Christmas comes early

It was a bumper weekend for the Hermitage Harriers as the festive season got into full swing with three events over the first weekend of December.

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County Champs at Carl Rutt 10K

Sunday 23rd August saw the latest fixture in the Leicestershire Road Running League calendar get underway. The event, delivered by the Hermitage Harri ...

Race In Welsh Countryside

Hermitage Harriers made their annual trip to Tywyn in Wales to take part in ‘Race the Train’ last weekend. The event is an entire day of off-road raci ...

Hermitage Continue Success

Wednesday 5th August saw the latest fixture of the Leicestershire Road Racing League get underway. The Joy Cann 5, hosted by Huncote Harriers, is alwa ...

Hot & Hilly

Hermitage Harriers were out in force again last week for the latest fixture in the Leicestershire Road Racing League summer season. Hungarton 7 is oft ...

Harriers Run Wild

Last weekend saw the Hermitage Harriers take on a completely new type of challenge. A group brave Harriers took on the notoriously challenging Wolf Ru ...

Summer Kicked Off

Sunday 7th June saw the first race of the LRRL Summer League get underway. Swithland 6 drew a large crowd of athletes with 661 individuals crossing th ...

Windermere & WestEnd

It’s been another busy week for the Hermitage Harriers this week with three separate events taking place.

The first event to ‘kick-off’ was the Bra ...

Super Soggy Silverstone

It’s been a busy week for Hermitage Harriers with not one, but two races! The first of which was Silverstone 10k on Wednesday 6th May.

Thirteen Har ...

Capital Marathon

Fourteen Hermitage Harriers took part in one of the world’s most popular marathons this weekend - the Virgin Money London Marathon.

Some outstandin ...

Competing at National Level

Hermitage Harriers competed against some of the top running clubs in the country this weekend at the National Road Relays Final in Sutton Park.

The ...

Double Whammy

It was a bumper weekend of racing for Hermitage Harriers as the club tackled not one but two events!

First up, on Saturday afternoon, was the Midla ...

Harrier wins Uganda place

Competitions on Facebook have become something of a trend of late but little did local athlete, Bobby Wisehall, know that when he entered a competitio ...

Top Twenty Hit

Hermitage Harriers were out in force once more in the third race of the LRRL winter league. Thirty five Harriers tackled Kibworth 6; a race notorious ...

XC Silverware

Hermitage Harriers claimed a number of prizes at the final fixture in the XC calendar on Sunday. The fixture was held on ‘home turf’ as the Harriers h ...

Hinckley Hammered Home

Sunday morning saw the latest fixture in the cross country season get underway at Bosworth Country Park. 27 runners from Hermitage Harriers took on th ...

First place at Markfield

Hermitage Harriers delivered another impressive performance last weekend at Markfield 10k. The race was the second fixture in the LRRL winter league c ...

Winter off to flying start

Hermitage Harriers were back to tearing up the tarmac in style on Sunday in the first fixture of the 2015 winter road racing league. Barrow 6 certainl ...

Success at Bradgate XC

Hermitage Harriers continued their winning streak at the latest fixture in the cross country league, scooping first place for both the women’s team an ...

HH Paint the town Silver

Friday 5th December saw the Hermitage Harriers Christmas Dinner and Annual Awards take place at The Royal Hotel in Ashby De La Zouch. Over 60 Harriers ...

Harriers contunue XC success

The second fixture of the cross country league saw Hermitage Harriers scoop first place for the combined team with a total of 264 points - their secon ...

Hat-Trick at Markfield XC

Local running club Hermitage Harriers kicked off the cross country season in style on Sunday in Markfield. The Harriers scooped first place for the c ...

Harriers Scoop Thrid at Relays

Hermitage Harriers men’s team claimed third place in the University of Leicester Relays on Saturday. The event saw a record number of teams entering - ...

Mud Glorious Mud!

Saturday 8th November saw nine runners from local running club, Hermitage Harriers, take on the Seagrave Wolds Challenge. The 16 mile off-road event, ...

LRRL Presentation Evening

The 2013 LRRL Presentation Evening is fast approaching. It has been moved forward this year to September 6th and will be held at Birstall Social Club ...

Caroline beats the Reaper

Not one to show fear in the face of adversity, or shirk a challenge, our very own club secretary Caroline Scrimshaw recently udertook her latest ultra ...

10 marathons in 10 days

So here we are, the finale of the Brathay 10in10, and it started like any normal race day. I had a disturbed nights sleep, woke far too early and felt ...

Captains Log - 26/11/12

A couple of the Silver Donkeys made the trip up the M1 to North Notts for the Clowne Half Marathon. Step forward Matt 'Don Key-o-te' Green, a cracking ...

