Athletics
OVER 200 people participated in the Harlow parkrun on Saturday morning. This was the second Saturday that the 5k run had taken place since the sixteen month hiatus due to Covid. The conditions were much more favourable compared to last Saturday and so it was…
THE County Championship weekend, postponed from May, finally took place over the weekend. Harlow had a small number of athletes at Watford as Hertfordshire residents, and the majority of its competitors at Chelmsford for the Essex championships. Numbers were down, due to Covid and the…
HARLOW Running Club member Darren Coates completed the Lakeland 100 trail race at the weekend, which turned out be a total of 105 miles. The ‘Ultra Tour of the Lake District’ is the most spectacular long distance trail race which has ever taken place within…
AFTER a sixteen month hiatus, Harlow parkrun resumed on Saturday morning. It had been quite a wait, but despite the weather, 181 runners, joggers, walkers, strollers took part in the 5k journey round the town park. This would not have been possible without the core…
HARLOW parkrun is set to resume on Saturday morning. The last time the event took place was Saturday March 14th, 2020. On that occasion, 250 participants weaved their way through the wonderful town park course. Since then, for obvious reasons, parkrun has been postponed. Can…
HARLOW Running Club member Gail Nichols competed in the British Aquathlon Championships (0.75k swim, 5k run) at the weekend finishing in 97th place out of 116 finishers, and 3rd Female Vet 55 to win the bronze medal in her age category, in an excellent 40min…
HARLOW Paralympian Richard Chiassaro is one of thirty-two athletes added to the ParalympicsGB athletics team for the Paralympic Games in Tokyo next month, joining the 12 athletes who were selected as part of the first wave team announcement in June. This will be Richard’s second…
HARLOW Running Club members took part in the Vitality London 10,000 metre race at Hatfield over the weekend. The race took part within the grounds of Hatfield Park on varied and undulating terrain. First home was Jon Waight in 114th place out of 1431 finishers…
A BUSY weekend for Harlow AC athletes began with Shemar Boldizsar competing for Great Britain’s U23 team, in Estonia on Friday. He comfortably qualified from the morning heats in a time of 21.04s. And in the semi-final on Saturday he made no mistake as he…
HARLOW AC has benefited from two donations that will help members of the club: Toyota UK have provided a specific grant of £5000 to maintain and to buy race chairs for budding wheelchair athletes and the NEU has provided £500 to help with families in…
STEWARDS Academy student Danny Raymond has won the All-England 800 metres championships in Manchester. It was a masterclass in front running as sixteen-year-old Danny led from gun to tape to win in a time of 1.53.2 secs. The first lap was a two horse race…
HARLOW’S running community have missed the regular runs they have in their calendar so a number of runners were delighted to be able to make the short journey to Ware for the Festival of Running on Sunday morning. Conditions were far from ideal. It was…
THERE was double delight as Harlow AC athletes excelled at the National Junior Para Games in Coventry, and at the South of England Combined Events Championships at Oxford: Bebe Jackson, who is a T44 athlete, was in action at both 100m and 200m distances. Her…
A NUMBER of members of the Harlow Running and Triathlon Club took part in the Centurion Metric Triathlon. It was 2k sown, 82k bike and 16k run. Coach Gail Nicholls reports: “The swim was delightful, bike was brutal hilly and a rollercoaster like run. It…
THIS weekend saw miles-a-plenty run by two amazing ladies from the Innovation Multisport Club. On Sunday (27th June) Louise Peacock achieved her second personal best in as many weeks when she completed the Milton Keynes marathon in a time of 4 hours 27 minutes and…
STEWARDS Academy student Danny Raymond set the track on fire with an outstanding 400 metres at the weekend. Woodford Green athlete Danny Raymond ran a personal best of 51.22 at Havering to win the U 17 race in Youth Development League. This is ideal preparation…
