Ashford and District RRC started a series of virtual races last week and opened it up to all. Every week runners are set a target distance to race by themselves while observing current guidelines on social distancing. Runners submit their times and at the end of the week A&D publish a list of results. There … Continue reading Lockdown League – Week 1
Month: April 2020
Caroline Curtis led the ladies in age grade (77.85) and time (6:24) and Ian McGilloway did the same in the men's (5:12, 78:41) in the first mile of his CoeVett-10 2 mile race. An honourable mention for Torben J with the second fastest DT mile time and second fastest overall age grade (5:48, 77.94). There … Continue reading DTM Challenge -Week 5
Fastest time overall this week went to Callum Howes, winning it by a mile with 5:23 (73.47) and a resurgent Torben J led the age grades, 5:48 (77.5). Caroline Curtis was fastest and age grade leader for the ladies with a cracking 6:36 (75.59, series PB) but had Catherine O'Connor, 6:51 (72.74, series PB) and … Continue reading DTM Challenge – Week 4
In the male category fastest time this week went to Callum Howes with 5:22 (76.04%), six seconds ahead of former 3:50 1500m man Steve Male. However, it was Steve, running in Whitfield, who topped the age grade rankings with 80.18%. Another strong run from Torben J saw him finish second in the age grading (5:53, … Continue reading DTM Challenge – Week 3
East to west on the Don Thompson mile proved popular again in the second week of the spring challenge, fast becoming the most accurate historical record of the prevailing wind on the day it’s run. The hottest competition this week was between Darren Crew, David Weekes and Tim Warren. DC edged it on % age … Continue reading DTM Challenge – Week 2
Folkestone running club – Weekend 28th March 2020 Folkestone running club would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the local newspapers for providing media coverage for our runners who take part in so many different events, who all have different abilities, but bring so much to the club. It is with sadness we find ourselves in these unprecedentedtimes, and whilst we are obeying the … Continue reading FRC update by Caroline Curtis