The World Cross Country Championships were held in Tallahassee, Florida January 10th, taking place in weather conditions, unlike anything experienced here in Britain for cross country – the race being run in 25 degress and high humidity. The course was man made...
What a way to end the year for Blackburn Harriers. Our annual race – the Ribble Valley 10k, which also hosts the Northern Athletic 10k Road Champs and is included as the final race in the Top Flight 10k Series – attracted 1449 finishers on a pretty good...
Indoor athletics is in full flow and this week we report on the second of this years Sale Indoor Series held at Sportcity on Sunday 21st December at which a number of Blackburn Harriers athletes were competing in, many of whom were out for their first competitive...
This has been some year for Blackburn Harriers Matt Ramsden. It has been a year with some real highlights and some periods of having to deal with injuries – the bane of every athletes life for sure. In the last twelve months, Matt has set new personal bests for...
What a great week in the life of Blackburn Harriers athletes competing in Europe, the US and here in England. Where do we start. Well on Friday December 12th, David Holman was at the ‘Twas the Meet before Christmas’ in Winston Salenm (NC). The week before...
On the 25th January 1980, Michael Morton set Blackburn Harriers Club Record for the Indoor 3000m in Cosford at the National Championships, running 8.04.2. Some 45 years later, David Holman contested the 3000m indoors at Boston University Track & Tennis Centre on...
