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An incredible set of results for Wirksworth at Bakewell this week.  Seven of us were there and we've got to start with birthday boy, Bob King, who, at the grand old age of 48, equalled his lifetime PB of 19:26!  James Watson ran his fastest ever parkrun at any venue...

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 WRC vest...

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. "There's no...

John Potter ran in the Bolsover 10km.  He finished 31st  in a time of 38 minutes, 18 seconds.  There were 733 runners.

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 week.  However,...

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 inspiration for anyone...

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...

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...

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...

Holme Pierrepoint, home of the National Water Sports Centre, hosted a weekend of races with race distances ranging from just one mile up to a full marathon.  Sam Shirley ran in the 10km race on the Saturday in 45 minutes 27 seconds.  John Potter (pictured) ran in the...

Four WRC members were at Bakewell this week.  Chris Gillott has been running extremely well lately, and he continued his good form with a course PB of 20:02.  Mark Crawshaw was hot on his heels all the way, finishing in 20:06.  Lurking just behind the pair of them,...

Tracey Slack and John Potter ran in the Derby 10-mile road race on Sunday 17th November.  Days of heavy rain had forced the organisers to alter the course at the last minute, however, they did an excellent job and laid on a fast and flat race as promised.  Tracey came...

It was a rather special parkrun this week.  Brian Clements ran his 200th parkrun, his first one being in Bromley back in early 2010.  Brian didn't just want to go through the motions, he ran his heart out, annihilating his previous Bakewell best by 21 seconds and...

Adam Leighton (1:47:49) and Hannah Leighton (2:23:20) both ran in the Worksop half marathon, earning them 10 club vest points each in the club league.  Well done, Adam and Hannah!

Report by Elaine Stone Four fast flowing river crossings and 2 lake wades were what lay in store for our tough WRC runners at today’s Chaddesden Park BDL.  Well, that may be a slight exaggeration but there was certainly, unsurprisingly, a lot of water about.  Seven...

Sunday BDL commitments meant that only a couple of WRC members made it to the parkrun start line this week, both of them at Bakewell.  Mark Crawshaw was nowhere near full throttle yet still clocked 20:28.  John Potter pushed his daughter, Jennifer, out and back in...

Bad weather and a rugby world cup final kept the numbers down at quite a few parkruns this week but WRC members were still out and about, running extremely well.  Excitingly, we start in Kiev (pictured), where Mark Crawshaw continued his fine recent running form with...

Tanya Rountree starred this week with a course PB of 26:27 at Bakewell.  This was only 3 seconds off her lifetime PB, which she also recorded this year, at Markeaton. Meanwhile, John Potter was down at his old stomping grounds in St Albans, Hertfordshire.  It had been...