Round 5 of the Purbeck Trail Series brought the Purbeck Runners last Sunday to Bere Regis for the Black Hill Run. The picturesque, but tough 10k course winds its way through ancient woodland, over three hills, amounting to some 620 feet of ascent and past the hamlet of Turners Puddle, which time appears to have […]
Guy Hammersley
It was a “typical” busy weekend for the Purbeck Runners with the Purbeck Running Festival, The Littledown 5, a charity race, plenty of Parkruns and the sun shinning on the Isle of Purbeck. The Purbeck Running Festival, spread over the Saturday and Sunday, saw 19 members of the Purbeck Runners competing in the various trail […]
34 members of the Purbeck Runners took on the might of the Beast on Sunday! This classic trail race, starting and finishing in Corfe, takes in Winspit, St Aldhelm’s Head and Kingston, including the monster steps up to Houns Tout and amounts to a punishing 12.46 miles and 1,697 feet of ascent! The Purbeck Runners […]
The Dorset Doddle is an incredibly tough 32 miles along the Dorset Coast Path from Weymouth to Swanage which is anything other than a “doddle!” On Sunday morning Abigail Barker, Dave Lawton, Bev Trenwith and Jenny White from the Purbeck Runners set off from the Jubilee Clock on Weymouth Esplanade with over 250 other runners […]
Save the date! The Purbeck Runners Christmas Dinner and Awards Night will be on Saturday 7th December at The Grand Hotel starting with the awards at 6:15pm (tbc). More details will follow, but please put it in your diaries.