With such a busy weekend of running we still had 24 club members running at 8 events. It was parkruns 17th Birthday. A flash back at Bramhall where Damian not only appeared but romped home first. Paul and Oliver also were present. It was his first parkrun for 3 years.…
A busy weekend for racing but there were still 22 members running at 10 parkrun events. Busiest: Warrington [305]; quietest: Burnage [120]. Tourist: Lydia [Hampstead]. At Bramhall the two Pauls battled it out with PaulN finishing first this weekend. Might have rained a bit, but Chris our Open-Top tooting runner…
The Lakeland Four Passes is a 19 mile circular route with over 5300ft of ascent which starts and finishes at Rosthwaite Village Hall in Borrowdale, at the southern end of Derwent Water. The 1st pass takes you to Sty Head Tarn between the Scafell Massif and Great Gable before dropping…
It’s a 5-6 mile hill run around the Dane Valley and Gradbach including the infamous ‘river crossing’ – the route varies each year depending upon which local farm is hosting the fete. Runners receive a trout for their endeavours (as well as a lot of tea and cake)! Beer, trout,…
After a break of more than 16 months due to the pandemic, the race returned to Manchester city centre. This year things were slightly different with no warm-up and plenty of room in the start areas to allow people to social distance to do their own stretching. Both races once…
A few runners from the club were at Manchester on Sunday. Noticed ex-member Kate was there too. Both Andrew and Paul [managing his injury/niggle] were first in their category! Well done. As Andrew summed it up: A fun morning at the Great Manchester 10K representing Hive Running to help in…
I had an article penned for today! Then an eMail arrives! As you the Sheffield Half Marathon is South Yorkshire’s biggest event of its kind. 🙂 Thousands of runners of all abilities take part. With a city centre start and finish, a huge crowd cheer participants out and back. The event boasts…
A nice day for a run on Sunday at Partington. A good turnout by Wilmslow. Barry first WRC runner home with Claire three seconds behind him. Ironically she was third lady home and 3rd in her category too knocking 10 seconds off her PB. Could be down to Dan’s pacing…
I did wait to see if anyone would send pictures in – but alas no. We had a few pacers in the 10k Race, a couple of Ians and Trevor, who now has said goodbye to his incredible run of half-marathons and is settling into the shorter 10k. Like a…
30 runners this week. Busiest: Stretford [374]; Quietest [but busy!] Cheadle[109]. Tourists: Nicky [London]; Jeremy [Wales]. With John saving himself for Sheffield, Alan took the old boys out for a run at Alexandra Park. He was a few seconds slower than his Pb, but don’t-stop-me-now IanA PB’d by over 90…
