So where has the ‘summer’ gone? Autumn is definitely in the air now, which I personally don’t mind (especially as I’m off to Italy for a month in two weeks time!), but hopefully we’ll have a lovely September, and maybe, even, October. Often the loveliest months. Anyway, last weekend saw quite a few club members […]

A few (foolish?) club members ran in the heat today at the Abingdon Urban event. The setting was lovely – with a pretty walk alongside the Thames and across the weir to the assembly area in the shady meadow. The results were as follows: Rob Hick 26th/42 M40 (running up a class – and the […]

The penultimate event in the South West Summer Relay series was held by WSX on Sunday at Broadstone Recreation Ground/Hillbourne – the International (see below) Hardy Relays. For the second year running, we ran it as a Harris Relay format and we had 14 teams entering from BOK, QO, WIM, SARUM, and ourselves – plus a […]

A hot day in Gillingham saw our Wessex Raiders relay team put  in a fine effort at WIM’s Furrow Hoppers Relay event, but sadly came 2nd (by 21 seconds!) to BOK Raiders (Gavin Clegg cheekily stole our name!) The team was Ian Sayer, Rob Hick, Jason Falconer, John Cook and Jolyon Medlock. Well done. But […]

Apologies for lateness of this ‘chat’ – the Lake District and Wimbledon have got in the way a bit! The South West Summer Relay Series is well under way now, and our teams did us proud on Sunday at Sarum’s Moonraker event. Jolyon has reported on this already in a post, but it’s worth repeating that our […]