Twelve months ago, Matt Bickerstaff smashed both the 34- and 33-minute barriers at the Leeds Abbey Dash to post 32:49 – a huge ninety-second PB – over 10k. Just two days before the 2014 event, Matt talks about that race, his experiences so far with Heanor RC and, at the age of twenty-one, his future […]
Last weekend saw ten Heanor RC members return for the second-successive year to the Spanish city of Valencia for the annual club trip abroad. A tradition that started back in 2003 in Prague – and that has taken in such places as Lisbon, Berlin, Torremolinos and Antwerp since – the 2014 trip proved to be […]
This week’s Introducing features one of Heanor RC’s longest-serving members and the driving force behind the club’s successes in recent years. Chairman, coach, team manager and Matthew Walker Christmas Pudding 10k race director, Rob Rainsford reveals his favourite session, the best and worst things about the club and the plan to return to his PB-setting heights of […]
With his distinctive gazelle-like stride, Alastair Hobday has been a recognisable sight and permanent fixture on the Derbyshire road and cross country scene for almost thirty years. Alastair has played a key part in the HRC success-story since his move from Derby AC in 2006. Four London Marathons in the bag – and with another […]
One of HRC’s more entertaining characters – leading the “Madness tribute band” above – this week’s Introducing features Wendy Mullineux. The 40-minute 10k runner (with a soft-spot for chocolate cake) talks about why she runs, her greatest running achievement to date and the best and worst things about the club. HOW DID YOU GET INTO RUNNING? I […]
Derbyshire athletics stalwart, Jill Burke, doesn’t really need any introduction but here she tells us how she got into running, her greatest achievement in the sport to date and the best (and worst things) about Heanor Running Club. HOW DID YOU GET INTO RUNNING? I was a good runner at school and have ran for most of […]
HOW DID YOU GET INTO RUNNING? I ran as a kid at school, loved cross-country but didn’t like the track as much. But, like a lot of people, I stopped running when I left school and only got back into it when trying to play 5-a-side football. I was so unfit and realised I had […]
A Heanor Running Club stalwart set to celebrate his ten-year anniversary with the club in 2014, Steve Ashmore takes the chair for this week’s Introducing… HOW DID YOU GET INTO RUNNING? I was always a runner through my secondary school years, although upon leaving I was unaware of the outside world of club running and […]
Under the spotlight… is a new weekly website feature looking to introduce Heanor Running Club’s many and wonderful members to the wider running community. Sarah Lewis from Heanor takes up the position this week and talks about her greatest running achievement to date, her favourite HRC training session and the best (and worst) things about […]
