Wesel marathon
Last weekend a number of Felixstowe Road Runners converged on Wesel, Germany (Felixstowe’s twin town) for the Hadi running club’s third annual winter marathon/half marathon. Being just over the Dutch border, it is accessible...
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Race Report: Round Norfolk Relay
“So why do you do it, then?” asked the lady at the bus stop. I was waiting to get back to Hunstanton after my 14-mile run along the beautiful North Norfolk coast – one...
Race Report: Wesel Marathon and Half
Felixstowe’s twin town of 50 years is Wesel in Germany. FRR have a reciprocal arrangement with HADI (Wesel’s running club) to host members at each other’s races. Various aspects aligned that meant that I...
Race Report: post-lockdown SVN challenge
After 4 months of announcements of race cancellations, some events are now starting to go ahead. It’s not practical for all, but some locations and formats can accommodate the current restrictions enough to make...
First Wesel Marathon – 5th Jan 2020
What a brilliantly organised event this was, considering they anticipated 500’ish runners in the planning stages but in fact 1400+ runners attended. Another great event put on by our Twin town and one we...
Kirton 5 Mile Race Report 2019
31st May again brought near-perfect running conditions and I think we can now finally put the awful weather of 2017 to bed. I would like to thank all the runners and spectators for their...
Brighton 2019 – post-race ramblings
Right, so here we are. The race report for my 4th attempt at the marathon distance, which indeed was also my 4th attempt on the Brighton course. Those who don’t know the back story...
Barcelona Ironman report
Barcelona Ironman 2018 I started off writing this for myself to look back on as the memories (and the pain) fade away. Partly because a few days after the event, it seems a surreal...
Race Report: South Downs Way 100
100 miles, 12,700 feet of elevation, 305 starters, 223 finishers, 15,000 calories burnt. 26hrs 58min on feet. Training had gone well, very well in fact. Following my own 4-month build, peak and taper training...
Brighton marathon post race report
Right then, as promised (to those that bothered to read my pre Brighton ramblings) here is my post Brighton Marathon 2018 report. Preamble For those that didn’t read that, or are unfamiliar with the...
