Wells City Harriers training sessions for the New Year will resume this coming week – Tuesday 4th for older juniors age 14 upwards and seniors; and next Monday 10th January for younger juniors age 8 and upwards to age 15. The Session plans for Tuesday are below.
At the end of 2021, however, we saw a good turn-out at the final track session where a team parlauf was organised. The winning trio were u17s Bradley Glover and Jack Harvey teamed up with V50 Stephen Nicholls, but they were pushed all the way by their fellow Harriers. (Photo below of all that took part in the parlauf by Mike)
Over the Xmas break, Jon James also posted a great performance (above) when winning his age category and finishing top 10 at the Clevedon Boxing Day race. Read on for all the details…
The sessions for 2021 at the Millfield track were rounded off for the year with a competitive, but fun, parlauf event with ten teams of three athletes running a continuous 200m relay for 30 minutes.
Teams were balanced out on a handicap basis with slower runners teamed up with faster ones. There was great effort shown with the relay baton consisting of a Christmas Cracker. The youngest Harrier taking part was age 12 and the oldest age 78.
The winning trio were u17s Bradley Glover and Jack Harvey teamed up with V50 Stephen Nicholls, but they were pushed all the way by their fellow Harriers. (photo below by Paul)
Tuesday training session plans for January & February 2022 are here.
Meanwhile, on Boxing Day one of the Club’s Senior coaches, who is top of the National rankings for his V50 age group over 5k, was in action at the annual Clevedon Boxing Day Race over 4miles. In a field of 760 runners, Jon James was 10th in a time of 21.14.
If anyone can send me a report, photos or results for the New Year's Day Chard Flyer 10k -which kicked off the 2022 Somerset Race Series - please send it in asap. Link to the Series website is here - start planning your racing calendar for 2022!
Good running to all the Harriers that are competing at the SW Cross-country Championships this Sunday (2nd January). Report, results and hopefully some photos to follow later this week.
Wednesday 12th January 2022: Next Street 5k & junior 1k & 2k races
Enter & pay online for Street 5k via RunBritain (entry portal closes day before - there may be limited entry at the race itself if allowed subject to Covid-19 situation). For junior entries (1k for confident age 8 upwards, but mainly School year 5&6; 2k for School year 7&8) contact Paul at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.