Sunday morning, the day after a 21 mile event in the Peak District and my calfs are feeling the effects of near on 3000ft of climb but hell I am on my way down to Derby in my yellow mobile to run a 5 mile race with my bestie Becky. Hell why not? Something to […]
Heanor 5
Sometimes runners wait months or years to participate in a race, sometimes runners wait minutes or just hours. This event dropped into the latter category. Only a few hours before had I decided to do this run on a wet Friday evening 40 miles from home with my friend Becky. After making various excuses including […]
South Yorkshire 5 mile Road Race #4 – Worsborough
The fourth and final South Yorkshire road race series took place at Worsborough Mill just outside Barnsley on the 11 May 2011. A lovely run on a very sunny evening. I’ve started so I’ll finish, this the fourth in the series of 5 mile road races in South Yorkshire. Although my times for all previous […]
South Yorkshire 5 mile Road Race #3 – Pickburn
The third South Yorkshire 5 mile Road race series took place in Pickburn on 27 April 2011 in Pickburn a small village nestled near to Doncaster. The sun had even turned up for this bright sunny evening, it’s first proper appearance for one of these league races. It wasn’t wearing a bib number however so […]
South Yorkshire 5 mile Road Race #2 – Dam Flask
I will be dam if I do and dam if I don’t, Damm it, I do, I run another race only 3 days after my half marathon plus 1/4. Still sore from Sunday but determined to run this beautiful race around the lovely Dam Flask in Bradfield off I went with the multitude of other […]
South Yorkshire 5 mile Road Race #1 – Oxspring
So in the quintessentially South Yorkshire rolling hills, we take to these rolling hills on this springy but a little bit damp evening. So we got taken over a bridge to the start line, even though there was actually no line. The run was just in Barn-zaar-lee, the guy starting the race was broader than […]
Wombwell 5
When I stepped out the house this morning on a cold and foggy February and walked up to the car I did wonder what I was doing travelling to Barnsley for a 5 mile road race when most of the population would still be in bed or enjoying hot crispy toast and homemade jam with […]