It was a very quiet weekend for Gade Valley Harriers on 21st and 22nd May as only one runner took part in a race and only a handful of Harriers took part in Parkruns on Saturday. The weekend got under way at 8:00AM as Dave Goodman, often the sole Harrier taking part in some far flung race, undertook another solo …
The weekend of 14th and 15th May was a relatively quiet one for Gade Valley Harriers as a handful of athletes took on various local parkruns and one intrepid couple took on the Eyam Half Marathon in the Peak District. The weekend started on a sunny Saturday morning as various Harriers took on the local parkruns. 3 male athletes travelled …
The running weekend got underway ultra-early last week as the Pednor 5, which had taken place on Bank Holiday Monday, May 2nd came too late to make it into last weekend’s report. The Pednor 5 is a picturesque single lap race on the country roads between Chesham and Chartridge, starting and finishing on Pednor Road near Chesham Tennis Club. 11 …
There was a time (a long time ago) when “Bandits at 7 O’Clock!” was a warning to look over your left shoulder for enemy aircraft. Those times have long passed. Now “Bandits at 7 O’Clock!” is the cry that goes up at Gade Valley Harriers on the last Thursday in April as we prepare for the first handicap race of …
It was a quiet weekend for the Harriers on April 23rd and 24th as only 4 athletes took part in organised events outside of Parkruns and only a handful of runners got up early on Saturday to run a Parkrun. The largest concentration of GVH runners gathered at Gadebridge Park on Saturday morning in the warm early sunshine to take …
Easter weekend is not a busy one for races in general as most races take place on Sundays and most people are too busy visiting relatives, rolling hard-boiled eggs down hills or recovering from a two day hangover while eating chocolate eggs to bother with racing on Easter Sunday. Parkrun is oblivious to such concerns however and thus the Saturday …
Saturday 9th April saw Gade Valley Harriers make the first stop on their summer Parkrun tours. Organised by head coach Ed Price, the club tries to get as many people together at the same park run, away from the local favourites such as Gadebridge and Rickmansworth, to enjoy a run that wouldn’t necessarily be on the usual agenda. This time …
On the weekend of 2nd and 3rd April the Spring Marathon season got underway as there were more age group records broken and half marathon action for a handful of GVH runners. Saturday morning saw an unusually low number (for no obvious reason) of Gade Valley runners taking on the local Parkruns. Vince and Lewis Ellerby took on Black Park …
In the past news publications were at the mercy of print deadlines. This could make for some interesting headlines, particularly when sports events took place on the far side of the world. This could lead for some particularly interesting cricket reporting from Australia when the journalists knew they had to file reports long before the day’s play had ended. On …
It was a quiet weekend of racing for Gade Valley Harriers as many of the club dialled back their efforts to get ready for the Manchester Marathon (3rd April) and the Brighton Marathon (10th April). Despite the lack of general competitive action, there were still 3 Harriers competing at 3 very different races and the usual complement of runners taking …