Will Carver completed Sunday's famously tough Edale Skyline Fell Race in the Peak District in a time of 4:12:06. The race is held on an unmarked course covering high and exposed terrain around Kinder Scout and Mam Tor. Will was 124th out of 202 finishers. Seventeen runners failed to finish, highlighting the difficulty of the 21 mile route with over 4,500' of climbing.
Hazel Berrett and Andrea Ackroyd took part in the Heptonstall Fell Race on Sunday. This race takes in a mixture of steep-sided wooded valleys, upland pasture and pathless moorland around Heptonstall. Hazel and Andrea ran together, completing the 15.4 mile course with 3,170' of total ascent in 3 hours 13 minutes, primarily treating the event as a training run for their upcoming marathons. Hazel still finished second in her age group. There was plenty of mud, bogs and hills with a killer final mile. Both runners enjoyed the race immensely, vowing to never do it again! We will see!!
On the road, Jenny St Romaine finished the Sheffield Half Marathon in 2:15:29. This challenging course starts with an almost continuous climb for five miles whilst affording the distraction of magnificent views of the Peak District. This, also, was mainly a training run for Jenny ahead of the Rob Burrows Marathon in Leeds in mid May.
The Harriers Annual Dinner and Senior Presentation Night was held at the Queensbury Golf Club. Everyone enjoyed the three course meal which was prepared and served by the staff of The Bottomley's Arms in Shelf. There was a great atmosphere and good company to celebrate the successes of our road and fell runners.
Congratulations to all the prize winners with special mention to Keith Lemon who was awarded the Pearson Trophy for Endeavour and Susan Hall who was given Life Membership for all her work for the Harriers over many years.
Thanks go to President Keith Midgley for presenting the prizes, Martin Haigh for taking the photos, Ryan Barker for organising the trophies, Angela Cowton for tying the bows on the chairs and Chris and Debbie Kirkbride for everything else.
More photos can be found on the Gallery page of the Harriers website.
Halifax Harriers - photo gallery
Halifax Harriers took part in a Food Bank Run on Tuesday evening. Setting off from Spring Hall, they ran to Sainsbury's as part of their normal weekly training runs where they stopped off to donate food to the Ebenezer Food Bank and the RSPCA.
The Food Bank Run is a new nationwide campaign gaining pace in 2023, created off the back of a run started several years ago by Fareham Running Club in Hampshire. There have been more than 500 pledges to support the Food Bank Run throughout the country this year.
Winter is the hardest time for food banks, when people’s bills kick in. With rising household heating and fuel costs making it almost impossible for families to make ends meet. The club felt that we had to do something, and decided to take part in this initiative.
In all over 20 runners took part and between us we managed to hand over almost 2 trolleys worth of goods to the Ebenezer representative who was there to receive it.