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A Brace of Bronze Medals for Harrier’s Elite Sprinters A handful of Harrier’s young track and field athletes took on the might of the Southern Indoor Championships held at Lee Valley Athletic Centre over the last two weekends. First up to compete on Saturday 7th January in the U17 women’s 60m were Megan Stevens and Savannah Harrison. Harrison was placed 5th in her heat running 8.71s. Stretching her legs again after competing at the New Year’s Day Open Meeting the week before, Stevens forced her way into the semi-finals, with a dipping finish in her heat, running 8.56s. The... read more

Smalls leads Harriers Veterans to last race show down The Cross Country season is drawing to a close and with the final fixture at Gloucester Park Basildon to go, Colchester Harriers Veterans are in a show down for the Veterans league title with Springfield Striders. Who ever comes out on top at Basildon will win the league. Harriers have never lost this title yet so will be gunning for it on the day. The latest fixture at Great Notley Country park saw the intrepid Allen Smalls lead the team home in a superb 19th place, Cameron Humphries had his best ever run for the harriers in 26th,... read more

Essex Senior Cross Country Championships Claybury Grove, Woodford Mixed Fortunes as men take silver team medals The Essex Senior Cross Country Championships saw mixed fortunes for the Harriers who finally finished on a high with the men taking team silvers over the tough and muddy 7.5 mile Claybury course. The ladies were dogged by bad luck with numerous runners dropping out late on due to illness and injuries. The 4 ladies who did make it to the line were then dealt another blow when leading lady Laura Shewbridge, who was in 10th place at the time, had to drop out after her contact lens... read more

Colchester Harriers Megan Stevens travelled to Lee Valley at the weekend to stretch her legs again, after competing last week in the New Years Day open meeting, along with Savannah Harrison at the South of England Indoor athletics Championships. In the 60 metres on Saturday, Stevens forced her way into the semi-finals, with a dipping finish in her heat, running 8.56s , while Harrison ran 8.71s in her heat. In the 200 metres on Sunday, Stevens ran a 28.65s in her heat and Harrison ran 28.99s both unfortunate not to reach the next... read more

“New Year’s Day saw three Harriers compete in the Lee Valley Open. Rebecca Jeggo competed in the two heats of the 60m. In her first heat she equalled the Under 20 Women’s club record with a time of 7.83, then followed this with a faster time of 7.77 to claim the club record for her own.  She also ran the 200m in 25.22 with another indoor PB and U20 club record to show for her efforts. Megan Stevens, using blocks for the first time in competition, began her season with consistent times of 8.58 and 8.49 in the 60m. She also competed in the 200m clocking a time of 29.10. Katie... read more

Xmas and New Years Park runs Shewbridge wins on Veteran debut The festive Holiday season got off to a bang with Laura Shewbridge winning Colchester Castle park run on her debut as a veteran lady coming home in 19:42 in windy conditions, Richard Heath 17:41 was 2nd man, with Paul Rodgers 4th 18:00 and Anthony Barraclough 5th 18:17. David Wright also found windy conditions at the seaside at Aberystwyth clocking 19:20 for 8th place. Nicola Martell-Smith was the winner at Harwich in 23:28, with husband Robbie Smith 2nd man in 19:31. Wayne Cook was runner up at the new year race at Cornard... read more

Here are the results for the Apple Jack trail races Short race Long race Thanks to all who supported the event. A donation of £700 was made to Essex Air Ambulance and £288 to the Childhood Eye Cancer... read more

Colchester Park Run Rowe returns in style Colchester Harriers had a fabulous result at the latest Castle 5km with the green vests filling all the first 7 places with 5 of the Colchester runners aged between 15:19. Jordan Rowe returned from University to show he is still a top runner clocking a winning 16:56 on what must be one of the toughest Park runs in the country . Chasing Rowe home was young Oscar Dawson running a personal best 17:15, with another young un Danny Millward 3rd in a best ever time of 17:17. Adam Sawyer another returning University man was 4th in yet another personal best... read more

This is an example of what members and volunteers do for good causes in Colchester. Thanks to Dave Lacy, Rachel and Gary Abbott who give up their time to make Race for Life in Colchester a success.   Hi Lance, As 2016 is drawing to a close, I want to say a huge THANK YOU for supporting Race for Life. Our events could not take place without the support of people such as the Harriers. The Race for Life team is not just Cancer Research UK staff but also the volunteers, partners and supporters who join forces to deliver the events to raise funds for ground breaking research. ... read more

At a cold and wet Horspath near Oxford four Harriers represented Essex in the South of England Inter-Counties cross country races. Around 13 counties were represented with each county selecting 8 runners to compete in each age category Milly Presland picked up her first Essex vest, for the U13 girls team, and finished 66th in a strong field (6th Essex runner home). Hannah Watson has become a regular for the Essex team, and represented the U17 women's team despite being only a first year in the age group. Hannah finished 49th in her race. In the U15 boys race the Harriers had two... read more