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BRJ Road Running Club are Huntingdon's original UK Athletics affiliated running club. We are a small, friendly club of around 80 catering for runners and joggers of all ages and standards. Regular club runs take place on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. A Ladies run is held on Mondays.

All this years photos can now be viewed on the Gallery page. Training Plan for July 08 can be found on the Training page.

St Ives 10k - Lorna smashes club record!

As usual the St Ives 10K has produced some excellent performances in both the Junior & Section sections. Despite the more conducive conditions, the headwind up to the 5K turn-around point on the Wyton airfield put paid to some, but not all, aspirations of a a PB time. Nevertheless, a good effort from all the BRJ participants particularly from the newcomers to the club. Of the 27 BRJ entrants there were no less than 14 PBs!

In the Junior event there were 9 BRJ participants with 1 PB (Jessica Dockerill) and 4 debutants to the 3K event. Of the 27 senior BRJ participants runners there were 14 PBs (Lucy & John's training sessions clearly must be doing something right!) and there were also 6 newcomers to the 10k event.

In the ladies section, Lorna Higgins sparkling performance means we now have a new 10K Ladies Club Champion. Well done Lorna!

Full Results soon..   View Stan's photos.   

Thetford Challenge

On Friday 18 Jul,Lucy, Teresa, Alan and Stan took part in the Thetford Challenge. The Thetford challenge is an evening race for pairs of two men, women or mixed teams of competitors taking turns to run or cycle. Teams of one runner and one cyclist,swapping on and off the bike as often as they like. Additionally, they must stay within 10 metres of their team mate and must cross the line together. The course was over good quality forest tracks and was 2 equal laps of approximately 5.5 miles long each. However, the first runners did a solo lap of half a mile at the start to split the field up and there was a compulsory change over at the halfway point.

Lucy and her team mate Teresa managed a fast time of 1.30.44 finishing 6th ladies team out of 17. Alan and Stan turned up the pace half a mile from the end when they turned and saw the girls catching up and managed to hold them off, finishing 46 secs of the ahead of them. Alan and Stan pointed out that with a combined age of 105 they had done pretty well finishing in a time of 1:29:58. At the end of the race there was a bottle of beer for all competitors, together with free soup with a roll, crisps, fruit or flapjack. We’ll be back next year and we would recommend this event to you all, even if you just want you tea in the forest!

Wedding Bells

Quiz Night

Congratulations to BRJ couple Pete Galpin and Laura Nobles who were married on 12th of July in St Nicholas Church, Hail Weston. Following their honeymoon the happy couple will be straight back into training as they begin their married life with a number of joint cycle and triathlon challenges!

Sue Yendley is orginising a quiz at Cromwell Park School on 19th September. £40 per team of up to 8. Bring your own drinks and nibbles. Proceeds to Leonard Cheshire Disability. See Sue or John O for tickets.

Bushy 10k

BRJ Runner of the Year

Three members of the BRJ went to Bushy 10 k in Peterborough. On a very warm morning and a near perfect day for running Lee Brookes was first home for the Club with a time of 38.14 in 24th position, followed by Phil Pearsons (with a hangover) in 48.22 in position 174. Sam Brown came in 52.01 in 223th position. Total numbers for the race were 339 also Sam Brown ran the fun run with her youngest son Adam both finishing with a time 12.30 in positions 40 and 41 out of 61 runners.

Congratulations to Gillian Peck who was named BRJ Lady Runner of the Year. Gill was presented with her 'Golden Trainer' at the recent Invitation run round Grafham Water. Chapeau!

The Fortnight Ahead

Club Run Details available on the Training Page

14/07/07

15/07/08

16/07/08

17/07/08

18/07/08

19/07/08

20/07/08

Ladies Run Leave Leave Hinchingbrooke Park 7pm

Club Run Leave BRJ 7.30pm

Stamford 5k

Club Run Leave BRJ 7.30pm

Nothin Planned

Nothing Planned

Club Run Leave BRJ 9.00am
St Ives 10k

21/07/08

22/07/08

23/07/08

24/07/08

25/07/08

26/07/08

27/07/08

Ladies Run Leave Hinchingbrooke Park 7pm

Club Run MEET OPPOSITE GEORGE PUB SPALDWICK 7.30pm

Bedford 5k

Pub Run Leave Ferryboat, Holywell 7.30pm

Nothing Planned

Nothing Planned

London to Cambridge Bike Ride