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…
Resting on a crest of a wave… The opening round of events over the previous two weeks took place at Stormont estate with the Run in the Dark 5km & 10km races, with quite a few of the Mallusk Harriers taking on the folks on the hill and certainly laid down the law with a…
Superman eats kryptonite for breakfast… Many thanks to all the Harriers out running and volunteering at the events over the last few weeks… Honestly have been totally blown away this past week and lost for words, so no holding back and straight into the results… Parkruns 5th November Waterworks – Danny Donaldson 19:53, Robbie Gould…
Don’t half make it tough… With over 1,000 ladies taking part in the Runher event, 16 of our very own athletes took on both the 5k and 10k distances with many of our runners recording new Personal Bests for the distances. First up for the 10k saw Deborah Ewing cross the line in 50:27, Tina…
Slacking, me not you… Apologies I haven’t kept on top of the report over the last few weeks, no excuse, irons in to many fires, if truth be told. Anyway rewinding a few weeks previous the club had the luxury to progress from the previous year to enter an additional 2 teams in this year’s…
Just calm down, for now… This week’s running report begins in Oslo Norway, where Sarah Dinsmore was taking on the Oslo marathon for the charity Extern in memory of her father, who sadly passed away earlier this year. Sarah put in a stirling performance and just missed out in achieving a new PB, however she…
Indian summer and Beetroot bakes… Growing steadily over the last two years, the Mallusk Harriers representation at the Laganside 10K in 2014 had a grand total of 6 runners in the field, this grew to 34 the following year only to be eclipsed this year with a total of 47 members taking on the new…
