Julie Bassett

If you’ve joined us at a Frolic event in the past, you’ll know that we have always used squeaky animals as our relay baton (don’t ask), and also included them as part of your goody bags. We appreciate that you have enjoyed collecting these completely unique extras and that they’ve also raised a laugh. You […]

Ah, Giants Head Marathon. Our first race. And wasn’t it a good one to start with? Andy has been getting a bit nostalgic in his latest blog post, as we’re in the middle of prep for a return to Sydling in 2022. On this, in the year of our Lord 2013, Giants Head marathon was

It’s been too long! We’re so happy to be back in action at White Star Running, and looking forward to a busy race season ahead. Here, RD Andy has put together some thoughts and thank yous following Spring Larmer Tree from a ‘behind the scenes’ perspective. Did everyone enjoy it? We are back! We had

The Spring Larmer Tree races were held over the weekend of 5th and 6th March 2022, signalling a return to business as usual for us here at White Star Running! With a whole host of race distances on offer, including dog-start options, we had hundreds of trail runners take to the hills of the Rushmore

Ahead of our race season starting, we want to give a warm welcome to our new medical services team for our 2022 races. Starting with the Spring Larmer Tree races, you will see Sharp Medical Services on course. Sharp Medical Services is an industry-leading, high-quality event medical provider with lots of experience in managing the

Dorset is a beautiful county. It has many redeeming features: great scenery, amazing food and drink, and a lively music scene! Black Sheep are a traditional English band specialising in Barn Dances and Ceilidhs. So, the idea is that you dance following the instructions of the caller to live (loud) music. If you stayed after

Race photos are important to us at White Star Running. And we know that you love them too! We’ve been looking for a more elegant solution to uploading race photos, so you can find your own pictures a little more easily. Up until now, race photos have been uploaded to Facebook by our wonderful photographers,

Moreton is a pretty unique place to run, and we’re pretty lucky to hold such a great race weekend here, Weekend At The Races. The estate has been owned by the Frampton family for nearly a thousand years. The current Mr Frampton Hobbs invited us to run around his back garden a few years ago.

Before we start our 2022 race season, we just wanted to update you with our plans around the current Covid situation, which is vastly different to what we were having to deal with and put in place last year! Covid is here to stay for the long term, and we’re all learning to adapt to

We recently opened applications for the White Star Running ambassador team (our Cheerleaders) for 2022. You didn’t make it easy on us to choose! We had so many good applications, from both our existing cheerleading team and new applicants. If only we could have everyone. We created the original ambassador scheme in 2020, before we