Hinckley Running Club is a friendly running and athletics club for children and adults, based in Hinckley, Leicestershire, UK. Learn more about our club.

It’s XC season again

Hinckley runners back in cross country action last weekend in the first XC league race of the season, at Holly Hayes Wood in Whitwick. Thanks to Hermitage Harriers for organising the race. Plus HRC members turn out at the Derby 10 road race.

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Enjoying the Hinckley Christmas lights during our hill speed session this evening

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Standard Times Awards 2022

Applications are now open for this year’s awards.

Application Form — Microsoft Excel version (.xlsx)

Application Form — Apple Numbers version (.numbers)

To apply, download and fill in the application form spreadsheet, and email it to standardtimes@hinckleyrunningclub.com

Please include in the form a few words about your running year — highlights, lowlights or stories — and also attach to the email your favourite running-related photo of yourself from this year. This is for the yearbook and presentation night (see the past yearbooks on the Award Winners page).

The deadline for applications is Midnight on Monday, 2nd January 2023. Early entries are encouraged!

For full information, times, and rules see the Standard Times Awards page.

Looking forward to receiving your applications. If you don’t get a reply to your email within 7 days, please contact Nick Moore in case it was not received.

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The month that was October…It started off with the London Marathon and ended with the Leicester Half and 10k – with lots of other races, PBs, parkrun milestones and training in between It also gave us plenty of opportunities to show off our fabulous new kit October – done Well done everyone!!

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HRC Juniors receive funding award

Hinckley Running Club is delighted with their new hoodies and coaching sessions thanks to funding from children’s charity Oakland Foundation.

Shawn Wilebore who has been active in running Hinckley Running Club based at Hastings High School in Burbage since it began some ten-years ago said:

“Without this funding from the Oakland Foundation it would have been much harder to run as a club. We deal with many children who are on the Autistic/ADHD spectrum and with the amount of coaches we now have we can provide these children with a space that is theirs where they are not judged on ability or social standing.

Oakland Foundation

Find out more about HRC Juniors here.

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Fab to see our Parkrun takeover on the back page of this week’s Hinckley Times 🗞

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Hinckley Running Club celebrated its new home at Hastings High School yesterday – with a Parkrun takeover 😎The club and school have recently joined together with the school providing a place for club members to meet and train during the week as well as an area for a large container to store club kit and equipment.The container has been decorated in the club’s colours.A Parkrun – a weekly 5k community event – has been held at the school since March this year and Saturday saw the club take over the event for the day. This included organising the event as well as members volunteering in roles on the day of the event such as marshals, timekeepers and run director.A total of 138 people took part in the Parkrun with around 30 people volunteering.Club chairwoman Charlotte Sinclair said: “It has been very exciting for the club to have a new home at Hastings High School. A Parkrun takeover was the perfect way to celebrate this by doing something we all love and giving something back to our community.“As well as a new home, we have also recently launched a new club kit so the event was the perfect excuse to also put this to the test!“It was great to see so many people take part in the event and volunteer. Thank you to everyone who made this happen.“Thank you also to Hastings High School. We look forward, as a club, to continuing working together with the school in our local community.”

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⭐️It was hot, it was sweaty but WOW! Juniors you made us all so proud of you last night! Every single one of you reinforced why it is an absolute pleasure for us coaches – new, old and those of us who are just beginning – to spend time with you guys. YOU WERE AMAZING!!!!!⭐️

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Swithland 6 Race

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A Monday evening shout out to our runners who raced at yesterday’s Swithland 6 race More than 30 of our members took part in the six-mile Leicestershire Road Running League event which was organised by Birstall Running Club.A big congratulations to our two members who took second-place titles at the race🥈Simon Birch took the title of second male in a time of 30 minutes and 54 seconds while Chloe Sparrow claimed the second female place with a time of 37 minutes and 5 seconds.Chloe’s second place followed her taking the women’s winning position in last Sunday’s LRRL West End 8 race. Congratulations also to our members who spent the weekend racing at other events including the Lake District Ultra 100km challenge as well as the Two Castles Run – a 10k race from Warwick Castle to Kenilworth Castle! And, as always, a big thank you from us to everyone involved in organising and supporting these events for us all to enjoy! Team HRC

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Update June 2022

The Seniors are are pretty much “back to normal” now with Tuesday and Thursday evening sessions happening every week.

And the Juniors are now settling into their new home of Hastings High School on Wednesdays evenings.

From this week, the start point for Seniors social runs on Thursday night will be alternating between Argents Mead or Hastings.

We are continuing to accept new members and non-members can join for a free trial for 3 free weeks, to try us out. Join (Seniors)Join (Juniors)

A Tuesday training session for the Seniors in June

Our new kit

The first batch of the new kit has arrived — next batch currently available to order for both Seniors and Juniors by contacting Sanjay (not in our online store yet)

Recent website updates

  • Juniors page: refreshed information, added new photos and a “meet the team” section
  • Membership: new online membership forms for Juniors
  • Routes pages: new map style, and new routes starting from Hastings
  • Home page: our instagram posts are now automatically posted to the website too
  • LRRL 2022: Race results and entry links added

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A huge shout out to our members who took part in yesterday’s West End 8 – including our very own Chloe Sparrow who took the title of first female. 🥇Chloe was among 26 of the club members to take on the race and a speedy chip time of 49 mins and 40 seconds, saw her take the title of first female at the race and 50th place overall out of more than 450 runners!And there was success for other members of the club too with PBs while for some members of the club, the event saw them complete their first league race.A huge well done to everyone!!

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