Heanor RC secured top-spot at the Malt Shovel Relay last Thursday evening as Joe Rainsford led the men’s “A” team home to first with the fastest time of the night and a new course record. With the Midland 6 & 4 Stage Road Relays now just three weeks away, the yellow and blue showed just […]
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 […]
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 […]
With just four races left to run in the 2014 Club Championship, it’s tight at the top as at least two runners still stand a chance of snatching victory in each individual category. Only the Sam North Mile, Shelton Striders 10k, Worksop Half Marathon and Leeds Abbey Dash (plus, a marathon any time before the end […]
Carl Hughes was the sole Heanor RC representative at an old club favourite over the weekend as he “raced the train & beat it again” in Tywyn, Wales. Race the Train was a regular fixture on the club calendar throughout the noughties until the incessant wet weather year-on-year eventually dampened enthusiasm enough for a return but Carl […]
Having set personal bests across a range of distances and been at the forefront of numerous team successes throughout 2014, Lisa Palmer continued her sterling year with gold at the British Masters 5,000m on Sunday. It has been quite the year so far for Lisa and the thirty-seven year old completed a brilliant British Masters […]
Heanor Running Club made it a clean-sweep for the season at the final BDL road race of 2014 as an all yellow and blue top-six saw the men retain the title for another year and the women regain top-spot from Sutton Harriers following five wins out of five. On home-turf at Shipley Hall Cricket Club, […]
Emily and Abbie Deeming and Lily and Phoebe Winfield flew the HRC flag at the final Derbyshire Track & Field Mini-League fixture of the season on Saturday at Moorways Stadium, Derby. In seasonally-hot temperatures, U11 girls Phoebe and Abbie opted for the double-whammy of 80m and 150m races whilst Phoebe also added the 600m to […]
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 […]
Dale Annable and Lisa Palmer took the victories at the Tara Kinder 10k on Friday night as a total of fifteen Heanor RC runners competed in the humid conditions among the 415 that finished the popular race. The race was the fifth of eight in the 2014 Run Derby series and Dale enjoyed a comfortable […]
