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CC6 Season Finale and Final – Itchen Valley Country Park
6 March 2026Stephen Lowy
The seventh and final CC6 race culminated at Itchen Valley Country Park, again. This time the course excelled itself with drizzle, mud and dazzling performances. It has been a long season as the dry and dusty fixtures of autumn have been succeeded by the increasingly challenging surfaces of the winter. You may have noticed that…
2026/27 Plans and Membership Fees
8 December 2025Tamsin Anderson
Following a full review and given our growing membership and ambitions to better support members your Executive Committee agreed to increase the standard membership fee to £66 from January (a 10% increase). We’ll provide a fuller update at the AGM, but specifically we plan to: We’re also continuing to push the University for access to…
New Forest 10: ponies, wonky mile posts, first female and a team win
27 October 2025Tim Anderson
A crisp autumn day in the New Forest saw 28 Winchester Running Club runners taking part in the sold-out third event in the Hampshire Road Race league. Many of us arrived a tad too early to the New Forest Showground, nursing memories of last year and sitting for hours in a Lyndhurst traffic jam; no…
UTMB JAT Sky Trail – 50km Ultramarathon
16 October 2025Andy Parkinson
For Christmas last year, writes Becky Hutton, I received a book - Run: Races and Trails around the World. I’d picked through the pages, gazing at photographs of stunning locations across the world with running routes that ranged from 5km trails to road marathons to ultra endurance trail runs. I’d struggled with niggles and injuries…
Winchester Running Club Shines Bright at the 2025 Welsh Castles Relay!
13 June 2025Andy Parkinson
The annual Welsh Castles Relay, one of the UK’s most spectacular and iconic running events, once again delivered an unforgettable experience, and Winchester Running Club (WRC) was at the heart of the action! This gruelling 209-mile, 20-stage race, held over two days, traces a breathtaking route from Caernarfon Castle in the north to Cardiff’s Sophia…
South of England Road Relays
26 September 2024Andy Parkinson
Winchester Running Club showed why they have become the City’s dominant force over the last year with an excellent showing at the South of England Road Relays. This annual event, hosted by Aldershot at the Rushmoor Arena, brings together the strongest clubs and their athletes to race over three to six stages and distances of…