Captains Log - 20/11/12

Good weekend? I do hope so :) I think this week can only start in one place.....THE MUD :)

Thanks to everyone who made the short (for most, but ...

Runner of the Race #1

To encourage more Harriers to race in the Leicestershire Road Running Leagues and the Derby Runner Cross Country League; we have come up with an idea ...

Captains Log - 05/11/12

Happy Monday folks :)

Hope you've all had a cracking weekend, racing, training or just lazing about, it was certainly a chilly one anyway!

Con ...

Captains Log - 29/10/12

Good morning/afternoon/evening fellow donkeys :)

Another top weekend's racing from the HH Crew.

Friday night was fright night as the annual Ske ...

Clowne-ing Around

Three intrepid Hermitage Harriers made the hour trip up-North to the village of Clowne, near Worksop for the 26th annual Clowne Half Marathon.

This ...

Technology Investment

Competitive club running in the County has been given a technological boost as the Leicestershire Road Running League (LRRL) confirms that, in conjunc ...

Strength in depth

The Midland Counties official in charge of releasing the out-going runners asked "where are Hermitage from?". PG duly explained and she said "the cama ...

10K Conkered + GNR

The adage of ‘getting better with age’ was certainly on display last weekend, as the Hermitage Harriers mens vet-40 team picked up the overall team pr ...

Wind affects times

Amongst the 7,000+ strong crowd that lined up on Victoria Embankment on Sunday, were 9 Hermitage Harriers ready to take on the 2011 Nottingham Half Ma ...

John Fraser 10

A mammoth 474 finishers turned out for the road season curtain-closer at Countesthorpe.

With incessant rain setting the scene for the opening mile ...

Hungarton 7 & Beacon Hill

Last week seemed to be the week for mid-week runs, as the Hermitage Harriers journeyed around the County in various competitive outings.

Last Wedne ...

Harriers Weekly Round-Up

A band of 10 Hermitage Harriers made their way across the county last Tuesday evening to join nearly 600 other competitors to take part in the Rothley ...

Harriers @ Swithland

Many people shy away from adverse weather conditions, but not the Hermitage Harriers, who turned out in droves, 28 all told, to race the latest LRRL e ...

Carl's Goofy Challenge

It all began in 2005 when I was attending the Flora London Marathon expo and came across a stand advertising the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend 20 ...

2010 Club Awards

The Hermitage Harriers have had yet another great year - a great thank big thank you to all of our club runners and committee members.

In recogniti ...

Harriers go Ultra

Two intrepid Hermitage Harriers got to experience what the first 2 day's of Eddie Izzard's 51 day epic must have felt like. Caroline Scrimshaw and Suz ...

Harriers Annual Awards

On behalf of our Chairman, Andy Buck, the Hermitage Harriers are delighted to confirm the Award Winners for 2009:

Award Winners 2009

Season’s Be ...

Seagrave Challenge

Undaunted by the wet and wild weather of the previous few days, nine brave Harriers joined the start line for the 2009 Seagrave Wolds Challenge.
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Wet & Windy @ Shepshed

Torrential rain, strong winds and sodden ground didn’t phase the Hermitage Harriers on Sunday morning, instead it was game faces on for the race as a ...

Birmingham Half Marathon

Six Harriers travelled to Birmingham on Sunday to run alongside the worlds best runners who were competing in the World Half Marathon Championships w ...

Leicester Half & Marathon

Near perfect running conditions greeted over 2400 competitors in Sundays, third annual Leicester City marathon and half marathon.

The Hermitage Har ...

Sutton Park Relays

On 19th September Hermitage Harriers sent a team to the six man road relays at Sutton Park to race the cream of the Midlands clubs. It was a new exper ...

Local Charity Support

Thanks for all of the runners, supporters and sponsors of this years Hermitage Harriers 10K race, the club are delighted to have donated £350 to a loc ...

Hungarton 7

Hermitage Harriers were again out in force on Wednesday 8th July, with a midweek showing of 18 runners, taking on the challenging 7 mile Hungarton rou ...

Isle of Skye Half Marathon

Caroline Scrimshaw ventured away from Leicestershire to represent the Harriers, this time well north of the border in Scotland.

She, and 289 fellow ...

Edinburgh Marathon

With clear skies, little breeze, temperatures reaching 22oC and drinks stations running dry, Craig Johnson sprinted home to achieve a personal best in ...

Shakespeare Marathon

Seven Harriers and their supporters made the trip down the A46 to Stratford upon Avon to compete in the Rotary Shakespeare Marathon and five returned ...

FLM 2009

Four Harriers took part in the London Marathon on Sunday 26th April, the last to be sponsored by Flora who are replaced as sponsors by Virgin next yea ...