Category: Race Reports

Breidden Hills is traditionally the first of the Shropshire winter fell series, and marks the watershed between summer and winter. Despite the rain before the race, by the time runners had assembled it had stopped, but leaving the hills shrouded in low cloud. Admiral Rodney could have sailed off on an adventure, for all we […]

The second race in the Shropshire Young Athletes Cross Country League was on a bright and breezy day at Meole Brace School, Shrewsbury where Croft Ambrey Juniors raced against runners from 12 other clubs, colleges and schools across the age groups. The races were all based on a 1450m circuit of the school sports fields, […]

I was quite surprised I was the only runner from Croft at this event as it is a decent trail half marathon that is totally off the roads (unlike the Spring Half) with around 1000ft of elevation over the 13.1 miles. Perhaps there were too many competing events or it was not flat enough for […]

Race 5 in the Club championship series saw sixteen eager Croft Runners among the 70 at the start line of The Brown Clee Burn. There was Club pride to defend in this race after a double whammy of first man and first lady last year – Andy and Robyn. I think just for the proportion […]

So many Croft runners doing such different things last weekend! Five of us – Gary P, Gary G, Liza, Flora and myself opted for the Bury Ditches race. This could very well be the final one of this race which has been taking place for the last ten years, the organisers have had enough but […]