New Years Day – Cleethorpes 10k

Almost did not race this one due to pain in my ribs due to the lawn mower incident, went to see my Physio Eddie Fletcher 2 days before the race and after an examination and some work on the painful area I was given the ok to run (I did not mention my next run would be racing lol).

Great conditions but I did not run a great time, 37:22 but considering I had not really done much training for 2 weeks and put on half a stone over Christmas that was a good confidence booster.  Our wonderful ladies from Doncaster AC took the team prize.  PB’s for Rose James and Caroline Wheelhouse.  Sadly Phil Bussey pulled his calf and did not finish.

Yorkshire Cross Country Championships – 9 January 2016

Really tough course, very muddy with a sharp hill, hard to get going.  Doncaster Athletic Club took 18 athletes across all age groups.  Wonderful to see our community of South Yorkshire athletes doing so well!  Thanks to top runner and photographer Mark Havenhand for the photos!  I placed 4th in Doncaster AC’a team, the sequence was Ben Elliot, Chris Morran, Wayne Martison, Martin James and Nathan Robinson.

Thursday 14 January 2016 – Induction for our new runners!

60 people new to running will join us at the Doncaster Pacers to start their running journey and make hundreds of new friends, we will give as much support as we can, we have about 20 (Volunteer) Run Leaders to help them. Most important is that everyone enjoys the course.  £45 for the year so after the course we very much hope the beginners will keep running with us (that is our only motivation).