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Final Track & Field League match of the season sees excellent performances by combined Yeovil & Wells team

Details: Written by: Paul Chadwick; Created: 09 September 2015; Last Updated: 12 September 2015; Hits: 2629

The final league match of the season took place on Sunday September 6th at Exeter Arena when the combined Yeovil & Wells team competed in the 4th fixture in Division One. There were some terrific performances across all the age groups, with Harrier's achieving personal bests at some events. For some of the juniors this followed on from the previous weekends endeavours at Bedford when they competed hard at the u15 & u17 English Championships. At Bedford, Vicky McCabe finished 5th in the u15g long jump with 5.35m, whilst Ollie Thorner was 6th at the u15b High Jump with a 1.72m clearance. Caitlin Carnegie was 3rd and thus English Bronze medal winner, in the u17w 1500m Steeplechase final with 5mins 14secs ;and Elise Thorner was 4th in her u15g 800m heat (12th fastest out of 24).(Photo of Vicky below by Al Thorner).

3 peaks, 3 geeks & a bone that creaks - please vote!

Details: Written by: Webmaster; Created: 07 September 2015; Last Updated: 07 September 2015; Hits: 3287

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Ash Road races Wells Harriers out in force

Details: Created: 06 September 2015; Last Updated: 06 September 2015; Hits: 2761

Sunday 6th Sept saw the next instalment of the Somerset series Ash 8.

First race of the day saw Bradley Glover win the 2k fun run in a rapid time of 8min 10 sec to win by 19 sec which ended up costing Nathan Young a slice of cake in a losing bet, hope you enjoyed the cake Bradley

Next race up was the fearsome five one of our top juniors Luke Prior took 1st place in 29min 54 sec for the 5.2 miles, the battle for 3rd was between Mike Glover and Robbie Hawkins with Robbie taking 3rd using his track speed to Pip Mike (1st vet 40). Next home was George Mallinson in 6th with 35.47 closely followed by v40 Simon Prior 7th 36.26, Pete Wright 11th 41.18 1st vet 60, Jenny Adams 29th for 1st vet 65

in the main event Ash 8 again slightly over distance saw a great race at the front Somerset series leader Kerian Young come home 2nd in 50min 37 sec closely followed by Tim Hawkins 3rd (1st vet 40). Justin Thomas always improving ca e in in 7th for 54.47, Graham Goldsmid 22nd 1hr 01sec to finish of Wells men team who came 1st team. Leading the women home for a 2nd week was Claire Prosser 1st women and vet in a time of 55min 17 sec. With fellow Wells City Harrier Cath Goldsmid 69th 1hr 17 min.

Baltonsbourgh Wells Harriers take top spots

Details: Written by: Pete Wright; Created: 05 September 2015; Last Updated: 09 September 2015; Hits: 3133

Baltonsborough 5 mile and Juniors 1.5 mile races 31st August 2015

The 21st annual set of races around the village lanes of Baltonsborough took place on Bank Holiday Monday With 65 finishers in the 5 mile road race and with the junior and fun run race distance of 1.5 miles attracting 35 runners which started immediately after the 5 mile race.Full results on the dedicated website at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Congratulations to Kieran Young and Clare Prosser, winners of the longer event and Dylan Dukes and Jemima Stillwell winners of the 1.5 miler.

Wells juniors push Bristol and West senior men

Details: Written by: Simon Prior; Created: 31 August 2015; Last Updated: 31 August 2015; Hits: 2471

Wells City Harriers sent 2 teams on Saturday 30th Sept to Avon road relays at Cleeve as guests.
On a 5k course that was testing our men's team pushed Bristol and west all the way losing out by just over a minute in the end and 1st open category men's team. With a team of:

Ollie Fox, Kieran Young, Ollie Dickinson, Luke Prior and a combined time of 1hr 5min 37 sec Oliver Fox had his 2nd course record in a week.

Wells City Harriers also had a mixed team of husband and wife's
Katrina Prior, Mike Glover, Deb Glover, Simon Prior
With a combined time 1hr 22 and 1st mixed team home

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