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Nominally a road race, but such a remote road with fantastic mountain views it hardly felt monotonous until perhaps the last two miles. Sharply downhill to start from lakeside scenery, the hills bit at mile 3 as we skirted the mountain. Many undulations later it finished with a fairly flat 3 miles at the Visitor’s […]

Record turn-out for the 25th anniversary of the event, and the appearance of Brian (only runner to have competed in every race – Tom missed one) and Mick (we believe he still holds the course record from Nov 1990).The combined ages of the two winners are just about half Brian D’s age, and a little […]

The start gun fires. A wave of white English vests hurtles down towards the first turn, progressively interspersed with the colours of the other four nations and disappears into the trees. The interval session begins. 400 metres across the course to see the runners as they begin the half-lap drag up to the top of […]

After the rigours of the Mudrunner on the previous Sunday I was fairly confident that this was going to be reasonably easy going in comparison even though it was more than twice the distance. This was only my second ever competitive half marathon and I was fairly confident of improving on my time set at […]

A cool start to a gloriously sunny day, but after Saturday’s rain, there were some muddier and wetter parts of the course, compared with last year. The inclusion of Malvern Joggers did little to upset the balance in the men’s event, but they provided the winner of the ladies’ race in Emma Gooderham, who finished […]