Category: Race Reports

As a club we came to Shobdon to defend our second team place, and did just that, by the skin of our teeth, largely thanks to another storming run by Gemma (19th overall, and 1st woman by nearly a minute and a half), and ably supported by Nigel (16th) and Dave G (17th). Ben appeared […]

A few people on holiday and a few injuries may have accounted for the rather low turnout of 14 for the latest in the Croft Handicap series. With a distance of approximately 3.5 miles, juniors can take part in this race and it was good to give Scott and Alec a chance to compete over a […]

Having never raced further than 10k I decided a half marathon close to home and off-road would be good to try. As it’s fairly local there are probably quite a few Croft runners who’ve done this race before but on Sunday it was only me and Kelly there. Kelly shot off like a greyhound at […]

Every race is a hard race, because you’re competing against the opposition, but this was a tough course: a relatively gentle introduction, then a long climb, steep descents and a hard grind up to the finish. Still, the summer series produces plenty of variety, with Abbeydore’s rolling (?) terrain over fields, Westhope’s predictable toil round […]