Category: Race Reports

Tuesday nights training had gone well, I was feeling on top form by Thursday so thought ‘I can run the half marathon on Saturday, it’s for a good cause’. So I completed my online entry and waited for Sunday morning. I wonder now whether I should have put a little more thought and better still […]

The rainy and gloomy conditions seemed to have an effect on the turnout for the 2nd race in the 2016 handicap series, with only 2 of last month’s 9 race debutants returning to test themselves on equalised terms. Bryan was first away as the rainfall increased and he was confident that he could improve on […]

The Brockhampton Beast on 24th April was a fantastic race, another one of Dirt Run’s well-organised 10k events at National Trust properties (they are doing one at Croft Castle on 18th September & again in January 2017 – see http://www.dirtrun.co.uk/ ). The race headquarters were next to the old farmhouse in the middle of idyllic […]

After a week of hail, sleet and rain, the blue skies on the early morning drive down to beautiful Pembrokeshire were a welcome relief. We arrived with a westerly coastal wind keeping us chilled but it was bright and sunny which was really amazing. This coastal half marathon was organised by Endurance Life which is […]

So I thought to myself, ‘you haven’t run much the last couple of weeks, use a race as a jolly to get fit.  Enjoy it, don’t go eyeballs out as usual’. I had been cycling and rowing and elliptical so thought I would be up to the job..particularly as I was ‘taking it easy’. So […]