From The Chair

Good Morning to our Nidd Valley Road Runners Team, Hoping this communication finds you all,  together with your families in good health and spirits. Do you feel the same as me ? Recently I have been injured,  and yet still from a distance of many of the events and club meetings feel the buzz of […]

Goal race success and lots going on this month!

Wow, I’ve seen some amazing times on strava from York 10km and some great pictures on facebook! Well done everyone, and I hope you enjoyed the training as well as the race itself 🙂 Don’t forget that all important recovery now. Nothing too crazy this week, just shorter easy runs if you worked really hard in […]

What a week! Again!

Well, we’ve been out there racing quite a bit and some of you have been to parkrun for the first time in a very long while! I Hope you’ve all been enjoying whatever racing / running you’ve been doing. I definitely enjoyed James Herriot trail race today. Captain Sarah has told me that at Fountains […]

Hot hot hot and a lot going on!

Fantastic efforts all round from anyone racing, getting out for a run, or even doing anything energetic in the heat this weekend! Kudos to everyone who ran at Ingleborough and/or Fountains 10km. I can’t resist giving extra kudos to Sarah Fabron and Chris Morris who chose (nothing to do with me, honest) a category A […]

Nidd Valley Weekly Message

Afternoon everyone! I hope you’ve all had a great weekend so far. Well done everyone who has been racing. So far this weekend I’ve seen results from Ilkley half marathon and Thirsk virtual evening league. Marathon training also seems to be in full swing for some members, and our 10km training plan only has a few […]

What’s been going on and what’s happening next?

Good evening all and well done to everyone who has been racing at Harrogate 10km and Endure 24. Mark has kindly updated the results website with the latest results from Burton Leonard and Otley 10m which you can see here: https://nvrrcc.co.uk/nvrrcc.co.uk/nvrrcc_upload/2021/road_results.html Please check and let Kevin or Sarah know if any results are missing.  Harrogate 10k […]

The week ahead at Nidd Valley…

Hi everyone Emma is away this weekend supporting Carol Morgan on her Wainwright’s attempt (214 peaks and 36000m of climb!!!)–  the record set just a week or so ago was just under 6 days, maybe Carol will set a new one, we hope so. Wishing her all the best on this amazing undertaking and well […]

Sunday email with Captains corner

Good evening! We have an exciting change to Tuesday this week as Darren from England Athletics is coming to lead us in an interval session. The session will start at 7 pm, so if you are joining in, please meet at the hockey club about 10 mins before. Darren will be going through warm up, […]

From The Chair

Good Morning to the ever growing membership of Nidd Valley Road runners, Yes I was told by our Membership Manager Graham Hyde recently that since we last spoke another 4 members have joined.  At the moment I am abroad and read this morning we have another 3 members join this week ! And a very […]

This week’s running

Hi Nidd People! Well done if you raced at Burton Leonard or anywhere else this weekend! Hope no one got sunburnt out there! So, this week is the last of the 6 weeks of hills on Tuesday, before we move on to phase two of the 10km plan! Watch this space next week for details […]

What’s on this week?

Hello everyone! I hope you’ve all had a great sunny weekend. This week I have the usual details about Tuesday and Thursday for you, along with some good news about membership and another Captain’s corner (see below). So firstly, Graham H has asked me to say a big thank you to everyone who has renewed their […]

HDSRL 2021 – Exciting Announcement

Hi team Nidd, Harrogate and District Summer Race League (Evening League) Exciting news! With thanks to an enormous organisational effort from our very own Dave Seaman and of course all of the member clubs, our much-loved ‘evening league’ is back for 2021, with two in person races and plenty of virtual races with specific courses […]

Countryside Code

It’s great to see so many Nidds getting off-road in recent years and enjoying the hills, trails and brilliant footpath network North Yorkshire and beyond has to offer. Over 140,000 miles of it in the UK. We should of course cherish this. It’s a huge national asset. You may or may not be aware of […]

Spreadsheets and routes for this week!

Hi all! Hope you’re all enjoying the sunshine! At last! yay! This is just a quick email to remind you that it is another set of hills this week if you are doing intervals. Here is the spreadsheet to check where you are: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13tbj-KL8pAoyZiYx3ZeSsTKtc8Hs7i24bRh1Z__O1KE/edit#gid=2071125347 There will also be a run from the club if you […]

From The Chair

Good Morning Running Team Mates, Hoping you are all well and managing to find time to enjoy this long overdue sunshine. Three months into this role as Chair and I must say it has been most interesting, enlightening, and enjoyable.  The role isn’t new to me however every time I find myself in this position […]

Is it the last week in may already? Is the Sunshine aware of this? :-)

Hello! Who needs perfect weather! We’re all still out running and racing anyway! Captain Sarah says ‘Well done to everyone who has run Melmerby so far, we’ve heard about some great times coming in, special mention to Rebecca Ventress this week with her first sub 50 10k- great running and a well deserved PB. There’s still time […]

This week, bigger groups and THE PLAN!

Evening all! May 17th is upon us tomorrow and we don’t have to limit our running to groups of 6 any more! Yay! That will make things easier! Let’s still be covid aware though and keep a bit of social distancing going on as we gather at the start. I’ve attached a club training plan […]

Melmerby 10k- submitting your time

Hi Team Nidd Well done everyone who has run Melmerby 10k so far. Remember you need to send your results to the organiser to be collated. Please don’t send them to Kevin or I directly. We will get a full list at the end of the month for the champs. Please send results to. john@melmerbyrun.org […]

From The Chair

Good Morning to the Nidd Valley Road Runners Team, Hoping you, your families and friends, are all in good health and spirits. “From The Chair” is a communication sent periodically to keep the membership informed of things that maybe not all are aware of.  In my mind I always try to put myself in other […]

Running this week and another Captains corner

Hi all! This week is the start of a new 6 week block of intervals (hills – yay!) on Tuesday, so check the spreadsheet for changes and to see where and when your group are meeting. As always, please sign yourselves in or remove your name if you can’t attend. Or of course, you can […]