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…
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…
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…
Andy reports… Saturday night was stormy, wet and very windy. Things were not looking promising weather-wise for Sunday’s marathon; whether it was raining or not, the fells were always going to be very wet, very muddy and very slippy. Come Saturday morning it was cloudy, but there were no real threats of serious rain, however,…