On a glorious Sunny Sunday, with unseasonal barmy conditions for February Anna Anderson performed magnificantly, running the Tarpley 10 mile road race, passing through beautiful countryside along gently undulating country lanes.
This week saw Four Boxted Runners taking part in the inaugural QE Olympic Park Half, with a field of more than 4,000 runners. On a cold, damp and blustery day, not ideal for running, it was an early morning start.
This week saw the first half Marathon of the season for Boxted runners with Tania Stacey taking part for Boxted Runners in a chilly but gloriously sunny Great Bentley Half Marathon on Sunday – Finishing in a great time of 1:50:27 coming in 355 place out of 666 runners.
This week saw Five Boxted Runners take part in the Hadleigh Legacy 10k in Essex. This was a hugely challenging but enjoyable off-road 10k using some of the 2012 Olympic MTB course, set within the grounds of Hadleigh Castle. They faced hills, more hills, mud and more mud, but all came away with fantastic results.
The first race for Boxted Runners in 2019 saw Becky Day take on the hilly 15 mile Benfleet 15 Mile on 20th January. In Freezing conditions, Becky completed the course in a great time of 2:11:56, coming in to finish 31st female out of 292, and 257th out of a large field of 824. Winning a Gold Medal. Well done Becky 👏🏻🏃🏼♀️🏅
“Running makes me feel really good, it gives me a buzz and I feel much better about myself afterwards, I have definitely got the ‘running bug!’ and I’m itching to go out all the time!”
Boxted Runners do “Halloween”! 🧟♂️🧟♀️👻😱🙂What a fabulous night! 🏃♀️🏃♂️ Huge thank you to Charlotte for providing us with the best mulled wine and mince pies ever at the finish!! 🍷🥧 Perfect finish to a great run! Thank you everyone for coming along and making it so good! 🏃♀️🏃♂️
Steve Ames completed the Stort 30, coming hope in 55th place in a great time of 4:49:44. The Stort 30 is a very pretty out and back 30 miles (15 each way) along the River Stort Navigation Channel in Hertfordshire. Well done Steve. Photo from Stuart March Photography
A great day for Boxted Runners! Well done to the Ipswich Half Marathon team, the Dedham 10k team and Wing in the Berlin Marathon! All really great achievements, you most definitely did yourselves and Boxted Runners proud today! 🤩 Enormous well done team! 🏃♀️🏃♂️🏅🏆🤩🌟🏅🥇
Boxted 10k returns in 2020, bigger and better than ever – again with 10k, 5k and 2k races for all the family. Boxted 10k will be held on June 14th 2020