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).
Hilly Fields in Colchester was the venue for this year’s Essex Vets Cross Country Championships. It was a proper cross country event in every sense of the word with mud, plenty of hills and rain. There was a great attendance level across the board with almost record entry levels. This year chip-timing was introduced together with weather proof numbers which [...]
It was the third fixture in the NESS cross country league at Harwich yesterday. The course is always a tough one mainly on muddy fields. However, this year it was even more challenging as the usual welcome fast downhill finish was now an uphill one! This was even the case for the Junior Race which saw Martha May finish 6th in [...]
Halstead Road Runners hosted the inaugural Gosfield Gauntlet trail half marathon and marathon on Sunday. The event proved extremely popular with the half marathon over-subscribed. Both distances started at Gosfield School taking in local trails before heading back through Broaks Wood to finish. The weather on the day offered perfect chilly but dry conditions. In the half marathon race Craig [...]
It was the second fixture in the Essex Cross Country League this weekend at One Tree Hill a venue which offers a tough course which lives up to its hilly name. Conditions were slippy and muddy underfoot with the men in particular having difficulty safely navigating some tight corners. Rachael Roughan (29), Leigh-Anne Porter (64) and Anna Bambridge (77) took [...]
It was the second fixture in the NESS cross country league hosted by Witham Running Club at Notley Country Park, always a popular local venue. Conditions were perfect for runners who had to scale Big Bird Hill initially from the back before heading out round field edges and then from the front before completing the loop again. Halstead went into [...]
The 2018/2019 cross country season kicked off with a double header weekend. Halstead fielded full teams at both fixtures which was a fantastic start. The first fixture in the Essex League was hosted by Southend AC at Hockley in crisp, sunny conditions on an undulating course. The ladies raced first with Rachael Roughan leading the way for Halstead in [...]
It was a jam packed day of racing today in unseasonably warm conditions. Amongst the results were some fantastic firsts and new pbs. There were 2 big local events; the Wix 5 which also hosted the County 5 mile championships and was the last fixture in this year’s Championship series. The race saw a particularly large field of runners. No [...]