Liverpool Harriers Athletics Club
25/03/13(5.30pm)
Club News (5) - Includes the results from this weekend.
03/02/13 (10.30pm)
Its been a busy weekend for our club athletes with The Merseyside County Schools XC Championships yesterday at Wavertree - Results
In addition the BUCS XC Championships were held at Leeds. We had a number of athletes in the event being Ben Russell (24th in A race) Ash Chambers also ran but was missed off the results- Results
Today a number of athletes went to compete in the Alsager 5 - Dave Mountford (17th), Ricky Challinor (26th) Maria Barrett (67th) but 6th female to finish in a big field and Eddy Devlin (139).
Well Done to all - Results
29/01/13 (11am)
19/01/13 (8.45pm)
Northern XC Championships 2013 - Knowsley Safari Park
On a snowy Saturday morning the NA XC Championships took place on the fields adjoining Knowsley Safari Park but on Lord Derby's estate. The first the event was the U17 Women and although we had one athlete entered she gave up on the weather. Hopefully this age group issue will be resolved next year onwards.
The Junior Women ran with a number under age and took the runners up spot in the team event - Katherine Walker was the first counter in 9th place followed by Rebecca Donohue in 15th and Olivia Perez in 17th place. Well done ladies.
The Under 13 Girls had a good squad out but just finished outside the medals in 5th place. The team was Bethan Strange (5th), Lucy Miller (8th), Emily Gray (28th), and Jesicca Cook (88th). The rmainder finished as follows Amelia Williamson (89th), Grace Preston (92nd), Maddy Broad (101) Emily Lucas (107), and Jasmine Gorman (122).
Thge U17 Men who won the team award last year had to be content with 4th place with Daniel Jarvis (5th), Abdi Sharif (38th), Kristian Quirk (43rd) and Lee Dobson (49th). Others placed were Callum Grant (68th) and Chris Manning (93rd).
Thge U13 boys had a full team but finished in in 13th place, the majority of the boys were a year underage theregore they did well under the conditions. The team was Max Brame (55th), Andrew Grant(66th), Daniel Preston (82nd) and Josh Lowe(106).
The Under 15 Girls finished 10th place with the counters being Sophia Brennan (7th), Abbie Gray(59th), Melanie Cattell (76th) and Isobel Haygarth(81st). In addition Emily Rowe (95th) with Lucy Cattell (99th)
The Under 15 Boys with majority being under age finished in 7th place with 50% of the team being placed Tom Clarke(50th), Ryan Doubtfire(52nd), Elliott Colman(70), Tom Rogerson(75th), Christian Woods(80th), Sean Keyes (114th), Ben Campbell (123rd) and Tom Smith (125th).
Although 5 members had been entered in the Junior Men's race only 3 finished being Jamie Webb (37th), Ashley Chambers (56th), Nzimah Akpan (64th).
The Senior Women did well to finish in 6th place, with the counters being Laura Quine (23rd), Liz Egan (30th) who flew over from Ireland and had a terrrible journey, Seonaid Murray (35th), and Sophie Whiteside (47th). Others who also finished well were Sarah Jackson (94th), Vicky Unsworth (133rd), Karen Dalby (177th).
The Seniuor Men's team finished in 8th place with Richard Burney (26th), Ben Russell (36th), Adam Peers (96th), Laurie Luscombe (110th), Alan Ashton (140th) and Ian Lawton (146th). Others who finished were Robbie Collins (153rd), Lee Midghall (155th), Glen Groves (188th), Peter Belcher (237th), James Cassidy (248th), and Sion Wynne Williams (275th).
I appreciate it was tough for all but those who competed and finished well done. I spoke to Bud Buldaro one of the country's top distance coaches who loved the venue and course. Coming from him its a good reference.
Plenty of pictures on Facebook
19/01/13 (12.10pm)
Mystery 5k dates arranged
Please see Fixtures / Results 2013 XC and Road column on left
14/01/13 (4.30pm).
Harriers athletes run at school XC event at Arrowe Park on Sat
see link on left for full results
14/01/13 (10.00am)
13/01/12 (8.30pm)
Harriers Athletes win medals over 2 days at the Northern Indoor Championships at Sheffield.
Yesterday Day (1) - Anna Rowe ended up with a Gold in the U15G LJ (5.05m) and two Silvers 60mH (9.80) and SP (9.41m). Jack Meredith won the Snr Men's 60mH (7.96) and Rachel Thomas was third in the Snr Womens PV (3.40m)
On Day 2 - Mike Hartley won the U20M HJ (1.90) with Alex Rafferty taking 2nd place (1.85m) but Aylish Mackenzie also won the U17 Ladies HJ (1.65m) whilst Sam Meredith was 2nd in the U17Men TJ (12.42m). Craig Jones was 3rd in the Snr Men's LJ (7.05m). A number of other athletes travelled over to the event but were unplaced. Well done to all.
