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It’s Gold! As Adrian Mussett storms home at the head of another excellent Harriers effort A few years ago the day of the Norwich half marathon sat beneath dark stormy clouds, with the noise of sleet and rain heavy against the roof of the luxury animal sheds that Joe Average was allocated; penned in, runners swirling penguin-like in an attempt to keep warm. Ordered out of the shed just before the start we spied a rainbow, and watery sunshine! Lucky! Last year wasn’t so lucky – I am told it was filthy weather with no rainbows, sunshine or flying pigs. So, where would the weather go... read more

Senior Men Colchester Harriers Men's team surged to victory in the Eastern Cross Country Championships held over a tough 12000m course in bitterly cold weather and strong winds at Hilly Fields. The bitter winds made the going extremely tough but the green vests who are leading the Essex XC League were determined to take the gold medals. 2nd claim Harrier Angus Holford swept to victory with his team mates cascading in behind him. Daz Farrugi was in fine form just missing out on an individual medal in 4th spot. The over 40 duo of Allen Smalls 6th and Richard Heath 7th were next in to claim... read more

City of Norwich Half Marathon Mussett wins again Over the years Adrian Mussett has won or been placed in the City of Norwich Half Marathon numerous times, and this year at the tender age of 43 he swept to victory again in a field of 3000. In very cold weather with snow falling as the runners set off Mussett set off at his normal fast pace to take the leading pack out early on and sweep to victory in 69.46 to take the senior and first veteran prize. He was 28 seconds clear of Piers Arnold of City of Norwich. Carwyn Jones kept up his amazing form with a fine 8th place in 73.02 a new personal... read more

On behalf of Colchester Castle parkrun, may I thank Colchester Harriers for their very generous donation of £60 which David Wright passed to us today. The support of our local running clubs is essential to the ongoing success of our parkrun and is great to see Harriers well represented every week, both running and volunteering. You may also be interested to know that I have recently been appointed parkrun Ambassador with responsibility for a number of parkruns in the area (Ipswich, Ipswich Juniors, Kesgrave, Harwich, Great Cornard and Bury St Edmunds and of course Colchester Castle). Kind... read more

It is again my pleasure to address you again as Chairman of your Club. Again we have in many ways had a very successful year. Following our last AGM the Committee agreed to purchase a new professional built website. The main driver of this was Paul Strutt. Paul spent many long hours researching and after consultations with Committee Members we contracted a former member Dave Allworthy who now lives in Lincolnshire to build the website to our specifications. Paul was instrumental in most of the design in consultation with Dave. We now have a modern website and in the near future Coaches... read more

Strong winds and mud make the going tough Ramsey is always one of the toughest Cross Country Course and the strong winds and mud made the going very tough. Harriers were way below strength due to the previous days Essex XC League but nether-the-less were unlucky to finish 4th on the day in a very close run competition .  Harriers maintain joint 2nd place in the league and will be fielding a much stronger team at the next fixture at Gosfield School grounds. Harriers finishers were 3 Ged McMillan, 19 Keith Marley, 24 Martyn Clarke,27 John Fryer, 33 Sean Ketteridge  34 Russell Goodridge,... read more

Mussett leads Harriers to joint top Colchester Harriers were in action at Horseheath Point to Point near Linton Cambridgeshire which strangely was the venue for the latest Essex Cross Country league fixture. The men’s league is exceptionally close this year and Harriers are determined to regain a crown not won for a good few years. Adrian Musset although well into his veteran years is still the man to beat and yet again he produced the goods with a fine 2nd position  behind Henry Pearce of Tonbridge who was a guest runner so Mussett chalked up another victory. Great packing came from... read more

The Stebbing 10 held on November 8th drew to a close the 2015 Essex Road Race Grand Prix season which started many months ago with the Essex 20, followed by the Halstead Marathon, Brentwood 10k, Pleshey Half Marathon, Wix 5 miles and finally the weekend’s 10 mile road race, hosted this year by Grange Farm & Dunmow. Just 10 runners competed (and completed) all 6 races and 729 took part overall. The Remembrance Day event at Stebbing, is preceded by one minute’s silence adjacent to the start line, by the village church, to remember the members of the armed forces who have died in the... read more

A packed club house saw the presentation of the main awards and AAA certificates at the junior awards evening. It had been another fantastic year for the juniors with success in the 53/12 cross country league and record scores in the EYAL, as well as a number of fantastic individual performances, but once again it was the fantastic team spirit that had been at the heart of the success. The number of AAA certificates awarded also proved the improvement in all areas, with 39 different athletes reaching at least grade 4 of which nine reached the highest grade 1 level. Special thanks... read more

The Colchester Harriers Twitter account @ColchesterH is now connected to this website.  New posts will automatically be tweeted so to keep up to date with everything happening in the club start following @ColchesterH !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script',... read more