Dear WRC member We’ll restart the Thursday runs as planned at 7 p.m. tomorrow from the Club. It’s a welcome resumption of activities but these are still not normal times and we need to be aware of EA guidelines and public perception. In particular, we’ll need to observe the following: –…
I hope a number of you enjoyed ‘socially acceptable’ training last night in the glorious sunshine. I am sure Nick and your LIRF guys would like any suggestions or changes/improvements you may have for next week! If you don’t belong to one of our group WhatsApp. Let me know. We…
5 PM sports news latest…. Bollington with 103 registered runners against 36 from Wilmslow have pulled away today. Latest score is that with 14 WRC runners times in (against 35 Bollington Runners times) the score currently stands at: WRC 518 BH 707 The additional Bollington runners are beginning to…
I asked Angie to let us know about her recent adventure … Comrades “Race The Legends” 2020 For decades, six official charities in South Africa have looked forward to support and funding from the International Running Community participating in the Comrades Ultramarathon. Further to that it gives less forunate athletes…
Delighted to be able to update on training…This is specific to Tuesday sessions. Paul Norris is picking up Thursday’s and Kate Sutton Sunday’s. Tuesday Training (wef 23rd June) In putting this plan together we have to be mindful of Covid 19 regulations and EA adaptions to this. Communication will…
Last Sunday brought out lots of long runs for some of our guys. Long runs from RichardC and Damian. Robin, RichardHa, and the two Pauls all over 20k. Craig almost made it too. There was a Sunday Lunchtime 10k Sunday river Bollin run for Tracy. GrahamS was spotting a group of…
The competition opened today. Bollington Harriers are expecting to crush Wilmslow RC through sheer numbers. They have 100 registered to our 30. Our Fab 4/5 ran the SmokeHouse – Newgate 5 this morning and their good times are currently in 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th – awaiting Louisa’s time. Bollington…
Nick is currently writing a series of articles for Run Britain. Over the coming weeks, he will share his thoughts and start developing the theme of conditioning your mindset to deliver peak performance. Just like conditioning your body, conditioning your mind is about repeating specific exercises until you get stronger. You…
Further to Nick’s email Monday (see web article yesterday) about Tuesday training, subject to sufficient demand, Thursday 7 pm runs can recommence from next week, 25th June. It’s relatively easy to re-instate these in current circumstances as they readily organise themselves into groups of six or less. The main differences are…
You may have seen the film 300. It portrayed a true action in history: the Battle of Thermopylae within the Persian Wars; when a few Spartans held off nearly 100,000 to 150, 000 Persians. A narrow pass was held for three days against a vast Persian army by just 300…
