Following on from Nick’s fascinating comparison of 5k times I thought that I would indulge in some more harmless statistics. In the table below I’ve explored the difference in our 5k and 10k pace by comparing times from the Dunham Massey 5k and the Warrington RR 10k. Both races were…
Having run three of the first four North Cheshire Grand Prix races ( Dunham / Hollins Green / Bowdon ) , I was interested to check the results from the second Dunham race this being the fourth race in the series . To qualify overall , runners need to run…
Some debate in the club last night was on the relative merits surrounding the speed of Bowdon and Christleton 5k courses . Our editor Mr A. suggested some analysis !! Of the 16 that ran both , 5 were faster at Bowdon , Andy Penney ran the same time and…
The second of the North Cheshire 5K GP Series was on Saturday 4th June . This was not a Club Summer series race ( unlike Dunham 5K and Bowdon 5k which were also the first and third of the 5K series ) . The fourth of the series is a…
24th Four Villages Half Marathon – 23rd January 2005 (Rob finished the Four Villages 40th overall in 1:18:18 on the big clock – between Graham and Jim. Unfortunately they didn’t have a chip for his race number at the start so he was given a new chip and race number…
I recently experienced my first cross country league race. So, for those of you who are thinking of giving it a go or indeed can’t remember what it was like that first time … here are my impressions. Walking up from the car park I saw a line of mud…
Seasons Greetings from Provence Hello everybody, I hope you all are fit and well. I guess by the time you read this you’ll be on/doing ‘cold turkey’ (in both senses of the term). Anyway, for those interested in athletics proceed to the next article. Otherwise read on…….
You know where you’re going…..” or Words of Wisdom from the Bear To gain the most from a Tuesday night training session you obviously have to work hard. The aim is to generate a real physical change in your body. The type of change achieved depends on the structure of…
Training Plan…. In the dark days of November last year when days melted into nights and into days again and when all interim activity was dictated by our newborn baby my husband decided on a target to get my postnatal body off the setee and back into some sort of…
Felt like For those of you nerdily interested in exactly how far you run, conjure with the following. The Sunday run that left from the Rugby Club on 26 September at 9.00 am covered 10.04 miles. This is a typical Sunday run with mixed going of track, road, field, stream,…
