Starting your running journey can feel like an uphill battle.Almost every beginner faces that nagging question: “When will running feel less like a struggle?”The truth is, there’s no single answer, but many find that once they can sustain a continuous 30-minute run, things start to...
Every Saturday morning, thousands upon thousands of people up and down the country and, these days, throughout the world line up to take on what has become the most famous 5km race around.And although the institution that is parkrun will call down merry hell on...
You've spoken - and we've listened! As we slowly approach what will be the third addition of our flagship half-marathon, The Amazing Northampton Run, we have been carefully looking at how we can improve the event and the route.Our first Amazing Northampton Run took place in...
Just over a decade ago, one of Northamptonshire's best loved views was under threat. Plans to build four wind turbines within a mile of Grade 1 listed Lyvden New Bield were eventually scuppered with the planning inspector dismissing them as an "alien and incongruous feature". It's hard...
Wow, what an event that was! Last weekend's Country to Capital Ultra returned with a bang as winner Kallum Pritchard smashed the course record by a whopping 11 minutes. On a mostly dry day, with frost underfoot, Kallum made the conditions work to his advantage by romping...
ET is on its way to becoming the highest-grossing film of the decade, Italy are eyeing up the football World Cup, and a mere four competitors were about to take part in a bike race that would go on to be one of the longest...
Running for five days and 123 miles through the beautiful, but - to say the least - undulating, hills of the Himalayas is not easy. It is fair to say those who took part in our Capital to Country Multi-Day Ultra were tired by the end...
Santa may be getting his sleigh ready to drop in on all those 'nice' children who've been good in 2024, but he's not the only one preparing for a major all-day event.As the big man gets ready for his Christmas Eve adventure, runners throughout the...
"Part of the way through the last race, we had to leg it to make the cut-off. I felt sick, but it is amazing what you can do when you have to. "The feeling of achievement at the end makes it all worth it."Karen Hamilton is...
All good things come to an end, and sadly so do all great things.Today, we celebrated the last day of Capital to Country 2024. True to form, it was hot and sunny, our runners were determined and inspiring, and the long-distance dogs of Nepal were...