Race 4 of this year’s had fallen foul of December’s storm Darragh, was cancelled and so we moved on to the first of two races at Itchen Valley. I felt slightly disorganised leading up to the race, we had a number of absentees through injury, illness and other events taking place on the same day.Continue reading “CC6 race 5, Itchen Valley Country Park 24/25”
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CC6 race 3, Ocknell campsite, New Forest, 24/25
We managed to field a team … just! This fixture was pretty much the same out-and-back route as last year. A longish walk down a slippery hill to the start. Cruel, because we knew we would have to go up it in the final 500m run to the finish! It was a relatively small fieldContinue reading “CC6 race 3, Ocknell campsite, New Forest, 24/25”
Clarendon Marathon 2024 Relay
One of the club’s goals for 2023/24 was to enter a team in a relay, something the club did, historically, on a regular basis. With our numbers we felt that the South Downs relay was a little ambitious so we decided to start locally with the Clarendon Marathon. The Clarendon has been going for 26Continue reading “Clarendon Marathon 2024 Relay”
RR 10 2024 Race #10 – IBM Hursley
The last RR10 of the year always seems to herald the end of Summer and this year’s race at IBM Hursley certainly felt very autumnal. Cool, grey skies and getting a little dark at the end of the race. It was a large field of runners for the final race and a good turnout fromContinue reading “RR 10 2024 Race #10 – IBM Hursley”
RR 10 2024 Race #8 – Wide Lane
Looking back through some old race reports, at Wide Lane in 2022, the race was taking part in the middle of a heatwave, with some of the highest UK temperatures on record. This was not the case tonight, it was positively chilly as Phil, Chris and myself huddled for warmth awaiting the arrival of RichardContinue reading “RR 10 2024 Race #8 – Wide Lane”
RR10 2024 Race #5 –Ampfield Woods
Not a race in which Wessex took part but organised by ourselves, Running Sisters and Halterworth. All went well, Richard had marked the course up earlier in the day and Wessex were responsible for car parking. A slight blip with nearby IBM concerned about travellers turning up but all smoothed over in the end. TheContinue reading “RR10 2024 Race #5 –Ampfield Woods”
RR10 2024 Race #2 –Itchen Valley
Despite a period of dry weather, Wessex turned up to a pretty damp and soggy Itchen Valley for race #2. The drive in was pretty slow with ongoing work to upgrade the car parks (seemingly never ending from the first of last year’s CC6 races). The start area had plenty of standing water (with associatedContinue reading “RR10 2024 Race #2 –Itchen Valley”
RR10 2024 Race #1 – Fleming Park
Days getting longer, warmer weather, leaves on trees, birds nesting, the first RR10 race of the year are all signs of Spring. There was clearly some new season enthusiasm amongst Wessex Road Runners with a strong turnout of 12 runners making it to the starting line – enough for a Men’s A and B TeamContinue reading “RR10 2024 Race #1 – Fleming Park”
Winchester 10k / Maverick Hampshire / Eastleigh 10k
A good turnout by Wessex at local races in the last few months, hopefully getting everyone in good shape for the upcoming RR10 season. Six Wessex runners (myself, Kevin, Sameer, David H, Chris and Katie) completed the Winchester 10K in February. Weather just about held, as undulating as ever and always a pleasure to beContinue reading “Winchester 10k / Maverick Hampshire / Eastleigh 10k”
CC6 23/24 Race#7 Itchen Valley
The final race of this year’s CC6 was back at Itchen Valley for a repeat run of the season opener, although with a slightly different route. It was a pretty quiet event with just over 200 runners and five Wessex runners made it to the start. With seemingly weeks of rain, not unexpectedly the courseContinue reading “CC6 23/24 Race#7 Itchen Valley”
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