Heanor RC’s Stuart King dominated to make it three wins out of three at the latest BDL fixture last weekend. The brand new course, hosted by Matlock AC at Bakewell Showground, proved a resounding success as the three-lap route saw testing hills, soft ground and a small flooded section that wasn’t most welcome on the […]
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 third BDL XC fixture of the season takes place this weekend – and it’s a new one on the calendar at Bakewell Showground, hosted by Matlock AC. The yellow and blue returned to winning ways in the last race at Chaddesden Park. Stuart King won for the second-successive race to head a HRC 1-2-3 and […]
Wet conditions weren’t enough to dampen the spirits as a record number of finishers embraced the brand new course for the twenty-eighth running of the Matthew Walker 10k. With the Heanor Running Club-hosted event completely selling out its 1000 entry limit a week before the day, 884 finishers were led home by Rich Weir and […]
Heanor RC’s trip to the North for the final Club Championship event of the season brought personal bests galore at the Leeds Abbey Dash. The notoriously fast and deep field of top British talent assembled once more for the race that also incorporated the England Athletics 10k Championships. Central AC’s Andrew Butchart won the race […]
Twelve months ago, Matt Bickerstaff smashed both the 34- and 33-minute barriers at the Leeds Abbey Dash to post 32:49 – a huge ninety-second PB – over 10k. Just two days before the 2014 event, Matt talks about that race, his experiences so far with Heanor RC and, at the age of twenty-one, his future […]
The yellow and blue returned to the top of the senior men and combined standings in the second BDL XC of the winter at Chaddesden Park last Sunday. A total of twenty-seven turned out for the second-half of another weekend double-header, with the ladies also improving on their first fixture efforts to secure second-spot. Stuart […]
Runners with intentions of competing in this year’s Matthew Walker 10k should act fast as the final few places go up for grabs with two weeks still to go until race day. All numbers were snapped up with three days to spare in 2013 but demand for a spot in this year’s running of the […]
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 […]
An impressive baker’s dozen grasped the opportunity to pick up Club Championship points in the penultimate fixture of the 2014 campaign at the Worksop Half Marathon last weekend. The HRC Club Championship features a series of fourteen events across the year in which the yellow and blue collect points in relation to their finishing position […]
