The weekend of 10th and 11th June was hot. It was extremely hot in fact. So you would think that any kind of running would be tough. It was. In fact, Parkruns, at 9:00AM on Saturday felt very difficult indeed. One wonders why so many Harriers volunteered to run 13.1...

The GVH annual summer handicap series got underway belatedly on Thursday May 25th. The scheduled April race was cancelled because part of the route was flooded and the decision was taken not to reschedule that race so the handicap series has been reduced to only 4...

It was a quiet weekend of racing for GVH with no marathons and no ultra marathons. Only a handful of people were in racing action on Sunday but there was a large turnout at Cassiobury Parkrun on Saturday for the 5k baseline run. Through the summer the focus for the...

The Coronation weekend will be remembered for the coronation, millions of hangovers and a group of Gade Valley Harriers who sat through Saturday’s show without touching any drinks as they kept their coronation powder dry for the Chiltern Ultra 50k trail race on Sunday...

With the Spring marathon season concluded most of the Harriers who were racing returned to the more mundane pursuits of the club league at the Pednor 5 (mile) race on the Bank Holiday Monday. Three members took on the half marathon in Milton Keynes and clearly nobody...

On Saturday 22nd April the GVH Parkrun tour paid a visit to Buckingham Parkrun. With several Harriers otherwise engaged over the weekend there was still a healthy turnout of 8 athletes at Buckingham. Jon Roberts showed his enduring class, finishing 1st for the...

The Easter weekend was a long one and clearly too long for every result to be reported correctly. Somehow rumours of a 5k race in Beaconsfield on Easter Monday had surfaced earlier in the weekend but then by the time of writing, nobody could remember exactly who had...

Angeline’s Magic Results Fairy has been failing in its duties recently. After she missed Jon Roberts’ V50 5k record on 26th March it transpired that she was also AWOL on 2nd April and failed to report Merlin Allan’s run at the Kew Half Marathon. Initially suspicions...

The weekend of 1st and 2nd April saw the first marathons of the spring marathon season, this year fully populated with the big city marathons as London and Manchester return to their usual berths for the first time since 2019. On Sunday 10 Harriers took on the...

The weekend of 25th and 26th March saw Gade Valley Harriers continue their Parkrun tour, the return of a local favourite trail race and some more marathon preparation races. On Saturday, the club’s Parkrun tour visited Harrow. Unfortunately, a combination of...

As ever the running weekend kicked off at 9:00AM on Saturday as about 20 Gade Valley Harriers took on various Parkruns around the country. Vince Ellerby made his weekly trip to Black Park (finishing 14th), 7 Harriers made the trip to Rickmansworth, most of them...

After the mass attendance at the Berko half Gade Valley Harriers resumed more normal looking weekend business with around 20 runners taking on various Parkruns on Saturday morning, 5 taking on the MK 20 (mile) race at the Milton Keynes festival of running on Sunday...

On Saturday February 25th Gade Valley Harriers continued their monthly Parkrun tour with a visit to Rushmere Parkrun near Leighton Buzzard. Rumours that head coach Ed Price had chosen the location primarily for its proximity to his house were dispelled when those that...

The weekend of 18th and 19th February started early for many of the Harriers as those that were preparing for marathons in the spring were mostly on duty throughout Sunday morning on the GVH Marathon Training Run and were thus doing their own long training runs on...

The second weekend in February, just before Valentine’s Day typically, normally marks the fifth and final fixture of the Chiltern League Cross Country Season. 2023 was no exception as GVH, and runners from 38 other running clubs, took part in the fixture at...

On the last weekend of January there wasn’t any organised racing action for Gade Valley Harriers so it was a convenient time for the club to continue its monthly Parkrun tour. So it was that on Saturday 28th January that a large cohort of over 20 GVH runners gathered...

The running weekend of 21st / 22nd January got underway on Saturday morning as a handful of Gade Valley Harriers took on various Parkruns. Most of the Harriers were keeping their powder dry (and probably warm) for the Fred Hughes 10 mile race on Sunday but that didn’t...

Whilst there is no Christmas break to the running season, in fact there isn’t a running season (it goes on endlessly), individuals have Christmas breaks and there don’t tend to be many big events from about the second week in December until the second week in January....

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...