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Stuart Learmouth Memorial Undulator Race 2022

Stuart Learmouth Memorial Undulator Race 2022

Reported by race organiser, Chris Hubbard The Stuart Learmouth Memorial Undulator Race was run on Sunday 23 October. The race was fittingly started by Stuart's wife Kate in the pouring rain. This year the race attracted over eighty participants despite the appalling...

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My Running Journey, by James Windsor

My Running Journey, by James Windsor

Where did it begin? For almost all my life, I had been very overweight and did very little exercise. To the point, where after some abnormal blood test results, I was urged by my GP and others to try and lose weight and exercise regularly to protect my health and live...

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Carsington BDL 5th July

Carsington BDL 5th July

by Graham Robinson The 5th of July saw WRC's turn to host the 4th BDL event of the summer season at Carsington Water, which looked stunning in the evening sunshine. We received a very good turnout, with just shy of 300 runners entering this very undulating, and quite...

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WRC Sports Day, 2nd July

WRC Sports Day, 2nd July

15 WRC runners took part in our second annual sports day, at the Ilkeston athletics track.  We split into 3 teams and raced each other at 3000m, 1500m, 800m, 400m, 200m, 100m, with the shorter events involving relays. It was tremendous fun, everyone worked really hard...

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Tunnels and Trails, 8th June

Tunnels and Trails, 8th June

The Tunnels & Trails 10k made a come back after a 2 year break on the 8th June and didn’t disappoint. The event had a fantastic atmosphere with over 100 runners, many achieving a PB, and all enjoying cake (supplied by WRC and local scouts groups) at the end in the...

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Denby BDL June 7th

Denby BDL June 7th

Report by Lewis Glover The third Derby Runner BDL race of the summer season took place at Denby on a bright Tuesday evening this week. This particular event being somewhat unique within the BDL format as was a treble lap race with circuits 1 and 3 being the same and...

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Carsington 7+ race May 15th

Carsington 7+ race May 15th

Report by Stef Brassington The Carsington 7+ race was run on May 15th and after slightly bullying my other half, David, into entering with me, we joined the other 368 runners heading for a lap of the reservoir. Thanks to some wonderful toddler germs and both of us...

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Cromford BDL Tuesday 10th May 2022

Cromford BDL Tuesday 10th May 2022

What is very likely to be the steepest of the summer races of this series took place in Cromford on Tuesday evening. Weather was good, conditions were dry and there was a huge attendance up for the challenge presented by 450 feet of ascent (all of it in one long...

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Wirksworth Incline Race 2022

Wirksworth Incline Race 2022

I’m pretty sure this was actually the 30th running of this race that was started in 1990 and has had one year off for foot and mouth and one year for the pandemic. 106 runners lined up for the full incline race and one course record was smashed.  Derby AC men took a...

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Teversal BDL, 12th April 2022

The start of the first BDL of the summer season had the field of over 370 runners gathered against the old railway platform on the Teversal Trails, a short walk from the visitor centre. The previous railways of the Teversal Trails are now popular recreational paths...

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Bethan lights up the trail

Bethan lights up the trail

Report by Simon Edwards A newish local fell run, the Higham Hill Race, was attended by three WRC members last Tuesday. At just over 4 miles the route cut a figure of eight loop, with a mixture of brambly woods, open fields, some road sections and a steep climb that...

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2022 Spring Trail Run Series, 6th March

2022 Spring Trail Run Series, 6th March

Race Report: Adam Leighton Dark & White’s first round of the 2022 Spring Trail Run Series kicked off from the village of Castleton on Sunday 6th March. The series features 3 races with an option of a long (14-17km) or short (5-8km) courses run over scenic off...

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BDL Cross-Country – end of season report. 

BDL Cross-Country – end of season report. 

Report by Simon Edwards Reflections on the BDL Cross Country Winter League.  Firstly, we should acknowledge that it is the Derby Runner BDL Winter League and thanks to the aforementioned running shop, who took over sponsorship of the event from Louis Booth (Painter...

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Tour of Bradwell Winter Half, 12th February

Tour of Bradwell Winter Half, 12th February

Report by Graham Robinson On Saturday 12th February Olly Pratten, Elaine Stone, Beth Nadin and I joined a field of 180 other runners on the Tour of Bradwell Winter Half.  This unmarked 28km route with an overall ascent of 1km, was my first proper fell race. It tested...

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Markrun

Markrun

Wirksworth’s Mark Crawshaw recently clocked up his 50th parkrun, well done, Mark! Whilst the weekly parkrun reports have been slowing down (sorry!), Mark’s parkrun attendance has been speeding up.  Mark has run at the Monsal Trail parkrun every week for the last 4...

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Parkrun, January 29th

Parkrun, January 29th

Wirksworth members ran at Markeaton, Monsal Trail and Crystal Palace this weekend. At the Monsal Trail parkrun, Simon Edwards (pictured at a recent BDL) ran a solid 21:26 with Mark Crawshaw just ahead of him, also running strongly in 21:08. Seb Hardy (24:00), Laura...

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WRC hit the heights in Notts, 16th January

WRC hit the heights in Notts, 16th January

Report by Simon Edwards Whilst not the highest point in Nottinghamshire, that accolade belongs to the spoil tip above the Five Pits Trail in Teversal where the summer BDL sometimes alights, Bramcote Hills provided a stern test for all runners at last week's fourth...

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2021 Handicap club league

2021 Handicap club league

Wirksworth Running Club's 2021 league season finished on Sunday 28th November after 11 months of hard-fought contests in both the women's and men's races.  Each had a slightly different story in terms of the type of runners that finished top, showing that basically...

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Ilkeston BDL race, 5th December

Ilkeston BDL race, 5th December

Report by Graham Robinson December's installment of BDL excitement saw the intrepid WRC heading to the wilds of Ilkeston to brave the 7.6km (sounds more impressive than the equivalent 4.7 miles) cross-country course. Race organisers had reported in advance decent firm...

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