At 6.30am Chris Wood on Monday morning – December 27th 2021 – set off in his car to examine the Race Course, checking that all the kilometre signs were up and the roads were clear of any impediments to the runners ready to set off at 10.00am. Matt Wood and...
Poppy Preece and Matthew Smith were out at Sportcity at the weekend for the second of this years Indoor Meetings at Sportcity which turned out to be a good day for both as they contested the maximum three events each. U20 Poppy took on the 60m, 60m Hurdles and High...
Tremendous scenes in Dublin at the weekend at the European Cross Country Championship with an estimated 10000 animated spectators cheering on every race. This prupose built course allowed spectators to run from side to side during the race to catch the athletes and a...
Olympic Bronze Medalist Holly Bradshaw got an invitation to to go to Phuket in Thailand to take part in a Pole Vault competition in the Golden Fly Series. With temperatures in the high 20’s to low 30’s and given the weather we are experiencing here in...
Where do we start? On arriving at Marl Pits and being greeted with a river of water coming down from the car park, howling wind, sleet and driving rain, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the conditions were some of the worst for a very long time. Seeing...
The wind really did blow and it was cold. The weather forecasters were correct. But none of it, the wind or the cold could detract from a great day of cross country racing which saw everyone from U11’s through to Seniors battling for places at the European Cross...
