Mar 25, 2019 | Running
The long-awaited return to form of Mark Crawshaw is upon us. Mark ran 19:39 at Bakewell, just 9 seconds off his course PB, which he set back in November. Mark has been fighting his way back from injury and he won’t be finished there – quality will always shine...
Mar 17, 2019 | Running
Three Wirksworth runners turned out at Bakewell this week, where there was quite a bit of confusion with the bar code system. It’s a mark of what an incredible volunteer-run organisation that parkrun is that we notice a week when everything doesn’t run...
Mar 10, 2019 | Running
A new course at the Whitworth Thread attracted most Wirksworth parkrunners there this week and it proved to be a good course, as we had five of us finish in the top 13 places! Bob King (19:40), Mark Crawshaw (20:26), Stacy Newton (20:32) ,Chris Gillot (21:00) and...
Mar 3, 2019 | Running
Sunday 3rd March was the fantastic annual Hope Winter Fell Race, a category ‘B Short’ race of 6.6 miles and approximately 1400 feet of ascent. The course winds up out of Hope Village and takes a 2-mile route up to the exhilarating summit of Win Hill,...
Mar 3, 2019 | Running
Sunday morning saw the 3rd year of the Ashbourne 10 with options to run 5k, 10k or 10 miles and canicross categoies available in each distance. The varying-length races all consist of an out-and-back on the Tissington trail from Ashbourne leisure centre, which means a...
Mar 2, 2019 | Running
This week we start with news of a parkrun win! It only took him 101 attempts (!) but John Potter (pictured) won his first ever parkrun this week, at Poolsbrook, in a time of 18:42. The time was actually 2 seconds outside his PB for the course but he could not care... 
