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RR10 2025 #3 – River Hamble Country Park

The unseasonably warm and dry weather had broken the day before the race but it was still set fair for the third of this year’s races. It is always a bit of drive to get to Hamble on time, with queues forming at the M27 junction but experience had meant everyone arrived early. This wasContinue reading “RR10 2025 #3 – River Hamble Country Park”

RR10 2025 #2 – Itchen Valley Country Park

The fine, dry weather continued into Race #2. Itchen Valley, usually wet and full of puddles, was hard and bone dry, perfect conditions for some good, fast racing. The course was much less hilly than Fleming Park and everyone found it to be an enjoyable venue. The event was hosted by Lordshill and again thereContinue reading “RR10 2025 #2 – Itchen Valley Country Park”

RR10 2025 #1 – Fleming Park

A new RR10 season kicked off at Fleming Park. Clearly there was early enthusiasm with a huge turnout of runners from all Clubs attending. The total number of runners competing turned out to be a whopping 534, I certainly don’t remember a race having more than 500 recently. Even better was a great turnout fromContinue reading “RR10 2025 #1 – Fleming Park”

Super Sunday (23rd March 2025)

A busy time for Wessex runners racing across three events on the same day. Spring had truly arrived with morning sunshine and fine weather to start the day. Kevin ran in the Reading half marathon (not for the first time), surviving a near death experience at around the 9km mark. A time of 2:11, notContinue reading “Super Sunday (23rd March 2025)”

CC6 race 7, Itchen Valley Country Park (2) 24/25

The final CC6 of the 24/25 season took us back to Itchen Valley for a second event at this site (following Race 5). It was a cracking morning, very Spring like, with blue skies and a still day – perfect for running. The course was a little different with the start taking place atop aContinue reading “CC6 race 7, Itchen Valley Country Park (2) 24/25”

Winchester 10K 2025

It is always a nice experience to be able to walk, from home, to the start line of a race and the Winchester 10K certainly fulfils that criteria. It is always a well attended event (due to Winchester’s high number of running clubs?) and had sold out with 1300 runners taking part. As a teamContinue reading “Winchester 10K 2025”

CC6 race 6, Badger Farm 24/25

Extremely solid showing by Wessex at Badger Farm. The flag got an outing for the first time in months and the debut of the new tent, which was easier to put up than it was to take down, also has its moment in the winter sun. We had a strong team result and Imy wasContinue reading “CC6 race 6, Badger Farm 24/25”

CC6 race 5, Itchen Valley Country Park 24/25

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”

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”