Category: Race Reports

The second summer league race was held in autumnal conditions, with low cloud and drizzle, and after just one day’s relatively light rain, some parts of the course were quite hasardous. Thirty four Croft runners competed, slightly down on Westhope numbers, but it was a more demanding course, and further to travel for many – […]

LEINTHALL  STARKES  5  –  20th June 2017   by Mike Blenkinsop The 3rd and final race around the lanes of Leinthall Starkes before we head for Croft Woods next month attracted lower numbers than the previous events with runners possibly discouraged by the recent heatwave, though thankfully the daytime sizzling temperature had dropped slightly by […]

Race 5 in the summer series, on the longest day, was (let’s hope!) the hottest of the summer’s races, at 28 degrees. A ‘warm-up’ was still necessary, but left us dry-throated and sweating before the race had even begun. After the first few hundred yards on steadily rising tarmac, we entered the woods, which although […]

The first race of the summer, and appropriately hot summer weather. Beneath a fine blue sky was a cumulus (?) of sky blue vests, estimated to number 40, a record turn-out for Croft. The course involving one anti-clockwise lap round the top orchard, and a similar loop round the bottom orchard, before returning to the […]

It was great to see so many Croft runners at the start line for the magic roundabout 10k. I ran it for the first time in 2016 with two fellow Croft Ambrey runners. Today we had 17 runners at the start. This is a race where you need to get there really early as it’s […]