As the meteorological winter properly kicked in and the football winter took hold for at least another 18 months, a handful of Gade Valley Harriers took on various Parkruns on Saturday morning and a small group of, it has to be said slightly mad, Harriers took on the freezing conditions of the Milton Keynes Winter Half Marathon on Sunday. On …
The Gade Valley Harriers Parkrun tour continued on November 19th with a visit to Church Mead Parkrun in Amersham Old Town. According to Church Mead’s information page, “The course is run entirely on trail paths. Some sections of the course may accumulate mud, leaves and puddles after rain.” According to Harriers Michael Linden and Nick Crowther, the course is, “ridiculously …
Last weekend kicked off as always for Gade Valley Harriers, with Saturday Morning Parkruns on 12th November. As is usually the case on a Cross Country League weekend, the numbers of club runners attending parkruns was much reduced. Vince Ellerby didn’t change his routine as he made the trip to Black Park for his 507th overall Parkrun and his 427th …
It was a quiet weekend of racing for Gade Valley Harriers as only 2 members took part in any organised racing while fewer runners than usual were prepared to go out in the wet for the Parkruns. Before the weekend, the Gade Valley Committee confirmed the dates for the Marathon Training Runs (MTRs) for 2023. GVH has for many years …
On saturday 29th October Gade Valley Harriers continued their Parkrun tour by visiting the Houghton Hall Parkrun in Houghton Regis near Luton. Head Coach Ed Price nominates the venue for the club monthly Parkrun tour and a quick look at Ed’s Parkrun stats reveal that Houghton Hall (with 9 visits) sits second overall on Ed’s list of most frequently visited …
Lots of children believe in magic. Who can forget that moment when your older sibling shattered your illusion about Father Christmas being real? Strangely, some grown ups also believe in magic. So it must have been particlaruly hard for Angeline to learn on Tuesday that there isn’t some magical link from any random race that any member of GVH might …
The weekend of 15th and 16th October saw two big events for Gade Valley Harriers as 22 club athletes took on the notorious Shotover Hill in the first round of the Chiltern Cross Country League just outside Oxford while 11 took on the notoriously unhilly Amsterdam Marathon just outside the coffee shops of Amsterdam. The weekends of the Chiltern Cross …
The weekend of 8th and 9th October was a quiet one for GVH as a large cohort of Gade Valley runners are preparing to make the trip to Amsterdam for the marathon next week and another large cohort spent the week recovering from running the London Marathon on October 2nd. Before the weekend, the club met for the AGM and …
Some lessons from two years of writing about the performances of GVH athletes: Finding all the relevant results from a weekend’s races is hard, Tom Langdown rarely runs a race wearing appropriate clothing and there actually is a limit to the number of puns that can be manufactured from Teresa Reason’s name. Sunday 4th October was the date for the …
September has been a fairly quiet month for Gade Valley Harriers as it seems that most of the members are enjoying a bit of a break from racing before the autumn marathon season and the cross country seasons begin in October. Back on Thursday 8th September 19 Gade Valley Runners got together to contest the final round of the Summer …