For many years it was the tradition of Nidd Valley Road Runners to celebrate New Year by running the Harrogate Ringway footpath as a relay. It was a popular event but attracted too many teams for an event which could not be licenced or insured – you can’t place marshals around 20+ miles of footpaths […]
Afternoon All What a busy weekend it’s been for Nidd Valley and what a fantastic weekend too! Our Guy Fawkes 10 mile race was a huge success once again. It’s times like this that the real team work, friendship and sheer hard work is so obvious among our members. So many people have helped to […]
Nidd Valley Road Runners Awards Night!!! The wait is over, it’s time to book on the event of the year!! Exciting news, we have a new venue…. Rudding Park our lovely new venue are able to accommodate us comfortably, give us extra dancing time, a bigger dance floor, plus a lovely 3 course dinner!! Date: […]
Afternoon All Is it just me and my age but does anyone else feel as though this year is flying by? Only one week to go before we get to showcase the beautiful Nidd Valley, our friendly club, and deliver a cracking 10 mile road race! Yes, Guy Fawkes 10 next Sunday. I’ve popped a […]
Good morning everyone Well, I returned from my Norwegian cruise yesterday to learn all about your phenomenal racing over the weekend. What an achievement by everyone! We had members running marathons in York and Amsterdam and a male and female team in the British fell relay races in the Peak District. This is the first […]
Tuesday 15/10/19 Knaresborough Run. Leaving the club via Kingsley Drive, and joining Knaresborough Road before heading straight down into Knaresborough. There are several options to extend, or cut short, with all routes returning to the club via Forest Moor Road, Morrisons and then back up Kingsley Drive. Thursday 17/10/19. Cold Bath Road Cold Bath […]
Afternoon All Congratulations to all the Nidders running the Chester marathon today. I hope you all had a great experience and are still in one piece! Well done to everyone racing at Grewelthorpe this morning too, I had hoped to be there to cheer you on but last minute holiday packing got in the way. […]
Hello mud lovers, Early heads-up that entries for the PECO XC League are now open. This is our winter cross-country inter-club race series and also forms the main basis of our individual club XC championships. There are five races in the series and it only costs £15 to enter the full series (you can also […]
Evening All, I just have to begin by congratulating everyone who travelled to Redcar today, on what had to be one of the wettest days for months! We had people racing in the junior 2K, the 5K, 10K and of course our championship race, the half marathon. There was a huge sense of team spirit, […]
Afternoon All, Hope everyone is well and enjoying some good running and, of course, the UCI World Cycling Championships. It was great to see so many of you this morning at the Crag Rat Race. Well done to everyone. I thought it would be a good idea to give you some brief information on a […]
Afternoon. Seven of us took part in the Westmorland Trail Race yesterday. There are some rumours circulating that Martin Lofthouse got lost. I’m happy to set the record straight with a write up. Sorry it is a bit long. But then again, so was the wait for Martin to finish. Sam So Martin told us […]
Good Afternoon I probably need to begin this weeks email by reassuring you that I still exist! Ive not made it to club nights as I’m still busy keeping the injury bench warm and Ive been away working. I did manage to see some friendly Nidd faces at the park run these past few weekends […]
Nidd Valley Road Runners are recruiting for their third cohort of Zip to Zoomers to start on Tuesday October 8th 2019. This initiative, run by fully qualified coaches, has already been highly successful with graduates now regularly participating in parkrun events, 10k races and recently the Boston Half Marathon. Zip to Zoom also entered a […]
Afternoon All As always, I hope this finds you all well and making the most of the late Summer early Autumn weather. Its been a cracking day for the Great North Run and I know we had quite a few Nidders taking part so well done everyone and I hope you enjoyed it. Its not […]
Afternoon All It’s September and in my opinion this is the best month of the year! Cooler weather, great for running and time to focus training towards the cross country season. Of course the fact that it’s the month of my birthday has absolutely nothing to with it, honestly! We’re into the final 4 weeks […]
Afternoon All As always, I hope this finds you all well and enjoying the glorious bank holiday weekend. I don’t normally spotlight individual performances in this e mail, but Ive been so impressed with one of our long standing members that I thought it only right to mention it this week. Fiona Deacon runs as […]
Afternoon All, I hope this finds you all well. We have another busy week ahead with 3 race options in the mix but just to lighten the training and racing focus I thought you might want to indulge in some self reflection and see how many you can relate to below. Lies runners tell themselves […]
Afternoon All I must begin this week’s e mail by saying just how proud I am to be part of Nidd Valley Road Runners. Over the past week we’ve had lots of members taking part in our plogging event, the Harrogate Park Run takeover (photos); and to top it off, all the places for our […]
Afternoon AllAs always, I hope this finds you all well and to those of you struggling with injuries, niggles, illness or running fatigue I wish you well.We have an interesting week ahead and have managed to organise a combination of running, volunteering and litter picking, yes litter picking!Kevin Dalton is keen to try out ‘plogging’ […]
Afternoon AllWell that was certainly a hot week, so hats off to everyone for getting out to run! We’ve had a week of intervals, a hugely successful social pub run, people teaming up to run the Washburn Valley relay race and the James Herriot trail race this morning.It was nice to see some first timers […]