Category: General

Tour of MK 2014 – Day 1

By Adam Haylock

As the summer fades and the nights draw in today saw the start of The Brian Graves 32nd Tour of Milton Keynes.  A six stage run event hosted by Marshall Milton Keynes Athletic Club, I first found out about this last year while talking to Andy who was midway through the 2013 tour and would have entered if he had bothered to tell me so I was up for running this year. The tour consists of 6 consecutive races starting on Sunday and culminating on the Friday with events ranging from a road 10k, cross county and a mile on the track. read more

Kimbolton Half Marathon

Just over the North-East border of Bedfordshire, where it starts heading towards the Cambridgeshire fens is a quaint village called Kimbolton. The village is well known for it's fairly exclusive public school that was once Kimbolton Castle where Katherine of Aragon spent her final years after her divorce from Henry, but yesterday the school played host to the second running of the Kimbolton Half.

With a couple of chaps from the MK training group and Pete Mackrell recommending the event from last year, Andy entered Amy into the race to join Pete as part of their marathon preparations for September & October with the intention that Andy would take Erin to watch. However, a late withdrawal from "Auntie Wendy" Webber and the offer of a replacement babysitter Andy decided to join in too. read more

We’re bigger than Bertha

By Andrew Hallworth 

“Are you running the Bearbrook 10k?” This was the cry I heard when dropping off Glen Turner from the Doug Anderson 5k.  “It’s my Birthday and there will most likely be a BBQ afterwards in the afternoon” was the bait to which a well renowned carnivore like myself could not easily refuse!  With this to look forward to I was signed up straight away by my ever willing race entry co-ordinator Kate Johnson.

Fast forward 11 days through a period of pretty much sunny and warm weather, the forecast was for the tail end of Hurricane Bertha to have an effect on race day.  Imagine my relief when waking up to a dry morning and thinking we might have got away with this and get a dry race, think again Hallworth was the response I got from Kate and Glen when the torrential rain and wind started on the journey to the race. read more

Doug Anderson 5K

By Chris Williams

 

For a small club of around 50 senior members, there was no better display of the quality of runners than at the Doug Anderson 5k on Wednesday night. Up against mammoth clubs such as Bedford Harriers and Marshall Milton Keynes, who can quite easily field a group of runners for a race larger than our total membership, we managed to win the race, place 3 men in the top 10, win the men’s team prize, field a further 9 runners including our president on her continued return to running, achieve 4 all time PBs and at least two other season PBs. We even managed to field a small contingent of well placed supporters and cheerers on this pretty flat course around Bedford Park. read more

Waddesdon Manor Crazy Hill 5K

By Lynn Boddy 

Six of us Buzzard runners turned up to the Waddesdon Manor 5k on Wednesday.Driving up the hill to the car park and the start I began to suspect that this course wasn’t going to be strictly ’undulating’ as described on the website.As it turned out it was a 2.5k dash down the hill then a 2.5k crawl back up it.After a very quick start from the front of the house to the fountain, the downhill was a welcome relief.It was difficult to know how quickly to do the dash down the hill as I was aware that a few minutes later I would be running back up it.After a bit of holding back I decided to up the pace a bit and make the most of the downhill.Seeing the quicker runners passing in the opposite direction to start their way back up the hill was a bit of a relief as I knew I was almost halfway through and it gave us chance to slur a few ‘well dones’ to our team mates. read more

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