Road Section Report – June 2025

Road Secretary’s Report – June 2025

Welcome to the summer!  Lots of good weather since the last report and lots of good road racing too.  Firstly, the Road Championships.

2025 Road Championships

There were two races again this month, one short and one long.  The Leeds Half and the Northallerton 10k (the Bradford 10k on 1^st June will be in the next report).

Well done to all Harriers that travelled to these and in particular to Darren for being 1^st V60 at Northallerton.  Sometimes it pays to go up an age category just before a race !

Mike Hall continues to lead the men’s championship and Keren Pearson, the ladies’.

There is plenty of time for that to change though.  All the races in the championship are on the website https://www.holmfirthharriers.com/championship/road-championship/  and a brief reminder is shown below.  The next race is the Greenhead Parkrun on 21^st June.

If there is a tie for 1^st/2^nd/3^rd place, the number of races entered will be taken into consideration.  If there is still a tie then the age graded scores will be used.

If you plan to race at Greenhead on 21^st June then please make sure you register with parkrun and take your barcode along.  Its free to register and please add Holmfirth Harriers as your club.  I can then pull the results from the parkrun website.  Register here:  https://www.parkrun.org.uk/register/

2025 Club handicap races (Club 6, Club 5, Club 10)

The Club 5 was run on the new course on 20^th May.  A full write up and full results are on the website:

https://www.holmfirthharriers.com/2025-club-5-race-report/

The race was won by Ben Jarvis in 27:09 and fastest Lady was Helena Croft in 32:45.  Fastest novice (person pre-entered without enough form for a handicap) was Annie Garside in 40:54.

The handicap prize and Tony Mellor Memorial Cup went to Darren Hanson with a time 01:25 below handicap.  Second was Hannah Austin in a close fought race with 01:24 below handicap and third was Chris Beadle with 01:06 below handicap.

The Club 5 winners.  L-R:  Annie, Hannah, Darren, Chris, Helena, Ben

Don’t forget the Club 10, on Tuesday 8 July 2025 which will also be on a new course this year, around Farnley Tyas

Summer monthly 5k series

Second race of the year, and the second record breaking run of the year !  You may recall that Ben Kellett set a new course record last month of 18:17.  This was smashed on Tuesday 13 May by

Results are on the web site here https://www.holmfirthharriers.com/results/2025-monthly-summer-5k-handicap-race-2-results-race-3-start-times/ where you can also find start times for race three on Tuesday 17^th June.

The Joe Percy Invitational 10k

We heard earlier this month that the local road relay 10k, The Joe Percy, has been cancelled this year.  This is disappointing and we hope that Longwood Harriers (the organising club) can put it on in 2026.

Other races

Other races that I’ve been able to find this month are shown below.  Please let me know if you would like any of your results included in this monthly update.

Firstly, the marathons.

Well done to all who completed these long races and in particular a mention to both Leighton and Dave taking part in their first marathon.  Dave was particularly unlucky as a fellow runner cut across him at about mile 20, stepping on his foot and causing Dave to fall badly.  Against medical advice, Dave walk/hobbled (his words) to complete the race.    They’ll be other races Dave….

Staying north of the border, the Rose family took part in the Hairy Haggis Relay over the marathon course.

There were two half marathons for Harriers this month.

Not content with the Belfast Marathon, Chloe completed the Manchester half 2 weeks later.  Great running.

Congratulations to all our runners this month.  As always, if you’d like your races and achievements celebrated in the Road Update, please let me know by finding me at the club or dropping me an email.

Kevin Dessoy / 04June25