In a month usually focused on longer runs and hard races to finalise those Spring marathon plans and tactics, February can be a tough month on runners. It’s perhaps refreshing that, in light of continuing Covid-19 Pandemic restrictions, the February ‘Virtual’ event was the exact opposite of those long distances; the 3000m. Traditionally, a ‘track’... Continue Reading →

This January saw the return of the clubs “Member of the Month” award. The year started with a new lockdown, and thus no official races, so the club improvised again with a new race series to keep members motivated during the cold, winter month. Throughout the month there was a weekly challenge of 5k for... Continue Reading →

The New Year kicked off in its customary underwhelming manner in terms of racing with just a smattering of events over cross country and on the road to choose from. The Folksworth 15 is a January stalwart on the racing calendar and, in recent years certainly, can be trusted to produce weather conditions that are... Continue Reading →

December is definitely one of the quieter months of the year for racing – it’s not hard to wonder why given the Christmas and New Year celebrations and the temperamental weather that can wreak havoc with the best laid plans to stage a race. There are though still a fair few races to choose from... Continue Reading →

Before we kick off with the run through of nominations for November, a little book keeping is in order to note, for historical reasons, the performances of Sarah Chynoweth and Jonny Palmer, who both comfortably claimed the highest-ever positions in the very competitive North Midlands Cross Country League at Corby (plus great runs at the... Continue Reading →

Despite the start line cancellation of the Great Eastern Half - one of the most popular events amongst GRC runners - October 2019 once again saw a bumper pack of superlative performances that caused headaches for the voting panel to form a definitive, but manageable, list of nominations for Member of the Month. Apologies once... Continue Reading →

Another month, another set of superb results from many members of Grantham Running Club: victories, podium finishes, extreme distances covered and PBs galore! As always apologies if you felt your efforts deserved nomination. They probably did but to try and keep the list relatively manageable tough decisions had to (once again) be made to produce... Continue Reading →

The summer holidays means different strokes for different folks. Some like to enjoy the beach in hot climes, some exhaust themselves entertaining the kids, some like to run big miles up big hills. Some, it seems, like to go out, race hard and hopefully smash PBs at any race they can enter – preferably at... Continue Reading →

The summer holidays has seen the announcement of July’s Grantham Running Club Member of the Month delayed somewhat but the passing of additional time has only served to cement what was another incredibly strong month for the club with many nominees worthy of the MOM crown and many runners not nominated owing to tough decisions... Continue Reading →

It was another strong month for Grantham Running Club and its members, with victories, club records and personal bests aplenty. Once again it proved tough to condense the number of worthy nominees down to a manageable number, so apologies if it appears you may have been overlooked.By neat coincidence every member of the club’s relay... Continue Reading →

Having harped on about how hard it was to produce a concise, definitive list of GRC Member of the Month nominations for April, May turned out to be even harder, with the quality of performances arguably greater and the list of worthy nominees spiralling out of control to the extent that ultimately some fairly brutal... Continue Reading →

As alluded to in the March MotM write up, April 2019 was a pretty spectacular month for Grantham Running Club – arguably the best in terms of superlative performances in its history. To make the ‘shortlist’ of nominations required a performance that would, in many instances, all but assure winning a Member of the Month... Continue Reading →

Writing this with the knowledge of the performances that took place in April 2019, March’s GRC Member of the Month is, in many respects, an hors d'oeuvres to what would be served in a spectacular April for the club. Nevertheless we were treated to some many excellent performances in March, as highlighted by the nominees... Continue Reading →

In some ways February is a bit of a curious month. With many runners targeting a spring Half Marathon or Marathon (or for some much, much further), they tend to treat the races they take part in during February as ‘hard training runs’, or maybe their performances are compromised by being in heavy training. Hence... Continue Reading →

The opening month of the year is traditionally something of a fallow month in this region for racing. The Folksworth 15 mile race tends to dominate the interest of GRC runners and 2019 was no exception. Six runners from that race were nominated for their efforts at the two lap event: Sarah Chynoweth, Joe Clarke,... Continue Reading →

Although one of the quieter months for racing, December still saw many club members taking part in a variety of events up and down the country with some fine achievements worthy of nomination for the twelfth and final Grantham Running Club Member of the Month for 2018. Caroline Davis was nominated for being the first... Continue Reading →

November saw another long list of worthy nominees for Grantham Running Club Member of the Month with some outstanding performances in a year already full of superlative efforts. Beginning with the race that ended the month, the GP Series Derby 10 Mile Race saw Chris Limmer run the second fastest 10 mile time of the... Continue Reading →

October 2018 saw a record number of nominations for GRC member of the month, so many that that there were a good number of runners who were not nominated purely because the shortlist had become too long already! A large swathe of the nominations came from runners who ran excellently at the very wet Perkins... Continue Reading →

With the voting panel (the club’s committee) being disbanded, only to be formed again, in a new, larger form, after the AGM, September’s GRC Member of the Month came perilously close to being a historical look back at events in the distant past. Fortunately a winner was found just before Halloween in addition to the... Continue Reading →

For a month that is traditionally one of the quieter months on the racing scene, there were a surprisingly high number of excellent performances which yielded a bumper crop of nominations for the August 2018 GRC Member of the Month. First off (and in no particular order) Matthew Atter secured an excellent new 10K PB... Continue Reading →

After a succession of months with increasingly large numbers of nominees the July 2018 GRC Member of the Month had a far more concise selection with five nominations. It is worth mentioning that this may have been due to a number of the voting panel being on their summer holidays and unable to actively partake... Continue Reading →

Halfway through 2018 and the sixth GRC Member of the Month was another closely fought affair, with a very good case to be made for many (Including those not nominated) to be worthy of the ‘prestigious’ accolade. The plethora of outstanding performances is all the more praiseworthy given the tough climatic conditions that prevailed for... Continue Reading →

May’s GRC Member of the Month was a fiercely fought battle between the (fairly) young and not so young; the seasoned campaigners and the not so experienced. The nominees ran (or attempted to run) a vast range of distances from the relatively short 5K to the ridiculously long 100 miles. One even broke a World... Continue Reading →

With April being a month dominated by marathons, a distance which conjures countless tales of heroism and inspiration, April’s GRC Member of the Month was always going to be a very hard decision to make. Not only was there a strong case to be made for each of the thirteen who made the shortlist, there... Continue Reading →

For many a British based runner, the Beast from the East I / Beast from the East II made March 2018 a month maybe best forgotten. You may be forgiven for thinking March 2018 MOM had succumbed to the Beast too but, like many a March race, the announcement had merely been postponed and not... Continue Reading →