North Belfast Harriers Race Report 11th – 17th March 2024

This week many Harriers were making the most of the mid-March mass participation events with the Queens University 5k on Wednesday evening and the Craic 10k on St. Patrick’s Day. There were also plenty participating at a plethora of parkruns on Saturday morning as well as the usual training, coaching, volunteering and complaining about the raining! Queens University 5k.On Wednesday evening, before it got too dark, several hundred runners ran around the Annadale Embankment on the relatively flat course to see how …

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North Belfast Harriers Junior Report Sunday 10th  March – 17th March 2024

Following success from the All-Irelands school’s cross country this has been a quiet week for the juniors as training starts for track season. Well done to everyone getting started at the road races this week with the Queens 5k on Wednesday evening and the Craic 10k on St Patrick’s day. As always, we had a good number of juniors out completing a variety of park runs. Well done to everyone. Queens 3k Well done to Thomas, Cormac and Mason on completing the …

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North Belfast Harriers Race Report 04-10 March 2024

Derry City 10-miler This popular race, part of the Derry City Marathon series of races took place on Saturday morning with a sell-out field of over 500 runners. Starting in St Columb’s park the route took the athletes along the south bank of the Foyle to a loop of Gransha before crossing the river and returning along the north bank, crossing the peace bridge and finishing back at St Columb’s park. Four harriers made the trip and their results were: Pos Athlete …

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NORTH BELFAST HARRIERS JUNIOR REPORT 4-10TH MARCH 2024

This was a huge week for many of our NBH junior runners who succeeded in qualifying for the All-Ireland Schools Cross Country. Even though they were running for their respective schools, the background and training they have received with their club has undoubtedly helped them along the way to compete at the absolute highest level nationally. Fantastic results all round – well done everyone, you did your schools and your club proud. All Ireland National Schools XC 2024 (Tymon Park – Dublin): …

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North Belfast Harriers Race Report, 26th February – 3rd March 2024

North Belfast Harriers Race Report 26th February – 3rd March 2024  Shane’s Castle, Atlas Running Half Marathon and Marathon, Saturday 2nd March  It was gold for Michael Lamont in the half marathon on Saturday at Shane’s Castle! Michael Lamont, Zac Wilson and Sandy Carr were the representatives of North Belfast Harriers, competing at this meet staged by Atlas Running. All three ran well in their respective races, with Sandy finishing in 23rd place overall in the marathon, Michael finishing 1st and Zac finishing …

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North Belfast Harriers Junior Report 3rd March 2024

Just back up the road from the Cavehill Community festival and the place was buzzing.  Great to see many of our young runners in attendance and it wasn’t hard to spot the presence of the club gazebos. Well done to all involved. East Coast Athletics Club Cross Country Series Cross country season is coming to an end but the East Coast event in Larne gave some of our juniors a last chance to pull on the spikes and get after it. This …

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