Joe Moran and Platt Field 2013 announced

• The Sixth Joe Moran Memorial Veteran Track & Field Meeting is announced - 12th June 2013.
• Joe Moran - Location
• Joe Moran - Parking

• Platt Fields 10K Road Race is announced - 15th June 2013.
• Platt Fields - Course map
• Platt Fields - Directions

Manchester City Games, Bupa Manchester 10K & Bupa Kids Runs 2013

What a weekend, starting with Saturday 25th May with the City Games taking part in Manchester City Centre, with the Sprints down Deansgate and the Field Events at Albert Square. We were asked to come along by Nova to represent a local club, so 50 Athletes, Volunteers, Parents came along to support the events and show what a great event it is. We all got red wristbands to give us access to the trackside and were next to the athletes and their warm ups. All our members has a great time, especially Caitlin Carroll who was a wished Happy 12th Birthday, along with Molly, Caitlin and Alice who won signed t-shirts signed by the Athletes competing at the Games. The highlight of the day... more

Read the full article here

Adam Scott – We wish him all the best!!!

Adam Scott is 24 year old student/apprentice studying his Masters in Acoustics (sound) at Salford University. His contribution to Manchester Harriers Club has been most influential; his vibrant mood, caring attitude, immense energy, hard working mentality and leadership has been experience through-out training many a session and displayed with precision at track meetings/ competitions. Such fine attributes and skills has been recognised by a company in Hong Kong who head hunted Adam for his Acoustics talents. Good luck! They have hired the best!

Read the full farewell here

Startrack Summer Holiday 2013 booking now

To book your place on Startrack summer 2013 please see the flyer.

Last year was our tenth year of staging the UKA ACADEMY STARTRACK Athletic Sessions and they are getting more and more popular every year, with over 175 youngsters take part aged 7-15 years in 2012. All from the local community and a great turn out.

Click here to read a full write up of last year's activities.

Double success for Manchester Harriers

Ten qualify for Inter Counties Cross Country

The Club’s cross country section finished the season in style with ten members of the squad being picked to represent Greater Manchester in the Inter Counties Cross Country Championships in Birmingham.
Read full article.

Significant success for our juniors in the GM Championship

The club’s junior cross country section have enjoyed great success at the recent Greater Manchester Schools Cross Country Championships.
Read full article.

Greater Manchester Primary Schools Cross Country Championships 2013 Results

Results have been published for the Greater Manchester Primary Schools Cross Country Championships 2013

Golden Oldies - Northern Vets. Cross Country Championships

~ Sunday March 3rd, Warrington

This annual event was staged at Victoria Park, Warrington, on a flat, dry grassy course in sunny conditions. It is a mass start of all categories, male and female.

Take note all you “youngsters”! Third in the race was a M70 in 22.03 and the first M75 finished in 25.28. Read the full article here

Nick Beer Memorial 10k - in Llandudno 2013

The second weekend in February for the last 6 years has meant running the "Nick Beer Memorial 10k" in Llandudno for Jean Bayley and myself. Read the full article here

Primary Schools Cross Country League 2013

The Primary Schools Cross League has been in existence for over 40 years and is named after former member Wilf Richards.

• The league begins 28th September 2013.
• For more information please contact Ian Burnett 0161 485 2155 or i.b.burnett@googlemail.com.

February Half Term Startrack Indoor Holiday Sessions

This is our tenth year of staging the UKA ACADEMY STARTRACK Indoor Athletic Sessions and they are getting more and more popular every year, with over 100 youngsters take part aged 7-15 years in 2012. All from the local community and a great turn out.

• More information.
• Application form.

Annual Dinner 2013

The annual dinner will take place Friday 15th March 2013 at the Village Hotel, Cheadle.

£5,000 RAISED SO FAR - 12x12x2012

So far we have raised £5,000 with our participation in 12 marathons in 2012 and some more articles have been published about our experience (see links to the right).

Sports personality 2012

The Club has once again awarded one member of the Male & Female Senior Section who is considered to be the outstanding athlete/coach/offical/volunteer of the year.

