Hardley Runners Home Page

Please email me (see contact us button) with your ideas and suggestions for improving our site. Or give me a call on 720459 (code 01264). But please remember one thing - no fancy stuff - I am a bear of little brain and need to keep things simple.

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Jeremy Barber (Webmaster)

What's new

I will try to mention here the main new items in the last couple of weeks or so. I'm away for the whole of July. Normal service will be resumed when I return. In the meantime, if she finds time among all the other things to do, Maggie will try to publish some results.

	10 Miles of Miles relay challenge results and history added 3 July - see results tab
	Poole 10K and Man v Horse results added 30 June - see results tab and scroll down a bit as they are in date order.
	Kevin King's Tri Gold added 26 June - see News tab
	Manor Farm RR10 and Midsummer Munro results added 25 June - see results tab
	Events list updated 23 June - see Race Diary tab
	New Forest Duathlon results added 19 June - See Results tab
	Subs are due - please click here for details

Introduction to Hardley Runners

Hardley Runners is a Waterside based club affiliated to a number of associations, including the Southern and Hampshire Athletics Association, the Trail Running Association, the Fell Runners Association, the British Triathlon Association, the Cycling Time Trials and the Hampshire Sports Council. We currently have over 200 members, both male and female, who range from sub-6 minute mile pace to the casual jogger.

Members meet at Applemore Recreation Centre every Tuesday at 6:30pm and Thursday at 6:15pm for training runs of between 5 and 10 miles or structured training sessions. We also meet most Sunday mornings at 8:30am, at a venue agreed each week, for a longer run of between 10 and 15 miles on forest trails.

The club has a diverse membership, enjoying both road and off-road running. Individual club members have had the distinction of being National Trail Running champions for four consecutive years. Club members regularly take part in the prestigious OMM (Original Mountain Marathon - formerly KIMM) and the Saunders Mountain Marathon and have won honours in both events.

As a club, we participate in the popular summer RR10 Wednesday evening league. Hardley Runners has had many team and individual successes and regularly enter the largest number of competitors. The 10 fixtures against other local running clubs occur fortnightly on evenings between April and August over distances of between 4 and 6 miles. We also participate in the Hampshire and CC6 Cross Country Leagues, which each consist of weekend events during the winter months. These races are just some of the free events enjoyed by our club members.

We participate in the Hampshire Road Race league and have many runners in the London Marathon each year. Annually we award open and age-related club championship trophies based on a local road race and a handicap trophy based on a 10k forest trail run. The latter event is followed by a pub lunch at which the draw for the club places in the London Marathon is held.

We also organise the popular Solent Half Marathon at Gang Warily, the Test Way Relay, the Exbury 10K and both an RR10 and a CC6 event, through which club members make their contribution to the local running calendar. There are active duathlon and triathlon sections within the club, catering for triathletes and cyclists of all levels and interests and many of our members represent Great Britain in age-related categories in both triathlon and duathlon.

On the social front the club holds cycling trips, theatre trips, Youth Hostel and camping weekends and our Hardley Hilly Half lunch is always well supported.

Our annual club subscription is excellent value at £10 single. We welcome new members. If you are interested in joining us or would like more information please feel free to send us an e-mail (see contact us tab). Or you can go straight to the subscriptions page which includes a membership form.