The five-mile fell race involves 900 feet of climbing and centres on Sunnyhurst Woods, Darwen. Former Blackburn Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School pupil, David Staff, died aged 17, after collapsing near the end of the 10k Darwen Dashers Road Race in 1994. He was found to be suffering from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition resulting from the thickening
The weather was kind for the race on Sunday 20th October, blustery but dry. The race started in Oldham town centre and then took a 3 mile climb to Grains Bar, Saddleworth. The views across the moors are quite stunning from there. From here we weaved our way through a couple of villages and round to Greenfield
I am pleased to say I completed the Birmingham Half Marathon on 20th October 2013 in 2 hours 37 minutes and 8 seconds. Yet again I did the event with my friend Rebecca Haywood. It was an amazing experience with such a great atmosphere – there were around 20,000 people at the event. There was so
The annual Jack Boulton Memorial Trophy was held at Saltford Gold Club on Saturday 12th October and raised £190 for the Jack Boulton Memorial Fund. “Saltford Golf Club held the annual competition for the Jack Boulton memorial trophy on Saturday 12th October. There were 22 teams of 4 playing in a bowmaker competition and each team
On what had threatened to be a wet night but turned out be a mainly dry, if particularly cold night, there was a very large capacity crowd of extremely good-natured mainly young people for the 10th Annual 6th Form Memorial Match, on 10th October 2013. The Sackville v Imberhorne ‘Old Boys’ match kicked off the evening
I completed the Bournemouth Half Marathon on Sunday 6th October in 2:01:05 and I am very happy with the time – especially considering the weather, which to everyone’s surprise was sunny and fairly hot, around 19 degrees. It was hard work for me as I am not a natural runner and towards the end I was
The team’s bruises have gradually turned from black to purple following a really successful (thank goodness!) event at the weekend. We undertook the challenge of Tough Mudder in memory of my lovely friend Lesley and her daughter Rosina. Lesley (left) was an incredible person who inspired and was a true friend to a great many people
Congratulations and thank you to the 218 participants (and some four-legged friends in CRY t-shirts!) who took part in the 4th CRY Durham Riverside Walk on Saturday 5th October 2013 on another mild and sunny day. The event has grown steadily since 2010 and the numbers taking part this year were the most ever. As in
Thank you and congratulations to the 12 CRY runners who took part in the Windsor Half Marathon on Sunday 29th September 2013. The day started off very windy with a cold chill as CRY Fundraising Coordinator, Nicola Taylor and CRY Volunteers, Carol and Tony Nicholls, set up the CRY stand and struggled to stop everything from
On 29th September 2013, Sarah Dawkins, Debby Bourne, Becki Dovey, Tania Perez and Leanne Watkins took part in the Men’s Health Survival of the Fittest event in Cardiff, in memory of Leanne Haddrell. The event was amazing – it was tough, but great fun! I would advise everyone to give it a go. We started by