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The ‘Red Kite Challenge’ is the first race of a weekend ‘Festival of Running and Walking’ in the Nant yr Arian / Devils Bridge area. Now, in its sixth year. The Saturday race was 11 plus miles of trail and took us deep into and up through the southern foothills of the Plynlimon mountain range. […]

Race day had finally arrived; the hardest part was over, my body had endured the 3 months of hard training and I’d made it to the start line in one piece. I had the luxury of the championship start this year, a sectioned off area in the corner of the blue start area. No queuing […]

After months of apprehension, minor injury paranoia, ice, snow and just about every other training complication you can imagine, here I was standing in the rain along with several thousand other expectant, budding athletes (and some proper ones too!) on Blackheath Common filled with eager anticipation as the start time loomed close……but it wasn’t any […]

For the first time, pre-entries exceeded entries on the day, and the rain kept off and gave us one of the pleasantest days for a number of years. 101 runners completed the course, which was dry despite some overnight rain and we even expected records to be broken. In the event there was only one […]

The first Leinthall Starkes 5 race is the club’s traditional opener for the summer season. This year’s event again served as the first counting race in the Croft Ambrey club championship for 2010. Excellent running conditions welcomed the competitors to the accurately measured 5 mile course and this was reflected in the recording of 5 […]