The QUB 5km “Round the River” took place in Stranmillis last night in perfect racing conditions. Almost 700 runners took to the line for this event which is organised by students in the Queen’s Athletics Club and in association with Powerade. The race also served as an official warm up event for the Deep River Rock Belfast City Marathon. The race which was a 3 x 1.8km circuit, finished at the PEC and was perfect for racing providing runners with a line …
The 21st Park Run took place in a sunbathed Waterworks Park on Saturday morning. On a quiet day for local fixtures, an enthusiastic crowd of nearly 200 turned out for the start. Paul Carroll (Annadale Striders) took an early lead and maintained it, although Conor Curran was making good ground towards the end of the race. Carroll won in 16.24 from Curran in 16.34. Both runners will be looking for much faster times on Wednesday night at Queens. David Patton from Edinburgh Club Corstophine …
It was a day of mixed fortunes for two North Belfast Harriers at the Inter Counties Championships at the CAFRE Campus in Greenmount, Antrim this weekend. Stephen Scullion and Cathy McCourt were competing for Ulster against strong teams from England, Wales, Scotland, Republic of Ireland and the Midlands. The men’s race, held over 10.8km saw Stephen Scullion take the lead after approximately one mile. However, the chasing pack, including Jon Pepper (5th in the English National recently), Andy Wiles and Adam Hickey swallowed up …
North Belfast Harriers had another good day at the races in Larne with Sharon Bird winning the womens race in 1:20:05 (a new PB).Geraldine Quigley also had a good race to finish 8th woman in 1:34:14. In the mens race Jim Benson had his usual strong race to finish 11th in 1:17:04, Alan Ritchie continued his good run of form to finish 44th in 1:22:07,Laurence Johnston had a great race to finish 51st in 1:23:36, Gerard McNamara knocked a large chunk of …
North Belfast had another successful day at the office yesterday at East Down AC’s annual Jimmys 10k event. Stephen Scullion justified his favourite tag by demolishing the rest of the field and finishing one minute and eleven seconds ahead of the second place Joe McAllister. The men also won the team event with a good turnout. Other finishers included Eamon White in 4th, Michael Fitzpatrick in 10th, Alan Ritchie in 16th, Ian O’Neill in 41st, Gerard McNamara in 43rd, Paddy Hamill in …
Over the last few weeks, we have been busy developing a new NBH Facebook page for club members. To help you understand what Facebook is, what it does and how we intend to use it, we’ve set out some questions and answers below. We hope you enjoy using the new NBH Facebook page and that you will all help to develop it into a useful resource for everyone in the club. What is Facebook? Facebook is a “social networking” website where people …