Category: Race Reports

On Saturday July 2nd myself and Mark Lamonby headed off for a weekend in Weymouth to compete in the Weymouth Middle Distance Triathlon, this was a training exercise to see where we were in preparation for the European Championships in Austria this September. So Sunday started very early @4.30am (pity we had a late night […]

This race has a special place in the annals of Croft Ambrey Running club as it was instrumental in the formation of the Club. Long ago, 1981 in fact, unattached runners were not encouraged in the event. Existing local clubs were not keen to accept runners from outside their immediate area, this prompted a small group of us to […]

An excellent little hill race but a long way to go to make the 7.30 start on a Thursday evening. The 6 mile route starts and finishes with a short section of road outside Elmley Castle cricket club, a reasonably flat section across fields is followed by a continual climb up around the tower at the top […]

A much smaller Club turnout than normal probably due to the Man v Horse the day before. Even the usual wind on top was missing as the record  field of 235 set off on the first fast downhill section. Paul Colley Davies was first Croft runner home, 41st position in 49.08, David Millichap was 77th in 52.39 and Kelly Bowen was just behind  […]

A warm summer evening, when the forecast rain unfortunately didn’t materialise, saw over 140 runners assemble for the start of race 2 in the series (again, not all crossed the finishing line, having missed a turning on the lower loop). The uphill start, on long grass, is demanding, so that by the time we’d reached […]