Ignoring the ‘danger to life’ warnings of Storm Isha, the lesser-spotted Chris Rainsford made a rare race appearance in Hampshire on Sunday. After securing a late entry in the week of the race, the 34-year-old London based Heanor runner, threw caution to the (very strong) wind to lace up his Rocket X2 over the […]
With little other racing happening it was left to the Heanor Juniors to take centre stage at the 3rd match in the Derbyshire Mini League. As ever the performances and attitude of the youngsters left much to be admired. Despite being the smallest club in the league all of the juniors got stuck and gave […]
For something a little different, the Wilkins and Lynas families entered the Bramcote Family Aquathlon. A 200m swim followed by a 2km run, Elaine writes: “The girls and myself decided to take on a slightly different challenge at the weekend. The Bramcote family Aquathlon. Since the girls used to swim for a swimming club […]
A packed weekend of running for the Lions, covering everything from 200m at the County Championships to a 40 mile Ultra. Charlie Cotton celebrated his 13th birthday with a trip to Blackpool for the a 10K. His official Pace maker, Chris takes up the story: The 13th May 2018, Charlie Cottons 12th Birthday, he decided […]
Well it all started on Sunday morning with the brilliant Livingston Relays. The Heanor team were out in force to show what the Lions can do. It turned into quite a warm day when the sun came out so the weather was not at all that bad for us. The support from everyone was amazing, […]
The weekend of the London Marathon is always a busy one, and Heanor runners were on their travels to make it busier than usual. Friday 26th started off with Joe and Paige travelling up to Kingsley in Cheshire for a fast 5K Highly recommended by Joe who dipped under 15 minutes for the first time […]
As weekends go, the weekend of 6th and 7th of April is about as busy as it can get (especially if you include the first Summer League Race on the 9th – that’s 3 in 4 days!). Lions were spotted at: The National Road Race Relays (a men’s team of 12 and a ladies team of 6) […]
Midland Road Relays It was another successful day for Heanor Running Club at the Midlands 12 and 6 stage relays. As well as being able to field two full teams in both the Men’s and Ladies events (some 36 runners by my rudimentary maths!) there were some outstanding performances from the Ladies (running over 16 minutes […]
Sam Marsh did the Yellow and Blue proud running for Derbyshire in the English Schools Cross Country with a strong 10th place and earned an international vest in the process. Sam’s Dad writes: “Sam took part in the English Schools Cross Country Champs. He was greeted on Saturday with perfect cross country conditions – hills, […]
Weekend Round Up – 9th and 10th March Saturday 9th March was the turn of the Inter Counties Cross Country and World Cross Country Trials at Prestwold Hall, so very local. We had a number of athletes compete: Owen Lynas and Archie Winson – U13 Boys Joe Rainsford and Chris Rainsford – Senior Men Samantha Crowe […]
