Up & Running! Harriers out in action at the Sodbury Slog, and final round of Somerset Race Series 2017 coming up
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Mud, mud and more mud. On 12th November 2017 following a 2 minute silence to mark Remembrance Sunday a group of the Wells City Harriers Up and Running group joined 1300 runners at Chipping Sodbury School to take on the challenge of the Sodbury Slog. This coming Sunday sees the final race in the year-long Somerset Race Series at Brent Knoll and a number of Harriers are in line for Series awards.Also last call for nominations for this year’s ‘special award’ to be made at Annual Dinner!
Up & Runners taking part in the picture from left to right: Sharon Bowles, Wendy Jones, Shirley Tincknell, Bianca Pridham, Kate Glascott (note how clean all the runners look beforehand!)
Meet your Harrier committee! & latest news from Harriers in action at UK Challenge Cross Country and Multi-terrain
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The Harrier committee met this week and welcomed Amanda Bigger, mother of u15 athlete Holly, to the role of Club Welfare office. Read on for some bullet points on decisions. At the weekend (11th/12th November) there was some great running by Wells City Harriers junior athletes at the 2nd UK Athletics Cross Challenge at Milton Keynes and a number of the senior Harriers, including many of the Harrier coaches, were out competing at multi-terrain events including the Sodbury Slog and the Drogo ten. Know your committee? Put names to the faces – line up introduced below…
170th edition of the Street 5k races, November 2017; Tim & Alexandra win! Important news on XC championship links & Harrier socials too.
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Over 100 runners toed the start line at the latest in a long line of Street 5k races last night (Wednesday 8th November). In fact it was edition number 170 and we’d be keen to hear from anyone who thinks they may have run 100 or more! Whether it was your first edition or your 100th, we hope you enjoyed racing 5 laps: Tim Watson (Bristol & West) certainly did as he raced home to win in 16.10; whilst Alexandra Cutts (South West Road Runners) was smiling when she won for the women in 19.17. Read on for a bit more reporting on the latest in the Clive & Angela Thomas 5k series, and accompanying junior races, and to see full results (photo of the junior start in Oct 2017 by Al)
Harriers out in force at 3rd Wessex XC fixture whilst u15 boys team competes at National XC relays. Links to County & SW XC Championships. Street 5k on Wednesday!
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Wells City Harrier members were out in some strength at the weekend competing at cross country. Neil Biss did a great job at assembling a huge squad of 40 Harriers to compete at Aldon Hill, Yeovil on Sunday whilst Simon Prior team managed a select u15 boys team to compete at the national cross-country relays at Mansfield the previous day. Top honours were taken at the Wessex League match by Philip Bridge, Darcy Dryden, Jake Fisher, and Skye Fisher - some of whom may well feature on the podium at the County Cross Country Championships, if not the South-west XC Championships later in the season - no pressure! - Read on for entry links to these Championships. Below - the start of the mens race with Harriers to the fore - Philip Bridge, 685, goes on to win
Chris & Ben tackle 2 day Mountain Marathon, whilst another Harrier father and son, Tom and Dylan, win awards at Shepton. Also latest Somerset Series standings
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Wells City Harriers were out competing at various running events this past weekend (28/29 Oct). Whilst we had a good spread of results at the local Shepton 10k, others were competing at the latest Somerset Series race on the Blackdowns, and a handful more went across to Dorset for the Stickler – three peaks race. Without doubt though, the toughest race of the weekend was tackled by Chris & Ben Kelsey when they competed at the 50th edition of the Original Mountain Marathon in Langdale, Cumbria. (start on Day 1 of the OMM - the weather was about to get worse!)
