2014 News

Saturday November 8th saw the Hare and Hounds head to Stevenage to race in the Met League, one of the most fiercely competitive cross-country leagues in the country. Although the team were officially entered as guests and therefore couldn’t count towards the main team competition, the club have used the event as a selection race […]

en310 | December 11, 2014

Saturday October 11th marked the first race of the season for the Hare & Hounds, the university running club. The Freshers’ Fun Run, a 2.7k loop of the West Cambridge site for women and 5k for the men, is a notoriously fast and flat course and has become hugely popular amongst seasoned runners and first-time […]

en310 | December 10, 2014

Report to follow.

en310 | November 29, 2014

Saturday saw the Hare and Hounds’ women’s team dominate their match against the RAF and the Eastern Counties Athletics Association cross-country teams, while there were encouraging signs from the men’s team in a very competitive early season fixture. The women’s match was won by the Hare and Hounds by 15-21-56 (cumulative positions of the first […]

en310 | October 25, 2014

Saturday 18th October marked the second race of the season for the Cambridge University Hare and Hounds. Following on from the forgiving roads of the Freshers’ Fun Run, the Fen Ditton Dash is not only a longer course (8km for men and 5.7km for women) but also the first off-road race of the season, and […]

en310 | October 22, 2014

Saturday December 8th saw the Cambridge University Hare & Hounds head down to Wimbledon Common for the Blues Varsity match. Cambridge had won all the races the previous weeks (men’s 2nd-4ths and women’s 2nd and 3rds), meaning a 5-0 lead already assured a series victory over Oxford and the potential of a 7-0 whitewash very […]

en310 | July 12, 2014

As has been the case for many years a strong Harey contingent descended on the track for Varsity Athletics in glorious sunshine. In arguably the two biggest track events of the hare and hound track calendar (the blue-ribband and the 5000m) CUH&H women did not disappoint. Katherine Turner and BUCS winner Rebecca Moore were in […]

en310 | May 17, 2014

The BUCS Outdoor Athletics Championships is the biggest event on the Hare and Hounds’ track calendar besides the Varsity match, and this year saw one of the club’s most impressive showings ever against the nation’s best student athletes. According to our resident statistician, Cambridge runners were second only to Birmingham University when it came to […]

en310 | May 5, 2014

Amid the media attention on the elite race at the London Marathon on Sunday, it would have been easy to forget that within the 30,000 strong field there was also a strong Light Blue contingent. They were competing for charity and a new PB, as well as in the BUCS and Varsity marathon competitions, which […]

en310 | April 25, 2014

Easter weekend saw Hare & Hounds past and present head overseas to the annual Isle of Man Festival. Most of the team touched land in Douglas on Thursday evening, just in time for a few to taste the local nightlife and enjoy a brief run-in with a police officer. The first race of the weekend […]

en310 | April 18, 2014

Cambridge men’s team: 7th Cambridge women’s team: 4th The Hare and Hounds made a striking appearance last week at the Hyde Park Relays, where one men’s and one women’s team were put to the test against – to name just a few – Oxford, Imperial, Bristol and Manchester’s best. With four ladies to each run […]

en310 | February 15, 2014

Wind was battled, mud was squelched and mountains were conquered last week, as the Hare and Hounds took to Coldham’s Common for the third instalment of the annual cross country College League. The route incorporated a lengthy lap of the 1972 International Cross Country course, for which a sizeable and nearly insurmountable lump had been […]

en310 | January 18, 2014

Cambridge men’s A team – 5th place Cambridge women’s team – 5th place Cambridge men’s B team – 8th place Some outstanding and gutsy runs were had by the Hare and Hounds in Stirling last weekend, as the Cambridge cross country runners took on the universities of Britain on an unrelentingly hilly and muddy course. […]

en310 | January 2, 2014