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Burnden Race Report - 18th August 2026
Not many races this week, however the races completed have been full of joy and lots of brilliant Burnden effort. On Tuesday 11th August, Burnden Runners took part in Ramsbottom Summer Mile. This was a brilliant, energetic well organised event by Ramsbottom Running Club in which runners and supporters were encouraged. Both nerves and personal bests were in full force. Results for this race are set in alphabetical order. Gary Avison 00:05:38, Suleman Badat, 00:05:24, Ann Butle
Lawrence McDonald
7 hours ago


Burnden Race Report - 10th August 2026
On Saturday 1st August, Kirsty and Lee White took part in the Scouts Honour Backyard Ultra on Saturday. This is a race, where runners complete a 4.167 mile loop on the hour, every hour, until only one person is left standing. Lee completed 7 loops (29.2 miles) and Kirsty managed 9 loops (37.5 miles). Michael Kermode has had a run of fantastic achievements on both July 28th and August 4th. It is noted that these are not official race results, however he managed to run 400m in
Lawrence McDonald
7 hours ago


Burnden Race Report - 4th August 2026
Burnden were busy bees across the borough and beyond this week On July 26th, it was the Northern Masters Track Championship at Longford Park Stretford. In the first event, the 5000 metres, Steve Nolan won silver in a time of 19:44 (the 3rd fastest time in the UK over this distance this year in Steve's MV65 category). In the same race, Francis Mackin won gold being first home in his MV75 category in a time of 25:45. Francis is already the fastest MV75 in the country, due to h
Lawrence McDonald
7 hours ago


Burnden Race Report - 28th July 2026
In place of Preston Docklands 10k, that was cancelled, many Burndeners took themselves over to the West Cheshire 10k to complete their club championship race there. Suleman Badat 00:37:56, Adam Booth 00:41:27, Gareth Doherty 00:41:31, Stephen Horsman 00:44:36, Sadie Thompson 00:44:55, Martin Fielding 00:45:38, Gayle Gerrard 00:45:49, Lyndsay Derbyshire 00:46:20, Martin Cullen 00:47:58, Marie Parkinson 00:48:02, Linda Doherty 00:48:09, Simon Marland 00:48:43, Gregg Beardwell 0
Lawrence McDonald
8 hours ago


Burnden Race Report - 20th July 2026
As the summer break begins for most, so do the races. The first race being Radcliffe 5k, in which several Burnden runners took part. Results shown below - Suleman Badat 00:19:46, Michael Kermode 00:20:17, Tom Stratton 00:21:01, securing 1st in his age range 01/45, Mark Cannon 00:22:17, Phillip Fryer 00:22:30, Paula Pilling 00:22:41, Andrew Norman 00:22:53, Stephen Horsman 00:23:00, Gary Avison 00:23:03, Neil Counsell 00:23:04, Martin Whitehead 00:23:24, Katie Walsh 00:24:12,
Suzi Walmsley
8 hours ago


sMiler Results - Club and Off Road Championships -
Well done everyone! Amazing turnout. Results - https://theentrypoint.co.uk/race-timings/pGLRw4DzrEOjmdA/results Please also add your photos to the sMiler album - https://photos.app.goo.gl/YY3gAZSqhULKRqcq9
Natasha Clarke
Aug 3

TRAIN WITH Burnden
MONDAY
We meet at Smithills Sports Centre every Monday evening (except Bank Holidays) We have a variety of sessions each week from effort sessions, muster runs, trail runs and Beginner groups

TUESDAY
Free Community Track session, with focus on the session being open to anybody in the community. The sessions are for all abilities and everyone is supported.

WEDNESDAY
Our popular 1 foot on the track at Leverhulme Park is a well established and organised track session, perfect if you are focusing on a personal running target.

We use Runtogether to book on our training runs, you can download at the links below
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