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Is the now defunct club duathlon in part responsible for our little club producing THREE triathletes selected to compete for GB in international competitions? Probably not, but it is remarkable that in our midst we have Stuart and Simon who have already represented their country, and now Nicky, who has qualified for the World Distance […]

1. It was decided to donate £100 to the First Responders who attended Shobdon Wood race, £50 Shobdon Arches pre-school group and £50 to Westfield Special School (Leominster) in aid of their hydrotherapy pool. 2. The club  still holds around £2,500 in the bank, so it was also decided to hold a sale of club […]

We’ve had wet before, but this was something else. Continuous rain all day, which eased a little as we assembled for the start, meant that the 5 mile course involved splashing across fields, through puddles on roads and over the common, through numerous brooks (where was the deep one, with a safety rope? psychological tricks […]

It seems the Magic Roundabout is held either in howling gales, or in fine weather, and we were blessed with the latter this year, even if the ground was very wet in places after recent heavy rain. A record field (224 finishers) meant a delayed start, as latecomers were caught in traffic jams up the […]

Unbelievably, Crispin and I (and a couple of friends) made it back to the far North-West of Scotland again for part of this fantastic running week in a gloriously unspoilt part of Sutherland. An Easy Jet flight from Bristol to Inverness and a 2.5 hour car journey got us to Durness just in time for […]