Blackburn Harriers ‘women fly high on hilly adventures’. After the very successful distance challenge completed by the Women’s Endurance athletes recently – organised by Rachael Gavin – which saw twenty two of them cover 134.14 miles,...
In this period of lock down whilst we all try to keep safe, athletes are keeping their training going so that they can come back in decent shape when the renewal of formal training and competition comes back into play. Focus on objectives is a difficult thing to...
Blackburn Harriers Spinters put together a novel way of doing some Endurance work by organising a Challenge for members of the squad, who were asked to run individual legs of 2k, 3k or 4k. The idea was to combine the times accumulated by each Team and see which one of...
The lockdown that is affecting all athletes and indeed all those involved in sport generally, has led to some very innovative ways of maintaining what we love to do best, training to compete against our peers in our event. It’s not easy to maintain focus and...
Blackburn Harriers & AC sadly announce the passing of Ken Adcroft on the 3rd April. Ken joined the Harriers as a fourteen year old in the early 1950s. George Kirby writing in the local paper in the 1970s described Ken as ‘a young lad living in Clitheroe who...
Many of you will have watched the excellent Netflix drama ‘The English Game’ created by Julian Fellowes of Downton Abbey fame. It tells the story of how professional football began and the rivalry between the Old Etonians football team and the working class Lancashire...
