ESSEX CROSS COUNTRY LEAGUE. Well that's another cross country season almost over, just the National Champs at Parliament Hill Fields, Hampstead Heath next Saturday and after recent weather that will be a mud bath, bring it on! Here's a summary of our Essex Cross Country League season after Saturday's 5th and final race at Writtle. Twenty seven clubs were involved [...]
A fantastic turn out by HRR on Sunday morning at Great Bentley half marathon . We had no less than 20 road runners out on the course! The Great Bentley Half Marathon is run mainly on country lanes in rural Essex. It is a fast, flat course, perfect for attaining PB'S. The conditions were challenging with heavy rain showers and [...]
HRR had 4 runners out flying the flag on Sunday at the ‘Benfleet 15’ race. The Benfleet 15 is a challenging 15 mile multi terrain course which takes in sections of the Canvey Island Sea Wall, and the Hadleigh Downs. Representing the ladies was Keely Jordan and Lisa Rodbourn. Keely had an outstanding race finishing in 9th place out of [...]
Sunday 28th November 2021 Halstead Road Runners hosted the next race in the NESS Cross Country League sponsored by Eyes Rite. The race HQ was at Gosfield School and the course took in Broaks Woods and part of the motocross track behind. This made for a very gruelling course for the competitors with copious amounts of mud to wade through [...]
Darren Powell completed his 100th Park Run at Clare Castle Park Run on Saturday accompanied by his friends and family and a contingent of Halstead Road Runners. Ironically he came in 100th place. He will now take a few weeks out of running the Park Run to volunteer to give a bit back to the Park Run movement. Sunday saw [...]
After a year off due to the pandemic, the NESS cross country league got back underway with its first fixture at Writtle Agricultural College, hosted by Springfield Striders. Ideal weather conditions were welcomed by the runners. Teams from all across North Essex and South Suffolk compete in this league and it was fantastic to reunite with the rival clubs. A [...]
The biggest event in the UK running calendar, The Virgin London Marathon, finally returned this weekend. All Halstead Road Runners taking part performed really well and the weather conditions were good for the event if not a little windy. Nathan Roulson came in first for Halstead in 3:00:09. Stephen Metson 3:19:51 Gavin Ripton 3:35:42 Rachael Roughan 3:36:29 Michael Smith 3:39:48 [...]
The Essex Championship race, the Pleshey Half Marathon took place this weekend. Conditions were warm for mid September. Steve May was first home for Halstead in a time of 1:35:18. Paul Hinsley came in next in 1:40:24. Mike Grealy completed it in 1:51:02 and came 3rd in the M70 category. John Warne finished in 2:02:50 and came 3rd in the [...]
Halstead Road Runners have been out undertaking some major events over the last few weeks. Bob Langley and Neil Poulter took on the 50km Writtle Round on the 25th July. This is an off road route with navigation by narrative route description. Bob completed it in 5:34:56 coming 16th overall and Neil completed it in 5:58:29 coming in 27th place. [...]
On the 9th July Nathan Roulson took on the epic Val d'Aran trail running event in the Pyrenees. This is a 105km event taking in over 21,000 feet of ascent, much of it on technical, boulder ridden terrain. Nathan finished the event in 27:36:00. Andy Wilmot has been back out marathon running at the Suffolk Running Centre. He ran one [...]