Red Rose Road Runners August Virtual 10K The Red Rose Worden 10K was cancelled this year due to COVID19 restrictions. In its place, a virtual 10K was held. Building on the success of that, here is a further opportunity to run the virtual 10K. Entrants could either run the…
Juniors Preston to Blackpool Virtual Relay To accompany the virtual Lands End to John O’Groats relay the Red Rose Adults will run, the Junior members will have the option to run a virtual relay from Preston to Blackpool. A typical pedestrian route would be via Blackpool Road and cover…
Lands End to John O’Groats Virtual Relay The traditional Lands End to John O’Groats route is 874 miles. Can Red Rose Members make it (virtually) from Lands End to John O’Groats in a week of relay legs? Perhaps they can even make it there and back to Lancashire as…
An Update From Red Rose Road Runners Chairman, Phil Butler Firstly thank you for your continued support for your club and I hope you are all getting out running and enjoying the summer. I know that many of you have been tackling the various challenges and charity collection activities that…
Please click the below link to see the final Red Rose team entries to Manchester to Blackpool virtual relay. We will be competing against the other interclub series clubs. TEAMS AND STAGE ORDER The rules of the virtual relay are fairly simple. I have copied the guidance notes below, but…
At last week’s New Longton 10k, we had a great turnout and some excellent performances. In 5th place, Phil Marsden ran 36.22 to take 1st V45 with Dave Parkinson 1st V50 in 37.58. Our next runners were James Darkin 41.45, Chris Bibby 41.57, Andrew Stell 44.06, Andrew Doublett 44.59, Pete…
The main event for Red Rose this weekend was the 32nd Roddlesworth Roller, a well established 9k undulating and scenic multi-terrain race around Abbey Village. Our first runner home in 9th place was Simon Croft in 34.58. Stuart Smith had a great run finishing in 39.43 well clear of a…
Scott Jackson took part in the Chester Ultra. Weather conditions forced organisers to revise the route due to another storm. In spite of this the course was still 44 miles. Scott was placed a well earned 30th. Two brave U11 Boys took part at the Lancaster cross country. Archie Finch…
Junior Runner of the Year 2019 Please find below the nominations for Junior Runner of the Year 2019. Voting is open to junior members only (or their parents/guardians on their behalf). As we have, in some cases, multiple juniors registered with the same email address, please specify the name…
Weekend News Round Up In Blackpool, on Saturday and Sunday, we saw the Stanley Park 10k being run. Well done Ben Smithers and Gina Biggs for running both 10Ks. Predictably they also ran Blackpool parkrun as a warm up! On Saturday, Carol Douglass won her age category with 54:08.…