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After midweek rain (and wind), 95% of the course (all 7.2 miles of it!) was surprisingly good: the remaining 5% was gooey, slippery mud, making the climb up through the woods particularly tough, leaving legs heavy and shoes weighed down with mud. Nevertheless the women’s team battled through heroically, leaving them in 3rd place overall, […]

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that: To scramble up a near vertical slope is crazy but possible, to fling oneself at a run deliberately down the precipice the other side seems more like suicide. Injured runners, when faced with a race situation, suddenly start to believe that maybe they are infallible after all… The […]

Walkers outnumbered runners as we set off up the main street of Church Stretton, but fortunately the field soon spread out as the climbing began. Having forgotten my studs, I was glad the course largely kept to firm(ish) paths and offered the occasional alternative route through bracken and long grass. The disadvantage of this course […]

What a difference a year makes! Last year the race had to be postponed due to heavy snow making the course inaccessible. This year Spring like conditions prevailed. Stung by last year’s defeat by the School, Croft turned up in force and dominated the race filling the first eleven positions. Your President, wearing his Lucton […]

With fond memories of a recce of the course 2 weeks earlier (when there was lots of green grass, and scarcely any mud) we set off into the forest; after slithering across a stream twice, we began the long slow haul up the valley side in single file. Once onto the pipe track, there was […]