January has been a rather busy and very muddy month. It started off with the Hampshire cross country championships and the league fixture at Prospect park, in which Les Cupis performed very well and came home with 1st Vet 55. We managed to field full teams for both events, but our numbers weren’t as high […]
November has been a busy month with the 2nd HXCL fixture, two HRRL races, and a host of other races. Peter Young performed very well in the Leeds Abbey Dash 10km again this year, clamming 1st Vet 70, and even beat the time of the 1st vet 65. There was a record turnout of 16 […]
I have been asked by our club captain to share my experience of the IOW Marathon. So, how did my race all come about? The good old fashioned new year’s resolution had struck on this one. The resolution was to lose weight, I was a fairly hefty 96kg in January this year, which is a […]
Peter Young started off the month with an outstanding performance in the European Masters Championship Half Marathon, bring home the gold. Peter has been training hard at the track for over a year and it has certainly payed off, it just goes to show you are never too old to be fast. Myself and Rodney […]
In March this year I received a call from Nick Groocock informing me that I had attained a qualifying time to enter the half marathon in the island games, which this year was to be held in Gotland in Sweden. He gave me a quick brief on what would be expected of me, asked me […]
June has been a busy month filled with some fantastic races. The month was started off with the festival of running, where the popular Needles half was joined by the 5k & 10k on the Saturday, and the Needles marathon on the Sunday. There were some excellent times recorded for these races, on what is […]
Its spring again, there’s bird song in the air, and the groans of weary marathon runners. Adam & Andrew started the month off with outstanding performances at Manchester Marathon both getting under 3 hours, with Andrew’s time resulted in him being selected to run for England at the Chester Marathon in October. There were also […]