Male Sports Personality of the Year 2012

• Winner - Ed Fazakerley
• Joint Runners up - David Henshaw & Adam Scott

Female Sports Personality of the Year 2012

• Winner - Wendy Woodhead
• Runner up - Charlotte Holmes
• Joint 3rd place - Jean Skitt & Clare Welch

Full article here.

South African marathon - Nelspruit

Waking up at 3.30am on a Saturday morning isn’t my idea of fun! Nor is waking up at 3.30am on a Saturday morning to run a marathon! Read more

Memories of the old M.A.C. track at Fallowfield and Manchester Athletic Club 1940s

My interest in running began when I attended Manchester Grammar School at Old Hall Lane, Rusholme, in 1946.

Earlier in the year the school had won the East Lancs Youth Cross Country Champs. with the youngest team ever in the under 18 event, I was only 13 at the time and was the 3rd counter. The boy who finished 2nd was Walter Hesketh of MAC, just 15 at the time.

London Olympics 2012

Having had such a wonderful time at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester I have been planning to volunteer ever since London won the games.

I signed up to be a Games Maker, did the training, went to the test event, got the uniform and accreditation, and even booked the Campsite near Hackney Marshes.

Read the full diary here.

Edinburgh Festival Weekend - part of the 12x12x2012

Manchester Harriers Senior Athletes once again attend and compete at the Edinburgh Festival Weekend.

The entrants were:

• 5k- Andrew & Debbie Beresford, Lesley Loftus
• 10k– Richard O’Regan
• Half Marathon– Debbie Beresford, Jenni Cunniffe, Stacy Benson, Ros Miles, Andrea Williams, Lorraine Kelsey, Wendy Woodhead, Alyson Adams, Kathryn Holmes, Lorraine’s Sister Helen Kelsey & Caroline Baba
• Marathon – Rachel Gorajala & Alan Finney

Read how they got on.

Joe Moran and Platt Field results

• The Fifth Joe Moran Memorial Veteran Track & Field Meeting - 13th June 2012.
• Platt Fields Races - 24th June 2012.

Sale 5 mile Race on Sunday 27th May 2012 at Wythenshawe park

On a perfect, hot morning, Manchester Harriers were well represented by 2 ladies and 7 men in the Sale 5mile race at Wythenshawe Park, a very good race and one which I always come back to every year.

Manchester Marathon - part of the 12x12x2012

I woke up to see grey clouds, drizzle and generally not very nice weather, trying to think positively I thought to myself better cold conditions than the roasting conditions we had run the Wilmslow half in a matter of weeks before and after all we will warm up once we get running, or would we? The answer to that is a big fat no!

New training location

Our regular Tuesday and Thursday training sessions have moved to Wythenshawe Park Athletic Track.

• Full address of training location here.

London Marathon 2012

Where to start – what a great experience the whole weekend was but I won't lie - it got tough at times - this was our first 'London' and it lived up to its reputation.

• Read the full article.

Easter Startrack Indoor Holiday Sessions

This is our ninth year of staging the AVIVA ACADEMY STARTRACK Indoor Athletic Sessions and they are getting more and more popular every year, with over 100 youngsters take part aged 7-15 years.

Primary League Cross Country Closes

The Mayor of Stockport was guest at the final of the Manchester Harriers' Primary League meeting. This was the last of the six meetings for the end of season awards. He used his football referee's whistle to start some of the last races before presenting the awards.

Wilmslow Half Marathon 25th March 2012

Congratulations to all our members who ran in the Wilmslow Half Marathon. We had over 30 running and a large number of those were supporting the 12-12-2012.

• Read the full article here.
• Photographs here.
• Results table
• Donate here and see how many donations have already been given.

Ladies Day at the Races

The 2012 Northern Vets. Cross Country Championships were held at the usual venue, Victoria Park Fields, Warrington, on Sunday 4th March. It’s a completely flat course, on grass, around football and rugby pitches.

Great North Western Half Marathon - Blackpool

Sunday saw Manchester Harriers compete in Blackpool on Sunday 26th February 2012 as part of the 12 in 12 in 2012.

Great day with a little wind but no rain and fairly mild. 6 Ladies and 2 Gentlemen from the club got there and on the start line for 11am, with supports on hand – Andrew Beresford, Andy Woodhead and Wendy’s Parents all ready with camera’s to capture the moment... read more

• Read the full article here.
• Photographs here.
• Donate here and see how many donations have already been given.

