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After 6 races on Wednesday evenings, running over the Wrekin, Stiperstones, Caradoc, and the Long Mynd the final series results show a record 12 Croft runners taking part, admittedly 6 of whom managed only one race – the one easiest to get to after work. Gary G not only won the over 70 category, but […]
Continue ReadingYou know that autumn is on the horizon and thoughts turning to the delights of the winter cross country season when the final race in the Croft Ambrey R.C. Handicap Series has been completed. Maybe the conditions, in a minor way, prepared runners for the demands of xc running with recent rain creating sections of […]
Continue ReadingSeventy five runners, eight from Croft, took part in this 25th anniversary race which takes place at Purslow Show every August Bank Holiday. The race starts off comfortably from the Showground, through a field (thankfully free of cattle this year), up to and along a road for a bit. Then the gradient gradually increases to […]
Continue ReadingThe final race in the Shropshire summer series started in Little Stretton on a pleasant summer’s evening, with 96 hardy souls (and soles!) crossing the two streams before the first steep climb up to the summit of the Callow, then a gentle slope down to a path climbing diagonally across, into a bright evening sun, […]
Continue ReadingThe numbers for the fifth and penultimate race in the 2017 Croft Ambrey Handicap Series may have fallen slightly short of the record turnout of the previous month, with some of the club’s speedier runners missing (in the absence of notes from their respective mothers, they may be compelled to run in their vest and […]
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