Katherine Walker ran for the North of England at the McCain Cross Challenge in Antrim and finished 21st in the Senior Women's race even though she is a first year Under 20. Matty Shirling had his England call up in the IAAF Junior Men's race and finished 13th overall) but 10th in his race. Also Adrian Webb took some U17 Men over to the same event and they finished Dan Jarvis (15th), Abdi Sharif (17th) and Lee Dobson (30th). Well Done to all.
A number of our athletes especially the U11 G travelled to the Manchester XC League and Katie Miller and Ella McNiven were placed 1st and 2nd respectively in their race.
06/01/13 (09.00).
Harriers results in County Championships
29/12/12 (1.30pm)
Club Training Nights
Many groups have arranged their own training over the Xmas period.
The clubhouse will re- open on Thursday 3rd January 2013.
Happy New year to you all.
28/12/12 (12.30pm)
Congratulations must go to Matty Shirling who has been selected to represent England in Antrim at the McCain Cross Challenge International meeting on the 12th January. Although Matty is still an u17 he has been selected to run as a Junior. Best of luck.
28/12/12 (12.30pm)
Mike Dooling has taken on the temporary post of creating
a bi-weekly club newsletter
23/12/12 (2pm)
Xmas Handicap - Just over 50 members turned up for the two races today.
The Fastest Lap's were done by -:
Senior Men - Ian Lawton
Senior Women - Mel Cattell
U14 Boy - Christian Woods
U14 Girl - Lucy Miller
19/12/12 (09.00)
Northern XC Championships Knowsley Safari Park
Sat 26th January 2013
Click link for course and location - Link
13/12/12 (2pm)
Congratulations to Katherine Walker who has been selected to represent the North of England at the McCain Cross Challenge Cross Country Meeting in Antrim on 12th Jan 2013. A big well done must also go to her training group and last but not least her coach Tony Clarke. Well Done and best of luck.
10/12/12 (3.30pm)
All the results from the weekends XC and NA Open Indoor Meeting
02/12/12 (12.15pm)
Leo Carroll (Wirral AC) has collected news cuttings reporting on the
Liverpool and District XC League on its first decade -1891 - 1901
Also results from 1891 to 2011
28/11/12 (2pm)
Club History from 1882 to 1970's now on site
19/11/12 (1pm)
Club Senior Presentation Evening.
In West Derby last night the club hosted its Senior Presentation evening where over 100 attended.
The Annual Athlete of the Year award was for the first time shared between
Katarina Johnson - Thompson and David Devine.
Awards winners were - link
Posted 18/11/12 (6pm)
A number of Harriers Athletes travelled top Leeds for the Abbey Dash.
Posted 16/11/12 (6pm)
At the 12th Merseyside Sporting Champions Dinner recently held at Liverpool’s Adelphi Hotel was the prestigious annual occasion organised by the Merseyside Sports Partnership.
The award for Lifetime Achiever was shared between Liverpool’s Alan Lynch and Knowsley’s Mike Dooling. Mike has contributed to athletics in Knowsley for more than four decades as an official, coach, volunteer and teacher.
He also is the development officer and committee member at Liverpool Harriers AC. Welll done
Posted 11/11/12 (4pm)
Matty Shirling last night was named as the Club's YA of the Year and won the
' Ernie Gallagher Memorial Shield'
Full report of award winners and pictures when received
Thanks must go to Niki Rowe who organised and produced the certificates along with Rosie who secured funding along with Kristine, Cath, Margy, Debbie, Viv and Mike Dooling who was on the' mike' for the presentations
A big thanks also needs to go Olympian/Paralympians - Katarina and David along with Craig, Mike and Alex for giving up their time so generously to present the awards to the young athletes and making it such a good night.
Posted 11/11/12 (4pm)
Harriers athletes turn out at Sherdley Park on a sunny but muddy course
Posted 11/11/12 (4pm)
From the NOE TF AGm todays - dates and venue confirmed
Posted 05/11/12 (11.30am)
National XC Championships as Sunderland Sat .23rd Feb 2013
One of our coaches has found a hotel chain in the area at under £30 pp per night.
Please contact Taff Williams (Club Sec) for details of location.
Posted 05/11/12 (09.40am)
Mixed days results at National XC Relays on Sat 3rd November at Mansfield on a dry but chilly day. The U17 Men continued to excel with runners up place on the day. Matt Shirling cut down the gap to just over 7 seconds from the winners. The U13girls ran well to finish 9th out of 89 complete teams and the U15girls 15th out of 96 teams. The U15boys were 35th and 52 respectively out of 81 teams. Two of the lads in the A team were running under age and were last year part of the winning Northern Rd and XC team. It was nice to see a Junior Women's team who finished 12th out of 26. The Junior men's team were 40th out of 58. Senior Womens teams were entered but DNA on the day? In the Senior Men's team Matt Jackson had a chip issue and poor Harry Harper is shown as doing a lap of over 36 mins. The time would have finished the team in 24th place out of 157
Posted 29.10.12 (3.30pm)
Katherine Walker was the 1st woman to finish in the Sunday league XC Meeting at Clarkes Gardens yesterday with Laura Quine second and Rebecca Donohue was 5th. Kristisan Quirk who is coming back from a layoff was 6th man. Well done to all.
