A 32-strong team plus seven men in the top-30 ensured top spot overall in the first BDL of the season at Shipley Park. Joe Rainsford scooped the individual honours, leading home a HRC one-two along with Chris Patterson. Juniors Ashleigh Armstrong and Mollie O’Hanlon, combined with Anna Shipley to secure third-place for the women. Full […]
A 25-strong turnout, impressive female showing plus seven men inside the first twelve ensured Heanor RC retained the men’s and combined BDL XC titles at Holmebrook Country Park yesterday. Joe Rainsford led home a HRC 1-2 ahead of Dale Annable whilst Wendy Mullineux took second in the female standings. There were also a number of […]
A final pitch inspection on Saturday afternoon will determine which course host-club North Derbyshire will use for the final BDL XC fixture of the season this Sunday. Adverse weather conditions over the past week have taken their toll on the Holmebrook Country Park course and, whilst weather reports look favorable for the remainder of the […]
Heanor RC’s Stuart King dominated to make it three wins out of three at the latest BDL fixture last weekend. The brand new course, hosted by Matlock AC at Bakewell Showground, proved a resounding success as the three-lap route saw testing hills, soft ground and a small flooded section that wasn’t most welcome on the […]
The third BDL XC fixture of the season takes place this weekend – and it’s a new one on the calendar at Bakewell Showground, hosted by Matlock AC. The yellow and blue returned to winning ways in the last race at Chaddesden Park. Stuart King won for the second-successive race to head a HRC 1-2-3 and […]
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 […]
With the summer season beginning to draw to a close, thoughts now turn towards the mud and tears of another impending cross country campaign. Heanor Running Club competes in two cross country leagues during the winter months – the North Midlands Cross Country League and the Booth Decorators League. The juniors also compete in the […]
Joe Rainsford led the field home at a canter in the fifth and final BDL XC of the season at Holmebrook Valley on Sunday as birthday girl Lisa Palmer made it four wins out of four in the female standings. The victorious men’s team retained the overall title for another year by a six-point margin […]
Heanor RC made it a clean sweep of victories at the penultimate BDL of the season on Sunday as twenty two in yellow and blue tackled the new course at Allestree Park, Derby. Fresh from his top-10 finish at the North Midlands Cross Country just twenty four hours before, Joe Rainsford led the way with […]
