Road Section Report – November 2025

Road Secretary’s Report – November 2025 (reflecting races held in October)

Welcome to the November Road report.  A busy month that includes the Holmfirth 10k and two more races in this years road championships.  So lets start there…

2025 Road Championships

The Accrington 10k was held on 26 October.  Two Harriers entered this one

And on the same day, Thomas Heap was the sole Harrier for the Oldham Half, gaining a PB in the process.

This means that Mike Hall and Helena Croft continue to lead their respective competitions, and Mike retains the Age Graded lead.

In the Men’s championships only Mike has completed the requisite six races to qualify for the title(s) and both Helena and Keren have completed six in the ladies’.  There is time for that to change.  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 races are the Tad 10 on 23 November and the Doncaster 10k on 30^th

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.

2026 Competition

I am working on the races and dates for the 2026 competition and will publish them as soon as possible.    One race that has been confirmed is the Wilmslow Half on Sunday 22^nd March so get your entries in.

Another race for the diary will be the Langdale Half / Full marathon which is likely to be held in mid-October in the Lake District.  The final date is still to be released and the race will be in the championships next year.  The fell section has had great success with away weekends over the past few years (2025’s was the Fairfield Horseshoe race) and I’m hoping to get enough runners to enter Langdale and make a weekend of it.  The half is one lap and the full is two laps of a challenging course – no PBs here – but it’s a cracking race.   If you are interested in taking part and/or finding out more details please let me know.

Other races

Lets start with the only open club road event of the year,  the Holmfirth 10k.  Brilliantly organised by Michael Sanderson with help from a large group of marshals and other volunteers, the race was a great success.  We had 229 finishers of which 34 were Holmfirth members and of those there were many category prizes and PBs on what has been described as an “undulating” course.  First Harrier back was Patrick who was 4th overall, closely followed 15 seconds later by Paul.

Congratulations to all those that took part and a special well done to the PBs and age category prizes.  The organising committee would like to thank everyone who helped out in advance and on the day to make the race a success.

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.

A great result for Oliver at the Shepley 10k gaining 1^st in age and 2^nd overall.  And well done Jared and Martin at the Yorkshire 10miler for their PBs.

Two half marathons – Manchester and Worksop with Joe and Francesco both getting PBs in Manchester.

And three marathons.

Michael and Ben took part in the Chester Marathon, both gaining PBs (although Michael will admit that this was his first road marathon and therefore a guaranteed PB…) with both recording brilliant times.  Ben was 5^th M40 as well.  Kevin travelled to Chicago to complete his 6^th Abbott World Majors marathon and was awarded the 6 Star medal.  And Curtis and Anthony stayed a little closer to home completing the Yorkshire marathon with a PB for Anthony.

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 / 01November2025