Posted 28.10.12 (6.30pm)
Matty Shirling runner up at Bristol in the first of the McCains XC Challenge races.
Posted 28.10.12 (4pm)
James Riley wins the first L and D XC race at Beacon Park and Harriers were first team.
Posted 28.10.12 (4pm)
Jonny Mellor finishes 7th at the Bupa Great South Run
10 mile Road Race at Portsmouth in a time of 47.35.
Posted 21st October 2012 7.45pm)
Harriers Athletes star at the Amsterdam 1/2 Marathon and 8K race -
Maria Barrett won the ladies race in 1hr 19min 48secs and was followed in by Sarah Jarvis with a time of 1hr 25mins 52 sec. Alan Ashton finished in 26th place with a time of 1hr 16mins and 32secs followed by Eddie Devlin in 1hr 26.18mins.
For full results please follow link.
On the same day Sophie Whiteside won the Amsterdam ladies 8k in a time of 28min 55secs.
Please follow link for full results
Posted 19th October 2012 (2.00pm)
Below are the images of a recently published book about the life of ' Benjamin Howard Baker'. His achievements in sport were amazing. He was an Olympic Hugh Jumper, England Goalkeeper, Cricketer, Swimmer and Diver, Tennis and water Polo Player. But most of all he was a ' Liverpool Harrier'
The book is available from most bookshops at a small price of £12.99. The author is Bob Phillips
Posted 19th October 2012 (1.40pm)
The Chair' of the club Mike Holmes has produced a magazine to celebrate this summers success and following on from the good work Frank Davies did with the previous website and magazine.
Please click here to view parts of the magazine
Posted 19th October 2012 (00.01am)
Wirral 10K / Liverpool Marathon
Three of Tony Clarke's athletes took the podium places in the woman's race at the Wirral 10k on Sunday, first home was Rachael Burns in a massive PB of 37:33 90 seconds faster than her old PB. In second place was Sophie Hunt in 37:46. Third was Sarah Jarvis who also smashed her previous PB by a massive 3 minutes and 20 seconds to run a brilliant 38:38 clocking.
The men of the club didn't let us down either with Carl Mountain 4th in a time of 36.19, Peter Brame was 5th in 36.32 and Gareth Howell 6th in 36.45.
Full results available - here
In the Liverpool Marathon Richie Burney came an excellent 4th in a time of 2hrs 35.24.
Full results available - here
Also on the 30th September at the Swinton 10Mile Road race Maria Barret finished 2nd lady in a very impressive 60:17 on whats described by many runners in the North-West as the toughest 10 mile race around. Well done Maria and good luck to her on this weekends Amsterdam Half-Marathon.
Posted 16th October 2012 (11.30pm)
Senior Presentation Evening
Sun 18th November 2012
West Derby Conservative Club
7.30pm for 8pm
Tickets £10
Posted 16th October 2012 (11.25pm)
Junior Squad Prize Night
Sat 10th November 2012
7pm to 10.15pm
Aquatic Centre - Wavertree
Please see Niki Rowe for tickets (£2)
Cross Country Relays Championships 2012 Young Athletes Report
6 th October 2012
It was a tough day for Yorkshire clubs on their home ground as North West clubs made a big impact at Graves Park in young athletes cross country relays.
Under 17 Men
Liverpool Harriers under 17 men made an impressive showing at Leigh last month picking up the Northern road relay title. They carried this momentum into the opening cross country event by adding the cross country relay title to the road relay title. Electing to use the same team as they ran at Leigh, Wriggleswoth led off coming home forth and he was followed by Dan Jarvis who moved them up to second while Matt Shirling 6.49 running the fastest time of the day brought Liverpool home for the title. The same three athletes in the same running order as they used at Leigh for the road relay title. Lincoln Wellington claimed the silver by virtue of Trafford being disqualified Derby AC took the bronze medals
Above article from NA website.
Thanks to Ernie Greenwood and Dave Hewitson
For more photos from this event visit
http://www.noeaa-athletics.org.uk/Pages/Article.aspx?ID=71&articleid=499
Posted 15/10/12 (09.52)
On Sat 13th October the re - arranged English Road Running Association Mens 6 stage Road Relays took place at Clumber Pk, Nottingham. On the day Jonny Mellor ran the fastest leg in 14.23mins and the men were runners up to Newham and Essex Beagles AC. Our 'B' team also did well to finish 21st place and were first 'B' team - Results
In the ladies 4 stage Road Relay our team finished 13th place and the 'B' team finished in 32nd place. Results