Despite the wet and windy conditions Halstead Road Runners were representing the club in various events around the country today. A large contingent took a road trip to the Steyning Stinger Half and Full Marathon. Official results are awaited and will follow. In the half distance Treena Carder, Caroliena Cameron, Kris Bell, Phil Jeffries and Sam Wolton ran together getting [...]
Halstead Road Runners hosted the season finale in the NESS cross country league at Gosfield School today. It was a beautiful sunny day for running and conditions underfoot were extremely muddy. Halstead had 4 juniors competing in the Fun Run with Will Chandler making a solid debut in 42nd position for the boys. Martha May has competed in every race [...]
It was the penultimate fixture in the NESS cross country league at Hadleigh (Suffolk). The venue always offers a proper hilly cross country course. The inclement weather conditions added to the challenge today. The junior fun run was no exception with the 3 Halstead runners facing some big hills in the rain and mud over a distance of 1.8 miles. [...]
It was the final fixture in the Essex Cross Country League at Basildon Sporting Village. The Road Runners were going into the fixture knowing the men were guaranteed promotion to Division 1 and with the ladies still in with a fighting chance. Conditions were cold and wet underfoot with a bitter wind. The course has a surprising amount of hills [...]
Ivan Filchev and Nathan Roulson did the 38th Box Hill Fell Race in Surrey on Saturday. Box Hill is notorious for being a challenging incline whether you’re scaling it on 2 wheels or 2 feet! The race was 12km long with 640metres of elevation and was challenging not only because of its profile but also its diverse underfoot conditions ranging [...]
It was a double header cross country weekend for the Halstead Road Runners which kicked off with a trip to Epping Forest. The course was extremely muddy in places. The ladies had their best result in the league this season finishing 2nd on the day with Rachael Roughan (22) heading up the scorers followed by Wendy Carter (58), Anna Bambridge (63) [...]
The 2019 race calendar got off to a start with the Essex Senior Cross Country Championships at Writtle College on Saturday. For the first time, in line with UK Athletics recommendations, men and women raced over the same distance of 10k instead of the previous practice of men running 12k and women 8k. As Essex is one of the first [...]
Marathon Man Andy Wilmot returned to the Great Barrow Challenge in Suffolk for the Xmas Triple Tipple marathon series to end 2018. Wilmot is amazingly consistent in his pacing and finished the consecutive series of 26.2 milers as follows: Friday (Highwayman’s course) 5 hours Saturday (Kirtling course) 4 hours 58 minutes 19 seconds Sunday (Clover course) 4 hours 59 minutes [...]
Horseheath Point to Point course was the venue for the 3rd fixture in the Essex Cross Country League and the last cross country race before Christmas. The venue is completely exposed to the elements leaving the runners to deal with some bitterly cold and extremely windy conditions. Rachael Roughan led the way for the Road Runners’ ladies in 29th followed [...]
Big Bob will be taking a group out this evening (3rd December 2018) for a trail run. If you would like to join, meet at clubhouse for a 7pm departure like normal but please remember to bring a head torch, trail shoes and the usual high viz. Distance currently unknown but presume it will be between 6-9 miles (ish).