Welcome to the Lincoln and District Runners Website.

Lincoln and District Runners were formed in 1991 and we are a friendly and enthusiastic running club, which welcomes runners of all abilities. We meet twice a week - on Tuesday evenings usually at North Kesteven Leisure Centre, North Hykeham and on Thursday nights at a range of locations in and around the city of Lincoln.

We generally run in two or three groups during the training sessions with runners of all abilities, but keeping the ethos 'no one is left behind'.

We organise a number of races locally, as well as attending and supporting other local events including the Lincolnshire Cross Country League on an annual basis. In addition we have a number of keen fell runners who regularly participate in events in the Lake District as well as closer to home in Yorkshire/Derbyshire.

Alongside the runners, we operate a walking section which has grown in size over the last couple of years. We have a thriving social calendar - the past year has seen numerous nights out as well as a trip to a brewery, club BBQ, ghost walk and bowling.

For more details on joining us, see the New Members page.

6 LDR members headed over to the Peak District this year for the Cressbrook Crawl 6.5 mile fell race, first runner in was Robert Windard in 50.42, 9th/101.

Chris Sutton was our top club runner at the Belchford 3 churches 10k finishing in 42.11. We had 7 runners competing in the hilly Wolds race.

Several club members competed at the weekend (29th-30th April): 3 Peaks Fell Race (23.2 miles, 5276 ft) : Neil Chapman 4.01.57, Chris Deadman 4.41.30 and Marcus Saunders 5.04.24.  North Lincolnshire Half Marathon: Rob Windard 1.20.32 (20th /863), Simon Bilton 1.34.31, Lewis Bilton 1.37.27. Also a marathon debut for Steve Marshall in 4.37.35 at the Manchester Marathon.

We had 6 club runners at the London Marathon this year. Top club runner was Jon Hobbs finishing in 2hrs 49m 13s
and congratulations to Sally Cox on coming in 6th in category with a time of 3hrs 20m 19s.

A new Parkrun has been confirmed in Newark at Sconce and Devon Park. The first event for this free weekly 5k run will be 1st June (to be confirmed), 9am, and then every Saturday morning at 9am. This will be the nearest Parkrun to Lincoln, and hopefully will increase the pressure on local authorities to allow a Parkrun in Lincoln. You can support the Facebook campaign to get a Parkrun in Lincoln here.

Another good turnout for the Lincoln 10k this year, we had 26 club runners finishing in great PB conditions. Our fastest runner this year was Mark Anderson, finishing with a chip time of 37.40 in 96th. Congratulations to Hannah Neilson on coming in second for the club in 38.16 / 117th (10th female overall on chip time).

Well done to Neil Chapman who was victorious in the Caythorpe Canter off road Marathon on the 6th April, and also to Ian Coney, Marcus Lancastle and Nick Lyons who finished 2nd, 4th and 9th in the Half Marathon event.  

5 club members entered the Gainsborough 10k this year, with Simon Bilton our leading runner finishing with a chip time of 43.29.

We had 10 runners from the club participating in 2 events over the weekend (9/10th March), 6 at the Grindleford Gallop (our leading runner was Jon Hobbs in 21st place) and 4 at the Newton's Fraction Half with Robert Windard close to the front coming in at 5th place overall out of a field of 400, chip time 1.21.39.

Club Member's Race Results are posted here, send me an email if you want any results putting on.  Please also feel free to email any race reports you want posting on this page or any other running achievements, PB's etc.

The latest Training Schedule for Winter/Spring 2013 is now online.