano. Snowden clocked a World Athletics Championship […]
Big 5km runs for Herne Hill athletes on both road and track
Herne Hill Harriers athletes have been in competitive action over the long weekend with results over the 5km race distance being among the biggest performances on Thursday and Friday, before other events took over for the rest of the bank holiday. Friday evening witnessed some very good runs for Harriers at the latest in the […]
Masterful Racing at British Masters Road Relays, Sutton Park, 23/04/2022.
They arrived by train and car and welcomed the return of the British Masters Road Relay Championships, after C-19 postponements of the last two years, to the glorious venue of Sutton Coldfield’s Sutton Park. It seemed all the clubs were pleased to be back in some semblance of the ‘old normality’. Yet, the shadow of […]
Herne Hill M45 Team wins British Masters Silver Medals
On Sunday a younger section of the club placed third of eight teams in their first track and field fixture of the season in the UKA Youth Development League for Under 17 and Under 20 age groups at Sutcliffe Park. The Herne Hill team was one of the largest in recent years for a match in […]
Youth Games Gold and Silver Medals for Keeran in Jamaica
Herne Hill Harriers athletes were relatively quiet in their competitive action over the Easter weekend, but their standout performance was seen in Jamaica on Saturday evening where a young athlete coached by James McDonald produced a big win at a major international youth games meeting attended by World Athletics President Lord Sebastian Coe. Racing at the […]
Stellar run for Arlo Ludewick at National Road Relay Champs
The National Road Relay Championships made a welcome return to Sutton Coldfield on Saturday after not being held for the past two years due to the pandemic. Illnesses and injuries left a number of club squads depleted for this epic all afternoon long relay event and Herne Hill Harriers were among those suffering from these issues. However, […]
Resurface Tooting Bec Athletics Track (TBAT)
You will all be aware that work is well underway to resurface Tooting Bec Athletics Track (TBAT). This is by way of a brief update report. Much of the work so far has focussed on clearance of the old track and preparation for the laying of the new surface (which includes jump and throw run […]