Category: Race Reports

Mark Paviour Explains what it’s all about. When Theresa posted the results of this year’s Vinnalls Uphill held on August 8th, she put in a tentative request for ‘a race report’.  In the absence of one being offered I thought it might be worth while giving an insight to its origins and answer the “Why […]

Report by Huw Sometimes things don’t turn out quite as you planned. Having walked the route of the Chairman’s Challenge 2 days before, and written the instructions for everyone, I was pretty confident that I knew the way. Unfortunately, it proved not to be the case! I knew the handicap times I had set meant […]

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Report by Huw Returning the Mike Benkinsop Summer League to where it rightly belongs was always going to be a challenge. Croft won the league in 2022, our 40th year as a club, and then lost out to Ludlow in 2023. We were going into the 2024 season without Eric Apperley who had been so […]

Report by Jo Marriott Last Wed, 21 savvy Croft runners accurately surmised that if England were to score the winning goal in the Euro semifinals the chances of it coming before the last ten minutes of the game were probably under 1%. This meant they would have plenty of time to amble around Weston’s 4.75-mile […]