Croft Ambrey Running Club

You will no doubt have already had a message to say that tomorrow’s Westhope (Herefordshire summer league) race is postponed until August 8th, 7.15pm start. For much the same reason the Shropshire fell race up to the Stiperstones has been put back a week, so will now be Wednesday July 18th.

Summer Social – July 21st

June 21, 2018 Guy Whitmarsh

Dear runners. We are looking to have a summer social on Saturday 21st July on the fields at Lucton School outside the cricket pavilion. Please bring a picnic and some chairs for a leisurely few hours in the sunshine, from 4pm. Please bring children along. Mark Paviour has kindly agreed to run a short kids’* […]

Committee meeting – May 21st

June 3, 2018 Guy Whitmarsh

My apologies for the delay in producing this summary. The committee decided that at the Croft handicap races in the woods, the last runner to set off would carry a baton that (s)he would carry until (s)he caught any other runner. The runner with the baton on leaving the woods would be responsible for closing […]

Race Reports

Three Peaks race – Croft Supervets Team

July 15, 2018July 16, 2018 Guy Whitmarsh

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 […]

The Callow

July 2, 2018July 6, 2018 Guy Whitmarsh

‘Brutal’ was how one runner described the race, after 8.1km and 760m of ascent, in temperatures in the upper 20s. I’ve known it hot enough in the past, to need to stand in the shade while waiting for the start, but not this searing heat. A much reduced field of 42 set off along […]