Category: Race Reports

First race of the Brecon Fans weekend, a ‘short’ race  of 3.5 miles up the highest mountain in Southern Britain, climbing nearly 2000 feet before a headlong descent down an almost sheer cliff and through heather, bracken and streams back to the finish for a free bottle of beer and cakes. Croft had 4 runners in the […]

A well organised trail race of almost 6 miles starting and finishing at Abbey Mill, Tintern. Not too hilly and mostly very good running on woodland tracks but with occasional large slippery stones to  catch the unwary!  A desperate look around the record field of 280 for other sky blue tops failed to find any – a surprise as there had been […]

Another low turnout as the handicap series transferred itself to the new improved woodland course for the 4th, and first of 3 in Croft Woods, race in the 2015 event. Maybe the absentees were aware of the clarty (that’s a good old northern expression that I grew up with) mud awaiting them in Fishpool Valley. […]

Another warm (well, when you’ve run uphill for half a mile from the start!), dry evening, and another (pair of) orchard(s). Croft were thin on the ground, but there were some fine individual results: Mark (all those miles of cycling paying off?) 2nd and Stacey 3rd overall, and both only seconds behind the winner, Tim […]

A 10km multi-terrain race turned out to be more like 9km road race, of which barely 3km was probably common and green lanes. Wye Valley predominated, to the extent that even Gary P was inadvertently enrolled into their ranks, according to the results. 80 runners set off from the village centre, along fairly flat lanes, […]