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It was another strong week for FRC in Ashford and District's Lockdown League with a number of members posting times for the 6 mile time trial. Ladies The ladies team took third place this week, consisting of Karen Puttock, Nikki Goodwin and Collette Windsor. This leaves them in third place in the league. In the … Continue reading Lockdown League Week 3

The final week and a bit of the Don Thompson Spring challenge came to a conclusion on Wednesday 6 May coinciding with the anniversary of Sir Roger Bannister’s sub-four minute mile. While we didn’t quite have anyone duck under that magic number (or even anywhere close if we are being honest) there were some fantastic … Continue reading DTM Challenge – Week 6

Another great performance from FRC runners in the Lockdown League. This week’s distance was 3 miles - a shot in the arm for those suffering from parkrun withdrawal. Ladies Team The team of the first three ladies to score (Goodwin, Green and Windsor) finished third and moved up the table to be two points off … Continue reading Lockdown League – Week 2

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

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

Neil Trett ran the Endurance Life Sussex Half Marathon at Birling Gap. Reports were that it was brutally hilly but picturesque trail race.  Neil exclaimed that, ‘I thought my weekly hilly trail runs I would be well prepared for this...the hills just kept coming, one after another, these were the seven sisters after all! I … Continue reading Hills and Thrills for Neil

Highlights Men's team win Lydd HalfParkrun PB for Oliver Collier Lydd Runners at the the Lydd Half and 20 mile race on Sunday had to battle the winds and the water hazards this year and the men’s half marathon team secured the team prize for the third year in a row.  Half Marathon First back … Continue reading Windy Lydd and Funky Pants Mud

Thankfully the second half of the weekend was somewhat nicer than the first giving FRC runners at least a fighting chance against the wind and rain that has blighted us for the past few weeks.  The Deal Half Marathon was a casualty of one of the previous winter storms and was rescheduled to this weekend, … Continue reading A Weekend of Two Halves

It was a jam packed morning of fixtures in less than favourable conditions along the Leas. Once again there were some excellent scores. First up, Diane Parsons was as close as she could get to her target as she scored 99.7, but unfortunately for her it was not enough to defeat Kayleigh Cumber who scored … Continue reading Park Run Challenge Cup Continues!

Highlights Final Kent League Cross country raceJulie Gibbs finishes season top V60Parkrun cup Cross Country Saturday was the final cross country fixture of the season in the Kent League at Norman Park in Bromley. Women The ladies were out first for 5K on the mostly flat, multi-lap fast course, which included a challenging woodland section … Continue reading Cross before the storm

It was all eyes on the Ashford and District 10k this weekend as FRC turned out in force at this popular and fast race around the lanes near Ashford.  And a very successful morning it was too. The club scooped both team prizes and and had three runners in the top 10 of both the … Continue reading Loads of Trophies at Ashford and District 10k

One of the club's brightest stars Callum Howes attended the Kent Schools AA Cross Country Champs, held at the Duke of York School in Dover. Callum managed to come in a respectable 11th place out of 99 boys. Meanwhile, up in Gravesend, club Runners Jodie Stoakes and Darren Crew took part in the Saxons, Vikings … Continue reading Callum’s School Cross Country success

Highlights Andrew Fletcher first in FolkestoneDan Voller first in DealCallum Howes fifth in Ashford Parkrun Roundup Folkestone Parkrun Andrew Fletcher was first back overall in 18:17 followed by Joe BRUCE 19:20, Tristan BRUCE 19:33, Derek MATCHAM 19:48, Phil HOYLAND 20:03, Rob COLLIER 20:45, Stuart ERSKINE 21:08, David GILLETT 21:11, Chris ADDISON 21:20, Ian MERRICK 21:23, … Continue reading Parkruns