Dewsbury 10k
Twenty-seven Harriers competed in today's Dewsbury 10k; the final race in the 2022/23 season's Road Race Championships. A third of our runners took full advantage of the fast, flat course to set Personal Best (PB) times for the distance.
Kieran Manchester was the first Harrier home, finishing 32nd overall in a field of 2,212 runners in 32:50. Kieran, along with Fred Carver, Tom Paget and James O'Rourke, all recorded PBs with times of under 40 minutes. Will Stewart completed the quintet of Harriers clocking sub-40 times.
April Caufield was the highest placed of the 11 Harriers women, placing 466th overall (25th FSen) in 40:32. Tabitha Howe (44:21), Jane Stewart (55:21) and Monica Gallagher (57:04) all ran PBs.
Rob Hick was second M65 in 41:48; the best age group category result of all the Harriers. Hazel Berrett bettered her own F60 club record by 27 seconds to set a new benchmark of 47:28.
Full Harriers results are on the Recent Races page of the website.
Alsager 5 Mile
There were also some excellent results for Harriers at the Alsager 5 Mile race in Cheshire. Sarah Cumber recorded a new F50 club record for five miles, clocking 31:47 whilst coming third in her age group. Katrina Oddy finished in 35:06 with Geoff Cumber winning his age category (M75) in 43:52.
There were 11 teams at this year's Harriers Quiz, which was held, at very short notice, at The Hourglass bar in the Westgate Arcade.
Well done to Team Kingle, who were the outright winners. There was a three team tie for second and third places, which was decided by a tie-break question. Team 'Please Excuse Barry From Swimming...' took second place and 'Wudya Lika Beer' finished in third spot.
The profits from the quiz and raffle raised £213 which will be donated to the Halifax Food Bank.
Thank you to every one that attended and helped make it a great night.
More photos from the night can be seen on the Gallery tab of this website. Link - Halifax Harriers
Northern Cross Country Championships
Harriers were represented at Saturday's Northern Cross County Championships in Blackburn. Max Wharton finished in an excellent eighth place in a highly competitive field of nearly 500 runners in the senior men's race. Ryan Barker also competed on the 11.5k course. Ryan had prepared for the race by doing a 5.5 mile run in the morning following a 20 mile run the previous day whilst on the Harriers' Men's Bunk Barn trip in Grassington!
Fifteen young Halifax Harriers also raced at Blackburn in the junior events. Kitty Harrison-Sargent had another excellent run with 8th place in the under 13 girls' race and, along with teammates Alesha Atkinson (39th), Lily Atkinson (60th) and Jessica Myers O'Connell (77th), earned the Harriers' team fourth place.
Seven under 13 boys ran the 3.2k course, led home by Sam Keighley (28th), Joe Stone (31st), Beau Clark (54th) and Tom Wright (72nd), which placed the team 7th overall. Albert Jones finished 75th, Ralf Jones 100th and James Dix 105th.
In the under 15 categories, Ben Slow finished 47th in the boys' race and in the girls' race Annie Thorp finished 108 over the 4.3k distance. Will Cattermole finished 57th in the under 17 men's race (5.9k) and Jacob Ewart was 87th.
Meltham 10K
Two Halifax Harriers ran in Sunday's Meltham (Tough) 10k road race. April Caufield took first place in the senior female category, and was fourth woman overall, with a time of 46:33. Cara Bintcliffe was third in the senior female category in 49:10. As the name suggests, this is a hard race run on a course with plenty of gruelling climbs and long fast descents.