Week Ahead – Sunday 13th October 2019

  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 […]

Week Ahead – Sunday 6th October 2019

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. […]

[NVRR] PECO XC League

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 […]

Week Ahead – Sunday 29th September 2019

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, […]

The Week Ahead – Sunday 22nd September 2019

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 […]

Westmorland Trail Race – Saturday 14th September 2019

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 […]

Week Ahead – Sunday 15th September 2019

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 […]

Zip to Zoom Is Back

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 […]

Week Ahead – Sunday 8th September 2019

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 […]

Week Ahead – Sunday 1st September 2019

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 […]

Week Ahead – Sunday 25th August 2019

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 […]

Week Ahead – Sunday 18th August 2019

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 […]

Week Ahead – 11th August 2019

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 […]

Week Ahead – Sunday 4th August 2019

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’ […]

Week Ahead – Sunday 28th July 2019

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 […]

Week Ahead – Sunday 21st July 2019

Afternoon All,I hope this finds you well and that you have all enjoyed a rewarding week of running and racing.The evening league races have finished for this year. However, congratulations are in order as Jonathon Easton and Jenny Manning took first place as the first male and female Nidder home at the handicap race. Well […]

Week Ahead – Sunday 7th July 2019

Afternoon All, I hope this finds you all well and having a wonderful weekend, whatever you’re up to. I think some people struggled to open the newsletter last week but any issues should have been rectified and it’s also available on our website and our Nidd Valley group on Facebook. The Gold and Black – […]

Week Ahead – Sunday 30th June 2019

Afternoon All Kevin has prepared another great newsletter outlining all of your successes and a round up of races and events. I hope  you enjoy reading through it and feel inspired to keep up the running throughout July. We have a month of pub runs, races, the start of our interval sessions and the half […]

Nidd Valley vs Knaresborough Striders Annual Mob Match

Now that you have done the recee don’t forget to enter the race on Sunday 14th July. Start time 11am Enter here We want as many Nidds there to ensure we retain the mob match trophy – so dont delay enter today! Remember, the post race celebrations will take place at the Hockey Club from […]

Reminder: Nidd Valley – Pub Run no. 1 – Burton Leonard Tues 25th June

Reminder for Tomorrow night!! Please note the earlier meeting time!!!  Pub Run no.1   Date – Tuesday 25th June Meet time – 6.45pm  Route – Burton Leonard 10k  Meet in Burton Leonard Village near the corner shop/post office. After Pub – The George Carvery, Wormald Green Harrogate HG3 3PR Group 1 – Sarah Hughan and […]