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Match reports, club updates and announcements.
Young Outfit Put In Strong Display At Northern Cross-Country Relays
A youthful Morpeth Harriers Senior team ran in the Northern Athletics Cross Country Relays at Graves Park in Sheffield, where they placed 5th of some 60 teams from across the North of England. Run over four stages of two miles each…
Gavin Takes Silver At European Masters
Four members of Morpeth Harriers competed at the European Masters Athletics Championships in Funchal, Madeira.Over 70 Man Gavin Bayne completed his two events by finishing an excellent 94th in a talent-filled Half Marathon, when he won a…
Amy Fails To Knock Cat Off Course As She Wins Kielder Half
Storm Amy meant a truncated Kielder Marathon Weekend this year, with events scheduled for the Saturday rolled into the Sunday and a congested timetable which, however, still thankfully went ahead, and some ten blue and white vests turning…
YOUNGSTERS LEAD EFFORT AS NEHL RESUMES AT THORNLEY
The North East Harrier League resumed on 27 September with the opening fixture at Thornley Farm, just South of Peterlee, taking place in unusually (for the venue) clement conditions. A general push from all at the club involved with…
September Events Round-Up
BMAF Track and Field Championships, BMAF and NEMAA 5,000m and 10,000m The BMAF Track and Field Championships in Derby between from 11-13 September were the most keenly contested yet, with record numbers turning out to…
Cross Country Season Gets Underway At Farringdon
The 42nd Ken Jefferson Memorial Open Cross Country Races got the 2025/26 cross country season underway on Sunday 14 September. On a course at Farringdon that used to host a NEHL fixture – and was notorious for the…
Bronze Reward For Impressive Display At Northern Road Relays
The Northern Athletics Joe Galvin Road Relays saw the Senior Men of Morpeth Harriers finish third of over one hundred teams at a rain-soaked Leigh Valley Sports Village on 20 September, the team Bronze matching that won at Blackpool in…
Trail Group Initiative Kicks Off At Brough Law
John Butters is looking to put together a Morpeth Harriers trail running group to coach trail skills, hill strength, downhill and uphill running techniques as well as dealing with technical terrain. John is keen to put his coaching…
Morpeth Duo Pipped In 5K Opener To A Busy Gnr Weekend
The Great North Run weekend kicked off on Friday night with the Elite International 5k race round the one-mile circuit north and south of the Tyne over the Swing and Millennium Bridges between the Baltic and the Pitcher and Piano. A…
Cat Is First Woman To The Top In Ben Nevis Race
Some 600 entrants – all who had to pass strict entry requirements – took on the 4409 feet up and down Britain’s highest mountain in the annual Ben Nevis race from Fort William on Saturday. Morpeth’s Catriona…
NOTICE: NEHL meeting for Young Athletes and their parents
In advance of the new Harrier League season which begins at the end of the month, there will be a short meeting for athletes and their parents at 6.30pm on Monday 8 September at the clubhouse in advance of training.
Reports Round-Up
Watergate Trail Race The annual Watergate Trail Race over the customary 5k course in Watergate Park, Low Fell, incorporating the NEMAA Trail Championships, took place on the evening of Thursday, August 21 with a handful of Morpeth…