Sharron Toms and Paul Atherfold were the big winners at this years presentation day, with Sharron taking the Club Runner of the Year and Paul the Club Member of the Year.

After a fantastic year for the club, with records falling and numerous personal bests throughout, the club celebrated some of these achievements at the annual presentation day held at Beaumont Way. What threatened to be a complete wash out at one point with 10 of the club huddled under a gazebo turned into a lovely summers day bathed in sunshine.

Other big winners on the day were Millie Devine (Female) and Joe Wright (Male) Junior Runners of the year with Joe also taking the Frostbite Runner of the Series as well as junior and overall winner of the now annual presenation day Howler throwing competition, beating Mike Morley into 2nd place (I feel a challenge coming on soon)!!!

Also receiving a special award on the day was Claire Piercy for all her amazing efforts over the years from race secretary of the Hampton Fun Run and Folksworth 15 to creating and updating the website on a regular basis. Thanks Claire we really do appreciate all you do…

The rest of the prize winners will be on the website within the week once all prizes have been given out.

To view the results click here

Wednesday 10th June saw Yaxley juniors and Seniors set some cracking times and numerous personal bests at the first of the summer 5k series at Ferry Meadows.

First home in the 3k race was Alex Devine for the boys and Rhiannon Loutit for the girls, and there were plenty of other great runs too with James Evans, Abigail Branston, Oli Smith and the 2 Maddies (Smith and Glasgow) among others having good runs with some of them taking part in their first ever race.

Meanwhile, in the 5k race 3 more juniors took the step up to compete in their first 5k race, with Josh Yeeles and Joe Wright both going sub 20 at the first attempt and Callum Atherfold setting a personal best over the distance.

First home on the night for Yaxley were James Mogridge equalling his personal best of 16.14 and Roslyn Loutit dipping under 21 minutes in a time of 20.44.

Other notable performances on the night were from Kev Peel (just missing sub 20) Paul Atherfold and Rob Smith who both smashed their bests as well as Tim Loutit, Barbara Johnson and Raj Mondair who all either just beat or were very close to best times.

All in all a great night for the club and with only 12 days to go until the next race at Eye which is the first of the club champs, some more great times are expected!!

A big well done to James Mogridge and Anna Totterdell who were the Male and Female winners of the April / May runners of the bi-monthly.

James successfully smashed at least 2 club records in April as well as setting lots of personal bests whilst Anna set personal bests at the Marathon and 10k distances.

Well done guys, some great running

No not a bbc sitcom, but 3 of the clubs intrepid athletes that braved north of the wall to face all that Scotland can throw at them.

Ross Cameron and Bob Smith headed up north for a nice romantic weekend for 2 away from the wives and whilst they were up there decided to take on the Edinburgh Half Marathon. After a couple of “slices” of pizza the night before and a nice double bed to share they were ready for the race.

Bob Smith came home in 2.08.05 with Ross just a couple of minutes back in 2.11.11 and a new personal best.

Also up in the Scottish Capital after her fun last weekend in the English Capital was Sharron Toms who was taking part in the full marathon, and after a tough marathon in Dover just 2 months prior Sharron ran an incredible 3.37.22 in Edinburgh to smash her personal best.

James Mogridge and Sharron Toms came home first for the club in the final club championship race of the season at the Deeping 10k on Sunday.

Sharron Toms set a new personal best of 46.06 whilst there were also PB’s for Kevin Peel (43.47) and Anna Devine (54.22)

In the 3k Fun Run 6 juniors took part with Alex Devine coming home in 3rd place followed by Samuel Mackenzie in 6th with both achieving PB’s.

Amelia Devine (13th), James Evans (15th), Callum Atherfold (21st) and Thomas Evans (44th) also ran with Amelia, James and Thomas also achieving PB’s

Yaxley Runners rounded off an amazing Frostbite Series with a plucky sixth place at Hinchingbrook School. A tremendous team performance with 35 Yaxley Runners turning out for the Frostbite finale. Yet more records and personal bests were set in a season where Yaxley runners set records for fun. Caroline Woods was first lady runner home for the second time, improving her own record for the highest placed Yaxley lady from 51st to 46th place. There were best Frostbite finishes for Roz Loutit 104th and Steve Joy-Good 82nd to name a couple. The final league table shows Yaxley finished in 4th place, a feat only achieved previously in 1992 when there were six less teams in the league.

Dependent on the weather over the next few weeks, there is a very strong possibility that a scheme to build a new sports facility within the grounds of Hinchingbrooke School will commence. As a result, a large section of the Car Park will be fenced off and allocated to the Building Contractor’s and so the availability of free car parking at Hinchingbrooke Park School will be very limited. BRJ Car Park Marshals will be on duty to direct you to the alternative local “Pay & Display” parking facilities.

You should car share where possible, and plan your journey times to accommodate the need to park at local Car Parks instead of the School. From the Race HQ, these alternative Car Parking sites are located:-

100 metres from Race HQ – Hinchingbrooke Hospital (Satnav – PE26 6NT) – Cost £4 for up to 4 hours.

400 metres from Race HQ – Hinchingbrooke Country Park (Satnav – PE29 6DB) – Cost £2 for up to 6 hours.

400 Metres from Race HQ – Elevations car park opposite the entrance to Huntingdon Railway Station (Satnav – PE29 3BP) – Cost £3 all day (but payment by Credit Card only possible).

A great team performance by Yaxley Runners at the Bourne Woods Frostbite finishing 5th and moving back up to 4th in the league table. Conditions were difficult with plenty of mud and strong headwinds but when the going gets tough the tough get going! A number of the team had their highest ever finish at a Frostbite. James Mogridge equalled his own club record by finishing second and became the highest ever Yaxley Finisher in Bourne Woods. Mike Morley 22nd, Hugh Burton 49th, Mark Evans 55th and Claire Piercy 145th all recorded their best places for Yaxley in the Frostbite league. Oliver Carpenter finished in 87th on his senior debut, finishing 7th Yaxley man. With just one race remaining Yaxley need one more good performance to finish 4th in the league table which would equal the club record best finish of 1992/92 season. Final stop 1st March at Hinchingbrook School…….. not to be missed!

The incredible Frostbite season for Yaxley continued at March on Sunday. This time it was the turn of Caroline Woods to stamp her name on the Yaxley record books. Woods finishing in 51st place was the first lady in the race and the highest ever placed Yaxley lady in a Frostbite race beating Pat Jackson’s 55th set in December 1994!

The team finished eighth on the day and currently stand fifth in the league table with two races remaining. Other notable performances were James Mogridge 5th, Mike Morley 27th, Simon Perkins 71st, Hugh Burton 75th, Steve Joy-Good 130th, Roz Loutit 159th, Rob Smith 177th, Don Brazier 181st and Claire Piercy 204th.

Caroline Woods’ record follows James Mogridge finishing second at St Neots along with the team finishing second both of which were also club records.