Category: Race Reports

Trail events hosted the Brecon Beacons running event with a 10k, half marathon, marathon and ultra distances . Being my home town I decided to take on the challenge and chose to do marathon distance as I wanted to achieve Pen y Fan summit whilst completing the challenge. It started in the village of Talybont […]

3 peaks Fell Race Report by PCD 29/04/17 This is the original 3 peaks..none of this jumping on a yacht or driving fast between the 3 highest peaks of GB. No, this is the Yorkshire 3 Peaks where for several years many of the best names in British and even International Fell Running have fancied […]

Disaster! The electricity supply failed, the tea was cold, t-shirts and medals failed to arrive, the portaloos overflowed, the doughnuts were mouldy, it threw it down with rain before the race, hardly anyone turned up and 20 runners went the wrong way … these were some of the nightmare scenarios that kept me awake in […]

It’s great to see that Hereford Couriers are keen to promote running to all and their 5k series is open to juniors and wheelchair athletes. Keen to take part in any race he can, Scott persuaded Alec to take part and Steph, Sue D and Mark were the other Croft contingents in this second race […]

On Wednesday 26 April I flew from Manchester to Madrid, staying overnight before early morning catching the clean comfortable spacious train to Soria. I was amazed how empty the Spanish countryside was, lots of cultivated small fields of various shapes & contours, but hardly a dwelling in sight for miles. Sprinklings of snow on the […]