Kate and Alan Barnard have been representing Halstead Road Runners in the Lake District this weekend completing the Coniston 14 run around Lake Coniston. 1600 runners took part in the 14 mile race on an undulating course in beautiful scenery. Kate completed it in 2:26 and Alan completed it in 1:48. The Essex Road Championship race, Braintree 5, took place [...]
The presentation trail is from the Jolly Sailor pub in Heybridge Basin CM9 4RS from 9:30am on Sunday Apr 7th, please park in the daisy meadow car park, the pub is only a minute further along the road, this will be the first in the 2019 Quarter Marathon series of trails, 3 mile route also available. The first of the [...]
On Saturday Wes and Laura Atkins ran in the Cornard Park Run. Wes came first in 0:17:35. Laura did it in 0:39:56. On Sunday Nina Powell made the trip to London to compete in the London Landmarks Half Marathon. She completed it in 2:24:55 and loved some of the views on the way round. Sunday also saw a lot of [...]
This Saturday 22 Halstead Road Runners competed in the Essex Road Relay which took place in Harwich. The event is a 5km relay out and back along the seafront. Conditions were blustery. Results were as follows: Senior men - Wes Atkins, Mat Hutley, Dan Hollinshead and Gavin Ripton came 19th in 1:19:07 V40 men - Nathan Roulson, Steve May and [...]
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) [...]