After doing something unpleasant to my right calf at the Ilkeston BDL, it was with more than the usual pre-race trepidation that I waited, along with Jo Potter and Ed Godber, for the starter’s horn. Happiest running on days that fall between 7 and 10 degrees C, the expected temperatures reaching the early 20s was […]
Where to start? It’s been difficult keeping up with all the action this weekend as a number of Heanor RC members flew the flag across the country in one of the busiest and most-fruitful weekends of the year so far. Following on from an impressive turnout of twenty-three at the first Pub Run of the […]
Another cracking turn-out of thirty-five runners tackled the latest BDL road race at Ilkeston Rugby Club on Tuesday (13/05) as Stuart King and Louise Insley led the men’s and women’s teams to a second convincing team victory in succession. Matching the number of runners that ran in the previous fixture at Teversal Grange last month, […]
Joe Rainsford, Stuart King and Chris Rainsford made their debuts over 10,000m on the track in the Highgate Harriers Night of the PBs incorp British & England Athletics Championships on Saturday night. Heavy showers and a persistent home-straight wind on the track at Parliament Hill, London proved testing but the conditions weren’t enough to stop […]
The 2014 Booth Decorators League Road Race campaign returns this Tuesday 13th May as Ilkeston Rugby Club plays host to the second fixture of the season. Thirty-five runners in yellow and blue contributed to double-team success in the season-opener at Teversal Grange last month, with James Mee and Lisa Palmer taking the individual honours to […]
Louise Insley added the British Masters V40 title to her growing collection of achievements as she obliterated her personal best over 10k at the Great East Anglia Run in Kings Lynn last weekend. After winning the Midland Masters title at the Wilne 10k last September, the forty-four year old ran 37:07 to take full advantage of the perfect conditions and […]
Prior to Sunday’s edition of the race, just nine different teams had seen their name etched onto the Livingston Relay trophy since the inaugural event in 1928. Derbyshire counterparts, Derby & County, won out in the first running of the race almost ninety years ago and the quartet of Joe Rainsford, Stuart King, Dale Annable […]
Emily Deeming along with sisters Lily and Phoebe Winfield represented Heanor RC in the first Derbyshire Track & Field Mini League fixture of the season at Moorways yesterday (26/04). In the U11G category, Phoebe ran a personal best of 25.3 to finish fourth in the 150m and leapt to a height of 0.90m to place […]
Lily Winfield and Wendy Mullineux were the star performers in the opening time trial of the year as both set new category records over the three mile course in pleasant conditions on Shipley Park. With only a slight breeze and a little mud along the train lines in the final mile to speak of, Lily […]
A fantastic total of thirty-five runners turned out in yellow and blue for the opening BDL road race of the season at Teversal Grange last Tuesday (15/04). A Heanor RC 1-2-3 (and 5-6-7) saw the men’s team finish a comfortable first as James Mee took the honours ahead of Joe Rainsford and Matt Bickerstaff. Lisa […]
