It was a good weekend for off-road running and trail stalwart Mark McKinstry headlined club performances with a win on Saturday at the Sperrin Harriers Winter League and a second place finish on Sunday at the NIrunning.co.uk Trail Race. The Sperrin Harriers event was a five-miler at An Creggan, which McKinstry won in 27.32. On […]
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NI & ULSTER AGE GROUP INDOORS It was the indoors for the juniors at the weekend in the Meadowbank Arena, Magerafelt. The weekend started with the shortest race on the calendar, the 60m. First up were the U14’s with Aine Neilan and Isaac Jarmin both having good races to finish their heats to finish in […]
It was an unusually quiet on the running front this week with the weather affecting some of the few races that were scheduled to take place including the Sperrin Harriers Winter league race on Saturday. One race did take place however despite the windy conditions and that was the aptly named Roller Coaster 5k which took […]
Men Win Master’s Crown It was a big weekend for cross country, with the Northern Ireland & Ulster Junior, Intermediate, and Master’s Championships staged on Saturday 25th at Lurgan Park. In tough, muddy conditions, the Harriers’ men’s team lifted the title in the Master’s competition, romping home with 33 points to win comfortably over East […]
It was a relatively quiet weekend on the racing front but there were some noteworthy performances from Harriers nonetheless. Sperrin Harriers Winter Race Series 10km Performance of the weekend goes to Mark McKinstry for his win in the Sperrin Harriers Winter Race Series (Event 3 – 10km trail race). Mark was in an exciting battle […]
It was the annual Moira XC at the weekend with harriers out in both the juniors and seniors. In the mens race Connor Magill was first past the post finishing in 4th place while behind him harriers Paul Blaney and Eamon White had a great battle for a top ten finish – Paul finishing 10th […]
These are the words that North Belfast Harriers’ junior athlete Conal McCambridge used when he spoke about Coach Jimmy Nolan at his memorial service on 7 January 2014. Jimmy Nolan as Remembered by Conal McCambridge When I realised that I would have this opportunity to speak about Jimmy I immediately tried to think what can […]
The highlight of the week was the annual IAAF International cross country race held at CAFRE Greenmount Campus in Antrim on Saturday. The race which attracts some of the best international cross country runners to Northern Ireland each year once again had an impressive lineup including the current World cross country champion Japhet Korir (Kenya) […]
Jimmy Nolan (16 April 1943 – 1 January 2014), a much-loved and longstanding member of North Belfast Harriers (NBH), died on New Year’s Day after a lengthy illness. Best known in his later years as the lead junior coach for NBH, Jimmy served the club and the community for more than a quarter-century in capacities […]