Mens Health 10k Race (by John Tougher)

Date: 16/06/2013
Author: smartin
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Report by John Tougher – The annual fathers day 10k at Bellahouston park today nearly didn’t go ahead this year due to lack of funding. However they managed to secure enough and did a great job putting it on as usual. A new addition this year was the rascal race,…

Polaroid 10K Road Race Series 2013

Date: 14/06/2013
Author: smartin
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Round up of the Polaroid 10k Race Series. Having finally made my mind up at the tail end of the Winter that I wasn’t totally committed to a Spring Marathon to do it justice, I decided (after a wee chat with Club President and Coach Jim Young) that a good…

New Website Feature

Date: 14/06/2013
Author: smartin
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One of the new features of the new website is a facility where Members can now post experiences of any races they do, that they may wish to share with others. If anyone wishes to do a wee report, please get in touch with our website admin Eddie Tonner or myself,…

Scottish School Track & Field Championships big success for young Harriers

Date: 10/06/2013
Author: admin
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Categories: News & Results, Track & Field

The last 2 weeks have been a busy schedule for our youngsters starting with the West District, numerous Sports days across the county, East Ayrshire Schools, Youth Development League and Ayrshire Schools Track & Field Championships. The climax of this busy May / June fixture list is always the Scottish…

Cort ma Law Hill Race

Date: 07/06/2013
Author: amurray
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Categories: Hill Running, News & Results

Report by Mike Corson, our leading uphill runner For the average runner, hills, are an occasional Jim Young session in winter, or just something that gets in the way of a pb on a fast 10k course. For some it is the race itself! Wednesday evening saw three…

Young Harriers competing in the Youth Development League

Date: 05/06/2013
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Just under half of the Kilmarnock Harriers club filled the orange vests of the Ayrshire Team in the U13, U15 and U17 age groups for the second meeting of the Youth Development League (formerly Young Athletes League) at our home track in Kilmarnock. To many of the athletes, it felt…

Youth Development League huge success for Kilmarnock Harriers pole vaulters

Date: 05/06/2013
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Categories: Coaching, Featured Events, News & Results, Track & Field

Although I cautiously predicted 6 weeks ago that a Kilmarnock Harrier athlete might be ready to compete in the upcoming Youth Development League, I certainly did not suggest that our athletes could actually win their respective competitions. But that’s exactly was happened today, Cara Baillie (U15) and Hannah Bartl (U17),…

FIRST RACE TICKED OFF IN SENIOR CHAMPS AT LAND O’ BURNS

Date: 03/06/2013
Author: smartin
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Categories: News & Results, Summer Championship

Last Wednesday, 19 Kilmarnock Harriers joined a field of almost 250 athletes at the now annual Ayr Seaforth organised Land o’ Burns 10K Road Race. This was the first race in the 2013 Club Championship, and as such a competitive event took place. First lady on the night was Kara…

Kilpatrick Hill Race

Date: 02/06/2013
Author: amurray
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Categories: Hill Championship, Hill Running, News & Results

Next up for Kilmarnock’s growing band of hill runners was the 10.2km Kilpatrick Hill Race, just over the Erskine Bridge. Five Harriers took on this 426m ascent with Stephen Gilmour making another hill debut. This race involves a short road section to start followed by a relatively steep ascent which…

Final results West District

Date: 02/06/2013
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West District Championship proves to a big success for Kilmarnock Harriers part 2 Besides the numerous medals Kilmarnock won at this championship we also had many athletes in finals, e.g Kilmarnock was represented with three U18 girls in the 100m sprint final. In the U14 age group Kilmarnock was represented…