After a four hour drive and a very cold night camping (poor choice of sleeping bag!), I rose on Saturday morning to glorious sunshine and expansive views across Northumbria.
This year’s event was based in Wooler and the event area would be the Chev...
Congratulations to the winners of this year's Sandbach 10k!
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1 Stuart Doyle, Vale Royal AC, 34:49
2 Graham Houghton, Spectrum Striders, 36:03
3 Nicholas Hackett, South Cheshire Harriers, 37:16
Big Stu Doyle - once again the deserving winner of the S...
Congratulations to everyone who took part in the Sandbach 10k this morning!
Once more we were blessed with terrific running weather, although the heavy rain of the past few weeks ensured some sections of the course had a little bit more mud than usual.Pho...
Two races One Weekend.
A weekend of PB’s with a sting in the tail.
Well a full weekend of racing was had this weekend with great results. Firstly there was
the ever popular Hanley Park run. This in my case was round two of Dad vs Son. I a...
I took a leaf out of Giles book and followed his pre race plan. On Saturday I drank lots of fluid (even had water at the pub) and made sure I had chicken and rice for tea. Next morning I got up early and had some porridge and honey followed by a banan...
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I’d only done one Parkrun before this race, but this event brought home to me what a great idea and organisation it is. We can get used to the idea that you have to book and
plan every race in advance, but a setup that lets you turn up on the day anyw...
A free Saturday means the chance to run another free 5k at a Parkrun somewhere. Whilst I might usually have nipped down the M6 towards Hanley park for the weekly run there, this time I fancied a change. I also fancied adding to my tally of 8 different Pa...
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There have been lot of post-race reports posted on the website but nobody yet has written a pre-race report - I thought I’d change that trend & commit myself to a target in the hope that this may provide the additional motivation I often require to mak...
Non-Race Report
Marathon du Médoc post-race recovery walk and lunch.
As if the punishment of 34 degrees, 26.2 miles and several wine-and-food stops on the
Saturday wasn’t enough, I decided to join the recovery walk this year. So at 9:30am, aft...
Here is a short video race report made by our own resident coaching officer, welfare officer and movie mogul Mr Jason Bulley.For more information visit the Marathon du Medoc website.
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