We have UK and international race results this week from both East and West, but before them, some club-related items Club calendar – look out imminently on Whatsapp for a fantastic one-pager from our Secretary showing all the (running) dates you need to know about over the next year, which we’ll also post here {when it’s been signed off by our chairman ;-)...} Glos cross-country series – you’ve just missed last night’s deadline for the first race, but 3 more to go – dates

Club News The Strava Segment challenge has now gone live (see club whatsapp). Competition is already hotting up. Ian Barret equalled the precourse record of 39 seconds on Friday as part of a hill session. Casey Vatcher also ran the segment that day. However, on Sunday, on the pretext that he "was in the vicinity" Bill Leggate stepped up whilst some of his potential challengers were off at Sharpness (see below) and knocked 1 second off Ian's time to become the undispured (f

The circuit for children to do - seemed popular as some came back three times! This was the fourth year that the Rotary Club of Cirencester had organised Activius Day, the community sports event, hosted at Cirencester Kingshill School. The day provided children and young people the opportunity to try an extensive range of sports and activities completely free of charge, with highlights including: Sports & Martial Arts: Athletics, archery, fencing, football, gymnastics, hocke

CLUB NEWS BEFORE THE RUN REPORT Cross-country season - if you aren't on the club whatsapp you may have missed the dates for the Glos races - please contact Aaron Willis for more details as we are keen to get a mens team out and the ladies are getting themselves organised. The first race is at Tinkley Gate (near Stroud) on Sunday 18th October. Details on all the races, including how to enter, can be found at : https://www.athletics4u.co.uk/cross-country/ The entry website is h

It was a quiet week for racing, with just the one that we’ve found – the half marathon in Cheltenham today Sunday 20th. Clare Stickney and her daughter Bella both had successful races, picking up PB’s as well as having a fun morning running around the Cheltenham cityscape. Clare was 28th lady out of 1835, so well up in a big field. Congratulations to both of them! Clare and Bella Stickney - Cheltenham HM 20.9.26 369 Clare Stickney (Cirencester AC) 1.34.57 (1.32.49) 901

A bit of history on Sunday 13th September as Cirencester AC competes in an athletics league match for the first time in nigh on 30 years, and our teams of Juniors and Teens members did the Club proud. The younger Teens and Juniors (Under 12s) competed in the Quadkids competition, reported earlier, whereas the older Teens (under 14s and Under 16s) competed acorss a range of events. The older Teens competing were: Under 14s Abigail Cunningham (12) Abigail Dunn (13) Aria Stavrak

Clari and Skye post 600m run On Sunday, it was the Club's first athletics meeting for about 30 years, and the Avon League, held at Yate, has two competitions at each meeting : usual athletics events for Under 14s and older people (there are seniors competing), and, beforehand, a Quadkids competition for Under 12s and Under 10s (if insufficient U12s are available). As the Quadkids competition was first up on Sunday at 9am, I will report that here. Quadkids comprises four even

..........every running race featured had 2 members runing this week (remember, repeat after me Parkrun is not a race). [Post - publishing correction - Mike's last minute marathon was solo.] Sorry not many pics this week - don't be shy in future guys...... Cotswold Water Park trail 10km, Saturday 12th The weekend kicked off with our first pair of runners in a local 10k in aid of the water parks trust. Tash Pauck was only just getting back to running after her 2nd baby, but

As we approach the end of the outdoors athletics season, some our Teens competed at Blackridge track, on Tuesday evening : Aria Stavrakakis Toby Conway their coach, Dorian Matts Also competing were ex-members, Ben Conway and Ben Clarke, so a feeling of deja-vu after Friday's Autumn Open in Swindon. Ed Knight was due to run but hadn't got the Coln Valley run out of his legs, so didn't. Aria perfect on the board In what is Aria's penultimate appearance for the Club (she is movi

Hi all, just to let you know that on Sunday over 20 of our junior members (both Teens and Juniors) will be competing in the Avon League athletics match at Yate. This is the first time we, as a Club, have competed in such a match since the mid-90's. The younger athletes (Under 12s) will be doing a Quadkids competition (75m sprint, 600m run, standing long jump and howler throw) , events they will be familiar with from our training sessions. The older athletes (Under 14s+) will

After several quiet weeks, many of you were back out racing in the lovely sunny conditions this weekend, some finding it still a bit too hot. Phoenix Summer Marathon Walton-on-Thames - Saturday 5th a.m. Mike Hobbs returned to what is fast becoming his home course at Walton-on-Thames to increase his marathon tally for the year to 6. He didn’t win this time though, as there were several younger runners chasing London GFA times (the qualifying window ends this month).

