Category: Race Reports

I had a great run doing the first Wyre Forest half marathon organised by pulse pursuits. The course was a mixture of hard fire roads and thick mud. It was a tough course of ascents and descents but it was a beautiful course. There were a couple of sections that were quite tough having to […]

It’s rather heretical to say so but I enjoy the rhythm of these multi-lap courses. Yes, there should be a hill somewhere but I like the challenge of finding the right pace and tempo and having your rivals in sight for most of the time. With a combined age of 197 years, a trio of […]

As with the men, we were a little down on numbers for the ladies in the fourth race in the Herefordshire Winter Cross Country League – Lots of illness and other commitments but there were still an enthusiastic Croft team of ten ladies out in the gloomy January morning doing Croft Ambrey proud. The Rotherwas […]

There were a lot of sky blue vests in evidence at the start, under blue skies, but on a chilly morning. Overnight rain had made the course as muddy and slippery as I’ve possibly ever seen, not helped by the churning up caused by (huge!) Highland cattle in the woods. So, it was always likely […]