Roundups 2015 – Clayton-le-Moors Harriers

'Twas the week before christmas

Posted on December 22, 2015 by adrienneo

You lot were definitely stirring in spite of yet more appalling weather in the parks, zoos and on the fells. It’s almost Christmas and the festive s

All Dressed Up

Posted on December 15, 2015 by adrienneo

After another week of appalling weather and floods, and quite a few race cancellations, it was a welcome relief for our club members to let off some steam

A Hard Rain is Gonna Fall

Posted on December 7, 2015 by adrienneo

Despite the devastating floods of the weekend and the cancellation of many events, there was still quite a lot of action to report on this week. Cross coun

Liverpool, Lee Mills and living to tell the tale

Posted on November 30, 2015 by adrienneo

It was wild, windy and very wet this weekend. Yet another storm put you through the mill whether it was on exposed moorland and fells, muddy quagmires that

Moustaches, medals and more mud!

Posted on November 23, 2015 by adrienneo

Another mudbath this week. After a rainy and wintry week it was a decidedly chilly and mucky affair at the Red Rose fixture in Bolton. There have been top

Raindrops keep falling

Posted on November 16, 2015 by adrienneo

Storm Abigail did her best but it wasn’t enough to deter our hardy Harriers. You have been on the roads, fells and parks as always giving it your all

Skylines, windmills and lots of mud

Posted on November 10, 2015 by adrienneo

Mud, mud, mud and more mud. It’s been a bit of a dirty weekend for our hardy Harriers! A little bit of wind and rain doesn’t really get in the

Spooky shenanigans, speakers and summits

Posted on November 3, 2015 by adrienneo

What a spooktacular weekend it was! Lots of fun was had dressing up and racing at the Hurstwood relays helping to raise money for the victims of the Nepa

Running further!

Posted on October 26, 2015 by adrienneo

Another amazing, action-packed week on the roads, trails, parks, fells and mountains. We’ve been out in force at the Mid Lancs cross country at Towne

A Bit Of A Do

Posted on October 20, 2015 by adrienneo

Huge thanks to all of the organisers, volunteers and supporters who helped make this year’s British Athletics Hill & Fell Running Relay Championship

Marathons, mountains and skylines

Posted on October 12, 2015 by adrienneo

It’s been a bag of all sorts this week. There was another win for fast lad Dan Balshaw with Jordan McDonald snapping at his heels in second at th

Relays, Road Races and Romance

Posted on October 6, 2015 by adrienneo

Running relays on the roads and in the mountains, tearing up trail races, going long distance in ultra races, winning 10k races and fun runs. As always you

Hands, knees and bumpsadaisy

Posted on September 29, 2015 by adrienneo

We get knocked down but we get up again! Cross Country season has kicked off with some great results for the club and there have a few bumps and bruises to

Kings of the castle

Posted on September 21, 2015 by adrienneo

Another week of success! Kings of Lancaster Castle 10K and Half Marathon. Winner of the OMM Lite. Part of team GB at the World Mountain Running Champion

We are the champions

Posted on September 15, 2015 by adrienneo

Blimey! Mountain masters, FRA Champions, BOFRA Champions; well done to all of our outstanding athletes. You’ve also been rubbing shoulders with Mo

Onwards and upwards

Posted on September 7, 2015 by adrienneo

Ben Nevis dominates this week with a good turnout of Clayton Harriers. What an adventurous bunch you are! I have spotted Clayton-le-Moors Harriers at fel

Ain't no mountain high enough

Posted on August 31, 2015 by adrienneo

Some great racing at classic fell races this weekend in the Lake District, Yorkshire and ultra-distances events in Europe – still plenty of true fell

Golf balls, peaks and shows

Posted on August 24, 2015 by adrienneo

More summer series have come to a close and lots of you are racing at the summer shows. There’s action on the roads as well, with great results at

Championships, Grand Prix and Steam Trains

Posted on August 18, 2015 by adrienneo

Yet more successes to celebrate. Bronze medals for our Vet40 Ladies team in the British Fell Championships and an individual Bronze LV50 medal for Wendy D

Summertime and the winning is easy

Posted on August 10, 2015 by adrienneo

Wins all over the place this week! Fells, parks, promenades, greenways; nowhere is off limits for racing as far as the tangerine army is concerned. Many

Winning ways, and Borrowdale.

Posted on August 4, 2015 by jimh

‘I just caught a glimpse of Richard Briscoe heading off towards the Scree descent – I knew at that point that I’d catch him quite soon

Hendon Brook and Lingmell Dash!

Posted on July 28, 2015 by jimh

‘Not every day you can say you’ve run the country’s hardest half marathon….!!! Feeling so so sore but so so proud!!!’ Clare W

Champions and Record Breakers

Posted on July 20, 2015 by adrienneo

With it being the start of the summer holidays for quite a few people,you might expect a bit of chilling out and calming down to occur. Oh no, not you lot

Parks, proms and pioneering the Pennine Way

Posted on July 13, 2015 by adrienneo

Plenty of great performances this week in a plethora of races in parks and along proms as well as the English Fell Championships. Some sad news too with th

Winning week!

