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Update: The next Mental Health parkrun is at Braunstone on 25th May.

Update: Thanks to Sarah Anderson and everyone involved in the organisation of the event and thank you for all the prize donations. Also thank you to all everyone who came to the quiz and/or bought raffle tickets. Finally thank you to Rebecca Austin for the quiches & sausage rolls to add to the buffet. Over £400 was raised for the...

Those who have been lucky enough to travel with Squirrel's to Benidorm the past few years, will know what an absolutely fantastic time we have. We are now pleased to confirm that this year's trip away will be to Glasgow!

This year we had a scurry of squirrels take on Manchester marathon & London marathon raising over £16,000 for various charities.

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

Thank you to everyone who baked and to everyone who came and ate cake (and took cake home) at the Easter Bake off tonight!

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.

Thank you to everyone who took the time vote. I really enjoyed reading through all the reasons for the nominations and seeing what an aspiring bunch of people you all are. It is amazing to see how far some of you have come this past year and everyone who won thoroughly deserved it! You are an inspiration to the rest...

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...

Squirrels Running Group has been holding a Couch to 5K programme annually since 2019. This pre-dates the creation of this website, but we still wanted to find a place to remember these past achievements.