We had a massive turnout at Shipley this week and some great results too. Wirksworth’s Georgia-Mai Walker (27:29), Sarah Chamberlain (29:07), Rachel Hathaway (29:40), Ruth Calvbert (29:05), and Tanya Rountree (29:46) all beat the 30-min mark on the tough hilly...
Report by Peter Johnston When I started running in 2009, seriously overweight and unable to even jog a mile without pulling up in agony, it was the marathon that enticed me out. That year, I’d secured a place in London and went from a standing start to a 3:58...
Wirksworth’s David Brassington and Ruth Miller were running for us this weekend in the Robin Hood half marathon in Nottingham. Both ran superbly, David clocking 1:32:58 and Ruth (pictured) ducked under 2 hours with 1:58:19. Ruth was “well chuffed”!...
We were all at Markeaton this week, where the top story is Georgia Mai-Wlaker’s PB of 27:11. Not only was this Georgia’s best time at Markeaton, it was a lifetime 5km PB for her – well done, Georgia! Mark Crawshaw’s 20:15 was pretty sharp too...
Three Wirksworth runners took part in the Carisngton 7+ today and ran really well. Dave Spencer (53:31), Georgia Mai-Walker (1:14:00) and Emma Tink (1:30:56). Well done all! On Saturday, a few of us were at various pakruns around the country. Rafael Abrahams ran...
We start this week’s report on the road because Stef Brassington (pictured at the Belper relays earlier this year) picked up her second parkrun victory in as many parkruns on Saturday, at the Milford Waterfront parkrun. Stef ran round in 22:38, just in front of...
