Established over 40 years ago, we welcome a range of abilities and ages, and wear our Sky Blue shirts with pride!
The Midlands counties cross country championships will be held this year (actually 2017) in Loughborough, for junior categories, and seniors (no vet categories). Entries need to be in by Jan 6th. 11.30am U13 Boys Distance 3km 11.45am U20 Men Distance 8km […]
Continue ReadingIf you’re not meeting under the clock tower in Hay this Sunday morning for Oliver Balch’s 4.5 mile off-road run, maybe you’d like to run along at least part of the route of the Mortimer 8 (Dec 11th), leaving from the Black Pool car park around 9am.
Continue ReadingYou may have heard Steve Herington talking at the Hay Festival about his book on Bob Cole (Herefordshire runner), and now another author, Vybarr Cregan-Reid (I bet his name is misspelt nearly as often as Steve’s) is coming to talk about his own book – ‘Footnotes:How Running Makes us Fully Human’. The talk begins at […]
Continue Reading
This summer I led treks around the Mont Blanc Circuit with Korean and American clients as part of my job, utilising my qualification as an International Mountain Leader. Putting up with stroppy clients at times, the benefits of paid hotel trips around a beautiful area with great weather far outweighed the negatives. Before and during […]
Continue ReadingNot the usual course this week. Every parkrun apparently has to have a contingency plan, so they plan to run the alternative route this Saturday, so every time will be a PB! Same start but the course drops down Sunny Gutter to where the Mortimer 9(?) race leaves the main track, carries on down the […]
Continue Reading