It's time to get on your bike again!Our Cyclosportive event, the Tour De Northamptonshire, is returning for 2025. This year's race will take place on June 8 and we'd love to see you there.Once again, we will be offering entrants the opportunity to race over...
If, like me, you're always glued to the activities of the intrepid duos who take on the BBC's Race Across the World, then you might have been interested to see that series five of the programme is taking in the sights and sounds of Nepal. For...
Undulating hills and some serious distance to be covered - our Shires & Spires Running Festival doesn't take any prisoners.Add in a day of scorching sun and high temperatures yesterday, and our runners had their work cut out.But while the Naseby-based race is famed for...
priodA long time ago it was one man against 26.2 miles. Things are very different in 2025! Although the distance Greek messenger Pheidippides actually ran is up for debate, one thing isn't. The effort killed him! Despite that inauspicious start, marathon running has become increasingly popular -...
One of the things I am blessed with when it comes to organising The Amazing Northampton Run is the fantastic band of volunteers we have. Our runners need every bit of encouragement, whether they are tackling the full 13.1-mile half-marathon, our relay race or even the three-mile fun...
Think running isn't for you - think again!We believe this sport is for EVERYONE - just take the example of the amazing Simon Richards, a blind runner who completed a marathon untethered at our Shires & Spires event last year...
Earlier this week, my eye was drawn to an article about the world's first robot half-marathon, set to take place in Beijing.There are several places the mind goes when accosted with such news, but as a race director I'm never one to ignore a potential...
It's been three weeks since we held our inaugural Going Round in Circles run in London - and I'm still buzzing from it.So much so that the plan is to extend this 'running sportive concept' into Northamptonshire, as well as other tube lines in the...
A new course record for the Rosebud Marathon was the highlight of a day when summer returned just in time for our Rose of the Shires event.Jose Santos knocked more than ten minutes off the previous best time for the marathon event as he claimed...
Three-hundred-and-fifty years ago fire spread through the centre of Northampton, devastating our town and burning some of our most famous buildings to the ground.The Great Fire of Northampton 1675 destroyed 700 of the 850 buildings in the town, including the original All Saints’ Church.Much of...