Last week’s soggy Bakewell BDL looks like the last on that course as the showground have apparently sold the hillside. Wirksworth lads celebrated with 8th place in the team rankings beating the much bigger Long Eaton team. Eva and Emma Roberts put in a great...
Fairly tough conditions today for the annual Litton fell race. The river was flooded up to knee deep for long sections between Litton and Cressbrook and there was plenty of slippery mud on sections of the course. Mulled wine, mince pies and a cosy post-race warm up in...
The horrible winter weather couldn’t stop Kate Watson smashing her PB by over 1 minute at Markeaton. Kate ran 24:40 with dad, James Watson (24:41). Tanya Rountree ran under 29 minutes again, 28:44. At Bakewell, John Hobson was fighting the bad weather and a...
Another great week at the Markeaton parkrun for Wirksworth, in spite of the drizzle. Jo Butt was our star runner this week, slicing 50 seconds(!) off her PB and ducking under 30 minutes for the first time with 29:29. Kate Watson ran a solid 27:06 and Rachel Hathaway...
More PBs at Markeaton! Simon Edwards will be starting to eye up that elusive sub-20 after smashing his previous best by 18 seconds to clock 20:26. John Potter risked messing up his duathlon on the following day by emptying the tank for an 18:47 finish, 11 seconds...
Bakewell was the place of choice for Wirksworth members this week, and we start the report with Mark Crawshaw, who sliced a massive 23 seconds off his Bakewell PB down to 19:30. John Potter’s merry peloton of parkrun cyclists was up to 3 people and the euphoria of...
