Welcome to Harling Athletics Club

On Saturday 8th February, at East Harling Sports and Social Club.

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6.30     Doors open

7.00     AGM

7.15     Food, entertainment and music.

9.00     Awards presentation – juniors followed by seniors

We have booked a magician as the main entertainment for the evening, he will spend a couple of hours working his way around the tables wowing us with magic tricks while we relax, eat and drink. There will also be music, dancing (not compulsory) and, undoubtedly, some ‘jokes’ from coach Gary.

We have booked a fish ‘n’ chips van to provide the food and they will be serving from 7.15pm till 9pm.

The cost of the food and entertainment will be subsidised by the club: The cost to members for the evening will be £3 / head. Tickets will be sold at the door between 6.30pm and 7pm and each ticket will entitle you to a meal from the fish ‘n’ chip van. The meal choices will be fish and chips or sausage and chips (of course you can choose to have just chips or sausage or fish).

It is important to stress that the AGM is open to all members and all are encouraged to attend. The AGM is free to attend, the £3 charge is not payable if you are just attending the AGM.

In order for the fish ‘n’ chips van to be properly prepared we will need to give them an indication of numbers for each meal choice in advance. Therefore, can you please respond to this email advising:

If you plan to attend

How many will be in you party

Number of fish and chips

Number of sausage and chips

If you have previously advised us that you will not be attending, there is no need to respond again. Otherwise, we would appreciate a response from everyone, whether you will be attending or not.

It would be great to see as many members as possible there on the evening, celebrating each other’s achievements over the past year and motivating each other for the year ahead.

Thank you for all your hard work and dedication over the past year and we look forward to seeing you on the 8th February.

HAC Committee and Coaches

We are pleased to announce that, once again, the club have a place available for the 2020 London Marathon, on Sunday, 26 April 2020.
This entry was offered by ballot to any existing club member who expressed their interest. The lucky winner of the ballot will have to enter the race and pay the entry fee of c£35 (and run the marathon!). The winner won’t be alone, as Steve Garland is already entered and there will be plenty of help with training beforehand. 

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The ballot was held during training on Saturday, 21 December - at Lemon Pip Cafe (part of Swallow Aquatics), where tea/coffee and cake was consumed as part of the festive season and very tasty it was too! 

We are pleased to announce that Jane Williams won the coveted place. Good luck Jane - no slacking over Christmas!

Well done to Isla who placed 7th in the GB Pentathlon British Biathlon championships over the weekend of 23rd & 24th November. She got her Personal Best in both the run and swim also. Brilliant achievement

U11 girls at the final of Sportshall in Norwich - 30th November.

Well done Emily, Megan, Seren and Phoebe!

The next Sportshall is being held at Lynnsport, Kings Lynn on 16th November – only 2 weeks away. 

For those who entered the last competition I’m sure you would all agree that your children had a great afternoon. Sportshall is an indoor athletics competition and open to juniors aged 8 to 14.  All competitions start at 1pm and finish by about 4.30pm. The cost of entry is £3 per athlete paid on the day. Click here for list of events. 

Age groups are:

U11s – school years 4, 5 and 6

U13s – school years 7 and 8

U15s – school years 9 and 10 

If you would like your child to compete in the next competition, please email Junior coach, Sarah Ford on ford_family@btinternet.com giving an idea of what events they would like to compete in. Remember they can do up to 2 field, 2 track and 2 relay events. Entries need to be in during the week beginning 11th Nov.  

Well done to everyone who ran in the School Cross Country. There were some fantastic results from some of our junior members Levi, Seren and Kitty came 1st; Morgan came 2nd; Sophie came 3rd; Freddie came 4th; Harrison 5th and Emily came 16th. 

"Great running guys - all that hard work in training has paid off". Sam and the Junior Coaches.

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Also we need a big Congratulations to Angus for coming 1st in the Marriotts Way 10k last Sunday and 7th out of 800 runners in the East Coast Way 10k today. 

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