Cheddar ladies Gill Constable, Sarah Neild and Jenny McNamara brought home the bling form the 2017 Weston Prom Series! Gill won the V60 category, bringing home an engraved plaque, Sarah was third in her age category (V50), and Jenny won a £15 M&S voucher for being third lady in the series overall. Those bleak winter…
Andy H reports… I am not sure if running is a hobby or a disease. It certainly hurts. The memory of the pain fades but sense of achievement it gives stays with you for life. In the early part of 1998, I had been running on and off for twelve years. I’d done four or…
Andy W reports…. I have done The Ox Marathon by White Star Running for the last two years and loved it, so it was the first race I looked for this year. I was devastated to see that they weren’t doing the marathon this year, however they were putting on two new races in the…
Andy H reports… In October each year, as part of BBC Children in Need, Chris Evans holds a week of charity auctions on his Radio 2 breakfast show. The experiences are incredible and one of them is the marathon package. It includes a Steve Cram training weekend, London marathon, Windsor half marathon and New York…
Name: Natasha Kennedy Age or Running Category: 33 How long have you been running? On and off for about 10 years – mostly off! I hated running when I was younger and I used to skive cross country runs or track sessions at school. Why do you run? I love the outdoors and running is…
Name: Suzanne Davis Age or Running Category: 39 How long have you been running? Since 2006…… Why do you run? Initially when I started running it was to get some headspace away from two very small nippers who were only 14.5months apart! Eventually a friend joined me – we started literally by going around…
A 5am alarm call and freezing cold morning didn’t put off intrepid Cheddar Runners Jenny McNamara and Phil Johnson, who ran the 31st Wokingham Half Marathon on Sunday 12th February. The 2.5 hour journey didn’t seem so bad thanks to a bit of snoozing on Jen’s part and some great 80s tunes. Parking was a…
Name: Sarah Landen Age or Running Category: 31 How long have you been running? On and off for about ten years. Why do you run? Initially it was so I could do triathlon (I’m yet to do one ten years later). Then it became about weight management, then it became a little race-focussed and now…
Name: Jim Thompson Age or Running Category: 54 How long have you been running? As a small child my mother would run after me to try to catch me as I was usually naughty, so from about the age of 2!! Why do you run? To get fresh air and keep fit Describe your favourite…
Name: Jez Newsome Age or Running Category: V45-49 How long have you been running? Since 2014 Why do you run? Originally ran for weight loss now for weight management to counteract all the curry and beer. Getting out in the beautiful Somerset countryside especially in the sun makes me feel great even when I am…
Name: Sarah Neild Age or Running Category: 54 How long have you been running? In school and beyond Why do you run? Because I can and I was good at it when I was at school and that has stayed with me. I also like the buzz and sense of achievement I get from having…
Suzanne Davis reports….. I felt a little bit under pressure for this half marathon and really wanted a good time but I wasn’t sure how flat the course was going to be. Thankfully conditions on the day were better than expected – what looked to be wet and windy actually turned out to be a…
Suzanne Davis reports…. My marathon training for Abingdon didn’t stop whilst we were away in the Outer Hebrides and so whilst we were there I decided to take part in the Two Islands Half Marathon which involved a wonderful ferry trip from Leverburg in Harris down to the Isle of Berneray on the north coast…
Thursday 22nd September saw the return of Weston AC’s Prom Series. It was a mildly chilly evening and the great thing about the first race is that when it starts it is still light! We gathered in the race hub, the Bay Cafe in the old Tropicana, amidst the smell of a well known muscular…
Greg P reports…. First my excuses for a time of 1:54:02 for a half marathon. It was hilly, okay? And I pulled a calf muscle in the first two or three miles and it hurt and anyway it was 13.5 miles, not 13.1. Oh, and as there were several fields of corn to run around…