Category: Race Reports

On a busy weekend with many Croft members out enjoying different races my curiosity got the better of me and I headed to the flatlands of East Anglia to try out a backyard ultra on Knettishall Heath. The rules are very simple, it’s basically a trail run, each lap is 4.1 miles long and there […]

Big well done to all the runners bracing the wet conditions at our first summer series race at Westhope. Fantastic turnout for croft of men and females, a whopping 25 females on the start line was amazing. Herefordshire has a strong frontline of female runners battling the cross country courses and doing the county proud […]

The first race of the Summer League was at Westhope, with wet conditions making the evening feel much more like one of our winter league races, Croft still managed to field an impressive number of runners. 50 in total, which I am told by Mike is the most we have fielded in any event. This […]

The fourth of the Shropshire fell run summer series involved running up from Criggion Village Hall, through the woods and eventually the last steep climb up to the pillar itself. 121 runners finished, Jack Agnew being first home in 22.59, quite closely followed by our own Gary P, who was 25th, in 27.24. This time […]

Back in April, I had some information about some free places for a new running festival being organised by Chris Evans and Vassos Alexander, previously of radio 2. I was a little skeptical that it was all too good to be true – we could have free places for runners and supporters providing we fielded […]