Category: Race Reports

Report by Guy Whitmarsh All the omens were good for the revived Mortimer Trail Race – a mild just slightly windy day, the trees felled by Storm Darragh cleared and the mud from the previous weekend largely dried up, at least on the short course! With my recyclable number pinned on, I waited with the […]

Report written by Guy Whitmarsh I feel a bit like an outsider, trying to keep up with the three musketeers: Flora, Tim and Gary, who go charging off all over the country to fight for club and country. And, it was only with luck that I managed to even arrive at the start line for […]

Report by Sam Harper A fantastic sky blue turnout for the first of the winter league races, not too far from home at Bearwood farm close to Pembridge. 38 seniors, 2 U17 and I find this quite a tough run around field margins and farm tracks with a couple of technical stretches through some wooded […]

Report by Guy Whitmarsh. We set off in Pantygelli to run up to the top of the Sugar Loaf (and back down). First a bit of road, then a steep lane followed by a diagonal path through bracken up onto the ridge leading to the summit. Once on the ridge I was somewhat taken aback […]

Well, I finally did it. I finally ran a marathon. And, not just any old marathon, Marathon Eryri; dubbed as one of the hardest road marathons in the UK, as it circumnavigates around the base of Snowdon for the full 26.2 miles. Ironically, I wasn’t supposed to do this marathon after failing to get a […]