Category: Race Reports

A fine turnout of Croft Ambrey runners turned up on a cold, wet and windy New Year’s Day morning to take part in the Mercia annual Morning After race. A warm up was essential and there was much debate between us about how many layers to wear before we set off but the general consensus […]

  Despite a forecast of mist, the weather gradually improved as we approached Corndon by car, so that eventually we were in sometimes hazy sunshine, in mild temperatures – no wind and rain like 2015. At the pre-race briefing we were told this would be the last race, unless someone else came forward before next […]

Undeterred by an e-mail earlier in the week informing runners that this year was drier than usual, I arrived at Moor Park with my studs, and was thankful! A record field of 405 runners set off (including 21 Croft runners, in the last of the year’s club championship races), over the playing fields, along the […]

The frosty early-morning chills gave way to a glorious sunny morning in the run-up to the race. The course was three laps of 2.2 miles around a large field farmed by Nicola Goodwin & her husband. It was as flat as Holland, the altitude varying by only 2m over the whole lap. Mud was not […]

As I look out of the window this morning the early morning winter sun is catching the small undulations in the field below the house, elevations not normally visible to the naked eye. Likewise yesterday at Rotherwas, the naked eye couldn’t see the 13 feet of elevation that Neil T tells me existed over the […]