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In my experience the Crocodile 8 is normally held in sunny or at least reasonably dry conditions and has become quite a popular multi terrain race being organised by Hereford Couriers and Burghill CP School. Although still popular this year with 217 finishers the weather certainly wasn’t sunny or dry, in fact it was quite […]

The course begins at Hereford Leisure Centre, Homer Road, and quickly slows the over-enthusiastic starters with the deceptive rise to The Starting Gate pub.  Turning left at the roundabout along Roman Road it eventually turns left into the housing estate, winding through to Grandstand Road.  After a long straight stretch to the roundabout at the […]

Tom and Gary ran the Caradoc Classic (May 9th), the second of the summer series, in wet conditions (so I read in the Shrops Star), with Gary 1st MV65, 55th overall in 34.26, Tom 2nd MV60, 67th overall in 35.15. The Batch Bash (May 29th) will have been warmer, and dry (though probably wet underfoot): […]

A rare occurrence happened on Sunday… more Croft women at an event than Croft men! Ditching husbands and children (well most of them) for a couple of hours – Sam, Liza, Caz (almost a Croft member) and I decided to have a go at a 10k road run. Having missed the last two Leinthall Starkes […]

The third round of the South Wales Series saw Gary and Tom travelling  south for this 10 miler, with the race being more trail than fell few of the regular fell racers turned up and the 110 starters consisted mainly of fast road runners! Gary put the Mynydd Toed experience behind him to have another good […]