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Dolggelau 5 mile, Mid Wales Double victory for the Small’s Colchester Harriers have a long tradition of success at the very hilly Dolggelau 5 in the heart of mid Wales. Yet Again Harriers did well with Alan Smalls and Fay Smalls making it a husband and wife family celebration with Fay winning the over 40 category in 50-37, and Allen  setting a new over 45 course record of 28.26 to finish 5th overall and only 45 seconds off overall victory. Ellie Mayne who was runner up to team mate Laura Shewbridge at this event last year , went one better to claim the the overall first lady prize in... read more

Rob Earle Colchester Harriers Rob Earle Competed in the British Masters Championships in Birmingham on the weekend, and what a weekend he had! In extremely testing weather conditions, Rob contested the M50 Hammer and threw a fantastic 56.08 meters to win gold. This was also a seasons best performance and puts Rob 3rd in the world rankings for this event. He also took part in the Shot 12.80 weight and threw another seasons best of 19.01 meters winning gold again and placing him 4th in the world rankings Helen Bloomfield Helen was also competing and came away with a fine silver medal... read more

Two Harriers athletes competed for the U13 Essex team in an inter counties match against high class opposition at Kingston in London. In poor weather conditions (wind and rain) both ran strongly to help the Essex team win the overall competition Graig Anya-Joseph won his B string 100m and was second in the 200m Ziggy Lambton again broke the 5minute barrier in the 1500m, coming 4th in a time of... read more

Hudson shows inner strength A quieter weekend at last for the Harriers saw individuals still competing in numerous events in the good weather. Jo Hudson has trained extremely hard for the Iron man event in Bolton, Hudson who won team county gold for Harriers at the Essex 10km at Brentwood a fortnight ago, went to the extreme distance on the famous and original  Iron Man course. Hudson had a good swim completing the 2.4 mile swim in 1-20 , then the 112 mile bike was tough but she still completed the distance in 7-19, and finally run the full 26.2 mile marathon in a great time of 3.55 for... read more

5 of Colchester Harriers athletes were selected to represent Essex in the recent U17s Inter Counties competition recently in Marlow Buckinghamshire. Tom Mitchell capped a fine season so far with a magnificent PB throw of 51.01 finally cracking the 50meter mark in really blustery conditions. To come 2nd overall. Millie Belbin made her well deserved debut in the Essex vest competing in the Long Jump and Triple Jump. She managed 4.91 in the long jump to finish a fine 3rd and 10.10 in the triple Jump coming 4th Philippa Davenall showed what good form she is in at the moment with another... read more

Harriers dominate Marathon Relay Ipswich Jaffa stage one of the most popular races in the calendar the Ekiden 6 stage Marathon relay with 200 teams on the start line running on a 2.5km circuit  around the grounds of Woodbridge School. As normal the event was full of action ups and downs and confusion and culminated in the results being unable to be given out as the chip timing completely failed. Colchester Harriers (although obviously still awaiting the official results) had a great day winning 4 of the 6 available categories. The senior ladies were far too good for the opposition... read more

Colchester Harriers Nicola Martell-Smith, Kelly Sutton and Jade Morgan all competed for Essex at the South of England Inter Counties Championships held at Crawley. Martel-Smith placed 2nd in the 400m Hurdles in 65.05secs, while Sutton had a busier time competing in the 100m in a time of 12.37sec.the 200m coming 3rd in 25.48secs and was in the winning 4 x 100m winning relay team. While Morgan competed in the triple jump. Chris Sellens came 5th in the 3000m steeplechase with a time of 10min 19secs, as did Adrian Mussett in the 5000m in 15min... read more

English Schools Gateshead What a couple of days it was for 3 young Colchester Harrier athletes at the 2015 English Schools Championships up in sunny Gateshead this weekend. Bronze for Philippa Davenhall U17 girl Philippa Davenall produced the throw of her life in the hammer competition to win an incredible bronze medal. The throw was a massive PB by 5 meters and has catapulted Philippa to 4th in the UK rankings just 4.92 meters short of the UK world U18 standard of 62 meters. A mention must go to Philippa’s coach Rob Earle who is doing a fantastic job with this up and coming training... read more

Bob was a Past President of Colchester Harriers and one of the founders of Trail running in North Essex. Bob was active for many years, and was with George Bennington when George died whilst taking part in a trail race. Bob never recovered and became an infrequent visitor to the Club. Bob and Jackie were close friends right up until his death, and frequently cycled throughout the lanes of North Essex. Results Name Time Club 23 Alan Smalls 0:36 CH 30 Phil Davies 0:43 CH 5 Lyn Higgs ... read more

Double team gold at Brentwood Colchester Harriers monopolised the Essex 10km over a good Blackmore course in wet conditions. The mens and ladies teams took the team gold medals which is always for the club the main priority. The ladies were led home by Laura Shewbridge 40.08 who took the individual bronze medal for a superb 3rd place, Shewbridge had a fine 2nd half and came through the field to lead the team to golds, Joanna Hudson 41-34 was next in 8th place although running on tired legs due to ironman training, and Andrea James won her first County medal in 9th spot 42-13 a well... read more