Rachel Stevens

Old County Tops 2025 – Race report by Josie On Saturday, I headed to the Lake District to do Old County Tops Fell Race. Organised by Achille Ratti and it’s massive team of helpers, it’s the longest & possibly one of the toughest races in the fellrunner calendar. This is largely down to the distance … Old County Tops 2025

Sunday saw a busy day of racing in Manchester as the city held its annual half marathon and 10k event. This is a huge event with 35,000 taking part in the event and racing with incredible athletes, including Vicent Ngetich, Selemon Barega, Medina Eisa and Emily Sisson. This is a long day of racing with … Manchester 10k

Lostock AC held their annual Treasure hunt this week. This is always a fun event, with members racing around West Houghton and Aspull trying to find the answer to clues prepared by Member Mark Smith. Members covered distances of over 5 miles and many got lost, including one team that spent time wondering around a … Treasure Hunt

Race report by Gareth: The midweek champs kicked off in style last night with the first race in the ever popular Astley Park Series. Another great turnout of 17 Lostockers out of a field of 124 toed the line (16 finished but that’s a different story lol) at 7:30 on a perfect evening for racing. … Astley Park Trail Series – Race 1

Race Report by Shutters: This race is organised by Ambleside AC, is an AM category race, is 10 miles long, 3100 ft of ascent and takes in the peaks of Nab Scar, Great Rigg, Fairfield and Dove Crag. I ran this race last year in scorchio weather and suffered on the final few miles as … Fairfield Horseshoe

Bolton Parkrun Rachel Hancock 28:49 (first in age category) Melonie Crompton and her son Ben 40:26 Fell Foot Parkrun: Tony Maxwell 24:41 (new Fell Foot PB and first in age category) Sheila Garewal 30:10 (third in age category) Haigh Woodland Parkrun: Anthony Sutton 22:28 Andy Laycock 24:03 (second in age category) Brian Halton 24:28 Jo … Parkrun Results 10 May

Race report by Gareth: The Lap! They call it “the beautiful ultra” and it absolutely does not disappoint. 47 miles, 8,800ft of elevation on a glorious sunny day in the Lake District, what’s not to like? The race is a pretty new one, first held in 2019, is a clockwise lap of Windermere (they do … The Lap!

Race report by Jon: A 2hr drive down to the England leg of the Fur Nations international event at Shipley Country Park this morning rewarded us with a new 5k canicross PB of 25:56. That was enough to place us 5th in the 2 dog category, so we earned really good England points too. Even … Fur Nations International Event

Race report by Jo: Chorley 10k race report. There was a fantastic turnout from the team at this year’s Chorley 10K, with runners tackling the challenging course and delivering some brilliant results along the way. The route is a local classic, starting and finishing in Chorley town centre, weaving through residential streets before heading into … Chorley 10k

Race report by Checkers: Coniston Fell Race Early at Marks this morning forgot about the loud door bell and promptly woke everyone up including me😮 sorry. Waited for Tom to arrive. We arrived nice and early. So time for a natter and loads of cake and be quite chilled out. Josie and Rachael came up … Coniston Fell Race