Author: Bourne Town Harriers

Continuing our run reports, this week saw our Harriers enjoying a relaxed Sunday Social Run 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ — the perfect way to wrap up the season with good company, steady miles, and plenty of smiles. 🌳☕

We also celebrated our Summer Inter Club Champs Awards, recognising some brilliant performances across the series. ✨

🏆 Matthew Bellis — Male Club Champion and Age-Graded Winner
🏆 Laura Bailey — Female Club Champion
🏆 Michael Gilbert — Handicap Club Champion for his strong run at the Thurlby 10K

A huge well done to all our winners and everyone who took part throughout the series — your hard work, consistency, and team spirit shine through every week! 💜💙

Thank you all for supporting, running, and cheering — and thank you for following along with our run reports. 👏

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This week kicked off with our Tuesday Run Club, where the group smashed out 200m efforts with 45-second recoveries 🔥. A brilliant turnout and fantastic work rate from all involved 👏.

Through the week, members kept building their fitness with individual training runs 💪.

At the weekend, we had plenty going on:

✨ On Saturday, our parkrunners were out in force:

Simeon Adams headed to Belton House 🏞️

Richard Burton and Michael Gilbert ran together at Ferry Meadows 🏃‍♂️

Giles Hawthorne took on Oaklands College parkrun 🎉


✨ Meanwhile, a huge shout-out to Matthew, who took on the incredible challenge of a 100-mile ultramarathon around Snowdonia 🌄. An absolutely outstanding achievement – a true display of endurance and determination 🙌.

✨ On Sunday, three Harriers took on the Sawtry 10 Miler.

Laura and Vaughan proudly represented Bourne Town Harriers 💙💛

Maria Merriden was also there, running in her first-claim club colours 👏


Another fantastic week – from short sharp speedwork to ultramarathons and road races, the Harriers spirit continues to shine across every distance and terrain 💛💙.

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This week has been packed with brilliant efforts from our Harriers across training, parkrun, and races. 👟✨

🌲 Tuesday Training

Our run club session took us to the woods this week with 1-mile efforts. Everyone dug deep and put in some cracking performances — a strong session to build stamina and speed. 💪

🏃‍♂️ parkrun Highlights

Richard Burton ran at Ferry Meadows finishing in 31:37.

Cayden Mackay (one of our juniors) ran Rutland Water for the first time and stormed home in 18:28 👏.

His brother Ciaran Mackay wasn’t far behind with a superb 19:17 — great times for both brothers! 🔥

Giles was on a bit of parkrun tourism, heading over to Zuiderpark, where he clocked 26:43. 🌍

🏅 Sunday Racing

On Sunday, Michael Gilbert and Alison Burton represented BTH at the Newark Half Marathon, which was also the final race of the Summer Club Champs. A full run report is on the way soon, so watch this space! 📖✨

💜💙 Well done to everyone training, racing, and keeping the Harriers spirit strong! Whether it’s parkrun, long runs, or club sessions — every effort counts.

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It’s been another great week for the Harriers, with training sessions, races, and parkruns keeping us all moving!

Tuesday saw our regular club night meet, where the session was a challenging 8 x 600m efforts with 2 minutes of recovery between each rep. While the group was a little quieter than usual, we still had a solid turnout from our seniors — and plenty of determination on show. 💪

Wednesday marked the final race of the Grand Prix series — we’ll have a full run report coming soon, so watch this space!

Saturday brought another round of parkrun action for our members:

Simian Adams took on Belton House with a buggy and still flew around in 22:03!

Giles Hawthorne ran at Great Denham, clocking 20:58.

Michael Gilbert, Alison Burton, and Richard Burton all headed to Snowdon Field. Michael bagged a course PB with 28:08, Richard finished in 33:54, and Alison came in at 36:45, incorporating her run into an interval training session.


Alongside these events, several of our members have been keeping up with their own training plans — fitting in long runs, speed work, and strength sessions to keep progressing.

Well done to everyone who got out there this week, whether in a race, training session, or parkrun — it all counts towards those goals! 🏅

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Bourne Town Harriers were back in action for Race No. 4 of the Peterborough Grand Prix Series – with strong representation, fantastic efforts, and one more race to go in the 2025 series 💙💜

👟 Junior 3K Report:
A huge well done to Oliver Lloyd, who proudly represented the BTH Juniors in the 3K event. Great to see our young athletes stepping up and gaining valuable race experience – well done, Oliver! 👏
🔥 Senior 5K Results:
🔹 18th – Matt Bellis – 17:21
🔹 125th – Carl Cocking – 20:50
🔹 107th – Laura Bailey – 22:53
🔹 174th – Jak Chambers – 23:04
🔹 220th – Michael Gilbert – 24:41
🔹 269th – Richard Pearson – 26:43
🔹 310th – Alison Burton – 29:26
🔹 316th – Maria Merridan – 29:37
🔹 336th – Richard Burton – 30:52

⚠️ Note: The course did come up a little short of 5K, so while we saw some fantastic times and a few unofficial PBs, they won’t count as official.

🏆 Series Update:
With one race remaining, Matt Bellis is still holding strong in 8th place overall in the league standings – a superb and consistent showing throughout the series!

📆 Eyes now turn to the final race of the series – let’s finish strong, Harriers!

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The BTH seniors pulled out a huge team for this year’s Thurlby 10K, and what a day it turned out to be! A fantastic local race with big club energy, impressive individual results, and some serious silverware brought home 💙💜

🌟 Highlights:
🥉 Matt Bellis stormed into 3rd place overall with a superb time of 38:30, earning both the Third Place Trophy and the BTH Club Champs Trophy! 🏆🏆

Even better – thanks to the strength across the team, Bourne Town Harriers took home the Team Trophy, too! 🥇💪

📊 Full Senior Results:
🔹 3rd – Matt Bellis – 38:30
🔹 25th – Del James – 48:33
🔹 26th – Carl Cocking – 48:45
🔹 34th – Jim Sands – 49:45
🔹 36th – Jak Chambers – 50:13
🔹 43rd – Laura Bailey – 51:32
🔹 56th – Victoria Cocking – 54:15
🔹 58th – Michael Gilbert – 56:20
🔹 59th – Gillian Pryor – 57:11
🔹 85th – Alison Burton – 1:11:09
🔹 90th – Richard Burton – 1:11:40

👏 A massive well done to all who raced – brilliant running, brilliant support, and brilliant team spirit all round!

🎉 Our Juniors also did us proud in the Fun Run – with some fantastic performances and more trophies on the way! 🏅
📸 Keep your eyes peeled for the Juniors’ recap post – coming soon!

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