The ‘Wales Trail Marathon’ was this years challenge for some of the Wreake Runners, 19x runners took to the trails of Coed y Brenin forest in the Snowdonia National Park. A choice of either the half or full marathon route, both equally challenging with stunning views and some pretty tough hills!! The full marathoners started first with Dave […]
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This year’s Livingston Relays were held on Sunday 3rd May at Braunstone Park, Wreake had Six teams out (3x Men’s / 3x Ladies) A slightly wet day but everyone was in high spirits, it was great to see some of our new members running their first race event. Each runner ran 3 miles starting with
It’s not all about running at Wreake Runners as a large group of us headed down to Welford Road to enjoy the Leicester Tigers vs London Welsh game last Saturday. With plenty of tries, beers, and a streaker (not a wreakie streakie!) it was never a dull moment. We finished the evening off with a
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Huge congratulations to our five Wreake members who took part in this years London Marathon, there were some very impressive times indeed. Steve Bolton finished in an amazing 3:08.24, followed by Harry Longman in 3:12.46 Luke Smith (3:29.53) & Tessa Pollard (3:52.21) ran their first marathons, both with fantastic times! Marie Collins also ran London
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It’s been a great weekend for Marathons/Half Marathons & 10k’s! Three of Wreakes finest travelled to Manchester to take on the 26.2 mile course which went through Altrincham, Sale & Urmston along with nearly 8,000 runners. Jim Kett was the first Wreake home with an amazing time of 2:57.36, Dave Rose finished soon after in
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A very windy day for this years ‘Hose Half’ but it didn’t stop some of our Wreakies grabbing themselves a PB! Bruno was the first home for us with an amazing time of 1:21.29, followed by Kristian Carver (1:33.57) & Ian Hillier (1:33.59) who battled it out till the end, both securing themselves a PB
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Wet & windy conditions made this year’s Desford 6 a little tough (well for some of us anyway) Not a big turnout unfortunately, but still we had 10x runners out. Bruno was the first Wreake home with a great time of 36:37, followed by Richard Bettsworth & Jim Kett. Kristian Carver & Ian Hillier both
We had a great quiz night on friday 20th March at the Gate Hangs Well, Syston. Gavin and Ian had some challenging (but fun!) questions – highlights including ‘guess the legs’ picture round and DJ Hillier’s pop round. Thanks to everyone who came, well done to the winners ‘Scott’s Army’. The next Wreake social is
A huge congratulations to our three Wreakies who took part in this years Loughborough Half! Bruno Nikoloff who finished in 1:22.54 taking 1st place male Vet40 Anne Timlock (1:45.38) & AJ Tebbutt (2:07.03), both had amazing runs…. Well done All.
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The Seagrave Duathlon is a relatively new event which involves a 5k run -23k Cycle – 5k run. Five of us entered this years race and for some of us it was our first attempt at a Duathlon, The weather was fairly good apart from the high winds. I have to say that although it