Clayton Vale Pictures

High resolution copies of the above picture are available from the Seniors' Rochdale website. The same page has many other pictures from the junior races at Clayton.

Just a quick note to say well done to every single Harrier junior who took part in the XC at Clayton Vale today, especially Chloe Bingham (who I hadn't even realised was going to turn up).

Colin Robinson told me today that the next fixture in the S.E.L. has been switched from Lilford Park (Leigh) to Leigh Sports Village. The date is still the same, Jan 15th.

Directions and instructions for Clayton Vale (Manchester) Cross Country fixture.

Link below

Click here for instructions and directions.

Any problems please give me a call on my mobile (number can be found on 'Contacts' part of Harriers website.

See you all tomorrow !!

Directions for South East Lancs Cross Country - Heaton Park

Link below opens file that has directions for closest parking for tomorrow's cross country.

https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9iNpMK9e6W2ZGIxMGU0YmMtMjNjMS00NmZmLTk2YjItOGMyNTMwMTljNTc0&authkey=CMr43KsF&hl=en

Interested in Trying Athletics?

All new Juniors interested in trying athletics (even if you aren't 100% sure) are invited, as a first step, to attend one of our the new starters' training sessions. These ~40 min sessions are held on the first Tuesday of the month, 6:20pm for 6:30pm start, Springhill Athletics Arena, Rochdale.

For further information you can contact one of our Juniors' Coaches.

2010 Fixture List

Brian Moore has kindly updated the Juniors' fixture list for 2010 (see column on right hand side).

Harriers Sportshall success

A record number of Rochdale Harriers junior athletes took part in the 3 event series of Sportshall events held at Sportcity, the last of which was held in late January.

In the series our U15 boys overcame a 19 point deficit after the second event to beat Sale Harriers Manchester by the narrow margin of 5 points and to thus finish first overall. Their points tally of 211 was the highest scored by any club/age category in the whole of the Sportshall event.

Members of the winning U15 Boys team.

Not to be outdone by their male counterparts the U15 girls, who were amongst a cluster of clubs vying for second and third place after the second event, took flight from the clubs around them in the last event and finished a comfortable second overall. This represents a tremendous performance as all of those who competed were competing as U15 girls for the first time, who knows what next year holds !!

Members of the U15 Girls team.

Rochdale also enjoyed success in the U13 boys age category where, in a mirror image of the U15 girls position after 2 events, the boys excelled in the final event to finish in second place overall.

Members of the U13 Boys team.

An honourable mention should also go to the U11 girls who finished in fourth place overall, who but for a slow start after the first event could well have finished in third overall.

Last SEL Cross Country fixture - change of date

Owing to a double booking the last Cross Country fixture in the South East Lancashire league will now take place one week later on Saturday the 13th of February.

Last Sportshall event at Sportcity

Just a quick reminder for all of our junior athletes that entered the Sportshall events at Sportcity .... this Sunday is the third and last of the 3 events. Same arrangements as usual, first event as 12, please be there for 11.15.

Training at Springhill tonight

Training will resume after our (longer than expected) winter break as we have been informed that the Sports Centre will be open as normal tonight. The only restriction is that there will be no track training.