Category: Race Reports

In 2024, Rhayader Round The Lakes celebrated it’s 40th year and, as a favourite race among Croft runners, there was plenty of Sky Blue representation on and off the course. Race day wasn’t exactly the beautiful morning we were all expecting and, if anyone else was like me, found themselves questioning as to why we […]

It’s crazy when you think about how fast the past year has gone. Last year’s Hereford 10 Mile Race feels only yesterday, but here we are, one year on, ready to go again. On what was a relatively overcast morning, a decent number of Crofties, all in their Sky Blue attire, made it to the […]

Report by Guy Again quite a small turnout for what is a short race (just over 4km) and less climb thanmany fell races, but Croft were well represented with one in 5 wearing sky blue.The summit was clouded in mist, but it had already cleared a bit by 11 0’clock. The routeisn’t marked so Tom […]

It was an early start Sunday morning (5.00am). My wife Nellie drove Sam and me down to Brecon. The start was at the canal basin next to theatre Brycheiniog. Registration done, GPS trackers fitted we checked the weather forecast. It was not good – windy and wet for most of the day . Start was […]

I signed up to this race in when entries opened up after seeing it on Facebook last year. It looked like a good one and it didn’t disappoint. It rained all the way on the drive down to Mountain Ash (and back) but, luckily, once we had got there all we had was a cool […]