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 […]
Heanor RC’s women added further British Masters success to their growing list of honours at Moorways Stadium, Derby on Saturday as the trio of Wendy Roethenbaugh, Jill Burke and Lisa Palmer secured bronze in the V35 standings at the British Masters Cross Country Relays. Making their debut in the men’s V35 category, the quintet of […]
The Matthew Walker 10k remains on course to sell out before the day as numbers reach 678 with four weeks still to go – see if you’re in HERE. With race entries well-ahead of where they stood at this stage in 2013, runners are advised to get their entry in soon to avoid disappointment. This […]
Last weekend saw ten Heanor RC members return for the second-successive year to the Spanish city of Valencia for the annual club trip abroad. A tradition that started back in 2003 in Prague – and that has taken in such places as Lisbon, Berlin, Torremolinos and Antwerp since – the 2014 trip proved to be […]
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 […]
With a concerted effort being made to try and prioritise the North Midlands Cross Country League this campaign, the proof of those efforts was in the pudding last weekend as twenty-nine turned out over six category races at Markeaton Park, Derby. The long-standing and prestigious league has only seen one Heanor RC individual champion in […]
