Harriers in action in Horsham and beyond
The return of Mel’s Milers 10k race at Christ’s Hospital near Horsham drew a good number of Haywards Heath Harriers.
Mel’s Milers Jogging Club was founded in 2000 by Melanie Marlow to provide a daytime running club at Bluecoats Sports Centre, Christ’s Hospital School, where there were crèche facilities, enabling parents with young children to run.
Over the years the club has grown and although many of its members no longer use the crèche facilities, this facility is still available.
The return came with a new multi terrain route that started in Christ’s Hospital and ran along a part of the Downs Link before going around the cricket club and down to Southwater. The route returned back to the Downs Link and returned to Christs Hospital.
Bradley Burke was 1st in 34:07 for Horsham Blue Star Harriers; Dan Oppe 2nd in 36:47 for Lingfield RC; Kev Howarth 3rd in 36:58 for Petts Wood Runners.
Haywards Heath Harriers results: Gemma Morgan 131st, 53:01; Marion Hemsworth 161st, 56:10; Michael Parish 211st, 59:55; Sarah Heron-Smith 239th, 01:02:18; Caroline Gumm 301st, 01:10:05; Richard Bates, 303rd, 01:10:23; Rupert Purchase 318th, 01:13:15.
This was Caroline Gumm’s first official 10km run with Haywards Heath Harriers.
Michael Parish took part in the return of the Cardiff University Half Marathon.
A run across 13.1 miles around Cardiff took in Penarth, Cardiff Barrage and the Millennium Centre.
Cardiff University runs the largest half marathon outside of London and its return brought 25,000 runners to the capital, raising thousands of pounds of charity.
Starting with a warm-up the day before Michael completed the Ynysangharad 5k Parkrun at Pontypridd with a time of 27:15. He then went on to finish the half marathon in 02:27:14.
Other Harriers results Simeon Wishlade ran in the ultra starting and finishing at Eastbourne. He finished in 4 hours 31 minutes and 22 seconds.
Daniel Moll-Morgan and Abby Ross had brilliant runs at Goodwood, Daniel finishing the half marathon in a personal best time of 1.16.21 and Abby finishing as third lady in the 10k race in super time of 42. 39 which was a new personal best for her.
At the Crawley Athletic Club’s Graded Early Spring Open (which is the first track meeting of the year in Sussex), Maya Brazier ran in the Under 13 Girls’ 1200 metres race and she finished in a personal best time of 4min 41.67sec.
Kleri Tantele threw the javelin 24.88 metres. Parkrun round-up Young Noah Perrett ran a two minute parkrun personal best time at Clair park. At the same parkrun, young Annabel Axford knocked off two seconds from her parkrun best. Both youngsters run and are trained by the Harriers coaches.
Clair parkrun – 2nd Sam Fernley 18:23, 3rd Ewan Kemsley 18:35, 7th George Adams 20:46, 9th Paul Cousins 20:51, 10th Pete Francis 21:03, 14th Noah Perrett 21:39 (pb), 15th Andy Dray 21:56, 22nd Isobel Russell 22:51, 25th Jason Robinson 23:06, 28th Eric Hepburn 23:36, 30th Katie Reed 23:51, 34th Bob Adams 24:10, 39th Annabel Axford 25:08, 47th Mark Sykes 25:47.
Tilgate parkrun- 2nd James Collins 17:46.
Bryn Bach parkrun – 15th Simon Robinson 20:18.
Preston Park parkrun – 8th Graham Hart 19:55.
Weymouth parkrun – 6th Finlay Blythe 18:08, 47th Noah Blythe 22:53.
Bognor Regis parkrun – 3rd Jonathan Beckett 18:35.
Worthing parkrun – 3rd Will Grey 17:28 (pb).
Lancing Beach Green parkrun – 35th James Smyth 24:48.
Uckfield parkrun – 27th Carl Bicknell 28:23, 36th Kath Buckeridge 29:49.
Haywards Heath Harriers are running a ‘Get Into Coaching’ campaign to encourage more coaches to get involved with the club.
With sponsorship available to get qualified, there’s never been a better time to get into coaching.
Details are on the Haywards Heath Harriers website.