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You’d think after last weekend’s whirlwind of races — the Great North Run, The Big Half, The Bedford Festival and the Mighty Dragon’s Back — GVH legs might be resting up. Not a chance! This week the racing excitement rolled on, with Harriers in action across all...

The summer is coming to an end, the kids are back to school and we are back to racing! And what a weekend of racing it was. From the electric atmosphere of the Great North Run, where 60,000 runners took to the streets of Newcastle, to the iconic Big Half in London and...

The Sydney Marathon made history this week, becoming the 7th and newest addition to the prestigious Abbott World Marathon Major Series. Whilst the race itself isn’t new – it’s been going strong since 2000 – being invited to become an Abbott World Marathon, and...

Sunshine, 200 pairs of running shoes and 800 safety pins… it could only mean one thing – race day in Bovingdon! The highlight of the week was without doubt the Bovingdon 10k and Family Run, proudly hosted in partnership with Bovingdon Football Club. Putting on an...

A couple of quirky events, a stunning marathon performance and our July Members of the Month — this weeks report  has it all! First up we had the Datchet Dashers’ Summer Pairs Relay, a brilliantly unusual event hosted by the Windsor-based running club. The concept?...

Small but mighty — thanks to Jenny S. for the perfect strapline — really does sum up this week. While there were fewer events on the calendar for GVH, the ones we did take part in were mighty in both spirit and performance. And our team, though small in number, were...

We kick off this week’s round-up with some truly wonderful news — a huge congratulations to Mary and James on the safe arrival of their beautiful baby boy, Sebastian! Massive love and best wishes to you both — we can’t wait to meet the newest (and already much-loved)...

The end of the scorching weather came with a bang this weekend — quite literally — as the Met Office issued an amber-level thunderstorm warning for London and the southeast from 4 am to 11 am on Saturday. The alert warned of heavy downpours and surface water flooding,...

Yes, you read that right — Monsoon Season.While most of us were sweltering here in the UK, longing for the long-lost sight of rain, one intrepid GVH runner was battling through an actual downpour in the Monsoon Pachmarhi Marathon — but more on that adventure later....