Category: Race Reports

Tom decided he wasn’t fit enough for this demanding fell race, and I was suffering from a cold (and being more sensible than in my youth), so Croft representation was maintained by the two Garys (Flora was running at Rhayader). Gary P had a fine race, 42nd (and 3rd MV45) in 55.03, with Gary G […]

(My photos are so poor of this years social that I thought I would post the featured photo of a social from years past, with a winner who wasn’t there on the evening!) A lovely night was had by all on Friday 1st of March. A social get-together over drinks and a delicious buffet meal […]

Saturday saw a group of Croft runners take on the Rhayader round the lakes races with 8 runners competing in the relatively fast and flat 5 mile and a brave 9 runners taking on the challenge of the newly branded 30K race which was the 20 mile. The forecast was not good and it looked […]

Thanks to lots of hard work, Presteinge Pacers and Hay Hotfooters managed to come up with a new course around Nash Woods for this the final race in the winter series. There were still some elements of the old course but lots more running on wider open tracks to prevent the bottle-necks which can occur, […]

Running is very much an individual sport in which everyone has their own favourite races, formats and goals. Some people even run for fun! Nevertheless,  I was delighted to see a strong turnout of 24 Croft men line up for the final race of the 2018/19 winter series, this being far more than any other […]