Category: Race Reports

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 […]

Report by Guy I remember years ago Rachel Nelson apologetically offering a snail’s eye view of a race. That’s where I’m coming from now! The Fan Fawr fell race is short (1 mile up, and 1 mile straight back down) and steep (1,000ft climb approx), and ‘what you see is what you get’: apart from […]