Thursday night coaching session
From Sally Malir… Places are available at my grass speed work session on a Thursday evening, with the option of me helping out with more coaching. I have stuck to keeping it a girl’s group – ages 13-20. It’s from 6pm-7pm at Ben Rhydding sports club. My email is sallymalir@gmail.com if anybody is interested or […]
Berlin Marathon – Sun 21 Sept 2025
From Rumana Chowdhury… Sometimes you turn up to a race and stand on the start line feeling strong. You start running, your legs feel good and you just know it’s your day. This was me 4 months ago at Edinburgh. Sometimes you turn up and you’ve already lined up a small trail of disasters, your […]
Redcar Half Marathon – Sun 21 Sept 2025
From Hilda Coulsey… Jane and I travelled to Redcar looking forward to some sunshine after the torrential rain in the previous few days. As expected, I suppose being on the coast, the wind was quite strong. It was chilly and I haven’t yet acclimatised to autumn taking only shorts and my Ilkley vest to run in. I […]
The Tilbury Douglas Yorkshire Run for WaterAid – Sun 21 Sept 2025
From Colm McCann… The Tilbury Douglas Yorkshire Run for WaterAid isn’t exactly a catchy name for race. It is essentially an annual 5/10k race to raise money for WaterAid which is a charity that aims to provide water and sanitation services in developing countries. The race is organised by Yorkshire Water, their partners and local […]
Kirkstall Abbey 7 – Sun 21 Sept 2025
From Matthew Snow… Four Ilkley Harriers took on the Kirkstall 7 mile trail race, starting at Kirkstall Abbey and following a roughly out-and-back route to Rodley and back. The race was treated as Ilkley Harrier Steve Gott’s latest stag event before drinks in Leeds, in honour of which we all ran in T-shirts demonstrating Steve’s […]
UTMB Julian Alps, Slovenia – Sun 21 Sept 2025
From Rebecca Mon-Williams… The Julian Alps UTMB race offers a smorgasbord of race options, ranging from 120km to 5km. We opted for the 25km route which starts and finishes in the Alpine village of Kranskja Gora. Our route took in 3 main climbs (1000m total), and followed tracks along rivers, up wooded hillsides, along tops with […]
Three Shires Fell Race – Sat 20 Sept 2025
From Alison Weston… Charles Wain and I ran the new route for the Three Shires fell race this weekend. Starting and finishing at Tilberthwaite farm, instead of Little Langdale, and in an anti-clockwise direction with Wetherlam as the last climb. A bit more distance and climbing (22km and 1535m) but I like the new route! […]
Hardmoors 60 – Sat 20 Sept 2025
From Kate Archer… The route follows the coastal section of the Cleveland Way, starting at Guisborough and passing through Saltburn, Runswick Bay, Staithes, Whitby, Robin Hoods Bay, Ravenscar and Scarborough before finishing at Filey. Having run the Hardmoors 55 earlier in the year which follows the inland section of the Cleveland Way, I was keen […]
Another England vest for Hilda!
Congratulations to Hilda Coulsey who has qualified for the Masters Representative Marathon in Abingdon on 19 October and earns another England Age Group Masters vest. Full details here.
Ilkley Gazette Report – w/c 15 September 2025
[Diane Kitchen won her age cat at the Wetherby 10k, photo courtesy Philip Bland] From Jill Ezard & Nicola Budding… Harrier’s success representing England in Mountain Running Harrier Sam Bentham had a successful weekend representing England in the British and Irish Mountain Running Championships in Wales. Sam had been named in the squad in July […]