News in Sidmouth

Saturday saw Mighty Green Jo Earlam complete her 80th marathon at the Plym Valley Trail event organised by First and Last Running. Jo ran with fellow MG Jane Hemsworth, who has completed 29 marathons, and completed the course in 5:36:00. The ladies were pleased with their time as they had walked the last couple of miles to accompany a runner who had fallen; their club spirit shining through.

Julia Haddrell was all smiles as she crossed the finish line at Seaton Park Run for the 100th time on Saturday despite the rain. Julia said she appreciated all the shouts of encouragement from the other SRC members taking part on Saturday. We will have to wait and see if she buys the landmark t-shirt!

Sidmouth Town Junior Vikings 21/22 season induction/taster session will take place on Saturday 21st August at 10am at St John's School SIdmouth.

The idea of this free session is for any child who will be starting back to school in September in year 2 to come along and see how much fun they can having whilst learning the game of football and also by becoming part of a team, so please feel free to come along and enjoy.

Jamie Locke headed down to Totnes with his brother to take part in the Totnes 10k recently. Wearing the Mighty Green t-shirt for the first time, Jamie took the muddy off-road route including a seemingly never-ending hill in his stride and finished in 55:28 minutes, 161st out of a field of 548 runners, with his brother not far behind.

At Wednesday evening's club run Emma Grainger was proudly wearing her latest headband which she received along with a medal for completing the Virtual Grand Western Canal 10k. The club is hoping to retain the trophy it won last year and it is not too late to sign up for this fundraising run.

The green shirts of Sidmouth Running Club were spotted among the hundreds of runners who lined up at 9am on Saturday, July 24 throughout England, to mark the return of Park Runs since March last year. Everyone was mindful of the Covid guidelines and very appreciative of the volunteers who made the return possible.

Adrian 'Gripper' Horne was close to his PB on the Exmouth course and was pleased to be back running along the seafront. It was the reverse route at Killerton which meant more incline but this did not affect Clive Gilbert and David Skinner's enjoyment.

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The SRC Juniors have been running since 2018 and is going from strength to strength. They have a strong group of run leaders, led by England Athletics qualified juniors coach Kerry Boyle.

Sidmouth Running Club members were out in force on Saturday, July 10, competing in the Otter Rail and River 10k event.

The multi-terrain race is organised by Tipton St John Playing Field Association and is gently undulating, following the valley of the River Otter and along the disused railway line in Harpford Woods using short road links, un-surfaced tracks/paths, fields with stiles, kissing gates and this year lots of MUD!

On Saturday two SRC members headed up to Petworth in Hampshire to compete in The Salomon Serpent Trail organised by Freedom Racing.

Sidmouth Running Club are delighted that Kirsteen Welsh is back flying the Mighty Green flag - and what a return!

Last weekend Kirsteen raced in the Run Exe 5k, her first 5k race since running an Exmouth parkrun back in October 2018 and achieved a big PB of 16.59 minutes!

Sidmouth Running Club Juniors proudly received their certificates from group leader Charlotte Forrer, having completed their 8 week Funetics course on Wednesday.

Designed by England Athletics, Funetics is a fun kids programme for 4 to11 year olds to reflect the requirements of the National Curriculum key stage 1 and 2. The aim is to help children to learn, develop and practise running, jumping and throwing skills all year round for a healthy confident future.

Sidmouth Running Club run leader, Adrian 'Gripper' Horne ventured off to Dorset on Sunday to take part in the Weymouth Half Marathon organised by Just Racing.

It was third time lucky for the race, having been previously postponed twice from September 2020, but with a staggered start and guidelines in place Gripper was able to enjoy the run.