Category: Race Reports

No new news for a fortnight, so maybe time to add another piece on today’s 9th Ludlow parkrun. Having scraped the ice off the windscreen (the temperature has only once been over 5 degrees since the event started), we set off for Monstay car park in glorious (temporary) sunshine. It turned out to be a […]

I was kindly offered a spare space for the Forest of Dean Spring Trails Half Marathon by Jo Marriott who’d decided to go skiing with Crispin at short notice to celebrate his birthday. Not being at my fittest after having flu a month ago and not having ran this distance since Cardiff in October, I […]

The inaugural Shrewsbury 10k held on Sunday 20th March had sold out quickly but I was accepted via the reserve list. As the race started at 9am we stayed overnight on Saturday at the Wetherspoons hotel – maybe not the best idea when the 6 Nations Finals were on in the bar!   However, I […]

Jasper & I ran in the Pendock Spring Chicken Run 10k today. The weather was good for running, cool to start with, with only the slightest breeze. No other Croft runners (or indeed Herefordshire league runners) were involved. Although it is a friendly local village race focused around the primary school, it’s extremely well-organised. The […]

What’s in a name? Well, maybe I for one should pay more attention: Wrekin fell race (5.5 miles, 540m of ascent), and I fell at the first hurdle! Tom and I arrived in good time, climbed most of the way up the Ercall to warm up and admired how dry the ground was, and noticed […]