Fairford 10K
The 10K route starts and ends in Fairford and travels along a rural route to Quennington and back – undulating with some steeper inclines. It is part of the Fairford festival. The race, which was first run in 2012, is organised by Running Somewhere Else masterminded by race director Kevin Joynes-Creed with his team. According to my fairly dubious calculations there were 40 or so members of the club participating in various ways, plus a number taking part in the run as well. Really nice prize giving ceremony at the end. And it didn’t rain! Great atmosphere. A great morning.
First time for me to take on the Fairford 10k. I’d been warned about the hills, and many of my marathon training runs took me through Bibury, through Coln St Aldwyns and up to Quennington. I feared the worse for THAT hill… (if you know, you know!).
Thankfully the route does not take on that incline, and these hills were not anywhere near as bad as the Stroud beer race.Great turnout, fantastic organisation and support from team RSE!
A great event – thank you!
Oh – and a PB for me too – breaking a sub 50 min 10k!
Tom Burdett
Mark Foyn 00:45:24.72
Tom Burdett 00:49:15.19
Phil Newman 00:51:21.36
Sarah Kaminski 00:51:30.93
Jess James 00:56:21.80
Claire Miers 01:02:49.76
OMM Lite
The OMM Lite took place between Saturday 31st May and Sunday 1st June 2025. Carol and Andy Sworn took part. I’d never heard of it but it sounds amazing. See below! (Does anyone ever get lost doing it?)
The Grasmere Gallop Trail Races and OMM Lite joined together recently to form the Lake District Running Festival, a weekend of great routes, good food, a fabulous location to race and lots of like minded people gathered in one location to enjoy all things trail! Andy and I took part in the OMM Lite, this is a 2 day event where you have a set time to find as many checkpoints as you can and get back to HQ before your time runs out. Our event was 7 hours on Saturday and 5 hours on Sunday, we adopted a fairly relaxed approach to collecting points but still managed approximately 40kms and 1800m of elevation gain over the 2 days. The weather was typically ‘lake district’ ie very wet, cold and windy but we had a great time out on the hills……may even have visited a coffee shop at one point for some welcome shelter and warmth! It is a fabulous weekend with races ranging from 5K to a full marathon as well as the orienteering challenge. If anyone fancies something a bit different we can highly recommend this, next year’s event is already in our diary……29/30/31st May 2025. Maybe we can persuade a few club members to join us next year…..?
Carol Sworn
Parkruns
BEGINNER’S GRADUATION – CIRENCESTER PARKRUN 7th JUNE
RSE has been hosting a beginners running group for the past nearly 8 weeks. Everyone in that group has done amazingly well.Their achievements were celebrated at Cirencester parkrun on 7 June. What a turn out!
Rebecca SOUTHERINGTON 22:43
Paul BILLINGHURST 22:58
Phil NEWMAN 23:43
Darren JENNER 24:35
Robert BAKER 25:41
Alison BOOTH 26:13
Claire SHARP 26:14
Katy MILLER 27:12
Andy SWORN 27:13
Rachel SMITH 28:24
Mark GARRETT 28:54
Elaine CHAPMAN 29:40
Felicity CROTTY 29:53
Samantha WARD 30:04
Maria YATES 30:22
Anne-Marie DAVIES 30:28
Vicki MASON 30:37
Paul ROBERTSON 30:57
Rachel WEAVER 33:20
Carol SWORN 40:07
Cathy STEER 40:13
Abigail BALL 40:34
Sylvia WARMAN 40:34
Amanda BALL 40:36
Jessica JAMES 45:33
There were lots of photos. Here are a few smiling faces
If you ran and your name isn’t on the list above, it’s probably because you need to put the club’s name in your profile on the parkrun site
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Alan POWDERHILL 00:22:36 Foro Italico parkrun Jon CAMPBELL 00:23:36 University of Stirling parkrun Phil HUDSON 00:21:26 Seven Fields parkrun Cheri EDWARDS 00:26:00 |
Nadine’s fundraiser for Cruse Bereavement Support
Cotswold Way Ultra Challenge 2025 · 21 June 2025 to 22 June 2025
Here’s the link if anyone would like to sponsor Nadine :
https://www.justgiving.com/page/nadine-brown-cotswold-way?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL&utm_campaign=015