Small, friendly and fun running club based in Clapham/ Battersea with members of all ages, abilities and experience
Funny old game, this running.
My expectations for this race were very low, having had a sluggish few weeks after the VLM, and falling prone to niggles various. Also, I did it last year and wasn’t looking forward to the repetitive “up and down the front four times” course. Read more
If you want to know when it’ll be good weather again just ask Krysia when she’s doing her next endurance event – first the Paris Marathon and now the Crystal Palace triathlon – both on scorching hot sunny days!
It certainly worked for our friends – we’re off to Teddington for a BBQ!
The day started early (which wasn’t a bad thing as the forecast for later was 25 degrees), with a 5 mile cycle to the event (with a killer uphill at the end). Read more
Sat July 31st Clapham Common – volunteers sign up by e-mail please. It will be an early start – first event (10k) 9:00am briefing around 7:30. Free by 12:30 latest – earlier for some.
Your tee short can win prizes.
Wear your Clapham Runners tee shirt with pride to exotic, challenging, strange, new or far flung places. Submit a picture to win exotic tee shirt person of the day award
Here’s a pic of 2 happy Clapham Runners who finished the paris marathon in under 4 hours – woo hoo!! Amazing that we ran into each other at the finish line in a crowd of about 38,000 runners! Read more
Well done to Janie for her 5km in Washington – completed in 28 minutes in 30 degree heat and 100% humidity (don’t think I would have fancied that!). Janie’s team (family and friends from over the world) raised over $7,000 for brain cancer research.
More info on the race can be found at http://www.principessaisabella.blogspot.com/.
The Muller 10km in Market Drayton in Shropshire was my first race actually wearing my Clapham Runners shirt. I took both the long sleeved and the short sleeved ones to Shropshire because I was determined to wear our colours in a race and I didn’t know what the weather would be like. It was actually a short sleeved day. This was better news for wouldbe barbequers that it was for me. I haven’t done much training in the sun. Admittedly, since the weather has got a bit better, my training outside of the Thursday sessions has been somewhat patchy. Still, as the race was organised by Muller I’d probably get a free yoghurt at the end and so it wasn’t going to be all bad! Read more
Hello all. Thanks for coming out to support us today. It was fantastic seeing you all — twice!
I suppose I stuck to my race plan in that I tried to run with the 9 minute mile pacer for at least the first half and then see how it was going. This proved difficult as it was very crowded and I don’t think she actually hit the spilts for that pace until about mile 18. Struggled to dart in and out of people to keep her in sight more well. Having said that the pace felt faster than I expected — which was probably a combination of the heat and my not being that fit, having done my training runs very slowly. Read more
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