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 [...]
The Hare and Tortoise running company held the Blackwater trail events on Saturday. This event ran three different distances along the River Chelmer from Chelmsford to the Blackwater estuary. Conditions were slippery underfoot after the prolonged rain. Bob Langley and Neil Poulter entered the marathon distance which actually ran at about 27.4 miles. Despite the slippery conditions Bob Langley smashed [...]
This Sunday saw the first big road race for a long time. 1384 participants took part in the Colchester Stampede 10k and Halstead Road Runners were out in force. The course starts in the zoo and then runs out around closed run coming back in through the zoo to finish. Michael Smith stormed home first for Halstead in a PB [...]
Some big races have been undertaken by Halstead Road Runners this weekend. Nathan Roulson took on the massive challenge of running the TP100. This is a 100 mile race along the Thames Path from Richmond to Oxford starting on Saturday 8th May. Nathan completed it in a time of 22:56:00. He came in 73rd place. 272 people started the race [...]
Halstead Road Runners have been back in action over the past couple of weeks running races. On Easter Monday, Dan Hollinshead and Steve May ran in the Easter Eggstravaganza trail run at Writtle. It was a 7.7 mile course. Dan finished in 1:03:26 coming 15th out of 147 runners. Steve finished in 1:05:42 coming 18th. On the 11th April Will [...]