April 1st: Let us be thankful for fools, but for them, the rest of us could not succeed. As the long road of marathon training continues, the marathon runner can sometimes begin to doubt oneself. Sometimes the body does not want to do this. As you run it can tell you to stop. But the…
It was back to basics for many Harriers this weekend, parkrun on Saturday and those training for spring marathons, continuing to up their game and the miles as the weeks’ until race day reach the digits of one hand. With the clock hand moving forward, the extra evening daylight, can give one a more eagerness…
Mallusk Harriers Club Report: 19th March 2017: Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts, and the trail you blaze will leave others in your wake. Friday 17th March 2017. St Patrick failed to turn up the dry side of the stone this year, for the annual Craic outing in central Belfast….
Mallusk Harriers Club Report: 12th March 2017. As the week turns, the digits of one hand tell we are close and that Larne is almost upon us. This is a good week for preparation. One of the times that the Benjamin Franklin quote springs to mind, ‘By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.’…
Mallusk Harriers Club Report: March 5th 2017. Wednesday just past was the 1st March, the end of the metrological winter and as they say in these parts; the day the crows build their nests. Spring is upon us and the Carlingford Half Marathon traditionally kicks off the official start of the half marathon season. However…
Mallusk Harriers Club Report: February 27th 2017 To Dare Is To Do. A rather arduous weekend for our dedicated Harriers, as they had to endure a deluge of rain and gales, as winter tightened its grip. In between the double act of storms’ Doris and Ewan, club members participated in local parkrun’s and other events…
Mallusk Harriers Club Report: 19th February 2017 While you were sleeping…. Every morning my alarm goes off. My body still aches from yesterday’s run. I’ve a long day ahead, but still I get up and run. Through the pain, self-doubt, the rain, or sleet and sometimes snow. Freezing temperatures, head winds, and up the hills;…
Mallusk Harriers Club Report: February 13th 2017. Mallusk Cross Country : So cold blows the chill of winter wind. The trees that branches bare The slightest blink of the season sun, its rays once more so rare. And so again they gathered, with the threat of snow they dared. In the footsteps of Olympians they…
Mallusk Harriers club report: February 5th 2017. Time taken to improve oneself is time well spent…. Last Friday, it was 50 days to the Larne Half Marathon, 7 weeks until race day. Some may not need reminded, others may not want reminded, but as anything that is worth doing, having the correct mental ethic will…
Mallusk Harriers Club Report: January 29th 2017. If Carlsberg did running clubs….. They would probably model it on Mallusk Harriers. It may not have been the temperature of North Africa, as it was for Sir John Mills, Sylvia Syms and company in this wartime movie classic, but the weather was ice cold in Antrim for…