Posted on July 7, 2015 by adrienneo

What a winning week! Chris Holdsworth continues his recent excellent form winning both the Tockholes Evening and Trawden 7 Trail races this week. Briony

Trains, trails and 10ks

Posted on June 29, 2015 by adrienneo

Racing in relays, running alongside trains and tackling hilly challenge routes, so many of you racing multiple times this week, there’s just no hold

Midsummer Madness

Posted on June 22, 2015 by adrienneo

The summer solstice marks the longest day and some of you were running your longest races at the Trailblaster Event. But, as usual, that’s not all; t

Durisdeer Fell Race 2015 & The Rest of the Week's Action

Posted on June 16, 2015 by chrish

Durisdeer Fell Race 2015 “We started outside the village church, with a mad dash through the parking field, and over a stream onto the hill – a

Parks, pikes, poles and proms

Posted on June 8, 2015 by adrienneo

Another action-packed week. Plenty of our members taking part in all kinds of events from 5ks to Ultras. We’ve won parkrun awards, ultra distance

Spring has sprung

Posted on June 1, 2015 by adrienneo

The days are long, the nights are short and there is an abundance of racing opportunities for our members to get their teeth into. It’s all been rath

I would walk 100 miles and the best of the rest.....

Posted on May 26, 2015 by seniors

Another busy week and a treat for you as I’m the guest editor of the weekly roundup (just hope I do it justice). The week started with the 1st of th

To me, to you

Posted on May 18, 2015 by adrienneo

Teamwork was most definitely the theme this week with absolutely loads of Clayton-le-Moors Harriers taking part in relays on the fells and the British Mas

The darling buds of May

Posted on May 11, 2015 by adrienneo

Spring is sprung, and our members are competing and being selected for a wide range of national and regional competition. This week you have been road ru

True colours shining through

Posted on May 4, 2015 by adrienneo

After all the epic endurance escapades last weekend, you’d think our members would be taking it easy. Nothing could be further from the truth. Busine

The storm!

Posted on April 27, 2015 by jimh

As always achievements galore this weekend! The cold, rain and snow on Saturday didn’t deter our members from a massive turnout on a busy weekend. Th

The calm before the storm

Posted on April 20, 2015 by adrienneo

On the countdown to a few biggies; London Marathon, Yorkshire Three Peaks, the Fellsman and no doubt many more, you’d expect a quiet kind of week in

All kinds of everything

Posted on April 13, 2015 by adrienneo

From fast and furious 200m at the track to long and steady ultra distances, our club members have been out in all weathers in all kinds of places. There

No April Fools

Posted on April 6, 2015 by adrienneo

It’s a cracking roundup this Easter weekend. No eggs, just wins! You lot have been busy, many running more than once and in different disciplines.

Here come the girls

Posted on March 30, 2015 by adrienneo

Wild, wet and windy; it’s been grim at times but you have been making your presence felt this weekend. Our younger men made their mark at the Ron H

Celebrate Good Times

Posted on March 23, 2015 by adrienneo

It’s been all about awards, accolades and achievements this week. We’ve had wins and top placings in many different events and a packed ho

Run, run as fast as you can

Posted on March 16, 2015 by jimh

We could be forgiven to think that the weekend of Mothering Sunday would be a quiet one. Not at all! There’s lots to find out from Junior cross-country t

Tiptoe through the tulips...

Posted on March 9, 2015 by adrienneo

Well, it may be a tad early for the tulips but this week you have been fell running at Flower Scar, touring Pendle on the Stan Bradshaw Pendle Round, Dodd

March comes in like a lion

Posted on March 1, 2015 by adrienneo

Well, it’s March already. The first lambs are in the field, daffodils are sprouting, and spring is on the way. This week you have been on the roads

There's no such thing as bad weather...

Posted on February 23, 2015 by adrienneo

Only soft people! As tough as ever, a bit of weather can’t stop our hardy members getting out and about, competing in all kinds of events; day and

50 Shades of Mud

Posted on February 16, 2015 by adrienneo

In amongst the romance of Valentine’s Day weekend, our members have been getting downright dirty! Muddy shoes, cross country fixtures, tackling Hill

Wadsworth Trog, Winter Warmer 10k and the rest of the week's action

Posted on February 9, 2015 by adrienneo

You’ve been trogging in Yorkshire, ripping along in Licolnshire, orienteering, cross country running and foggy winter road racing. Vets, seniors,

It's oh so quiet

Posted on February 2, 2015 by adrienneo

It’s oh so quiet, it oh so still. You’re all alone, and so peaceful until… you dig a bit deeper and find that, as always, our members are out and abo

Blake's Heaven, That's Lyth and the East Lancs Hospice 10k

Posted on January 26, 2015 by adrienneo

Sad News Sadly, two long-standing club members have passed away recently. John Amos Richard Lawson writes; our members will be sad to hear of the death o

I’m dreaming of a white………….

Posted on January 19, 2015 by seniors

Christmas passed with not a sight of the white stuff and then the skies opened this weekend, which in the end caused a little disruption to the racing. A n

There's no place like home, XC at Towneley and the rest of the week's action

Posted on January 12, 2015 by adrienneo

And the wind did howl, and the wind did moan… but it still doesn’t deter Clayton-le-Moors Harriers. We are a hardy bunch and a bit of a bre

Happy New Year!

Posted on January 5, 2015 by adrienneo

Happy New Year! Here’s to the new year ahead of us and all the challenges that it may bring. Our club members will no doubt have a huge range of ev