Nailsea Running Club

Many thanks to all those of you who ran in any of our four races this year, hope to see you all in 2011.

Welcome to the Nailsea Running Club website. We are primarily a road and trail running club catering for all abilities based at Nailsea and Backwell RFC where all Nailsea Running Club members have Social Membership.

Training Runs

Club runs are on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 7pm, from the Nailsea and Backwell Rugby Club. Both nights include steady training runs, either on or off-road depending on the time of year. On Tuesdays there is also a more structured training session generally organized by "club-coach" Jim Stewart. On Sunday mornings there is usually a long run starting at 8.30am, from the Queen’s Road/Trendlewood Way/Station Road junction, Nailsea.

Latest News

Evergreen Mike Wins London Marathon Prize

Nailsea Runner Club member Mike Coupe, who lives in Long Ashton, scooped the prize for first place in the Vet70 category at this year's London Marathon, with an impressive time of 3 hours 43 min 42 sec. Remarkably, this comes just over a year after Mike had an operation to repair worn cartilage in his knee, after which he was told to never run again!

Long Ashton 10k 2010

Cold and blustery conditions greeted almost 130 runners at the start of Nailsea Running Club's annual Long Ashton 10k road race. The field was led home by the youngest competitor, 18 year-old Bart Thomas (Chippenham Harriers) in 36m 49s. Local clubs were then well represented with John Rooney (Nailsea Running Club) second in 37:51 and Pete Clark (Weston AC) third in 38:29. The first lady home was Gwen Kinsey (Severn AC) in 39:40, followed by two Westbury Harriers runners; Robyn Golding second in 40:23 and Sophie Voller third in 43:33. In the veteran men competitions, the over 40 winner was Ken Ham (Thornbury Running Club), 39:41, over 50; David George, 40:45 and over 60; Michael Willcox (Great Western Runners), 43:15. In the ladies veterans, first over 40 was Linda Foley (Portishead Running Club), 50:46 and first over 50 was Faye Lovell, 54:23. There are lots more pics on our photos page.

NRC Members Organise Another Black Horse Run for Holding Out Hope

Members of Nailsea Running Club have organised the Black Horse Run to raise money for "Holding Out Hope" a registered charity (No. 1077667) dedicated to providing help to Romanian and Bulgarian orphanages. Starts at 7pm on Thursday 27th May from the Black Horse in Clapton. Click on the picture above to download an entry form or go to the Race Entry page.

More Info

	News and Views - the latest edition of our monthly newsletter 'The Nailsea Runner' and much more.
	Race Entries - entry forms in PDF format for all races organized by NRC.
	Race Results - check up on how you did in any of the races organized by NRC.
	Links - sport and fitness related web sites as well as some of the locally based charities to which Nailsea Running Club have given their support.
	Membership - our constitution, more info about NRC and an application form to download.
	Photo Gallery - photos of NRC events - Long Ashton 10k 2010!
	You can enter all our races online at Runner's World

Acrobat Reader is required to view the PDF documents. Click the graphic above to download.

Telephone: (+44) 01275 463873

Postal address: NRC, c/o 28 Long-Thorn, Backwell, Bristol, BS48 3GY

Electronic mail: Clifford Wallis - Chairman