Category: Race Reports

On Saturday 16th December the 5th round of the South Wales Winter Hill Series was held at the Skirrid mountain just north of Abergavenny. GaryG and TomD were the only Croft runners to make the trip to this interesting 3.6 mile fell race. Fortunately most of the recent snow had disappeared but conditions were very […]

Those lucky enough to take part in today’s Monkhall Farm race had the pleasure of the best conditions that I can remember for this event. We started in the gentle sunshine of a late autumn day and cantered over a rolling two lap course that was largely devoid of the glutinous mud for which this […]

The cold frosts we were getting used to in the beginning of the week held off and this first Sunday in December saw near perfect running conditions for the third of the 2017 Herefordshire winter league races. The race route as distributed by Wye Valley in the weeks before the race proved not to be […]

Early morning drizzle and low cloud gave way to sunny intervals, and pleasantly mild weather, as some 280 runners lined up at the bottom of a grassy field in prosperous Cardington (many at the finish were enviously eyeing the indoor pool and hot tub just over the wall). At the top of the first field […]

Seven ‘Crofties’ competed in this 7th and final race of the 2017 Croft Ambrey Club Championship and all seven made a good account of themselves in this challenging road race. The first mile of the race is downhill with 125 feet of descent and so it pays to make full use of gravity and get some […]