The Pebble

The Pebble

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AWARD: "The Pebble" for being there CLUB PRINCIPLE: ENJOYING OUR SPORTS This award is for the junior you can count on to be there. Week in, week out. Sunshine or rain. Thick or thin. How is a winner chosen? The winner will be the junior athlete who attended the highest proportion of club sessions available to them based on their membership category. For running members, this includes all Tuesday and Thursday sessions, away runs (including those on Sundays), track nights at Catterick, and special Parkruns (for example, couch to 5k graduations). You can see your attendance statistics on your profile at https://harc.uk/athlete-profile. To receive this award you must: Be a current junior member. Attend the minimum number of sessions in the award year - 25 for running members / 15 for athletics members....
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Kid GOTY

Kid GOTY

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AWARD: "Kid GOTY" for junior performance CLUB PRINCIPLE: COACHING LED This award recognizes outstanding performance (GOTY - Greatest Of The Year) by a junior athlete. How is a winner chosen? It is based on how close junior athletes get to their event's national record (if available). The calculation looks at the difference between the record and the athlete's season personal best, and compares this to the record itself. The records used are at the end of each period (1st September), and are age graded. The record data is based on that published by England Athletics and the British Masters Athletics Federation. Athlete performance is based on England Athletics data published on The Power of 10 and/or performances verified by a HARC coach or official. To receive this award you must: Be a current junior member. Attend the minimum number of sessions in the award year - 25 for running members / 15 for athletics members. Be a club member at the time of qualifying performances....
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The Flourishing Acorn

The Flourishing Acorn

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AWARD: "Flourishing Acorn" for improvement CLUB PRINCIPLE: COACHING LED As a coaching-led club, one of the things we value is improvement and progress. This award recognizes that progress in junior athletes that are showing promise to grow into mighty oaks. How is a winner chosen? The Flourishing Acorn is given to the junior member who, in the eyes of the coaching team, is making the most progress in their endeavour to become a Mighty Oak, recognizing their improvement in their chosen athletic events. To receive this award you must: Be a current junior member. Attend the minimum number of sessions in the award year - 25 for running members / 15 for athletics members....
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Lee Kemp and Shelli Gordon speak to head coach Chris Lees

Lee Kemp and Shelli Gordon speak to head coach Chris Lees

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Last night our head coach, Chris Lees, headed over to Stokesley in the east of our Hambleton district to meet up with Lee Kemp and Shelli Gordon in their running shop, Let's Run. As always, there was a warm welcome and what followed was a fascinating, instructive, but above all fun thirty minute chat covering Lee's team GB ultra-running experience, Shelli's record holding performances, and lots of solid advice for people about getting started with running clothing and equipment. The discussion was streamed live on Facebook and Q&A from those watching led to some great insights and interesting digressions! Grab a cuppa and a biscuit and enjoy the 30 minute recording on Facebook here: https://harc.uk/lee-and-shelli...
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Getting started with our web app

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The HARC web app has a lot of bells and whistles for both the athletes and coaches. However, this post gives you some of the basics! Signing-up and signing-in Your profile is linked to your email address. You'll have a profile if you're a club member, if you've participated in any of our programmes, or if you've registered yourself or someone else for one of the events we've hosted. If you don't have a profile, or if you're not sure, it's easy to check and get signed-up: If you're not sure if you have a profile, or if you have one but can't remember you login, go to https://harc.uk/sign-in-or-register/?form=resetpwd, enter your email address, and choose a new password.If you don't have a profile under that email address, you will get a message "email not registered". Either try another email address if you think you may have registered with it, or go on to the next step to register a new profile If you don't have...
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What’s all the “PE” about?

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You might have seen some of our athletes adding the letters 'PE' and a number at the end of their Strava run names. Wondering what that's all about? Well read on! An important part of any training plan or program is to manage the training 'load'. Load is a measure of the total amount and intensity of training over a period - usually a week. Load matters for two key reasons: For a training plan to be progressive, we would usually look to increase the load steadily for three weeks before dropping it back (a 'recovery/rest' week) and then building up again. This pattern allows the particular areas of fitness being focused on to be developed. Research shows (see reference 1 below) that spikes in load - i.e. a week with significantly higher load than the preceding weeks) can increase the risk of injury very significantly. Therefore it is important for us to be aware of our loadings and ensure we aren't creating...
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