Congleton parkrun (5k) – Saturday 9th March
The eleventh parkrun to be held at Astbury Mere in Congleton was well attended with 85 runners taking part. Strider Chris Coppenhall finished in 4th place in a time of 20:02 followed by his father Terry Co...
Delamere parkrun (5k) – Saturday 2nd March
Back: Robert Kettle, Rick Kelso-Davies, Joanne Smith, Tony Taylor, Matt Simister, Perry Wyatt, Karen Lovatt, Michael Escolme, Heather Carter.
Front: Jill Young, Steve Treweeks, Liz O’Keef...
Organised by Biddulph Running Club, the race was run in aid of the Mayor charities, Staffordshire Moorlands Cancer Support Group (Biddulph Branch) & MacMillan Cancer Support. This was a 5 mile multi-terrain race at Greenway Bank Country Park in Biddulph...
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Worsley Woods parkrun (5k) – Sat 23rd Feb
The run starts with a flat mile along a disused railway line from Monton running towards Worsley Woods, a loop of varied terrain through the woods and then a final fast mile and a half back to the finish.
M...
Telford Parkrun 16/02/2013
My weekend began with a trip down to Telford for their inaugural parkrun . I wouldn’t normally have travelled quite so far for a 5k but the chance of bagging both a new parkrun course and another inaugural event was to good t...
Congleton Parkrun (5k) – Sat 9th Feb
Eleven Striders, along with several family members ran this weeks Congleton parkrun at Astbury Mere. There were 125 finishers and a very close finish between Chris Coppenhall and relatively new Strider Tony Tayl...
The Southport Mad Dog 10K #3 - Judgement Day...
So the third Mad Dog 10 rolls around and together with Liz O'Keeffe and Karen Lovatt I bowl up ready to once again take on the worst that Southport can throw at us. We arrive in good time and are deli...
The Braintree BoggleDefinitely more 'bog' than 'ogle', this run was not particularly pleasant.I thought the toughest challenge of the day was going to be getting Jo out of the apartment before 5am but how wrong could I be?Nearly all of the 26.2 mile co...
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Today (Saturday 2nd February) I volunteered to marshal at Astbury Mere since I was going to race the Alsager 5 on Sunday. I got there at 8.30am but first I had to meet a young girl who won a Kindle White prize from a competition I had organised at th...
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Today I ran the Alsager 5, despite waking up at 3am with a stinking head cold. As the weather had picked up at 10am I thought I’d be ok to run it. When I arrived at the race I notices that there were lots or people warming up in only their vests ...
