Harrier success at National Combined events Championships whilst veterans win medals at Southern Championships
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Wells City Harriers members were out at national and regional Championship events this past weekend and also had a team competing at a more local running event. Three of the Harrier juniors competed at the English Schools National Combined Events Championships at Bedford; whilst four of the veterans headed across to the Isle of Wight for the South of England Fell Running Championships and a group of seniors competed at the local ‘Uphill to Wells’ relay race. Ollie Thorner gained a silver medal for the decathlon whilst Chris and Helen Kelsey picked up gold & silver medals, respectively, for their fell running.
Start of one of the three races that make up the Southern Fell Running Championships
Great running at the Ash races & Last of the summer track & field matches!
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Host of Harriers at top of the 3k & 5 miler with Dan & Zak winning; Graham leads team home in the 8. Whilst some great pbs at the Yeovil Games.
There was some good running by all on the hilly off-road races from Ash Martock School on Sunday, 9th September. First held way back in 1996, the Excellent 8 has always been a good test of running and with the accompanying Fearsome 5 and junior 3k and Fun run there are races for all ages and abilities. Zak Hurrell won the 5 miler; Dan Maydew the 3k race whilst Club Chairman Graham Goldsmid led the way for the Harriers in the 8 miler. Meanwhile at Yeovil Arena there were some excellent end of season personal bests by a host of Harrier juniors.
Club Secretary Paul (left) and Club Chairman Graham (right) with Toby, Leo, Dan, Tommy, Bernard, Jack and Bradley before their races at Ash
Read more: Great running at the Ash races & Last of the summer track & field matches!
Final SW Track & Field match report sees pbs by Harrier juniors plus great runs by Philip & Jon at Cardiff 10k and Zak & others at Bridgwater
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Wells City Harriers were in action at track and field and at road races this past weekend. A number of the junior members had good performances at the final South West Track & Field League match at Exeter Arena, whilst some senior athletes competed hard either at the Cardiff 10k or the Bridgwater 10k. The joint team with Yeovil Olympiads finished in overall 7th place (out of 12) in the League this year. Well done to all the Harriers that supported the team effort!
u13 Jack Harvey in track action erlier in the season - he competed at the final SW League match on Sunday
Andy back to win at Baltonsborough; whilst Chris is 2nd at the wet Battle of Sedgemoor 10k; and other Harriers take on Fell races.
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Wells City Harriers had members out competing at three running events this past weekend. Former TeamGB international Andrew Hennessy returned to win the Baltonsborough 5 mile road race on the Monday in 27.45 with 1st junior home being u15 Archie Tyler in 8th place overall in 30.44. Whilst on the Sunday Christian Green was 2nd at the Langport Battle of Sedgemoor 10k in 34.40; and on the Saturday Paul Chadwick was 1st V60 at the Oke Croak 10.7 mile Fell race on Dartmoor.
Photo below of the fell runners after the Dartmoor race
Night of personal bests at the August edition of Yeovilton 5k & team success at South West League cup T&F
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There was some good running by Wells City Harriers at the latest of the Yeovilton 5km road races last Wednesday, 8th August, and excellent track and field performances when contributing to the victory in the South West Cup match on the previous Sunday, 5th August. 24 Harriers of all ages ran at the 5km with Ben Tickner leading the team home in 3rd place.
A fast and furious start with several Harriers to the fore - photo by Al
