With a concerted effort being made to try and prioritise the North Midlands Cross Country League this campaign, the proof of those efforts was in the pudding last weekend as twenty-nine turned out over six category races at Markeaton Park, Derby. The long-standing and prestigious league has only seen one Heanor RC individual champion in […]
Winter is fast-approaching and so too the cross country season as this weekend sees Markeaton Park, Derby plays host to the opening fixture of the North Midlands Cross Country League campaign on Saturday and Ripley RC host the first BDL XC at Shipley Park on Sunday. North Midlands Cross Country League There were a trio […]
Entries for the Matthew Walker Pudding Run 10k on Sunday 23rd November look set to sell-out well before the deadline as 414 runners have already signed-up for the twenty-eighth edition of the race – check if you’re in HERE. The current numbers are two weeks ahead of where they stood in 2013 and mean the […]
An action-packed weekend for Heanor RC saw a huge seventeen-strong turnout, race winners and a multitude of personal bests at the Shelton Striders 10k, a 56th-place finish for the senior men at the ERRA National 6 Stage Road Relays and another Midland Masters title for Louise Insley at the Rugby 10 Mile event. Stuart King […]
Nine Heanor Running Club members were in amongst the 7130 finishers at the Robin Hood Half Marathon last weekend as half of those competing in yellow and blue recorded new personal bests on a warm morning over the county border. The race became something of a intra-club competition for Heanor RC’s ladies to see who would […]
Such are the high expectations at the club these days, it wasn’t quite “seventh-heaven” for the club’s “A” teams at the Midland 6 & 4 Stage Road Relays at the weekend. Following respective fourth and sixth-place finishes for the men and women at the annual regional relay event twelve months ago, the teams couldn’t quite […]
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 […]
The Matthew Walker Christmas Pudding Run will see a complete overhaul of the course for this year’s race on Sunday 23rd November at 10am. Gone is the long uphill drag past Heanor Gate Science College, the road stretch through Smalley and the infamous Bell Lane and ‘Heartbreak Hill’ finish. See course map above. All these […]
On a perfect evening, twenty-five turned-out for the Sam North Mile, the latest event in the 2014 Club Championship. Full results: Joe Rainsford – 4.38 Shane Rice – 5.01 Steve Ashmore – 5.03 Stuart Chadwick – 5.13 Carl Hughes – 5.20 Dylan George – 5.24 Lily Winfield – 5.28 Tony Weatherson – 5.28 Paul Mercer […]
This Saturday sees the return of one of the highlights on the club racing calendar as the Midland 6 & 4 Stage Road Relays take place at Sutton Park, Birmingham. The annual event attracts some of the best runners in the area as teams aim to qualify among the top-25 for the National event that […]
