Category: Race Reports

Some Croft runners headed south for the roads of Hereford, while others drove north to Church Stretton to see how wet the Long Mynd was, now that we have moved into 2016. We discovered little had changed. Wet and slippery, like the Boxing Day run, but more than twice as long. 174 runners, and one […]

On almost the shortest day, 123 runners assembled at midday at the Miners Arms (Priestweston) to tackle the Maldwyn Harriers contribution to the Shropshire winter fell series. And it being a fell race, Tom and I, along with many others, managed to fall on the slippery downhill sections. After a short tarmac section, the run […]

Probably a record turn-out of 85 runners (and a dog) completed what must have been also the wettest, slipperiest course ever for Boxing Day. As to the declared result (Lucton winners), I’ll leave the debate to those better qualified, and more competitive, than me! Well done particularly to Oscar (aged 16?) and Suzanne, but also […]

What difference does a bit of mud make? Ever since the days of Socrates, mathematicians and philosophers alike have pondered the question “what difference does a bit of mud make?” How might human history have been different if the going had been muddy when the Greek soldier Pheidippides made that famous run from marathon to […]

The Mortimer Forest race was the last of the 2015  Croft Ambrey Club Championship races and it saw 12 croft runners amongst 359 at the start line. This was enough for 2 women’s teams and one men’s team. So why so few Croft runners for a local race? Maybe it was the 8 mile course […]