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 […]
Hallam Parkrun #39
Today I did my very first Park Run in Sheffield, 38 weeks after the first one started many 38 weeks ago. A gorgeous sunny Saturday morning, my friend arrived at the crack of Dawn apart from she is called Becky not Dawn and we ventured down to Endcliffe park – one of two park runs […]
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 […]
Edinburgh Half Marathon
Why do bagpipers run when they play? They’re trying to get away from the noise. And that was the sound of the weekend as I exited Waverley Railway Station on Friday afternoon to have a weekend in the gorgeous city of Edinburgh in order to get away from England and to run what I thought […]
Derby 10km
Taking someone else’s bib with beer stains on it I was in the “sub 60” wave of this race. I would have chosen to be in the “sub 45 wave” if it was my own bib, but then my own bib would have had tea stains on it and not beer stains. The race started […]
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 […]
South Yorkshire Half
What a strange and spontaneous day today. How to go from a 5k to a 21k race in the space of 15 minutes. So I was all geared up for a 5km road relay race as part of the Northern Relay event in Catterick alongside 5 other Sheffield RC women for a 6 legged 5km […]
Nottingham Relays
1. (n.) relay race – a race between teams of contestants, each contestant being relieved by a teammate after running part of the distance. My first club relays at the University of Nottingham, that’s if we could find the entrance to the campus, that is. Being true northerners running for Sheffield Running Club we went […]
Norton 9
Norton 9 – no its not an anti virus conference or a new virus running through the Yorkshire countryside, but close, its something that’s running, its a run, a 9 mile road run in the heart of the Yorkshire countryside where 500 or so runners set afoot, a trainer or two and 1000 or so […]
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 […]