The committee met last and agreed on the races that will count towards next year's Road Championship awards. You can find full details on this website page https://www.cirencesterac.com/road-racing-fixtures As usual your best 6 scores from 11 races plus any road marathon will count, with 20 points for the first finisher, 19 for 2nd etc. We have chosen a mixture of races that are or aren't in the county road race series, and tried to include a range of distances up to half mar

This summer, we have been doing QuadKids events with both the Juniors and younger Teens (Under 13s) using the QuadKids scoring system. Unfortunately, due to the incident at the College and an Open Day (evening) not all the Juniors and Teens were able to complete four events, so we will have another go next year, starting in April and so hopefully having sufficient opportunities for all to score in all four disciplines: sprint, run, jump and throw. The Under 11s do 75m, 600m,

Despite the first light snow of the season in Ciren on Thursday, enjoyed by the Thursday morning group , there were fortunately no local Parkrun cancellations this week, which was just as well as it was otherwise a very quiet week for racing.   After their New York marathon exploits, the Kilby’s were off once more, this time to warmer climes in Lanzarote – La Santa resort (definitely not an inappropriately early seasonal reference). This is no ordinary holiday resort – see PR

Some familiar faces ? We are priviliged this year to be able to run in both the Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire Cross Country Leagues. This means if you wanted you could have run 9 XC races: 4 in Glos league and 5 in Oxon. We're half way through the Glos league races, but there's only been one Oxon league race (last weekend), so there's 6 more opportunities to run if you're 9 and older or 4 more if you are Under 9. I thought I would list all the events coming up so you can pl

After last week's flurry of racing, this week we just have a few trail races to report on plus a smaller than usual number parkrun results. PS From last week - Lighthouse Marathon, Pendeen to Gwithian, Cornwall The results were not available when we went to press last week for Lara Tompson and Jo Roberts’ coastal marathon on 8 th November. We understand they used it as a recce run for the Arc of Attrition 50-miler in late January – hope the rest of the training goes well.    

To start with, two follow on points from prior news   Official results of the Glos AAA road race series confirmed all the medallists that we reported on last weekend, but in addition we now know that our veteran ladies team came 3 rd . In addition, Cirencester AC was one of only 5 out of 14 clubs that fielded both men and ladies teams in the full required 8 races – so many thanks to all runners who represented the club in any of the 12 races.   ***************BALLOT FOR CLUB

Eve tackling the big hill in Under 9s XC at Charlbury, Oxfordshire Amongst a very busy weekend of races fro Club members (see Brian's upcoming weekly report), there were two cross country league events : the second Gloucester League meeting, in our own Cirencester Park on Saturday, plus on Sunday the first Oxford League event, in Charlbury. We have the opportunity to run as guests in the latter this year. In the Gloucester League there are races for Under 11s, Under 13s and U

Sunday 2nd November - Guy Fawkes 5 miles   As usual, this event was the last of the 10 races in the Glos AAA road series, and several medal positions were decided on the day. There was a strong turnout, with 10 members running.   Biggest congratulations go to club captain Kate Jacobs, who upgraded last year’s silver to win outright the OPEN ladies category for 2025, as well as her V45 age group.   To be outright county champion aged 48 is an outstanding achievement, and quite

The following was just posted on the club's whatsapp group. TCS LONDON MARATHON PLACE The Club has been allocated ONE place for the TCS London Marathon on Sunday 26th April 2026. To apply, you should preferably have been unsuccessful in gaining a place through the event ballot. Applications should be emailed to me (dickieallen@hotmail.com) by Wednesday 2nd December, and should include your ballot rejection slip, where applicable. Best of luck!

Multisports - ATW Grafham Duathlon, 26th October   This standard distance duathlon (10k run - 40km bike - 5k run) was a qualifying event for the 2026 European Championships. Rich Allen , dropping his least favoured leg of the triathlon (the swim), was in great form again “Cold, bright and breezy! Cramped up on Run 2 which cost me 1st place AG but not much I could do about that. Chuffed with the result: 8/142 overall, 2nd 40-44 AG 🥈.”   But more importantly, Rich beat the win

PARKRUN NEWS After the celebrity attendance at last week’s Parkrun in Cirencester, this weekend we had more exciting parkrun news. Club member Phil Davey was instrumental in setting up the inaugural run at a brand new parkrun venue.     After all his hard work, Phil had the privilege to act as Race Director – we have a race report below from Rich Allen who won the event, thereby becoming, at least for a week, the course record holder.   “Kilkenny Lane Country Park is locate

A rarity : a non-Juniors' female : Beatrice Wallis after her U15s race. On a calm Sunday morning, slightly misty but not too cold or hot, we had ten Under 11s (6 boys and 4 girls), six U13s (one boy and 5 girls), four U15s (3 boys and 1 girl), one U17 male and the coach running the first Gloucestershire League Cross-Country event at Tinkley Gate National Trust near Nympsfield, hosted by Stroud AC. This was a proper XC course : mixed terrain, uneven ground and a big hill. It

I don't know how many times I have said to someone starting a change in their training, "don't add more than 10% on distance per week". So I was quite surprised, when on my Instagram feed, appeared a Reel saying I was wrong! Now, there's a lot of nonsense on Social Media, but this Reel by Dr Bill Evans (PhD in Exercise Physiology) was publicising some proper scientific research involving over 5000 runners in Europe and US. The research, "How much running is too much? Identify

1 st time local appearance of Parkrun Royalty Following a club Whatsapp tip-off from Jos Randall at the Cheltenham festival on Friday...

Firstly, as promised, an update on the club champs and county road series after last weekend’s races.   With two races to go in the Glos...

Bourton Hilly Half – Sunday 28 th September     The hilly half marathon at Bourton on Sunday was not only the 10th of the 12 races in...

{Ed. - Just a gentle reminder for members that, other than for Parkrun and county championship fixtures (assuming you’ve run as a club...

**** LAST FEW MARSHALS STILL NEEDED FOR CHEDWORTH NEXT WEEKEND ****** *****CAKE & SNOOD AS A THANK YOU, PLEASE CONTACT KATE JACOBS ASAP...

I’m often moaned at by some Juniors and Teens about the make-up of the sessions! They obviously want to do what they’re good at and...

Firstly, a late-published result from last week. Meteor Mile – Friday 29 th  August & Track meet 5th Sept As far as we know, the Meteor...