Category: Race Reports

Several ominous portents suggested that today’s Cardiff half marathon would prove a little more testing than it did last year. The first clue was pretty obvious, it was never going to be easy to run a fast-paced half marathon just two weeks after the Hereford marathon. The second clue was at the 1 mile mark, […]

As Part of this year’s Croft Ambrey club championship I decided to have a go at this 5.8 mile hill race which started outside the Powis arms pub in Lydbury North on an unusually warm autumn morning in late September which felt far more like an ambient day in the middle of July. The Bury […]

Everybody remarked on the chilliness, but it was a largely sunny morning with typical October temperatures; it was just we’ve been spoilt for the last 5 weeks. A relatively small field of 86 runners turned up for this the first of the Shropshire winter fell series. From the start we laboured up a forest track […]

While some of us were trudging up (and sliding down)  steep Welsh slopes, and others were stumbling along the streets of Cardiff, Liz was elegantly speeding over the same Cardiff asphalt to record a victory in the FV60 mile event of the Lloyds Bank Festival of Running. There were nine runners in her race (FV50 […]

Last Sunday saw me opting for the gentler uphill pulls of the Forest of Dean Autumn Half Marathon, rather than the hillier Bury Ditches.  This was the second time I’d run this forested, trail race and I’d forgotten what an enjoyable course it was.  Although not as quick as the Spring course, the route, for […]