Category: Race Reports

Four Crofties turned out for the latest edition of the Batch Bash, under a (sky) blue sky and warm conditions. A little different to last year, I’m told! 139 senior runners set off, after the enthusiastic juniors had completed their races. It’s only 3 miles, and the first 500 yards are tarmac, so what’s hard […]

Report by Sam Juson After spending a few days sightseeing in Paris, I made my way over to Château de Chantilly for their ‘Multisport Festival’ as part of the Castle Race Series – competing in the standard distance aquathlon. It was an incredible setting, with the open water swim in the Grand Canal, a 1.5km […]

After a successful race last year, our annual “Shobdon Wood Race” made a return with many runners raring to take on the challenging course yet again. After a miserable, wet day – only twenty four hours before, the weather had a complete turn around and the sun shone down on the runners as they made […]

Start as you mean to go on Runners seem to have an innate ability to position themselves at the start of a race broadly in find their finishing positions. In club races this is hardly surprising. You know who you’re likely to be a bit quicker than and stand in front of them. You stand […]

What a glorious day to run round the Cwmyoy horseshoe ( following some of the Hatterall Hammer course), 9.1km with 383m of ascent, all of it laid out before us as we stood on the start line. We were told the course was marked, but that the route from CP1 to CP2 (the only two […]