An interesting leaflet about Plantar Fasciitis has arrived in the club’s inbox. Click here to read it. The leaflet gives a podiatrist’s advice on this painful condition. Specifically how to avoid it, which is by far the best course.
Couch to 5K course: Registration Required
Tell your non running mates about this… Pete O’Grady will be leading the next Beginners’ course on Thursday 14th March 2019. Meet at the Poachers at 7:00pm. This popular 10 week course will build to a graduation event at Avenham parkrun on the 11th May. Registration is essential as there…
Runner’s Runner of the Year 2018 – Voting
Voting has now closed for Runner’s Runner of the year 2018. Thanks for all of those who did amazing things last year, all those who nominated and all those who voted. Nominees and the winner will be recognised at the Presentation Evening – Friday 1st March – 7PM – Bamber…
Runner’s Runner of the Year 2018 – The Nominees
John Wiseman, last year’s winner was nominated for being a supportive and motivated leader on the Thursday night runs. He has stood down from nominations this year, but please give him a big “Wahay” the next time you see him at a race, parkrun, training, or just in town shopping!…
Red Rose Road Runners
The big event for Red Rose this weekend was the Hunters 10k with nearly 60 of the club racing. Starting and finishing at the Walton le Dale ‘Park and Ride’ runners needed to keep on the move to warm up for the race. A bitterly cold wind reaching 50 mph…
Runner’s Runner of the Year – 2018
*** NOMINATIONS CLOSED (1.2.19 00:00) – Voting to follow *** It is time for you to consider your choice for the Red Rose Road Runners Runners’ Runner of the Year again. This award allows you to acknowledge the achievements over the last year of another member. If you would…
Website and the Calendar
It is the time of the year when there is a fair bit of website admin. We need to make sure the race calendar is up to date and then shuffle all the race results about on the various pages. In an attempt to make this easier and to reduce…
Red Rose News
The Christmas Cracker 10k saw Gary Corcoran finish in 10th place and 1st V45 in 39.27. In 11th, Manolo Mendoza was hot on his heels in 39.46. Ben Smithers ran 48.14 followed by Natalie Moore who finished as 1st F35 in 48.47. Steve Taylor (58.47) was glad to finish under…
Another calendar update
The elf working on the A4 printable version of the 2019 calendar had an incomplete view of the Junior Championship races. This has now been corrected by Mrs Christmas. So head over to the calendar page for a link to download the latest version. If you are in the habit…
Run Geek and Errors
Two updates are worth a mention The compilers of the weekly round ups are dependent on the information supplied by race results organisers. Sometimes there are errors in the published results. We always try to correct our errors so if you spot an error we can change then please let…