On Sunday 6th July 2025 two members of Grantham Running Club joined 190 runners taking on the Rasselbock 6 hour event which is held at the beautiful Sherwood Pines in Nottinghamshire. The idea of the event is to run as many loops of 5.79km in 6 hours, bwteen 9am and 3pm.
The event is held each year during the summer months but the UK weather lived up to its unpredicatble reputation this year. Runners coped with torrential rain, baking hot sun, then back to torrential rain and cold winds for the last hour.
The course runs winds through the beautiful woods, taking in many hills on multi terrain paths and the tree roots became very slippery once wet, providing an additional challenge.
Jo Grace who has been out of action with a foot injury, was taking on the event for the first time as a dry run in preparation for Equinox. She managed to complete 7 laps, covering a total distance of 40.51km in 5:20:21. This gave her 57th place.
Marj Spendlow was taking part for a 3rd year and completed 8 laps covering a total distance of 46.30km in a time of 5:20:15 taking 14 minutes, 36 seconds from last year doing same amount of laps. She cameo home in 38th place.
The winner was Chris Gabbott who completed 12 laps in a time of 5:54:36, covering a distance of 69.44 km
Despite the weather conditions a good time was had by all and you can’t go to Sherwood pines and not have your photo taken with the gruffalo.
