Don't forget to use the Facebook group over Christmas if you are organising social runs or fancy a running buddy, especially with the Christmas challenge.

Traditionally the Squirrels membership year runs from Jan to December, however as we are now an affiliated club, this is at odds with the England Athletics (EA) membership year. As a committee we have decided that it would be beneficial to align with the EA period. This will give a 15th month membership period starting in Jan 2025, and then...

This week marks the start of a national campaign launched by Thisgirlcan showcasing women's stories and concerns around getting active outdoors in the darker months.

Every Monday morning a new edition of Nutty News keeps you up to date with goings-on at Squirrel's Running Group.

Come along to party and celebrate your achievements or, if you aren't submitting standards this year, the achievements of your fellow Squirrels.

Charlie Nurse has offered to run a session for us at Pingles on 29th April at 6pm - suitable for all abilities, as usual.

We are now offering a monthly track session which will fall on the same night as intervals. We will still offer intervals in Broughton for anyone that can't attend, although we encourage people to come to the track sessions though as they are a lot of fun.

A number of people have asked me for help with coming up for a plan for marathon training. There are lots of different plans online, and different ways you can get to the same end result. But there's also some terrible plans online I've seen which would probably just result in injury If you're doing your own thing, that's absolutely...

It's time to renew membership. Every member needs to be registered with England Athletics (EA) which costs £17. This is paid by the club, to England Athletics from the £50 membership fee.

Something I'm really excited to launch is a 10k improvers program, starting in early January. This will be in the format of 8 interval sessions once a week as coinciding with Squirrels intervals nights. Running a Spring marathon? Intervals should definitely be part of your training plan. This is specifically for runners who want to run a faster...