Wymondham AC

01/11/2026

We've had WACers running far and wide over the last couple of weeks, with some fantastic performances.

🏃‍♀️ We've had marathoners in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Venice, Beachy Head, Abingdon, York and Dublin. Congratulations to Lian Penson on a new PB in Dublin, and Tracy Stevens, Gemma Barnes and Richard Greenwood for new age group PBs in Amsterdam, Venice and York
Well done to Mark Banfield and Louise McDonnell on their brilliant runs in Frankfurt and Abingdon and to Rose Waterman and Andy Baxter for taking on the brutal, windy Beachy Head!

🍂 Caroline Pocock and Simone Hornby achieved new PBs in the Blickling autumn half 👏

🇪🇸 Anneke Cook was on her travels again, this time running an age group PB at the Bilbao Night half.

🎖 Keith Blake completed the Super Half series in Valencia, and also ran the Quarteria Half, in Portugal.

⛪️ Dani Gilbert, Mat Gilbert, David Powles and Matt Webster completed rhe 60k Ely Runfest Ultra.

🤠 We had runners shoot, jump, splash and climb their way round the Wild West Acre challenge.

🏃‍♂️ And elsewhere, we had runners at the Fen 10, Sapiston 10k trail, Battersea Park Half, Duxford Dash and Venice 10k.

A busy and brilliant couple of weeks of running!

30/10/2026

We had a brilliant turnout for our event on Monday night.

The campaign, led by This Girl Can Run, aims to encourage women to stay active over the darker months, when some feel less safe.

It was great to see some new faces at club and to have the support of so many of our regular members.

24/10/2026

Just a reminder that we're supporting Let's Lift the Curfew on Monday.

We'll be holding a run and walk specifically for women at our club night. You don't need to be a member to come along, so please come and join us.

We're supporting Let's Lift the Curfew again this year.

The national campaign, led by This Girl Can, aims to support women to stay active in the darker months.

Launched to coincide with the clocks going back, the campaign aims to highlight the challenges some women face when running after dark.

Our club night, on Monday 26 October, will include a women's only 5k group run and a walk. If you're interested in joining us for a supportive and fun run or walk on the night, please see the link in the comments for more details.

19/10/2026

There's been a lot of racing in the last couple of weeks, and our have been all over the world.

🇺🇲🇵🇹🇭🇺 We've had marathon runners in Chicago, Lisbon and Budapest.

🇪🇸🇮🇹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Half marathons in San Sebastian, Pisa and Cardiff. Congratulations to Nicola Greenough and Chris Greenough for their age group PBs in Pisa.

👑 Back in the UK, we've had the Royal Parks Half Marathon, the Victoria Park Half, the Endurance Life Half and the Great Eastern Run. In Peterborough, we had PBs for Ben Beynon, Ben Shearing, Charlie Wallis, Lou Boyce and Lian Penson. Jason Mattless achieved an age group at both Peterborough and Victoria Park 👏.

🎓 Over in Cambridge, Adam Grint ran a new 10k PB at the Town and Gown race.

🌲And we've had a host of trail events, with the Thompson Trail 5k, Cawston 5ish miler and the Felbrigg 10k.

🕺 Finally, Michelle Sadler was our solo dancing queen at the 5k Abbathon.

Well done to all of our runners.

14/10/2026

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05/10/2026

We're supporting Let's Lift the Curfew again this year.

The national campaign, led by This Girl Can, aims to support women to stay active in the darker months.

Launched to coincide with the clocks going back, the campaign aims to highlight the challenges some women face when running after dark.

Our club night, on Monday 26 October, will include a women's only 5k group run and a walk. If you're interested in joining us for a supportive and fun run or walk on the night, please see the link in the comments for more details.

04/10/2026

We're in the thick of the autumn races and we had some strong performances last weekend.

👑 Firstly, congratulations to Eva Osborne on achieving another British record at the Westminster Mile. The event, on the last mile of the London Marathon course, saw four more of our runners race towards Buckingham Palace, with Kate Gooding running a PB.
We also had age group PBs for Todd Lake and Jason Mattless in the 10k event, with Todd achieving club records at both events!

🏰 At our more local royal residence, we had 8 runners take on the Sandringham Half Marathon and 2 in the 5k. Well done!

🇩🇪 Over in Germany, Rose Waterman had a great run at the Berlin Marathon, in spite of a recent injury.

🔔 And back in Norfolk we had PBs for James Preston, Lisa Greengrass and Hannah John at the Bure Valley 10. Great running in slightly windy conditions.

🏃‍♀️ Tracy Stevens also completed her 80th half marathon, in Ipswich Half, whilst Lian Penson ran another half marathon on the Wensum Way.

Great running from all of our WACers!

27/09/2026

This week's race highlights include another strong turnout for the mid week EACCL, half marathons in Copenhagen and London, the Marriott's Way 10k. and the Norfolk Coastal half and full marathons.

🏖 Well done to the 11 WACers that completed the full coastal marathon and the 6 competing in the half, on a tough but beautiful course.

🧜‍♀️ We had 7 club members over in Denmark, for the Copenhagen half, with Ian Moore and Richard Greenwood both achieving PBs and Suzanne Moore running an age group PB. Congratulations to them.

🛤 Back in Norfolk, Charmaine Negm ran a PB in the Marriott's Way 10k, and Sharon Gardner ran an age group PB.

🏃‍♀️ Meanwhile, Kate Gooding achieved an age group PB at the Shoreditch Half Marathon.

🏆 Finally, a huge well done to the 12 WACers who took part in the midweek summer cross country league, at Dereham, and brought home silverware as league winners.

19/09/2026

Looking back to the amazing logistical feat that is the Round Norfolk Relay.

We had teams competing in the mixed and open categories, carrying their batons over 17 stages and nearly 200 miles. All of our runners did us proud and, most importantly, got round safely and with smiles on their faces (at least once they'd recovered). A huge thank you to our brilliant support crews and all those involved in putting on what is a highlight of the running calendar.

Elsewhere we had 8 runners at the Great North Run, with Simone Hornby achieving a PB on her birthday.

We also had WACers at the Backyard Ultra, in Thetford, and the Zig Zag Peacock Plod. Well done to all our runners.

11/09/2026

We're a bit behind with celebrating our runners' achievements, so apologies for the long post.
We've had a hilly, colourful, slightly tipsy couple of weeks of running, with WACers taking part in events from 5ks to ultra marathons.

⭐️ Congratulations first of all to Louise McDonnell, Ian Moore and Lisa Greengrass for achieving new age group PBs at the Dereham 10 miler.
🏃‍♀️ Well done to Kirstina Standley for running a new PB at North Walsham 5k.
🏔 Massive kudos to Alison Armstrong and Matt Webster for completing the UTMB OCC 60k, across the Alps.
👏 Adam Grint ran a PB at the Hainford 5k.
🍷 We had Caroline Pocock, Rachael Lockwood and Wendy Burgess complete the Marathon du Medoc.
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Hannah Grobbelaar ran the Sea2Sky race - 54k up Snowden.
🐼 84 of our WACers took part in Run Norwich, with Zac Sowter and Stephen Houghton achieving PBs, Matt Webster running as a panda and Lian Penson, Nigel Bradley, Sylvia Webster, Dennis Carter and Morna Dason-Barber achieving age group PBs. Congratulations!

Over the last couple of weeks, we've also had runnners pull on the pink vest at the Reykjavik 10k, Bedford 20, Africa Alive 5k, Lowestoft Scores and Zig Zag FEAR races. Well done everyone.

Finally, good luck to everyone taking part in the Round Norfolk Relay this weekend!