North Belfast Harriers

After last week’s excitement with the Belfast City Marathon, and the club’s rather heavy racing schedule over the last few weeks, this weekend was comparatively quiet on the racing scene. But the Harriers produced three of the six individual winners in the three Belfast Park Runs (Alan Ritchie, Claire Connor and Lisa Sturgeon), and got [...]

Our sessions at the Boys model track are primarily geared for members of the club however members of other clubs who wish to train with our groups have been, and will continue to be, welcomed. Our coaches at the track work within the club structure and are mutually supportive and respectful of each other. We [...]

The annual Belfast city marathon took place  on Mayday in terrible weather conditions with large numbers of harriers taking part both in relay and full marathon duties. In the team relay Connor Magill went toe to toe from the start with the favourites giving the team a significant gap over the next team up. Connor [...]

In a week when many North Belfast athletes were concentrating on shorter distances on the road and track, Sharon Trimble Bird scored a victory at the 53-mile Scottish Ultra Trail Championship, a multi-terrain run along the West Highland Way from Milngavie to Tyndrum. Sharon Wins Scottish Ultra Championships Sharon, competing in just her second ultra, [...]

It was a major weekend in the road running calendar with several harriers making the journey to London for the olympic year marathon and large numbers participating in Northern Ireland’s biggest 10k in Titanic Quarter. London marathon In London Tommy Hughes had a great run to break 2:30 in 2:29:55 and finish 1st M50. Jim [...]

Rotterdam half marathon Breege Connolly had the race of her life in Rotterdam to demolish her PB by a massive 10 minutes. This made Breege the second Irish finisher and third in the list of Northern Ireland marathon times with 2:40:20. Next Irish finisher was Gladys Ganiel who was making her last attempt on the [...]

It was another successful weekend on the roads for North Belfast Harriers, with Cathy McCourt winning the Whitehead Easter Monday 5 Miler and Judi Graham returning from a long layoff to finish first at the Ballyliffin Coastal 10 Mile Challenge. The Harriers also had four of the six winners at the various Park Runs in [...]

Saturday saw the Northern Ireland half marathon championship take place in Omagh with a strong contingent of Harriers taking part and the men defending their team title. Connor Magill followed up his 2nd place at Larne with another great run for a new PB of 1:12:10 in 4th. Top vet Tommy Hughes took 8th place [...]

The Harriers enjoyed another successful weekend with athletes turning out in big numbers for events near and far. On Sunday at the British Master’s XC, the men’s over-55 team won gold and Cathy McCourt placed fourth in the women’s race (second in the over-35 category). Closer to home, Connor Magill continued his good patch of [...]