On Saturday 26th May Arena’s Michael Barker took on the London to Brighton 100km walk, jog, run challenge. Asked why he did it he replied “I wanted to challenge myself to something special and also not to worry about racing but to do something for me. Initially this was going to be a walk but…
It was a great day for our travelling Arena athletes as they took on the Vitality London 10’000 on Monday 28th May. The heat will have played some sort of role with the times but that didn’t stop some of our guys pulling it out of the bag. It was that lady Tara Shanahan, who…
Plus a cheeky new improvement to the club records that went under the radar. The records and PB’s recorded here are for the Hove Prom course only. What a parkrun that was to watch, as far as the eye could see all the way down the Hove Prom was a sea of blue but not…
The 2018 Super Series Club Challenge It occurred to me that we’ve had two of the twelve races completed but we haven’t touched on them in terms of points and places. I know we are only two races in and it’s too early to call on end positions at this stage but it still worth…
The weekend just gone bought us a race which was, let’s just say, pretty much out of the normal run (‘scuse the pun) of the mill kind of race. Set in Crawley this was an endurance race of pretty epic proportions and went by the name of the Crawley AIM 6/12/24 Hour Track Race. As…
The WSFRL race – Lewes 10k. Anyone could be forgiven for thinking this was an extra fixture in the cross country schedule. ‘Muddy’ is not really adequate to describe the conditions. Yes there was plenty of mud but also enormous puddles, rather boggy marshland and a freshly ploughed field. Oh and it started raining half…
The London Big Half Marathon Four of our Arena ladies went to London to see if the pavements were paved with gold and indeed for one of them it was. HRH wasn’t around for breakfast but really our girls wouldn’t have had time to indulge with her as there was something much more exciting going…
As another year has passed by I thought it would be good to look at the club records for 2017 and see how they have changed since January 1st 2017 to December 31st 2017. Some races will have had slight changes as the races will be all about seconds being taken off and others may…
It’s 17:32. According to my ‘last hour’ timetable I need to change my shoes and do two acceleration runs before reporting to the call room before my race. I get out my race shoes and socks and the nagging doubt I’ve had all day that I’ve missed something finally hits home… I’ve brought two ‘left’…