Cambridge Harriers

Sunday 3 January 2010

Good turnout for club champs

Graham Maynard in action
Pic: Mark Cross

Metaswitch Games ndoor Meeting - Lee Valley
Melissa Owusu Ansah opened her indoor season with a pb over 60m running the Metaswitch Indoor Open meeting at Lee Valley on Sunday.

In the first round she ran 8.27 just outside her pb of 8.25 but in the next round a better finish took her time down to 8.18. She next races over 300m at the southern champs in a week's time

Tadworth 10
Six Cambridge Harriers made the trip to Surrey for the annual Tadworth 10.

On a very chilly but bright, crisp morning, Clem Dixon finished the hilly, muti-turrain course in 1:04:15 to gain 28th position from the 641 finishers. Stephen Brown was next home, 1:18:36 (219) he was followed by Helen Jousselin, 1:21:02 (266); Lucy Hine, 1:25:20 (338); Keith Miles, 1:32:11 (431) and Maria Macdonald, 1:45:58 (580). Full results can be found here.

Kent Fitness Cross Country League
Some Cambridge Harriers including Mark Penny, competed in the previously postponed Kent Fitness League fixture at Oxleas Woods, Eltham.

We'll provide the results as soon as they are published.

graham m cross country

A happy new year to you all. We start the new year with a look at last weeks Club 7.5 mile cross country championship.

Cambridge Harriers 7.5m Cross Country

There was an excellent turnout with runners from both Dartford clubs, Swanley, Plumstead and Invicta together with a big contingent from Bexley. It was probably the largest field that we have had in recent history, so thank you to everybody who took part.

Dean Lacy won for the fourth consecutive year but had some real competition from Andy Pickett and Mark Wilkins, especially as he had to make an unplanned stop for a call of nature!  Full results here.

This week in history...

A new feature where we look at club news from years gone by.

Holden Leads the way in Kent Championships
1950 - "IN the Kent Championships at Gravesend, the juniors did well to win by 18 points to Blackheath's 34. This win was expected as their performance to date has been very good.

Many thought that Dennis Holden could win the individual championship, but he was beaten by the experienced runner, namely P Blackiston, Kent Junior Mile champion and record holder.

The scroing four were D Holden 1, D Hoile 2, C Fromings 6 and C Levett 9."

Club notices


Essex & Kent Indoor Championships
The Essex and kent Indoor Championships will be held at Lee Valley Indoor Athletics Centre on 6th and 7th February 2010.

If you wish to enter, please complete the form here.

Olympians and previous illustrious members
We have begun developing profiles of the clubs olympians and illustrious members. Please have a look and be inspitred on the Olympians page.

If you have any details, stories or stats of our illutrious members from the past, please email us cambridgeharrierspress@hotmail.com or click here

Different address!
You can now access the Cambridge Harriers website through an eaiser to remember address, cambridgeharriers.net. This is in addition to the existing address.