Category: Race Reports

Yet again I was indecisive about whether to enter another race, this time the Breinton 10 mile road race organised by Wye Valley Runners. On one hand I have run in the two previous years and have visions of myself in 20 years time being announced Brian Davies style as the “one runner who has run in […]

The name says it all. The first 3 miles of this11 mile road race are more or less flat, but then there’s an unremitting 4 mile climb up to the col high up Twmpa (Lord Hereford’s Knob). The road goes up and down for about a mile, then there is a fast 3 mile descent […]

Wacky Races meets confused.com I took part in the Bog-snorkelling Triathlon on Saturday 23rd August. It was a part of a weekend when Llanwrtyd Wells hosted the World Alternative Games, which included things like mountain bike chariot races & riding lead-weighted bikes under water. The race HQ was a mile or so out-of-town on windswept […]

Sam Harper and I were the only Croft attendees of this 10k multi-terrain event. Numbers were down from last year, I believe, with only 80 of us gearing up for the start on a surprisingly muggy afternoon. This was a race of two halves: the first three miles were pretty flat, run mainly on pavements […]

On a suitably gloomy evening for the last of the summer fell series, four of us prepared for the earlier, 7pm, start. We set off along 200 yards of road (including a ford) and then the climb began, steady at first then as we branched off onto grassland, walking became obligatory. I caught Gary at […]