Category: Race Reports

A total of 35 Croft Runners took part in at least one of the Bearwood series races – the fastest of which counts for the club championship series. This off road two lap 10k around field margins, farm tracks and a couple of short woodland paths was a great race to take part in – […]

Report by Tori Dickinson Brown Clee Burn 2023 was the 10th running of this race but a first for me. I only entered a few weeks ago joining 12 other Crofties. Sam H. has always said it’s one of her favourite races and it didn’t disappoint…from the moment we arrived at Stoke St Milborough and […]

On one of the warmest evenings of the year, 30 Croft runners assembled in the depths of Mortimer Forest, where all was beautifully still and relatively cool, as we awaited the start of the fourth running of this 1.4 mile uphill ‘fun’ race. Just before the off Eric was caught on camera praying, apparently for […]

Report By Mike B The end of August is approaching and the penultimate race in the Croft Ambrey Handicap Series heralds the departure of the balmy days of summer (what summer ? I hear you say). Running conditions were ideal, being dry with a gentle breeze, but it was raining PBs as an excellent turnout […]

Report by Emma Jones. Traditionally run in opposite directions each year, this time the classic Brecon Beacons Fell Race was run clockwise – starting nice and flat half way along the dam below Talybont Reservoir and finishing at the entrance to the water works just below (after a 20 mile circuit of some of the […]