Category: Race Reports

Report by Mike Blenkinsop The final race on the road, before heading for Bircher Common to complete the season’s handicap series, provided the last opportunity to set a PB on the old 5 mile course and 10 runners took advantage of the favourable conditions to wave a fond farewell to Leinthall Starkes with improved performances […]

Report by Mike Blenkinsop The second race in the 2024 Handicap Series and time for the handicap times to kick in. I certainly would not choose The Bible as my specialist subject on Mastermind, but I seem to recall the quote of ” the first shall be last and the last shall be first” from […]

Report by Guy Whitmarsh This Batch Bash, a club championship race, was a wet one. Wet parking field, full streams and wet running conditions, but it attracted 17 Crofties, who between them were rewarded with 4 age category prizes. Juniors were the first to start with a very challenging uphill out and back run on […]

Report by Mike B You know that spring has truly arrived when the Croft Ambrey swallows swoop back into Leinthall Starkes for the start of the annual Handicap Series. Even the nutty ultra running element of the club had not emulated the long distance exploits of the returning flying swallows, but many were hoping to […]