Dec 15, 2019 | Running
The Wirksworth Running Club 2019 League ran from January 1st until November 30th. Points are awarded for runners’ best 12 races, volunteer points for the 5 races that our club organises each year, parkrun points, and club vest points for proudly parading the...
Dec 15, 2019 | Running
The now infamous ‘Wirksworth 4’ (Rachel Hathaway, Jo Butt, Emma Roberts and Clare Eardley) headed out to a chilly Grindleford for the 3rd round in the Peak Raid 3 series. New skills were required as they were now navigating on actual orienteering maps....
Dec 15, 2019 | Running
John Potter ran in the Bolsover 10km. He finished 31st in a time of 38 minutes, 18 seconds. There were 733 runners.
Dec 14, 2019 | Running
Friday evening’s Wirksworth running club Christmas party was such a raucous affair (some reports suggesting that a few even stayed up chatting until 11pm) that a couple of runners couldn’t get past the alarm clock stage of their Saturday mornings this...
Dec 11, 2019 | Running
2019 was a rather special year for Wirksworth’s Peter Johnson, pictured by the Brandenburg gate, having just completed his 10th Berlin marathon and automatically enrolling him in the ‘Jubilee Club’. We asked Peter to tell his story, surely an...