Preston Harriers' fell & trail running section . Some of our fell runners also do cross country and road running, but fell running is our main activity.Fell Running tends to be a Northern sport, the Lake District being the main centre for fell runners. The Harriers are the organizers of Paddy's Pole Fell Race, which usually takes place in June. Our junior fell runners are in a keen fell running section, you can read about them in juniorfellblog below. Preston Harriers running club was established in 1881. Mick McLoughlin the chairman of fellblog did the Bob Graham Round in 2005. Fell Runners are not as much bothered about PB's as they are about 3B's ( a local brewery).

The Harrier Magazine  Now Also Interactive! 

Harrier Magazine Feb 2006 is the first edition to go interactive, so it isn't all that good. 

While looking at this page it might help to also have your Harrier to hand! 

This interactivity allows the editor to open up to the readers some of the difficulties of the job. The main difficulty & I believe it always has been, is to get people to contribute articles. This edition had a crop of the usual contributors to whom I am very grateful. Without you there would be no Harrier. We need more like you. 

Within a short while of me completing the magazine, Alan Appleby arrived with a super article & loads of pictures, re Northern XC. Sadly they were too late for publication, so it gives us all the opportunity to now read Alan's piece & see his pictures in full colour. Felicity Cross sent us some pictures of  Sunday 29th Jan. Ladies Group fell running, they arrived by email, about one hour after I'd sent the Harrier to the printer. I can now show them also.

Front Cover

The picture on the front cover of Helen at 10k (with lucky Steve Hallas), is from Tony Croft at Fylde. We are grateful for that & here's another one he sent. (This was in the Gym awaiting presentation).

& these two were from blogger's camera. As always Helen's too quick for me. Here she is, there she's gone.

Helen gets her Course Record Bonus (again!)

Helen of course will be running at Melbourne in the Commonwealth Games. We will be glued to our seats supporting her.

Roger Bannister Letter        Page 3 Feb 2006 

If you have seen Page 3, there is an small piece on Malcolm Withnell. Mentioned is the letter from Bannister on breaking the 4 minute mile.

Junior Writing Competition Page 5 Feb 2006

Nichola Jackson takes the prize for Junior Writing, presented by Allan Appleby.

Nichola Jackson at end of Colwyn Bay Fun Run. (Her article was about this race).

The Llandudno 10k Start

Steve Jackson & Dave Preston (Wesham) (No 47) on their way to Colwyn Bay. The Llandudno 10k

Dare I say "Welcome" to Dave, he's going to join us soon! 

Jack Higginson Page 9 Feb 2006

A further picture of Jack can be seen on Maurice's Memory Lane section + a short explanation of how we came about the pictures.

Tiff & Helen        Page 9

Tiffany Moorcroft in her element! Further pictures of her & Helen at Maurice's Memory Lane section

Northern XC Page 14 Feb 2006 

Emma Deakin with Sarah Gohil close behind.

Nichola & Jessica at the start.

Nichola & her lost & found shoe! (Any excuse!)

Above,  Picture from Steve Jackson of  Northern XC. Rest below, from Alan Appleby 

All these fabulous pictures from Alan. & Now his report follows:-

N.O.E.A.A. 2006 Great North Cross Country Championships

The Harriers looked to have a strong U17 mens team this year and so it proved as Nathan Bibby came home 5^th in the 6km race, the first of our counters. Peter Street put in a good performance to come home 14^th with Dominic Baxter and Rob Jackson just 4 seconds apart in 29^th and 32^nd completing those to count. David Rigby, 54^th, and Rob Walsh, 118^th completed the team which came second place behind Leeds for silver. (151 took part).

Only two U13 girls took part, Nicola Jackson coming in 80^th after losing a shoe at the end of the start straight, but gamely carrying on, and Jess Crook 99^th giving a good steady run. (179 took part)

In the U15 boys Matt Lloyd had a great run to come in 6^th, with Matt Davison closely followed by Ben Anthony in 44^th and 54^th respectively putting in good efforts and Matt Wadsworth having a good run for 113^th to complete the counters. Lewis Robinson not at his best came in 148^th and James Walsh 168^th, also James Davies dug in for 187^th spot and completed the team which came seventh. (199 took part)

Our senior women fielded a team of Philippa Walsh 37^th, Marion Hesketh 85^th,Emma Deakin 96^th, Sarah Gohil 101^st coming in eleventh. All the ladies came back to the tent quite exhausted after giving their all, tales of sticky mud, gales by the river, and three times up that bloody hill ! Well done ladies. (244 took part)

A depleted U15 girls were led home by Sophie Fletcher 103^rd , with Emily Kevan 147^th , and Georgia Robbins 149^th, good efforts by the girls and not a moan from them. (163 took part)

We had two good performances in the U13 boys but once again we lacked numbers for a team. Richard Morrell was 15^th , closely followed by Kristian Bibby 25^th . Well done lads.

Kate Hindle was our first counter in the U17 women giving a good performance to come 7^th, with Steph Roe not far behind in 19^th spot. Georgina Burton gave a good effort to come 93^rd, once again we lacked a team.

The Senior men competing were Steve Hallas 88^th, Matt Livingstone 91^st, (you nearly had him Matt). Dave Partington 116^th, Ray Kenny 180^th, Kevin Hesketh 242^nd, John Rainford 281^st, (I’ll have to keep quiet about that run), Dave Watson 291^st, Ash Nixon 297^th, Steve Jackson 436^th, well done chaps it looked hard ! (579 took part).

We only had one U20 woman, Clare Kane, who though not at her best gave a gutsy run for 32^nd spot.

Ladies Group        Page 12

Far from the Madding Crowd? Well, Great Hill 29th January. Ladies Group.

Joe Howard amongst the Ladies Group

Looks like Maureen leading the Ladies Group

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Preston Harriers Fell Section :-  FELLBLOG  is the proud fell running section of the famous Preston Harriers Athletic Club. Our athletic club has been around for 126 years. We like to call it famous because it is what Brendan Foster calls us on BBC athletic programmes. We are well represented in Track & Field presently by our pride & joy, Helen Clitheroe.  We also have some accomplished road runners. Our Fell runners are a mixed bunch of beer drinkers, most fell runners seem to be like that! We do run lots of races, as can be seen in the site itself. We have a world record holder Pete Benson, you can read about his feat inside. We are pleased that you have visited our website, which of course is mainly about fell running. The website is based in Riley Green, where the blogger is also Mayor of Riley Green. If you want to see more about the club, you can visit our main site. Click here