Category: Race Reports

The hot, dry, dusty route was tough but what else can we expect from these summer league races? Thanks to Neil for a report from the mens perspective so just a few mentions for the ladies and a bit of praise for our fantastic A team! First team on the night with a back to […]

The (not so) old cricket pavilion at Shobdon Court that opened only in 1994, cut a proud but rather forlorn figure, surrounded now by a golden field of wheat, shimmering in this extraordinary summer heat. I guess that the Shobdon summer XC race must be older than the cricket pavilion and rarely can it have […]

An interim report on the parkrun, 49 years after the first moon landing, a month after the longest day and the first day of the school holidays (for many). When I was a teacher the first day of term was often a PD (professional development ) day, but this first day of the holidays turned […]

“To the woods, to the woods”. ” I’ll tell the vicar”. “I am the vicar” is a (not very funny) joke I recall from my dim and distant childhood days. As the handicap series transferred from the roads to Croft Woods, the hidden trepidation in the runners’ minds did not dwell on the prospect of […]

After months of training running up and down Pen y Fan and various other hills Wednesday arrived, the day we were setting off to Fort William 440 miles to our bunk house. We set off from Tom’s.  The trip was good we were all in good spirits we had  a few issues with the mini […]