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Round the Walls & Ladies Cross-country Archive

Round the Walls

In 1972, Chester & District AC was involved in the organisation of the first Round the Walls race. The club merged with Ellesmere Port AC in 1975 to form CEPAC, and merged again in 1998 with Whitby Heath AC to form West Cheshire AC. John Driscoll celebrated the 25th running of this popular race in 1996 by producing ‘A Brief History’, and in 2012 Mike Lamb produced statistics listing those runners who have taken part the most times (see "Stats" below; if you have any information to add or amend, please contact ‘Cross Country Secretary’ via the 'Contact Us' link at the bottom of the page).

Although inclement weather forced a shift of the race from the city walls to variants of a four-lap course around the Roodee in 1981, 1995, 2001, 2004, 2009 and 2010, it has still been run every year on Boxing Day since 1972, except 1976 and 1977, when it moved to December 27th.

History	First>	1972	1973	|'74|	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980
Stats	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990
	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
	2011	2012	2013	2014

Ladies Cross Country

As mentioned in the aforementioned Round the Walls ‘History’, the women's race was withdrawn in 1975 and replaced with cross-country races at Whitby Park, Ellesmere Port, first run on Easter Saturday 17th April 1976. This annual event covered a full programme of age-group races upwards from under-11s. Participants included several future international runners, including a certain Paula Radcliffe in 1985.

					First >	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980
1981		1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990
1991	M/F>	1992	1993	1994	< Last

The event was moved to October in 1992, with the addition of races for all male age groups, but was discontinued after the 1994 event.