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Ramadam Osman had a terrific run at the Great Bentley Half marathon which was run in near perfect conditions.  Osman clocked a superb 1hr 08m 53s to win the race, eighty seconds clear of the second place runner. New signing Mark McKeown was 16th in an excellent 1hr 16m 35s, Jason Gunn strode home in 18th spot in 1hr 16m 45s. Paul Rodgers won the over 45 prize clocking a personal best 1hr 18m 40s. Second over 45 was Paul Preston in 1hr 18m 57s. Gavin Scanlon clocked 1hr 20m 02s, then came Wayne Cook 1hr 21m 59s, Colin Ridley 1hr 23m 31s (1st over 55 ), Keith Marley 1hr 24m 41s, Craig... read more

Saturday 2nd February and day one of the Essex and Eastern Counties Indoor Championships at Lee Valley belonged to experienced sprinter Joy Ogunleye. After a blistering start in her U20W 60m heat, she closed off the gas with ten metres to the line to qualify through to the final.  Hours later and she was back to challenge for the gold medal.  Looking strong and confident in warm up, she committed from the gun and delivered a fine performance to cross the line with air between her and second place in a new Championship Best Performance, PB and Club Record of 7.64s. U13... read more

Here are details of a local 5k multi terrain race taking place at the University of Essex on Saturday 2nd March starting at 11am. Peter Chillingworth, Mayor of Colchester invites you to take part in a 5 km run at the Essex University Colchester campus at 11.00 am on Saturday 2nd March. All proceeds will go to the six Mayor’s charities shown above. The Mayor would like to thank the University and staff for their cooperation in organising the event. He is also very grateful for their support to Birkett Long, solicitors, Nicolas Percival estate agents and Colchester Trophies for... read more

The toughest Cross Country in Britain is probably the senior men’s Southern Cross Country Championship held over 15,000m of Parliament Hills.  The iconic course with the famous hill is a real test and the best of the south's runners are always here. Colchester Harriers had targeted the   Essex Cup for the first Essex county team to get twelve runners home. With injuries to three of the team during the build up to the race, it was a tough call but the Harriers shone through with true grit from a couple of team members finishing although ill or injured to bring the trophy home for the... read more

The South of England AA Indoor age group Championships, held at Lee Valley over the weekends of 12/13th January and 19/ 20 January, saw a number of Harriers T & F athletes open their 2019 track season. Kicking off was Maya Rattray in the U17w 60m on Saturday 12 January. Using the experience as a chance to test how her training is going and also to lay down a new PB , she ran well to finish 5th in her heat in 8.26s and ending the day in the top half of the field of over 40 athletes. For Joy Ogunleye and Rebecca Jeggo, the championships on 19/20th were accomplished in good style,... read more

A number of Colchester Harriers young athletics competed for North East Essex in the Essex Schools Cross Country Championships at the Apex Playing Fields, Hockley on Saturday. The best placed Harrier was Milly Presland who finished sixth in the Inter Girls race to qualify for the English Schools Cross Country Championships at Leeds in a few weeks time. Madeleine Claydon finished in a fine 27th place. In the Inter boys race Chris Smith finished 37th. Five Harriers were part of the North East Essex team that finished second in the Senior Boys race. Danny Millward continued his fine... read more

Colchester Harriers Richard Flutter reached a landmark 250 Park runs at the weekend running in the Treviso Park run in Italy. Flutter finished 2nd in 19m 58s with team mate Debbie Cattermole 3rd and first lady in 21m 55s, both Harriers set new age group records. The Benfleet 15 is a very tough muddy off road race, always run in very cold conditions, it is a real test for runners, but James Wright had an excellent run leading the green vests home in 13th spot in an impressive 1h 39m 54s. Gavin Scanlon 1h 43m 01s had a good battle with Paul Rodgers 1h 43m 41s. They finished in 21st and... read more

The club inflicted a rare home defeat on rivals Ipswich JAFFA in the fourth round of the North Essex and South Suffolk Cross Country league. With two races to go the Harriers lead by five points, meaning just finishing third in each of the remaining fixtures will bring the title back to Colchester for the first time in many years. The Orwell Bridge Suffolk Food Hall course saw some great performances by the senior athletes from the men and ladies who both won and both girls and boys junior teams who also won; it was a whitewash by the Harriers. Ramadam Osman who had the day previous... read more

The Harriers competed well in  a high quality Essex Senior Cross Country Championships held at Writtle College in cold but good conditions. The under 17 mens race saw a superb effort by the courageous Danny Millward who fought to the line for a county medal only to be beaten by a second for the bronze medal in a extremely good field. Thomas Palmer also ran very well for his 17th spot. The under 20 men produced a surprise taking, the bronze team medals. It was the Harriers first ever team medals in this age group. Although not at his best, Ermeas Aferwerki led the team home in... read more

#299 - 22nd December 2018 1st Ramadan Osman 17m 21s 2nd Danny Millward 17m 34s 3rd Angus Holford 17m 35s 4th Thomas Palmer 17m 58s 6th Fergus Crouch 18m 16s 9th Alex Sales 18m 42s 15th Jerry Walder 19m 30s 16th Kevin Higgins 19m 37s 17th Laura Shewbridge 19m 43s (1st lady) 28th Simon Morgan 21m 20s 37th Andy Raynor 21m 55s 39th James Plant 22m 08s 44th Richard Boden 22m 32s 49th Andrew Dagge 22m 43s 61st Lee Caulfield 23m 26s 84th Jenny Richardson 24m 06s 91st Kieran Callaghan 24m 24s 150th John Wheatley 27m 05s #300 - 25th December 2018 1st Danny Millward 17m 23s 2nd Nate Filer... read more