Category: Race Reports

I found two lessons reinforced during this race: 1) Don’t trust a marshal who says ‘you’re nearly there’, or ‘it’s all downhill from here’, or even ‘bear left at the flag, you can’t miss it’, and 2) If a flagstoned path leads into a bog and out again, there isn’t necessarily firm footing under the […]

Well after numerous stories of the tough hills ahead, let’s say I was little nervous!  I woke up to find that finally it was no longer raining, hurrah! However, typically, once it was time to compete the heavens opened. (A very welcome relief once the race had started!) The race started in Hay, under the […]

  What to do on a wet bank holiday Monday? Having missed the races on Sunday due to family parties (two on one day!) I thought I would give the Purslow Show race a go and what a treat it was. Only 25 minutes down the road to a part of Shropshire I have never […]

After recent downpours, it looked as if we might be in for more wet as we approached the cloud covered Long Mynd in steady rain; however the skies cleared and 98 of us set off on a fine summer’s evening. From the start there was a 100m dash along a lane, over a shallow stream, […]

Meteoric Mark was again the star turn in the penultimate race in the 2015 Croft Handicap series as he whizzed around the woodland route to break his own course record by 19 seconds. No energy sapping exertions for him this time in preparation for this run – just a “gentle” bike ride from Leominster to […]