Two separate cross-country events were high on the agenda for some running clubs.
North Herts Road Runners took part in the first race of the Three Counties League and there was a new venue at Wellingborough.
A field of 491 runners include 43 Squirrels as they looked to defend their title.
And they got off to a great start by winning the women’s competition and finishing runners-up in the men's.
Those results combined led NHRR to first in the combined team competition while individual honours went to Katie Harbon, the first female, and Tom Webb, who was third overall for the men.
Fairlands Valley Spartans meanwhile had 24 at round two of the Sunday Cross-Country League in Watford where they too had a winner.
Andrew Patterson was first overall while Gabrielle O'Brien was the fastest FVS female.
Jonathan Parr was seventh and Adrian Busolini 13th behind Patterson.
The Marathon Eyri in Snowdonia was another popular event.
North Herts Road Runners had Jennie Fraser and Alice Noakes in the field which tackled 838 metres of climbing as they looped round Yr Wyddfa from Llanberis.
Fraser finished in four hours 40 minutes 20 seconds, 16 minutes quicker than last year, while Noakes came home in 5:06:01.
Spartans' Sharon Crowley completed her 30th successive participation in 6:18:29 while another regular, Paul Holgate, finished his 33rd time in 8:20:55.
There were joined by a third Spartan, Thomas Sauka, who crossed the line in 5:07:50.
Lewis Green of Stevenage Phoenix was also there and finished in 4:18:45 before now switching his attention to the Athens Marathon.
Ian Sutcliffe, Sheila Leavy, Brian Judkins, Miranda Morgan, Linda Aird and Lucy O'Connor were the six Squirrels who took part in the Arlesey Relief Road Fun Run to celebrate the completion of the Arlesey Relief Road before it opens to traffic.
Completing the week's activities for NHRR was Grace Cleary, who finished the Dublin Marathon in a PB of 3:50:26.
Fairlands Valley had a quartet at the 10-mile Great South Run in Portsmouth, all part of the club's introduction to running group.
Sally Pickles went round in 1:56:23 with Judy King (2:02:17), Rachael Miller (2:04:25) and Nicola Hatherly (2:04:27) not too far behind.
Stevenage Phoenix were enjoying more of a spooky weekend.
Chris Leigh ran the Cattle Creepy 10k in Milton Keynes, a race ran in the dark with runners wearing head torches and body lights.
The race culminates with a crawl through the narrow cattle creep tunnel.
He finished 56th out of 238 runners in 54:08.
The Exeter Halloween 5 mile event saw Louise Chancellor and Garry Wallace involved, beating club age records with 50:30 and 46:16 respectively.
Jodie Kantas travelled to Eastbourne to take on the Beachy Head marathon, finishing in 5:15:41 for another age group record despite the 3,800 feet in elevation.
The Duxford Dash had five Phoenicians at the former Battle of Britain airbase.
Ian Harvey finished the 10k race in 42:33 for another group record while there were PBs for Gavin Cooper (47:30) and Colette Cooper (48:51).
Mason Simmons finished in 44:55 while Wendy Summerbee clocked a PB of 34:33 in 5k race.
Stevenage Striders were busy too, including having a cheeky dozen at the Sunday Cross-country League.
They too had representation at the Cattle Creepy, Adam Hough finishing in 40:24 for third overall, while Linda Howell ran the Exeter Community Trust 5 mile in 57:45.
There were more Halloween themed events as a gaggle of Striders travelled to Peterborough for the ZigZag Running Pumpkin Plod.
Jennifer Graham and Lucy Martin took on 10k, finishing in 1:18:54 and 1:09:34, while there were six in the half marathon.
Remy Knowles led them home in 2:10:35 followed by Angie Hayes (2:22:36), Ian McClements (2:28:59), Marc Hagland (2:37:47), Peter Monk (2:38:24) and Chrissie Thomas (2:38:30).
Elsewhere, there were milestones for Laila Manning, and Julia and Nick Middleton who all completed their 50th parkruns.
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