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...
Dec 7, 2019 | Running
Wirksworth had 4 runners in the top 13 at Bakewell this week! John Potter (18:15), Bob King (19:33), Mark Crawshaw (20:40) and Dave Spencer (20:51) made sure that the WRC vest was very visible at the front of the field. Tanya Rountree also ran well and ducked under...
Dec 1, 2019 | Running
Report by Bob King A cold, frosty Sunday morning in Ilkeston was the setting for the third race in the BDL winter cross country league. A new race on the calendar, (replacing the usual Bakewell show ground) the 5-mile course is run around the very accurately named...
Dec 1, 2019 | Running
Whilst others were running the BDL race at Ilkeston, four hardy WRC members embarked on a long-course orienteering event at Great Longstone. Jo Butt, Rachel Hathaway, Emma Roberts and Clare Eardley fully tested their map-reading skills in a 3-hour challenge to score... 
