Category: Race Reports

Lake Vyrnwy half is a very picturesque, friendly and well organised half marathon, not far from home – about 1 1/2 hours drive. This year’s race was held on the rather wet Sunday afternoon, the heavens had opened and they weren’t going to stop. 1387 took part, 6 of which were Croft runners, Gemma, Emma, […]

Having some time on my hands between trekking contracts in the Alps, I trolled the internet for races. I hadn’t run much but I have to crack on with things..my aim is to do as many of the classic fell races as I can at least once. This race is detailed in Steve Chiltons book about […]

It’s been a ‘Johnny Brownlee’ kind of triathlon season for me. Plenty of hard training, combining both quantity and quality. And yet … and yet, race performances have been variable and on the whole, a little disappointing. April brought a cyst underneath my left knee, for which I cancelled the Storm the Castle Duathlon. June […]

To quote Tom Davies the Bury Ditches race is ‘a cracking little race’ and I have to agree. It is fairly local, multi-terrain – a bit of field, a bit of road, a bit of forestry track, around a hill fort, along footpaths – and a few hills which are a bit of a challenge, […]

Robyn, Scott H, Scott J and Alec recently took park in the 1 mile track event at Hereford Leisure centre. The field was divided into 2, with the senior males and juniors going first, followed by the ladies and vet males. They were fast and furious races and well done to Mike for keeping count […]