LATEST UPDATE (22nd February 2019) We have pleasure in announcing that Morpeth Harriers Club President is now home following his recent hospitalisation for heart procedures. The club continues all best wishes to Jim as he continues his recovery. Although we hope it will not be to long before Jim is back amongst us , we also hope that he takes time to recover under the care of Nurse Kathleen, at the same time we also offer best wishes to Jim and his close family as they monitor his progress. Having spoken with his wife Kathleen on Saturday evening, (16th February) we are very pleased to report
that Morpeth Harriers & AC Club President Jim Alder is now out of Intensive Care following his recent Heart Procedure and is now recovering on a ward in Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital and hopes to be released in a few days to return home to convalesce. At this time, we would like to wish Jim all our Best Wishes for a speedy, yet controlled recovery, and hope it is not too long before he is back with us in his continued supporting role. We would also like to offer Kathleen, and Jim’s close family all our best wishes, as they assist him on his road to recovery. Take Your Time “Geronimo Jim”, and do what the Doctor orders, and take heed from Nurse Kathleen, please. Morpeth Harriers presented their fourth Reeves the Pensions Specialist Athlete of the Month award,
at their clubhouse on Mitford Road, on the evening of Monday 18th February 2019. The award for excellent performances during January 2019, went to Under 17 Man Ross Charlton, whose particular highlight was leading his club home to team Gold Medals at the Northern Athletics Cross Country Championships at Pontefract, where he finished in fourteenth place, and was third home from the region overall, and he also won a Bronze medal at the annual Northumberland Schools Cross Country Championships at Temple Park, South Shields. Both of these performances also gave him further honours, in that he won selection to run for the region at the forthcoming Inter Counties Cross Country Championships at Loughborough, and a place in Northumberland’s squad for the annual English Schools Championships, being held in Leeds. These events are held within a week of each other in March, giving Ross a fairly busy end to his Cross-Country season. Ross is pictured above receiving his Certificate of Achievement from Club Chairman David Swinburne. With little significant competition on offer in the region over the weekend, Morpeth Harriers distance specialist Andrew Hebden headed for Yorkshire, and competed in the BHF Harewood House Half Marathon,
on Sunday 17th February 2019, six days ahead of him returning to the venue to compete in this weekends English National Cross Country, which is being held on the land surrounding the historic mansion. On Sunday, Andrew finished ninth, posting a finishing time of 85m38s, which proved to be over four minutes adrift of race winner Ciaran Forde of local club Leeds City. Sunday saw Andrew tackling the undulating pathways within the estate, this Saturday however it will be the rolling grassland, a different prospect altogether, and possibly the odd bit of lovely Yorkshire Mud. Posting a time of 15m28s, Morpeth Harrier Laura Weightman finished second to the Netherlands Sifan Hassan
in the high-profile IAAF event the Herculis 5k in Monaco on Sunday 17th February 2019.. Whilst Hassan broke the World Women’s 5k record, Weightman was agonisingly three seconds adrift of her best time for the distance, set last year in Barrowford in March. Disappointingly the annual NECAA Signals Road Relay Championships, which were scheduled to be held on its usual Hetton Lyons Country Park course on Saturday 16th February, for the ninth successive year, were cancelled due to lack of an agreement between the hirer and Sunderland City Council over the events licence issue method.
Despite the hirer, the North Eastern Counties Athletics Association holding an insurance liability policy from UK Athletics, that is well in tune with the Councils expectations, the Council still demanded that an individual from the hirer signed a form, in line with their policy, to take unlimited personal liability for the event and its participants. This presented a difficult and unworkable situation for the hirer, as it placed them in a very vulnerable situation individually, therefore there was a refusal to sign on that basis, which meant there was a position of impasse, rendering the event in a position of being unable to proceed under such circumstances. No agreement had been reached between either party in time for the event to go ahead on Saturday, however it is hoped that the event will go ahead soon, either with a suitable agreement between current respective parties, or that a new venue be sought with a different authority. |
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