No picnic in the sunshine for Harriers
AN intensive warm weather session has just been completed by several junior Harriers’ members which took in the facilities of Club le Santa in Lanzarote.
This was no holiday picnic – rather an intense and structured training regime taking in all the sports facilities on offer at the purpose built complex.
While senior athletes Ross Millington headed for the same in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Jack Morris, Andrew Nixon and Kevin Action travelled to Aguilas in Spain. The twelve junior members enjoyed the hard work in the Canaries headed by senior coaches Mike and Joe Frost along with the assistance of parents Rachel Lasseter and Maxine Benson.
Stockport Harriers are extremely fortunate to be able to arrange these facilities for their up and coming junior athletes which consisted of more than 40 hours of hard work during the week with morning and afternoon training sessions, trips to the recovery ice baths and regular dips in the swimming pools.
Now they have returned for the real test during the summer months consisting of several league and individual meetings and none better to start off with than the annual club track and field championships at Woodbank Stadium.
The weather was brought back from the Canaries too which translated into a sunny and highly successful club championships with no less the forty of the most junior athletes taking part in the ever popular quadrathlon incorporated into the afternoon’s proceedings.
It consisted of a sprint race, vortex throw, 600 metres middle distance event and the long jump.
There were wins in the under 9s category for Imogen Webber for the girls and Isaac Reed in the boys’ event and in the older under