by Richard Brawn | Sep 15, 2019 | Road_Reports
It’s fast, it’s flat and it’s ferocious and it has been known to, on occasions, provide a fairytale foray for runners looking to inscribe a new PB onto their Power of 10 portfolio. That’s exactly what Simon Hearn was hoping to when he travelled...
by Richard Brawn | Sep 14, 2019 | Road_Reports
The New Forest Rattler Endurance Weekender is an event primarily aimed at triathletes, consisting of a swim, a bike ride and a run. It’s a very inclusive event though and competitors can take part in either the swim, the bike ride or the run as individual...
by Richard Brawn | Sep 13, 2019 | Road_Reports
Beast by name and beastly by nature, the “Tout and Back Again”, as it’s otherwise known, is one of those races that is as brutal as it is brilliant. It’s one of those runs where the course almost seems especially designed to be as testing as...
by Richard Brawn | Sep 6, 2019 | Road_Reports
It was a big day in the calendar of one of Bournemouth AC’s most experienced and most consummate long distance runners when Andy Gillespie took to the start line for the 2019 Salisbury 54321 50k. Not because it was a 50k ultra marathon though and not because it...
by Richard Brawn | Aug 31, 2019 | Road_Reports
As he ramped up his training in preparation for the Maidenhead Half Marathon, Simon Hearn made a trip up to the big smoke for the London Summer 10k which was staged at Regents Park. The course consisted of a three lap route and was predominantly flat, besides one...
by Richard Brawn | Aug 27, 2019 | Road_Reports
What usually springs to mind when you think of The Plague? The devastating worldwide pandemic that wiped out a huge percentage of the population between 1347 and 1351 perhaps? The lethal disease they called the Black Death was introduced to humans by fleas that were...