This large park, just north of Manchester and home to a Grade 1 listed neoclassical 18th century house, is the perfect setting for a fun and fast 5k race. Running on the paths within Heaton Park, this race is a great opportunity for a chip timed personal best.
Steve brook raced for QRC and finished 1st MV70 with a time of 25:43
Well done Steve
A multi-terrain course containing one grass hill half way round the route. Starting at the Cookridge Village Scout Hall on Pinfold Lane, the run goes down the Lane and around Paul’s Pond in an anti-clockwise direction. The route takes you into Golden Acre Park, following the path in an anti-clockwise direction and passes the nature reserve on your right. The route continues on this path and then moves onto the grassed area and up the hill towards the Arthington Road car park, through the woods and back to the finish via a lap of the lake.
Giles Cook raced for QRC racing round in 55:51 in 103rd position well in the top half of the field.
Well done Giles
One week on from the Endure 24 and Branham Park welcomed back runners for this years Total Warrior, postponed last year due to the lack of mud (Covid) we were treated to some great muddy obstacles, running as a team there was no place for heroes but just a lorra lorra laughs. I think I can safely say that the water slide was everybody’s favourite.
I can’t speak for everyone else but around 4 hours after the event the aching unusually kicked in 2 days early and I as I write this my fingers are going into spasms roll on tonights track session.
Well done teamy’s we had a ball made better by the great teamwork
ROAR!!!!!!!!!
The Wharfedale Trail Half Marathon is a 13.2 mile trail race flagged throughout the entire course. It affords participants and their families the opportunity to enjoy a great day out in some of Wharfedale’s finest scenery with over 2,000 feet of ascents the route follows well established footpaths, including the Dalesway and Mastiles Lane and for those with time to take in the fabulous scenery the views from Scott Gate, Mastiles and Boss Moor are quite breathtaking.
Simon Brady, Carl Heron, Chris King and Richard Brook raced for QRC with Simon leading them home in a 1st place in the MV55.
23rd Simon Brady 1:53:04
29th Carl Heron 1:56:06
77th Richard Brook 2:11:14
139th Chris King 2:29:06
Starting in the town centre of Wilmslow this one lap course is perfect for fast times ran on scenic country roads, before finishing on Mobberley Road/Sandy Lane (just over 1-mile away). The perfect mix of flat running and countryside scenery. The lightening quick first 5k sets you up perfectly for a personal best attempt. Runners were warned to save some strength for just one hill within the 8th kilometre!
Dylan Naylor and Steve Brook raced for QRC with Steve managing one of his quickest times this year racing to 3rd MV70, with Dylan storming round finishing in 36 minutes and 88th place proving what a quality field was out racing
88th Dylan 36:00
708th Steve 50:01
Well done lads.
Part of the Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix series this race was held on the Burnley Parkrun course, Amy Mckechnie had a storming race managing a sub 20 time finishing in 19:48, 1st FV40 and 3rd lady overall.
Well done Amy, great run.
The Ilkley Half Marathon is organised by Ilkley Round Table to raise funds for local good causes. In 2019, their inaugural year, they raised £35,000 from the event which went to a number of local organisations across Wharfedale to support the community.
Starting and finishing in the Ilkley gardens the route heads East towards Ilkley train station before turning and heading West through Addingham and looping back art the 8.5 mile point at Bolton Bridge and Beamsley.
3 QRCers took part with Chris Lane, Dave Faulkener and Manjit Mander racing for QRC.
141st Chris 1:33:22 (PB)
540th Dave 1:51:14
615th Manjit 1:54:12
Well done guys, awesome running
Although they didn’t run for QRC , I just thought that in a world when we can be anything I thought I would ‘Be Kind’
The English Riviera Triathlon, formerly the Geopark Triathlon, starts with a great sea swim in the warm waters of Goodrington Sands. Then it’s onto the bikes for a challenging loop around the Torbay area and finally a stunning out and back off-road coast run over towards Brixham.
Be warned it’s a tough course. The first sections of the bike courses are rolling but eventually you hit Parliament Hill which averages 11 percent and another climb before the super-fast descent towards the finish. The run course is also tough with some steep hills & steps to contend with.
Husband and wife (lol) Terri Mason and Andy Dovernor finished off their holiday with this BRUTAL course, Terri raced the sprint event (750m, 24k, 6k) and Andy the standard distance (1500m, 44k, 12k) they both did fantastic finishing 1st in their age categories.
Well done champs
Yorkshire Warrior is a 10km obstacle race across tough Yorkshire countryside with hills, bogs, rivers crossings, lake crossings, slides, barbed wire, electric fence, crawling, climbing, log carrying, tyre carrying and much, much more!
Lorna Dodd took part for a bit of fun with her pal from work finishing 7th out of 119 runners in their age category.
Well done Doddy.
What a weekend our members had at Branham Park, we had 3 teams entered in this 24 hour race, Quintessentially QRC, In it for the long run and Shepherds flock. With idea been that teams have 24 hours to run as many 5 mile laps as they can within the required time limit, with 1 team member having to be on the course at all times.
Obviously things did not go to plan with a gentle shower shutting the course down for a few hours on Saturday evening but as soon as things settled the course was reopened at 12:45am.
So out of 59 teams in 12th place were Quintessentially QRC consisting of Andy Young, Wasim, Julie H, Matt Dodds, Richard Newberry and Jo Fortune running 30 laps with Richard having the fastest lap with a 35:52.
In the same category finishing 26th were In it for the long run with team members Vicky Trudgil, Zoe Hipwell, Lee Hipwell (Wacko Jacko), Matt Thornton, Dave Rhodes and Glenn completing 26 laps with Matt running the fastest lap in 36:55.
With only 5 members Shepherds Flock finished 52nd from 65 teams, team members were Phil Lee, Tamara, Michelle Shepherd, Jen and Nicola Smith who all manage to complete 17 laps with Phil managing the fastest lap with a 46:34.
Well done to you all it looked like you all had a jolly good time.
