So down to the animal farm we went, me and my best friend now ‘Mrs Crosley’ to visit the animals and say moo to the highland cows, and of course to run the first ever Graves Park parkrun in Sheffield. Mr MacParkRun had an idea e-i-e-i-o With that idea he had a run e-i-e-i-o With […]
National Cross Country
My first ever ‘National’ cross country event in London. Cross Country in London I hear you say? London, you are going to London to run a Cross Country when you are from Sheffield? Hello World! But yes, indeed, home of Cross Country; Parliament Hill; Hamstead Heath – finally making a good use of a green […]
Yorkshire Vets Cross Country
So what does today have in store for you today my friends? For me the Yorkshire Vet’s cross country in Doncaster today my friends so off you go. I woke up on this Sunday morning at my usually bizarre time of 5.56am to a beautiful crisp Sunday morning but instead of taking myself out for […]
Yorkshire Vets Cross Country
After two weeks of no running (what you say? – not injured and no running?) and a week in the artic circle in 2 feet of snow my feet were not going anywhere for a week, and they weren’t even weak, I was about to embark on the Yorkshire XC champs at Wakefield. A great […]
Yorkshire Cross Country
Yorkshire home of Light Water Valley, so Sit thissen dahn an’ tell me abaht it, ‘ere goes. I got picked up by a big white mini bus, full of enthusiastic Sheffield Running Club guys. Oh what a lovely bunch of people we are. Ee, by gum. Up the motorway we went; ‘Ey up; an hour […]
South Yorkshire Cross Country #4 – Doncaster
This was my first cross country league of the season due to being injured previously, clashing of other races and just not having the confidence to run. However I was feeling good today so decided to give it a go. So off went a full little Clio of girls, running gear, cake, cake and cake. […]
Heanor Pudding Run
It’s the battle of the pudding runs as for the second year running I take part in the Heanor 10km pudding run, superseded by the Percy Pud 10km in a couple of weeks. Last year I was rocking, I had just joined the fantastic Sheffield Running Club and was enjoying my running smashing my previous […]
Wiggle 10km
Wiggle wiggle wiggle I wonder why I wiggle? The last day in April took us to Burton on Trent for something completely different – a Wiggle 10km trail / cross country route on a lovely Saturday morning. This was part of a larger all weekend event but we weren’t game enough to ride bikes in […]
Yorkshire Cross Country
My second ever Cross Country with Sheffield RC, this time slightly bigger than 7 days previous in Graves Park Sheffield. This wasn’t the World Champs or anything but the Yorkshire Cross Country Championships, I knew there would be some fast runners out there, those that are heading for tops, I was there for the experience […]
Sheffield Open Cross Country
Finally a practical use for Graves Park – the Sheffield Open Cross Country races organised by my very own Sheffield Running Club. I’d never done XC before and enquired about it to several people during the past few weeks. Was I out of my league doing this? Should I be in the Sheffield Snailers – […]