Portsmouth Costal Waterside Marathon What better way to earn yourself a few Christmas indulgences than by running a marathon? With this in mind – Ben Williamson, Jason Hastings, Suzanne Anderson and I (Matt Lee) signed ourselves up for the full Portsmouth Coastal Waterside Marathon with all the trimmings, whilst Mary Thane and Andy Rhodes decided perhaps more sensibly on the […]

Mental health and running is in our minds again with the REDJanuary campaign coordinated by MIND that many of us have signed up for and the forthcoming #runandtalk week of events.  We will have nibbles in the bar on Wednesday 6th February to encourage people to stay and natter and also to welcome new runners to the club. Those of us […]

Nice a game of two halves! This year’s BVR away trip was Nice to run the Alpes de Maritime Marathon.  The race is a marathon but can be run in relays with teams of two or six.  This year 12 BVR runners competed in six teams of two, with each running 13.1 miles along with 2 supporters.    Great food and […]

The weather in Aldershot had just turned decidedly wintery when 19 intrepid BVR ladies (plus The Campbell family support crew and official race course photographers :-)) set off to the Costas. We’ve all watched the comedy series, we know the reputation that Benidorm has  (there was talk of a mobility scooter tour at one point!) but l think we all […]

It was back in March 2018 that I said I was interested in being part of the Rushmoor 10k team and work with Dave Porter, John Hogg and Steve Low from the committee, the representatives of the Greater Rushmoor Nepali Community (Jib and Khim), Grainger PLC and the Rushmoor Health and Physical Activity Officer, Martin Sterio.  We had our first […]

The Downslink Ultra follows the old railway line from St Marthas to Shoreham on Sea, some 38 miles of flat running along well maintained paths and bridle ways.  The event is capped at 200 runners and advertised as a good ‘first ultra’.  Tracy D suggested this would be a good ultra to finish the year off with, I was a […]

PACING AT THE RUSHMOOR 10K In the weeks leading up to the Rushmoor 10K someone had suggested about pacing at the event and I took on the task of finding volunteers to pace different times. Not having felt very confident about managing a 10K PB myself I decided the next best thing would be to help others achieve a PB […]

The day started early meeting at the cricket club for 6.45. David Hamed had kindly offered a lift in his 9 seater and he had a full house. As the dawn broke we could tell it was going to be a sunny day as mist covered the hills and valleys around Hindhead. We arrived with plenty of time in hand, […]