Athletics
MANY Harlow Running Club members eased into the festive season by completing 5k parkruns on Saturday morning. At Harlow parkrun there was a total of 70 HRC members including the first four finishers; Martin Westley was 1st finisher out of 222 finishers in 18min 07sec,…
IN a curiosity brought about the Olympic cycle, the Southern Counties Indoor Championships were brought forward to December. Leo Chashchin was Harlow’s only representative and he was competing in his first senior event, the Senior Men’s Heptathlon. Day One saw him compete in the first…
HARLOW Running Club competed in the first round of the East Herts and West Essex Cross Country League on a mild Sunday morning over a very muddy 5 mile course at Ware. First back for HRC was Martin Westley in 3rd place in a fantastic,…
HARLOW Running Club member Paul Watts competed in the Band of Brothers Xmas Run, a 6 hour timed event, where runners complete as many 3.2 mile laps as they can in the time limit. Paul managed 9 laps for a total of 29.5 miles in…
HARLOW Running Club member Robin Lozeau chose the Spanish city of Valencia for his marathon debut on a mild Sunday morning, finishing in 17,924th place out of 21,224 finishers in a comendable 4hrs 26min 52sec. Running club stalwart, Robin has been regular feature on theses…
HARLOW Tri Club (HTC) is pleased to report that five of its members have qualified to represent Great Britain in the 2020 European Triathlon Union Age-Group Multisport Championships in Walchsee, Austria, next June. Louise Kedge will once again be competing in the Aquabike event (1900m…
A THANKFUL dad is repaying the emergency team who brought his baby back to health, by taking on the London Marathon. Seventeen-month-old James Gallagher has been rushed to Princess Alexandra Hospital three times in the last year struggling to breathe. His dad Emmett, maths teacher…
BACK in March, we caught up with the newly-formed Parkrun and Beyond. The running group was formed late in 2018 by Adrian Fell, as an opportunity for runners of all abilities to take part in a dedicated training session on the track at Mark…
HARLOW Running Club had 15 runners travelling to Spain to compete in Sunday morning’s Benidorm 10K. First home was Martin Westley in 19th place out of 836 finishers in an excellent 36min 37sec. He was followed home by Laura Prime in 225th place in 49.53,…
ONE OF Harlow’s most promising athletes put in a very promising performance in Liverpool on Saturday. Henry Moore pupil, Autumn Le Chevalier-Jones is a Year 5 pupil competing against Year 6 but managed a very impressive seventh place in the UK Cross Challenge and European…
HARLOW Running Club were well represented at the Chelmsford 10K, on what was a cool Sunday morning, with 14 runners. Martin Westley was first home in 13th place out of 496 finishers in an excellent 35min 33sec, just 5sec outside his PB. He was followed…
THIS Saturday, Harlow Running Club will be taking over Harlow Parkrun. Come along and meet your local running club. They’ve got over 30 years of running knowledge and experience to share plus they have a rapidly expanding Harlow Tri Club . This Saturday it’s HRC…
HARLOW’S Paralympian. Richard Chiassaro won a Bronze medal at the World Parlympics Championships in Dubai. It has been a season of injury and missed training for the Harlow wheelchair athlete but anyone who knows Richard will testify that he never gives up and is not…
HARLOW parkrun celebrated its fifth birthday on Saturday. The 5k run around the town park has grown since its first run in November 2014. In the first few weeks, the numbers were quite modest, dipping below sixty but over the past two years they have…
HARLOW Running Club had 14 members competing at the Stebbing Rememberance Day 10 Mile race on Sunday morning which also doubled as the Essex 10 Mile Championships. Star runner on the day was Kerry Mavris, finishing in 194th place out of 505 finishers in 1hr…
HARLOW resident Robin Lozeau does a hell of a lot for the running community in our town. He was one of the founders of the Harlow parkrun and is one of Harlow Running Clubs most enthusiastic of members. He is about to undertake the Valencia…
