Tri-Hard Harriers sell-out 5k race produced many PBs...

By Don Hale donhaleblog.blogspot.com/2025 August 30, 2024

*Pictured above - A great action shot shortly after the start of the THH 5k.

Tri-Hard Harriers sell-out 5k race produced many PBs...

Report by David Gibson.

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On Thursday 22nd August saw Swansea club Tri Hard Harriers put on its second annual THH ‘5k on the Bay’ race along the Swansea Bay front between Blackpill and Oystermouth.

The course was very flat and fast, and this year produced numerous personal best times in the sell-out field of 300. Amongst many stella performances there were a few worth noting.

*Mike Roderick of Tri Hard Harriers came in first with a time of 15:42.

*First female was Megan Carter-Davies of Swansea Harriers with a great time of 16:52.

*In the Veteran Female category Stephanie Gibson of Tri Hard Harriers was first (and second female overall) with a superb time of 18:00. This was despite Stephanie saying that she hates 5k events!

*In the Veteran Male Category Daniel Newton of Swansea Harriers produced a great performance to come in first (and second overall) with a time of 16:10.

However, if there have not been enough plaudits already about 72-year-old Alan Davies’s brilliant 5k exploits, he has topped them again to record a mind boggling 18:15 beating his record-breaking time at this race last year of 18:17. This is now highly likely to be a new M70 5k World Record subject to ratification.

A huge thank you to the THH team and especially all the volunteers who made this event such a special occasion.

*Full results at - https://www.triandenter.com/results/tri-hard-5k-on-the-bay

*The packed start (*above) of the Tri-Hard Harriers 5k race.

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Don Hale is a best-selling British author and former investigative journalist. He has been Journalist of the Year on three separate occasions in the past. and his extensive campaign to help free Stephen Downing for a murder he did not commit, won him both the Campaign and National Journalist of the Year Awards, A former regional newspaper editor, he was awarded an OBE in 2002 for campaign journalism. He has also been a lead investigator in several other successful, high-profile, miscarriage of justice and human rights cases. He has written several best selling books including - Murder in the Graveyard a true crime mystery story. There is also Buster Crabb - Ian Fleming's Favourite Spy, and Mallard about the battle to create the fastest steam loco in the world against the challenge from Nazi Germany, and more lately, there is The Jersey Boys and Liberation, about the secret stories of occupied Jersey during WW2, told by several resistance heroes and historians.