Westbury Harriers Weekly News
Evening Westbury Harriers,
Yesterday a few of us from the Making Tracks Bristol group went to the Black Mountains to recce the Waun Fach Fell Race Race route, led by Hannah who gave us some navigating advice, following the route with our map and compass. It was part of our navigation series that we’ve hosted, with an aim to become more confident with map reading. A 10km course with 610m elevation that’s easy to follow, and a beginner-friendly race. If you fancy a go at a fell race, a few of us will be taking part on Sunday 6th September, link below to book. If you want to escape to the trails the Black Mountains is a short drive for some mountain adventure, highly recommended.
Also, well done to those who took part in the tough, but fun Crook Peak Cake Race on Wednesday. Not sure my hamstring has recovered yet, was great to see a big turnout from our members and congrats to Hannah who won the yummy prize! Speaking of cake……
Don’t forget that TOMORROW is the Club Charity Run at Blaise. Get creative and bake some cakes, or if you don’t have time, grab some sweet delights on the way (and pretend their homemade) Sshhhh! We encourage you to wear your club vest please.
More details below, but we are hosting this event to support the St Peter’s Hospice charity, there’s a link below to make a donation.
Have a fab start to the week!
In this week’s newsletter:
- Club notices
- Training this week
- Race reports / results
- Upcoming races
1. CLUB NOTICES
DON’T FORGET – CLUB CHARITY RUN – Monday 24th August – BRING CAKES!
This year, our charity run evening will consist of a Monday evening run that will be quite similar to our usual routine. We ask everyone to wear club shirts or vests if they have them. We will run in a couple of combined groups so that we have the chance to meet with people we might not normally run with.
Whilst we ask people to book on using Run Together in the usual way, there is no charge for the run. Instead we ask you to make a donation to this year’s club charity which is St Peter’s Hospice.
After the run we encourage you to stay for drinks and cakes in the Clubhouse, again no charge but all donations to St Peter’s.
We always manage to get a lovely selection of cakes and we need your help again this year! Please can cakes be brought with you on the night, home baked cakes are always the most popular, but if you don’t have the talent or time then shop bought cakes are also appreciated as well!
Finally it would be great to have volunteers to help set out the cakes and make drinks, either after your run, or even better if you are not running and can help get everything ready for the runners when they return.
St Peter’s is a great local charity, there won’t be many of us who haven’t been touched in some way by the work that they do, so please help us make the evening a success.
Here is the link to our Just Giving page: Hello! I’m fundraising for St Peter’s Hospice. Here’s my JustGiving page, if you’d like to donate. https://www.justgiving.com/page/sarah-andrews-5?utm_medium=FA&utm_source=WA
AVON ROAD RELAYS – SUNDAY 30TH AUGUST – Avon 5km Road Relays Championships 2026
10am start (Please note new start time of 10am and it is Bank Holiday Sunday)
Location: Cleeve, Bristol BS49 4PP
3 person teams: U20 men/women (must be 16 or over), senior women, V35/V45/V55/V65/V75 women, V50/V60/V70 men
4 person teams: senior men & V40 men
Cost: Free.
This is a championship event so no charge, club pays the entry.
Teams: People will try to be accommodated into their age appropriate team but with relays we may need to move people about to ensure we have complete teams.
Please sign up on RunTogether as early as possible so we know who we have as organising relay teams is always interesting (a slight headache!)
Suitable for: Everyone (16 years and over)
Team Managers for this event Women: Tamsin Men: Mike Mewse
This is an Avon championship road relay. Each person in a team runs a 5km circular route on local country lanes and paths. Westbury always have loads of teams at this event, so do come along and get involved it is always a fun and social morning. It is a great event local event, enjoyable and suitable for everyone. Held at the cricket club, where there is small children’s playground and plenty of space if you are bringing the family. We look to ensure everyone is included. From putting out competitive teams, welcoming new club members into a relay event and a great starting point for those who may not have run in a relay before. Don’t worry if you will have just come off holiday or won’t have done much running over the summer, it will be the same for everyone. It is good season starter. The organiser has put a team limit this year of 70 teams in total as the event is getting so popular, so early sign up again would be appreciated.
Reserve Runners: Always needed and welcomed, let the team manager know.
How to get involved: Sign up on RunTogether
Any questions talk to a team manager at training or drop them a message.
UPCOMING BRISTOL RUNNING EVENTS – One for the calendar
Nations 5km launched by Esmee Gummer
She’s taking a free 5k club to every city in the UK, arriving at each city on foot by running 5,000km to the 77 events over 99 days. She will be doing the Harbour loop with Bristol communities on Thurs 17th Sept at 7:30.
