Athletics
A NEAR record number of participants took part in the 500th running of the Harlow parkrun. The Harlow parkrun is a 5k run, walk, shuffle, wheel around Harlow Town Park on a Saturday morning. Harlow is one of 1,348 across the United Kingdom. The first…
ALL-round sportswomen Teresa Strickland has just completed her 500th parkrun in Harlow. Bishop’s Stortford resident Teresa achieved the remarkable feat on Saturday morning down at the town park course. Teresa ran her first parkrun ( a distance of 5k) in Chelmsford on June 15th 2013…
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A FORMER Harlow athlete is set to make her senior international debut for Team GB next month. Bebe Jackson, 19, has been named in the squad for the World Para Athletics Championships, which takes place in Delhi from September 26 to October 5. The teenager,…
HARLOW Junior parkrun has just celebrated its ninth birthday. The 2k run for participants aged 5-14 is held at the Junior Showground area every Sunday morning at 9am. Harlow junior parkrun started on 24th July 2016, before a lot of the athletes who took part…
WOODFORD Green athlete, George Watkins produced an impressive debut in the senior mens 5000 metres in Cambridge. Fifteen-year-old George, who attends St Mark’s school in Harlow won the B-string in 15 mins and 54 seconds. Woodford won the 3rd Southern Athletes League fixture of the…
THERE was both anger and disappointment at the Hatfield Broad Oak 10k road race on Bank Holiday Monday after the organisers ran out of medals. Runners who had been out on the road ony for well over an hour got over the finishing line to…
GLEN Paxman travelled to Oxford last Saturday to fly the Harlow AC at the British Masters Throws Pentathlon Championships, returning home with a gold medal in his pocket. This staple Championships of the British Masters athletics calender consists of a 1 day multi event consisting…
THE CHAIRMAN of Harlow Athletics Club, Steve Lott, has informed Your Harlow that they will no longer be sending us news reports. The problem appears to stem from our article in 2022 (see below), where we expressed concerns for the state of athletics in Harlow.…
ST MARK’S student George Watkins produced quite a remarkable performance to run UK Age Best 10K at the AJ Bell Great Manchester 10K at the weekend. George runs for Woodford Green and Essex Ladies (WGEL) and has been in fine form, even though this is…
ESSEX County Cricket Club are back in action this week as they travel to New Road to take on Worcestershire in the division one of the County Championship. Essex currently sit fifth in the standings after five rounds of matches while their hosts are rock…
SINCE January , Harlow Running and Tri Club has been running a course called Stepping Stones to Milestones. The course has been an introduction to running for people of all abilities interested in athletics. January is always a good time for resolutions but you are…
HARLOW’s Junior parkrun saw the highest number of participants in six years. Junior parkrun is a 2k run/walk around the Harlow Town Park show ground area. Run Director Catherine Penketh said: “We were absolutely thrilled to welcome 81 children to Harlow junior parkrun this morning.…
THERE were a number of excellent performances by members of Innovation Multisport at the Saffron Walden Triathlon recently. The event consists of a 400 metre swim, a 23 kilometre bike ride and then a 5k run. Here is how some of the members got on…
OVER 30 members of Harlow Running and Tri Club conquered marathons last weekend with members running in the London, Manchester and Shakespeare marathons. Harlow Running and Tri Club had an amazing turnout for the London and Manchester marathon over the weekend with 30 members completing…
ON SUNDAY, Harlow resident Kate Stanley ran the London Marathon in memory of Ruby Trussler Precious Ruby passed away in October at just six years of age. As you know, it was a hot day for the runners but that wasn’t going to stop Kate,…
