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A beautiful summer evening and a group of athletes more resembling the Tour de France than Corft Ambrey Running Club. Every form of cycling sophistication, colourful clothing, rippling muscles (Tom being the exception on his mountain bike [Tom surely doesn’t lack colourful clothing, sophistication and rippling muscles? -Ed]) the ‘peloton’ hurtled ever onwards. Locals were […]

Simon is an ironman!! He completed this exhausting, sponsored, event in 12 hours 10 minutes and 57 seconds, a working day and a half! There were 1400 competitors, of whom nearly 200 failed to finish, and Simon came 327th – a magnificent achievement! It all began at 6am with 1 hr 22 minutes’ swim, followed […]

It was a day of perfect running conditions: being mild but not blazing sunshine. There was a good atmosphere at the event and it attracted 208 runners in total. There were nine Croft Ambrey runners who finished in the order of: Dave Rouse Jr 15 th 40mins, Suzanne Turvey 29 th (2 nd Lady) 42mins […]

Probably another wet one, but not being there I’m only guessing. Stacey continues his challenge to Matt, this time being just 4 seconds behind. Both were beaten though by Jonathon Pugh, of Builth and District. Suzanne had a storming run, being the first lady by a clear margin and ensuring Croft were first team (first […]

The ever-expanding club membership necessitated the first ever daytime running of the annual “Sports Day”. The weather was kind to us and the absence of multiple champion, Patrick, meant that a new male champion would be crowned at the end of the day. The day’s proceedings opened in dramatic fashion at the Long Jump pit […]