Black to the Trails – Sunday 11th October at Blaise Castle Estate
The UK’s most ethnically diverse trail running event is coming to Bristol in October, with 1k, 5k and 10k races (and kids go free!) Seema from WH and Black Trail Runners is on the organising team and is in charge of the route which is exciting! It would be great to see lots of WH members there.
More information/updates to follow soon.
Tickets available to buy now: https://www.blacktothetrails.co.uk/bristol
2. TRAINING THIS WEEK
MONDAY – Tempo Session:
Group runs from Blaise Castle Pavilion at 6.30pm.
These are perfect sessions for a Tempo pace run. Equally there are plenty of groups available if you want a recovery or social run. Book via RunTogether.
TUESDAY – Track Session:
Track at Yate
WEDNESDAY – Hill Session:
Adults, all abilities. Meet every Wednesday at 12pm, corner of Saville Road by the Downs. Sign up on RunTogether App.
THURSDAY – Interval Session:
7pm at Coombe Dingle Sports Complex.
5min – (1min recovery) – 40secs – (80secs recovery)
4min – (1min recovery) – 40secs – (80secs recovery)
3min – (1min recovery) – 40secs – (80secs recovery)
2min – (1min recovery) – 40secs – (80secs recovery)
1min – (1min recovery) – 40secs
*Option to drop 5min to 4mins and 4mins to 3mins
5mins @10k pace progressively increase the pace for the 4,3,2,1mins towards 3k pace
40secs @quicker than 3km pace
3. RACE RESULTS/REPORTS
Crook Peak Cake Race 2026 – Wednesday 19th August 2026
by Mark Andrews
It was great to see such a large and enthusiastic group of Westbury Harriers at Crook Peak on Wednesday evening for the latest round of this years Club Championship.
The male and female winners each receive a huge cake as part of their prize! Whilst this cake is shared with everyone who took part, you are likely to get more cake if the winner is from your Club!
Some of us had high hopes that one of our speedy men might bring home the prize, but great runs from Jonathan Riley and Alex Smith didn’t quite manage it!
Thankfully Hannah Large saved the day completing the challenging course of just over 3 miles in under 23 minutes to finish First Female and bring the cake back to the Westbury table!
Amazing views from the top part of the course, we even had the excitement of rain and a rainbow!
Crook Peak Cake Race 2026 Results:
- 22:23 Jon Riley (Westbury Harriers) M40 (3rd Cat)
- 22:34 Alex Smith (Westbury Harriers) M40
- 22:49 Hannah Large (Westbury Harriers) W (1st Female Winner)
- 27:02 Alex Miller (Westbury Harriers) M50
- 28:12 Ian Ruck (Westbury Harriers) M50
- 28:15 Richard Goodley (Westbury Harriers) M50
- 28:37 Yvette Casallas (Westbury Harriers) W40 (3rd Cat)
- 29:56 Trevor Fitsall (Westbury Harriers) M50
- 30:52 Monica Warnock (Westbury Harriers) W60 (1st Category Win)
- 31:07 Antonia Gooder (Westbury Harriers) W60 (2nd Cat)
- 31:31 Helen Sawyer (Westbury Harriers) W60 (3rd Cat)
- 31:41 Mark Andrews (Westbury Harriers) M60
- 33:55 Sandra Williams (Westbury Harriers) W50 (3rd V50)
- 33:57 Liz Lovelock (Westbury Harriers) W
- 33:58 Kele Druett (Westbury Harriers) W50
- 35:53 Anneke Bull (Westbury Harriers) W60
- 38:57 Tim Carr (Westbury Harriers) M50
- 39:14 Heather Griffi (Westbury Harriers) W40
- 49:36 Carolyn Dent (Westbury Harriers) W60
- DNF Heidi Andrews (Westbury Harriers) W50
- DNF Sarah Andrews (Westbury Harriers) W50
4. UPCOMING RACES / CLUB CHAMPS
A reminder that we have an events calendar on our website where you can keep track of dates for training, events and races. https://westburyharriers.co.uk/events/events-calendar/
And club champ races here: Club Championship – Westbury Harriers
Other local races:
Sunday 6th September: Waun Fach Fell Race – https://welshfellrunnersassociation.org.uk/en/races/waun-fach-2026
Sunday 20th September: Oldbury 10miler (CLUB CHAMPS) – Thornbury Running Club: https://www.thornburyrunningclub.co.uk/trc-races/oldbury-power-10-miler/
Sunday 27th September: Forest of Dean Autumn Half marathon (CLUB CHAMPS): https://www.forestofdean-halfmarathon.co.uk/autumn/
Sunday 27th September: Black Nore 10k https://www.fullonsport.com/event/black-nore-10km-2026/profile
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Editor: Yvette Casallas
