Reporting on races and events in which we have participated and other club news. Dates are those of the press releases and not necessarily of any associated races, events or items of news reported.
Salisbury Ten Miles Fifteen Farnham Runners chose to support the club in the eighth round of the Hampshire Road League, the scenic Salisbury Ten miler. Billed by a national magazine as one of the best 10 mile races in the country, a few club members were disappointed as this year all available entries were taken earlier than usual. There are […]
» Read moreSXCL Staunton Country Park The prestigious trophy to be awarded to the winning club was on display at the Southern Cross Country League at Staunton Country Park near Havant, organised by Denmead Striders. Clubs were keen to put out competitive teams in this final event of the ever more popular series, which has seen numbers soar over recent years. Overnight […]
» Read moreSXCL Chawton Woods A jubilant Jirka Zaloudik and Eloise Stradling led in the Farnham Runners’ teams at the sixth round of the Southern Cross Country League at Chawton Woods, hosted by Alton Runners. This was a new venue and proved to be perhaps one of the most challenging on the circuit. Numerous long, lung-busting ascents were interspersed with squelchy mud […]
» Read moreHRRL Ryde 10 miles Only five Farnham Runners faced the long journey and bracing conditions for the Ryde 10 miler, organised by Ryde Harriers. The four men did well, coming 8th in the top of “A” Division of the Hampshire Road League and keeping the team 7th on aggregate. James Clarke led them in, his time an impressive 62 minutes […]
» Read moreFarnham Runners were out in force for the two races organised by Stubbington Green Runners both within a week and both in good weather this year. Thirty three members tackled the almost flat 10km course, the sixth event in the Hampshire Road League, and nineteen members enjoyed the mud around the Hamble estuary in the Southern League Cross Country League […]
» Read moreAt Farnham Runners’ annual Club Handicap race ingenuity in designing fancy dress costumes as well as running performance is recognised. A huge variety of characters set off from the clubhouse this year with over sixteen minutes between them at the start of the 4.25 mile route but the first twenty-four all finishing within four minutes of each other. Army personnel […]
» Read moreSXCL Lord Wandsworth College “The only bits that weren’t pure mud were hills!” was an apt comment from a Farnham Runner after the fourth round of the 2014-15 seven-race Southern Cross Country League series, competently hosted by Hart Road Runners. Renowned for its mud, the course at Lord Wandsworth College in fact held less water than many years but none-the-less […]
» Read moreFarnham Runners hosted the third round of the Southern Cross Country League race, and over 400 runners descended on Farnham, another record this year. New Farnham Runners’ race directors, Mary D. Fitzgerald and Craig Tate-Grimes took on the ever increasing task of masterminding the event, while Jacquie Browne kindly stepped in to organise refreshments for the hungry hordes after the […]
» Read moreFarnham Runners just keep getting faster! Half the members who ran the Gosport Half Marathon gained new personal best times for the distance. On a new course this year, close to the coast, there was fortunately no wind and only a light rain shower. After the race the first four Farnham men were a happy bunch, all exceeding previous bests […]
» Read moreThe Southern Cross Country League (previously called the Today’s Runner Winter League) is going from strength to strength with almost 550 turning out for the second race of the series on a glorious sunny day at Queen Elizabeth Country Park. This year hosts Portsmouth Joggers included even more hills than usual, and warned that recent rain had turned the event […]
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