As the momentum of the cross country season gathers pace, Heanor RC juniors Lily Winfield & Ashleigh Armstrong headed to the North West to compete in the second round of the British Cross Challenge in Liverpool. The event, which is renowned for attracting top athletes in all age categories from across the UK and providing real close races, didn’t disappoint. The […]
Thirty-two runners represented the yellow and blue at the Midland Counties Road Relay Championships. Three mens teams, two womens and athletes in action across the younger age category races performed with aplomb across a days’ worth of racing. Joe Rainsford (18:25) led the men’s ‘A’ sextet to an eleventh-place finish with the fastest HRC clocking […]
Congratulations to Lily Winfield, who secured the qualification standard for the English Schools Championships over 1500m at the Derbyshire Track & Field Championships last weekend. Lily, who has chipped away at her personal best all summer and has already ran twelve seconds faster than her best time from 2014, clocked 4:49.36 – inside the 4:50.00 […]
Lily Winfield finished an impressive 13th at the combined British Athletics Cross Challenge and Chiltern XC League event in Milton Keynes today. The long-running Cross Challenge is a series of four races across the winter beginning in Liverpool in November and culminating at the CAU Inter-Counties race at Cofton Park, Birmingham next month. Lily, who […]
A small band of Heanor RC juniors made the short trip to Rutland Sports Centre, Ilkeston for the second Derbyshire XC Mini League fixture of the season on Saturday. In wet conditions, Phoebe Winfield kicked HRC interest off in the U11G event. Phoebe improved by two positions on her previous outing at Tupton Hall to […]
The English National Cross Country Relays returned to Berry Hill, Mansfield last weekend and saw six teams represent the yellow and blue across four age category races. Among the crème de la crème of the country’s talent, Heanor RC had three senior men’s quartets, two senior ladies teams plus one junior male and an U13 girls […]
The annual HRC club trip abroad saw ten members return to the city of Las Fallas and paella on the Mediterranean coast for the Valencia Half Marathon on Sunday. In a race won in the fastest time ever recorded on Spanish soil and the sixth-fastest time in history by Abraham Cheroben (58:48) – and which […]
An action-packed weekend for Heanor RC saw a huge seventeen-strong turnout, race winners and a multitude of personal bests at the Shelton Striders 10k, a 56th-place finish for the senior men at the ERRA National 6 Stage Road Relays and another Midland Masters title for Louise Insley at the Rugby 10 Mile event. Stuart King […]
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 […]
Lily Winfield and Emily Deeming enjoyed another PB-breaking evening at the Paula Radcliffe Stadium in Loughborough on Wednesday night at the latest Charnwood AC Open meet. Lily, who had already ran personal bests over 800m and 1500m at the same meet in the previous two months, was in great form once again as she smashed […]
