Presentation night 2011

At the awards evening last week, the club recognised the achievements, improvements and commitment of individual athletes across all age groups.

SECRETARY’S REPORT 2011

At the annual awards evening, the Secretary's report highlighted the achievements of club athletes and teams across the various disciplines.

9 of the club's athletes headed off to Sefton Park in Liverpool to take part in the NorthWest Counties Road Relays races last weekend.

With weather swinging between a lovely autumn day and torrential downpours, everyone ran well over a good 3.3km course, longer than had been planned.

The U13G team of Georgia, Jenny and Molly were the first out.  In the first leg Georgia came to the change over in second place, with a time of 12m26s (the second fastest leg from all competitors).  Jenny ran a solid leg to leave the team in 12th place overall (4th Cheshire) covering the ground in 15m41s.  Molly ran the third leg holding position in 12th in a time of 14m25s to bring the team home just outside the Cheshire medals in 4th place.

Chris set the U13B team off on the first leg with a time of 12m29s, bringing the team into 10th place overall (5th Cheshire), handing over to James for the second leg.  James ran the course well in 14m03s in his first race over a long distance and handed over to Billy with the team in 11th place overall (4th Cheshire).  Billy then ran an excellent battling leg in 12m59s to bring the team home in 8th place overall and picking up the bronze county medal as the 3rd Cheshire team home.

In the U15G illness meant there were only two runners; Keira and Emily.  Keira ran the first leg in 13m51s and Emily covered the ground in 16m13s.  

Richard was the only club member taking part in the U17M race, running over a longer 5.5km course.  Richard ran the course in 22m58s.

Well done to everyone who took part!  Full results are on the Northern Athletics website here.

Congratulations to Ellie McCarthy who took the top spot in the Cheshire Junior Multi Events Championships at Macclesfield this weekend.  Ellie won the U13G competition with 204 points after running 13.7s in the 70m hurdles (grade 4), a high jump of 1m33 (grade 2) and shot put of 7m39 (grade 3).

Full results are available on the Cheshire AA website.

Other Harriers at the competition also did well, with Luke Southerton taking 6th spot in the U11B event, Jenny Pyatt 4th in the U13G, Beth McCarthy 8th in the U13G, Ben Sutcliffe taking 4th spot in the U15B and Jess Wright 6th in the U15G competition. 

Until further notice, access to the track for training is now via St Peter & Paul's car park, and NOT via Wade Deacon School.

This is due to major construction work taking place at Wade Deacon School, which could last for up to 2 years.

Saturday saw a very successful day for Harriers' relay teams, bringing home 5 gold medals and a silver, as well as great participation from club members.

Well done to all who took part, both those who brought home medals and those that missed out.

Check out the facebook pages for photos of the medalists (www.facebook.com/hfharriers).

Full results are available on the Cheshire AA website here.

The second match of the Cheshire T&F series took place under baking skies on Sunday at Crewe.

The full results can be downloaded here and a full match report can be read on this website.

The fixtures calendar has been updated with details of the MACCL events for 2011/2012.  There have been some changes to the dates and there is one new location.  Full details are available here.

As a warm up to the cross country season, Sutton St Helen's AC are hosting a trail race around "The Dream" on Sunday 11th September.

The website http://www.st-helens-sutton.co.uk/dreamtrailrace.htm gives further details of the race, which is about 4km for secondary school pupils and 8.5km for older athletes.