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SXCL Polecat Alley For the third year Haslemere Border Athletics Club hosted the final event of the Southern Cross-Country League, with race headquarters at the Royal School. Challenging ascents cannot be avoided in the steep terrain of the Devil’s Punchbowl and Hindhead Common. Runners were warned in advance to anticipate mud but the route had dried out after a week […]

HRRL Ryde 10 mile The weather was bitterly cold but the blue skies lifted spirits and there was a buzz of excitement on the busy 9:15am catamaran ferry link between Portsmouth and Ryde, Isle of Wight. This was the annual Hampshire Road League trip “overseas” to the Ryde 10 mile race. The Farnham Runners contingent pictured bravely smiling, despite the […]

Farnham Runners started the New Year with two races organised by Stubbington Green Runners within a week of each other. HRRL Stubbington Green 10km Conditions were cool but ideal with no wind for the sixth round of the Hampshire Road League, the Stubbington Green 10km. Though some who had entered could not make the race, there were 25 members hotly […]

Snow and rain in the previous week meant runners for the Southern Cross-Country League race at Lord Wandsworth College, organised by Hart Road Runners, were prepared for mud and deep puddles and they weren’t disappointed. The two lap course of five miles had only one dry section and that was up a steep hill. One part just before this looked […]

In probably the toughest conditions since the event began in January 1988, shortly after the formation of the club, Farnham Runners hosted the third round of the Southern Cross-Country League on Sunday, in woods near the Bourne Green. Forecasts were for heavy rain, wind and bitter conditions and were not wrong. Further north there was snow. Under the expert guidance […]

The Victory Five race was the third Hampshire Road Race League race in three weeks and yet Farnham Runners had a good turn-out of twenty members to tackle this highly competitive event. This year was the 71st, it having been organised by City of Portsmouth Athletics club since 1946. Due to work on the sea defences on the normal route […]

Farnham Runners clinched encouraging team results in the Haying 10 miler, the fourth event in the Hampshire Road Race League calendar. Organised by Havant AC, it first heads north from the coast before turning south again on an off road section of over a mile on the track of a disused railway, the Hayling Billy. Against the prevailing wind it […]

Gosport Half Marathon Eighteen Farnham Runners enjoyed good conditions in the Gosport Half marathon, warm for November, sunny and with only a light breeze for most of the course but rising to a headwind in parts. This was the third event of the season’s Hampshire Road League, organised by Gosport Road Runners. Two three mile sections along the promenade close […]

Overnight rain gave cross-country enthusiasts a particularly energy-sapping course at the second round of the Southern Cross-Country League, organised by Portsmouth Joggers at Queen Elizabeth Country Park. Slippery mud over most of the woodland route was broken by only short sections of firm ground, little of it flat. After the usual treacherous compacted section of chalk near the start, the […]