We’re all fawned of running right? So what better way to spend a sunny Sunday morning than at Wentworth Castle in Barnsley to run around the grounds a few times and of course after 3 laps of the course to eat cake. The thing about these events is that they are short and sweet you […]
British Masters Cross Country Relays
My first ever outing in my Spikes Who let the spikes out? Who let the spikes out? Saturday morning jumped out of bed and put on my best spikes… (Beginning lyrics to Magics! Rude) A minibus driven by club secretary Mike took us down to the British Masters Cross Country Relays at Moorlands stadium in […]
South Yorkshire Cross Country #1 – Spinkhill
Stamp! Crackle! Crunch! Crispy orange-brown leaves blowing about in the strong autumunal gusts of wind, scarfs and hats and gloves wrapped around big body warmers, long johns and muddy shoes. Oh yes the mud let’s not forget the mud, the icky brown stuff that cross country lovers stampeed through, rich, smelly, wet, manure-like, mucky – […]
Yorkshire Vets Cross Country
2.6 miles I say, 2.6 not 26.2 but 2.6. The weekend that most people were about to run a marathon I decide to do the complete opposite, mix up the numbers a bit and run 2.6 miles. The Yorkshire Vet’s Cross Country event was taking place just outside of Leeds at Nunroyd Park. It took […]
National Cross Country – Nottingham
You can’t get better than this – the National Cross Country Championships. This year slightly more local in Nottingham so why not give it a go, 5 miles over cross country terrain running in the biggest cross country pack in the UK, from elites to non-elites – an amazing experience with nearly 8000 runners in […]
Northern Cross Country
It’s taken me three years to get to the Northern Cross Country event. Third year lucky? Third year mucky! Struck with flu or injury in previous years I was just glad to bag a seat on the minibus all the way to knowsley Safari Park in cheshire. Such Fun. The journey there over the pennines […]
South Yorkshire Cross Country #2 – Graves Park
After doing Parkrun the day before, I decided then to take part in the second South Yorkshire Cross Country at Graves Park in Sheffield. It was local, and I had got such good company from little Emily only a few months old, and the only baby I know to have run 50 miles, Laura – […]
South Yorkshire Vets Cross Country
The old fogies cross country races at Wentworth Castle; I didn’t even know what it was apart from there would be more grey hairs than any other colour hopping about the fields, as long as we weren’t to go backwards as there would be more receding hare lines than you could mention.It was apparently the […]
Cutlers Relays
The Northern Cross Country Cutlers Relay Championships takes place once a year on a sunny Saturday crisp October morning. Runners from up north travel down to the border of “oopp north” AKA South Sheffield (the border is literally about half a mile away seeping into Derbyshire). A mumble jumble of northern accents, scousers, jordies, hullarians, […]
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 […]