Toby finishing his 1500m strongly Last Friday (4th September), some of our Teens competed in one of the last open track meetings (no field events this time) of the season, at Swindon's Foundation Park: Holly Stewart-Hodges (14) Isla Wright (12) Toby Conway (14) Alice Averies (12, second claim running for Swindon Harriers on this evening) It was quite windy, and cooler than of late, and this did not make for good conditions for quick times, but our Teens still produced excelle

With many of you on holiday, it’s been another relatively quiet 2 weeks on the racing front, so we're wrapping up two week's worth here, having skipped a race report last weekend. Last week’s parkruns, 22nd August Apologies if any milestones/PB’s/great photos go unmentioned, you’re always welcome proactively to let us know ;-) Cirencester: 36 Brecon Musk (J) 23.18, 49 Paul Timms 23.57, 56 Rachel Ranger 24.11,82 Alan McAdam 25.31, 89 Jonathan Higgs 25.45, 141 Brendan M

Brother and sister, Magnus (12) and Tippi (15) Brown, competed at the August monthly Running2Time event at Horspath Stadium. Magnus did the long jump and Tippi the 1500m. Both had a successful night, getting PBs. Back in July, Magnus was disappointed with hs long jump but this time he jumped 11 cm further beating his PB by 1cm - they all count; so well done Magnus. This is a U14 PB award Level 1 performance. Tippi continues to improve achieving another PB, after her massive P

We held off publishing last week’s report for a few days so that we could include some news still coming in, as well as this Tuesday’s Heddington 5k, which was a club championship race, so we’ll start with that - it was worth waiting for! Heddington 5k, Tuesday 18th July This was the last in a series of 3 races over the same course put on in June/July/August by Calne Running club. It’s a bit further away than some of our championship races, but road 5k’s near Cirencester

It was another very quiet week on the racing front, but lots of you were having fun at parkruns and also running whilst on holiday all over the world. CLUB ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP UPDATE The leader board has now been updated on our website https://www.cirencesterac.com/road-racing-championship This now reflects not only the Frampton 10k, but also the first two of the three Heddington 5k series (your best time from any one race counts) and the 2026 marathon rankings up to

After a packed week last week, this could be the shortest weekly report ever. (If you did race, do let us know!) {There's still time to enter this club 5k race in a few weeks time - several of us will be going} https://race-nation.co.uk/register/calne-running-club/heddington-5k-series-2026-august Almost as far away as you can get from the UK (apart from NZ, before Steve Hale corrects me), Paul Timms ran his first Australian parkrun at the Pirrama course in Sydney. It was a g

*********************WARNING - BUMPER EDITION********************* It feels like a bit like a Googlebox moment – despite many members being abroad on holiday there was still “loads of great running (not telly) this week” and not just at the weekend, so here is some of what you’ve all been up to in chronological order. {unfortunately we didn't have photos for either of the "headline" performances, so Frampton it was...} Monday - Frampton 10k After a small club turnout fo

It's usually a quite couple of months or so, for track and field meetings, unless you're good enough for the Commonwealth Games or European Championships! As it's school holidays the number of younger athletes competing drops significantly, but there are some interesting meetings in the next 6 or so weeks. I have looked for all events within 2.25 hours travel time, which I know is a long time so I have included the more local (based on time) first. NB please check all the age

Teens team (L->R) : Beth Benians, Holly Stewart-Hodges, Aria Stavrakakis, Abigail Cunningham (our 4x 100m team), Toby Conway, Henry Woodfine, Wilf Williams, Tippi Brown, Ed Knight (our endurance runners) plus Magnus Brown (long jump) not shown On a warm, but not oppressively so, evening at Blackridge Stadium (that's in Podsmead, Gloucester), ten of our Teens participated in the last Midsummer Open games of the season organised by C&CH, and they all did rather well. In additi