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…
It’s nearly that time…the return of XC and the Manchester Area XC League…sponsored by Andrew and RunNorthWest. More details can be found here…www.maccl.co.uk. Fixture one is Wythenshawe Park…Saturday 16th October. The League is moving to chip timing this year and this has necessitated a change in the entry and payment…
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…
Commentary…some of our longer serving members may remember the “NW Sunday XC League”… The attached was shared with me by the current Chair of Cheshire & Spectrum member Andy Garnett. I remember one year running the Alsager 5 in the morning and then the XC pm! Nick Go jump in…
We all know a lot about this week. It ended with the Wilmslow Running Festival. A lot of you and your family helped out on Saturday with the bag packing. Sunday saw members and friends and Family helping out with administration, parking, pacing, desk and baggage management, litter picking and…
