The National Running Club

Last update - 5th June 2010

  • Computer problems have mean that the site has not been accessible for a few weeks, but they are sorted out now and new contant will begin to appear.

  • What do we offer to new members?

    There is a range of benefits for both novice and experienced runners and membership can add a lot to your enjoyment of your running.

  • Roadrunner - the journal of the RRC

    Roadrunner is the journal of the RRC and is published 3 times a year with a good range of interesting articles on various aspects of running. Some recent articles from our journal can be read at this page.

  • The John Jewell Film Archive - some clips now available

    The late John Lewell, an ex-President of the RRC, has given a very generous bequest to the RRC, and one of the major things it is being used for is the digitisation of his large collection of films, which is currently kept at the athletics archive in Birmingham University. There are 53 8mm reels, with a wealth of records of road and track running, from the 1950 Commonwealth Games right into the 1990s. The digitising process has now been completed, and a selection of the films are being made viewable on this website.

    • We are now working our way through posting clips of London to Brighton Races, and have posted 1952 (the very first race) through 1955. The rest will be posted in batches, and we hope to be able to add commentaries at a later date.

    Click here to see these films.

  • The RRC Championships

    All the 2009 Championships were completed and results are on the Championships page.

  • The first of the 2010 Championships was the Halstead Marathon, and this has now been completed. There were problems over registrations of RRC members for the race, and we have quite completed sorting them out, but they will soon be on the Championships page, together the venues and dates of our other Championships for 2010.

    Annual General Meeting

    The 2009 Annual General Meeting was held as usual in London on September 15th, and considerably more than the minimum quorum attended, for a friendly and interesting meeting. There were no controversial items on the Agenda, and those folk proposed to fill the various positions in the club's organisational structure were all elected unopposed. Details will be printed in Roadrunner, as usual. The affairs of the Club are controlled by its constitution, which can be downloaded in PDF format by clicking here.

    • Members' pages

    A new section, intended for existing RRC members. We will introduce a password-protected system soon so that only our members can access this area. A bit thin on content but keep coming back, as it will develop over the next few months.