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...

Bob Ferris, our most experienced coach, asked me to post this article, " Endurance Athletes and Heart Risk " by triathlete, Mark Allen....

Whilst lots of you are out training and/or just enjoying the countryside, we’re only aware of one member who has actually raced over the...

Intrepid reporter James (with daughter) attends an alternative running event called ‘Run and Rave’ What an era this is to be a senior...

[This message is also on our club whatsapp group where you can easily respond, but we know not all members are on whatsapp.] Our annual...

It was pretty quiet on the results front this week, which suited your editor nicely as he is writing from holiday Germany this weekend...

If you're on Whatsapp you will alreayd know, but tickets went on sale this morning and are going very fast. See Luke's message below...

Firstly, Andy Hindson sent in this report from 3 rd August (last weekend).   “The Standish Woodland Chase is a great low-key event...

A song from my past, when I was at school! I thought i would use this summer break to report on some performances by our Teens at...