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Phillipa Davenall, Rebecca Jeggo and Charlie Dobson represented the Harriers at the Southern Outdoor Age Group Championships on Sunday 11 June. Thanks to wide-ranging improvements that have been, and are still being carried out, the championships were able to return to the iconic Crystal Palace. Work continues on repairing and cleaning the track itself, and on much of the infrastructure. The blustery conditions experienced by the younger athletes at Chelmsford the day before had calmed slightly, but still provided enough challenge with readings up to -3.6, reducing the opportunity of... read more

Colchester Harriers athletes were again out in force mostly competing for the North East Essex team at the Essex Schools championships in Chelmsford on Saturday. There were some fantastic performances in some extremely challenging conditions with the sprinters running into a fierce headwind. Callum McKay put his injury hit season well and truly behind him to storm through in the intermediate boys 100m to take the gold in 11.7 seconds into a -4.1 headwind Young sprinter Graig Anya Joseph is going from strength to strength and also took gold in the junior boys 100m with a commanding run... read more

Georgina jumps into top ten ranking Harriers young athletes put up a great fight as they competed their second EYAL meet of the season against stiff opposition at Chelmsford Athletic track on Sunday 4 June. Team spirit was high as once again many of the youngest athletes continued to impress by taking on new challenges and achieving personal bests. Notable performances of the day included debut hurdler Georgina Smith who proved she has potential in the event by taking first in the B string in an impressive time of 13.3s – she then went on to achieve a PB in both her 100m to run 14.00s... read more

Ridley is number one Great results came from Colchester Harriers over the last week, over 55 runner Colin Ridley produced an effort of 35:15 at the London National 10km to become the British number one over the distance. Ramadam Osman was not at his best but still clocked 33:50, with Paul Rodgers 36:39 and Danny Millward 36:44, Paul Spowage returned to form in 37:01, while Craig Mitchell passed the line in 39:53. Jo Boden ran 40 mins. Sarah Stradling 37:21 showed up well in the ladies event finishing 32nd overall and 3rd in the over 40 category. Northumbria 100 mile and Stour Valley... read more

Good run by Elsie at Copenhagen Colchester Harriers Elsie Bisson knocked 4 minutes off her personal best clocking 3:10 at the Copenhagen marathon High Easter 10km It was personal bests for Ian Haw 36:45 and Wayne Cook 37:18 at the High Easter 10km, Laura Shewbridge 39:12 carried on with her improvement finishing 2nd lady and first veteran. Bury To Clare James Wright and Paul Rodgers enjoyed the 18.6 mile Bury to Clare off road race, both went off course numerous times as happens in these races, but both recovered with Wright 2nd and Rodgers 6th overall. Paras 10 The Paras 10 is a tough... read more

Colchester Harriers claimed second place in the highly competitive Southern Athletic League Division One meeting in Harrow on Sunday. Charlie Dobson and Philippa Davenhall were the star attractions as they won performances of the day in the 200 metres and the Hammer throw. Charlie clinched a personal best in the 200m to claim his second A string win of the day, and gain him the English schools entry standard. This was a comfortable win, by over a second, to go with his much closer victory in the 100m earlier in the day. Charlie also broke the nine year old long jump club record, by... read more

Harriers Excel at Essex Champs Excellent performances were gained by Colchester's green vests at this year's Essex Athletics Track and Field Championships in Chelmsford over the weekend of 13 / 14 May - bringing home a total haul of 17 medals. The weekend was kicked off by Zion Ateba - one of the youngest members - competing in atrocious conditions in the U13 girls 70m Hurdles race, to place second in her heat and despite running in the worst cloud-burst of the weekend ran a magnificent new PB of 13.51s - knocking over a second off her previous best time.  Just an hour later and in drier... read more

Double team wins for Harriers at Colchester 10km Colchester Harriers surged to a double team win at the Colchester 10km held from their base at the Garrison track. Ramadam Osman was first home in 2nd spot clocking 33:16 on a warm and windy morning. Joining him in the winning team was Colin Ridley 3rd in 35:06 and Mark Harrod 6TH 35:57. Danny Millward 7th 36:18 and Paul Rodgers 10th 36:47 all ran well. The ladies were led home by Sarah Stradling who at last is back to racing winning in 38:26 with Laura Shewbridge 2nd 39:30 and Lucy Mapp 3rd 40:29. The ladies were obviously the team winners.... read more

Thurrock hosted the first Eastern Young Athletics League meet of the year for Colchester Harriers and what a great day was had by this young team, claiming over 80 PB’s between seasoned team members and a large number who were making their debut for the club. Harrier’s coaches have worked hard over recent months to recruit and train hurdlers and their efforts were not disappointed by those who took on the challenge. Olivia Simon in the U13 girls - gained a respectable PB of 15.2s in her first ever 75m race. U15 girl Isabella Minder claimed a PB in her debut over 75m Hurdles running... read more

Shirley breaks Halstead marathon record as Harriers dominate Essex Marathon Colchester Harriers distance squad rattled with medals after leaving the Essex marathon Championships over the very tough Halstead Course. It was Essex Champions for Allen Smalls Senior and Veteran gold, Marie Shirley also senior and Veteran Gold, Steph Horner vet over 45 champion and Clive Thomas veteran over 50 gold medallist. Smalls retained his title in style in 2:43 although finishing 3rd, the first two had no Essex Qualifications, so Smalls was crowned the king again. Smalls not only took the Senior and... read more