Category: Race Reports

An interim report on the parkrun, 49 years after the first moon landing, a month after the longest day and the first day of the school holidays (for many). When I was a teacher the first day of term was often a PD (professional development ) day, but this first day of the holidays turned […]

“To the woods, to the woods”. ” I’ll tell the vicar”. “I am the vicar” is a (not very funny) joke I recall from my dim and distant childhood days. As the handicap series transferred from the roads to Croft Woods, the hidden trepidation in the runners’ minds did not dwell on the prospect of […]

After months of training running up and down Pen y Fan and various other hills Wednesday arrived, the day we were setting off to Fort William 440 miles to our bunk house. We set off from Tom’s.  The trip was good we were all in good spirits we had  a few issues with the mini […]

  ‘Brutal’ was how one runner described the race, after 8.1km and 760m of ascent, in temperatures in the upper 20s. I’ve known it hot enough in the past, to need to stand in the shade while waiting for the start, but not this searing heat. A much reduced field of 42 set off along […]

Was it the heat, was it the remoteness, or was it in part down to absences on account of the Three Peaks race, but numbers were well down on race 1, with only 123 finishers, and Croft men being particularly thin on the ground. What a contrast with the first running of this course four […]