by Rose | Oct 24, 2022 | Members' posts, Race Report
Earlier this year I received a message out of the blue asking if I wanted to join a team heading to Lesotho for a 5-day, non-stop adventure race. The fact that I’d never heard of the country made me all the more curious to join the team. So despite the facts that a)...
by Rose | Oct 18, 2022 | Members' posts, Photo Gallery, Race Report, Results
Broughton Heights, Scottish Borders What a spectacular weekend at the fell relays. Firstly a huge thanks to our team captains Emma Lane and Ollie Roberts for getting the teams together and dealing with all the red tape. A special thanks to Emma whose team, due to the...
by Rose | Oct 12, 2022 | Members' posts, Race Report
After successfully gaining the NLFR club place in 2021, I was able to gain a good-for-age entry for this year’s TCS London marathon (a good-for-age for F50 is sub 4 hours, for M50 it is sub 3.15, 6,000 GFA places are allocated altogether, so running the time no longer...
by Rose | Apr 26, 2022 | Members' posts, Race Report
April 23rd, 2022 Having recced this one and raced it in the past I was quite confident of the route and hazards. Caroline, Niamh amd I were only there a couple of weeks before so I had got my bearings and knew it would be tough. The long track and road section at the...
by Rose | Apr 20, 2022 | Members' posts, News, Race Report
Boston Marathon (UK) :18th April, 2022 For the first time ever, I had paid for a training plan for this marathon from coach Josh Griffiths (who ran a 2.14.49 London Marathon in 2017). Anyway, I followed this plan to the letter following the dysphasia of my London...
by Rose | Nov 16, 2021 | Members' posts, Race Report
Sunday 24th October 2021. I ran this race for old time’s sake last month. The Abbey Dash was founded by Abbey Runners and more specifically Colin and Hetta Morath. Hetta has remained an inspiration to female runners and continued racing into her 70s. Colin very...