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A number of Harriers attended the prestigious Colchester Sports Personality Awards on Monday evening at the Weston Homes Community Stadium, having been nominated in various categories. The first Harrier to receive an award was young pole vaulter and hammer thrower Olivia Simon who received a commendation in the under 14 girls category.  Last month Olivia picked up the female field and Athlete of the Year awards at the club's junior awards afternoon. The next Harrier nominee to receive a commendation was under 15 sprinter Sam Shippey in the under 18 male category.  Sam was soon back on... read more

Please note that refreshments will be available from 9am on Saturday 1 December in the Hall at St Helena... read more

The Harriers have stormed away at the top of the NESS cross country league after another big victory at Newhall Farm, Ramsey.  The Harriers seniors now hold a four point advantage over Ipswich JAFFA going into the second half of the season. The Juniors, although run close by local rivals Colchester and Tendring, also had another victory to again lead by a big margin at half way. Thomas Palmer and Milly Presland were again the overall race winners.   Seniors The Harriers ladies were in top form winning with 18 points, the four scorers all coming home in the top six, with fine... read more

On the afternoon of Sunday 28th October, the Pegasus Club house was packed full of junior members and their guests to celebrate the end of a successful season and the annual Junior Awards. Guest of honour was CHAC’s own Junior World Silver medallist Charlie Dobson; who presented a video charting his own junior athletic story from first joining the club to world stage. He then stayed to present each award. The first honour of the afternoon was awarded for Speed Girl: nominee certificates were presented to Lilly Sillett (U15) she reduced her 100m PB from 15.0s to 13.6s and has reduced her... read more

Colchester Harriers had a good turn out at the Chelmsford 10km with DebbIe Cattermole the star striding to yet another victory in 44m 02s.  Colin Ridley, recovering from his recent hernia operation, second over 50 man in 37m 14s. James Wright was the first Harrier home clocking a very good 35m 29s, Jon Nears was 37m 30s, Andy Lovelock 37m 59s, Paul Preston 38m 33s, Richard Flutter 38m 45s and Ian Rattray 43m 02s. Allen Smalls had another superb mountain race finishing 4th in the 48 mile Brecon Beacons Ultra Trail race.  Smalls ran consistently over difficult terrain to finish in 7 hours... read more

The south of England Athletic Association has created its first ever strategic plan for athletics in the South of England. A copy of the 5 year development plan document is available via the following... read more

Minutes of the meeting held on 5th November 2018 are available via the following link Essex AA November 2018... read more

I recently returned from the European Middle Distance Aquabike Championships held in Ibiza at the end of October. The race was due to start at 1:30pm with an iconic beach start, swim out around an island and back to the beach, with a swim course of 1,900 metres . This was then followed by an undulating 2 lap bike route on closed roads totalling 90 .kilometres. Unfortunately race day arrived with severe thunderstorms and heavy rain. This led to the storm drains overflowing and a totally flooded bike course . The start was delayed by 90 minutes to allow the flood waters to subside, the... read more

Essex Cross Country League at One Tree Hill, Langdon Hills, a very tough country park course saw some excellent results from junior, senior and veteran runners from Colchester Harriers. The under 17 men were runners up on the day led by the ever reliable Danny Millward 3rd.  Millward was joined in the successful team by Thomas Palmer 13th, Victor Steinward 14th and Ziggy Lambton 22nd. Milly Presland was very impressive, finishing runner up in the under 15 girls race, just two seconds behind the winner.  The fast improving Madeleine Claydon was 11th. The senior ladies team of... read more

It was as tight a finish as you could get at the second round of the NESS XC League held at Great Notley Park.  The Harriers ladies swept to victory thanks to Andrea James 4th, Becky Cooke 5th, Debbie Cattermole 10th, and Annette Oakman 12th, beating Ipswich JAFFA ladies by 8 points.  The men saw the reverse, placing second by 17 points to Ipswich JAFFA, with our scoring men Danny Millward 3rd, Nat Filer 4th, Ermeaus Aferwerki 7th, Richard Heath 12th, Chris Sellens 15th, Jon Nears 35th, Alex Sales 36th, and Paul Preston 38th.  Overall the Harriers finished second with a 9 point deficit.  ... read more