Northern Cross Country Championships 2012

Manchester Harriers and Athletic Club had a great day at the Northern Cross Country Championships.

Special praise is due for our Under 13 Girls team - Beth Barlow, Danielle Stringer, Eleanor Kenny, Zara Thompson and Megan Taylor who performed particularly well. We wish them well for the NATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS on Saturday 25th February 2012 in London.

Read the full article here.

12 in 12 in 2012

Read two more accounts of our progress in our attempt to raise 12K to upgrade and repair our track facilities.

Liversedge Half Marathon – Sunday 12 February

Brass Monkeys – Sunday 22 January 2012

Donate here and see how many donations have already been given.

12 in 12 in 2012

12 half marathon's in 12 months with a minimum of 12 athletes in each marathon all with the aim of raising 12k to upgrade and repair our track facilities.

• Donate here and see how many donations have already been given.
• Information about the challenge and a article on the first marathon.
• Photographs

England Athletics North West Athletics Awards 2011

Manchester Harriers & A.C. have a successful evening!

We won the prestigious Development Club of the Year award, Brenda and Arnold Bradshaw won the Services to Officiating award and Ian Burnett was given an award for Services to Athletics

Manchester Harriers was the only club to win so many awards.

See our award headlined on the England Athletics website
Read our full article here.
Read the England Athletics write up of the evening including our successes
See the photographs here.

Track Appeal Launched

We have launched a Giving site for the Track Appeal and need to raise over £80,000.

Please read this newsletter to see how we can meet our target.

Donate to Track Appeal here.

Manchester Harriers Win Quadkids Under 11 Competition!

Congratulations to our athletes for finishing 1st in the U11 age group. A big well done to the individual winners also, in U9 Malikai came 1st in the boys category and in the U11’s Megan Taylor finished in 1st place & Beth Smyth 2nd in the girls. Sale Harriers took 1st place in the U9’s but our athletes pushed them all the way.

Read the full article here.

Star:track August 2011

This was our eighth year of staging an AVIVA ACADEMY STARTRACK Athletics Session. They have become more and more popular with each passing year. Over 100 youngsters, all from the local community and aged 7-15 years, took part this year.

Read the full article here.

Jessica Ennis, World and European Champion, visits Manchester Harriers

We were very lucky on Thursday 4th August to get a visit from Jessica Ennis, the World and European Heptathlon Champion who was visiting the area as part of the countrywide promotion of the AVIVA STARTRACK programme for UK Athletics.

Read the full article here.

Cruise to the Finishing Line

The cruise of a lifetime was turning out to be Butlins at sea – we were several hours late in arriving in the Caribbean; Joy and Nina’s luggage had been left out in the rain and the colours in their clothes had all run; gales were forcing P&O’s flagship vessel to stay at sea rather than visiting some of the ports we had booked to visit; there were fights over sunbeds; and passengers were generally running amok.

Read the full article here.

Edinburgh Festival Weekend

It all started with a passing comment on how it would be nice to organise a trip away with a race attached and by the time we had finished we were all on our way to the Edinburgh Festival Weekend with a choice of 5k, 10k and Junior races.

Read our personal accounts of a great weekend here.

Wilmslow Half Marathon 2011

Sunday 27th March saw a Marvelous turn out from the Senior Section of Manchester Harriers & A.C. to compete in the Wilmslow Half Marathon 2011, with some running for the first time with a number of experienced and well practiced runners. Read more & results

Mayor of Stockport presents awards

Jenni Cunniffe leaving party March 2011

Northern Vets Cross Country Championship

Primary School Cross Country League Saturday 6th November 2010

Norwich Union Star:track Summer Athletics Week

Inca Trail Marathon by Rachel Gorajala

North of England Track and Field meeting at Woodbank Park
~ Stockport Saturday 31st July (Round 4)

Flying coach visit (Shelley Quarin)

Stockport Schools Sports Partnership QuadKids
~ 15th June 2010

Lorraine Kelsey and Rachel Gorajala
~ Edinburgh Marathon May 2010