Author: Sam Harper

A cold, but beautifully sunny day saw 209 runners set off along the narrow track on the north side of the Wrekin. Then began the first (and runnable) of three climbs, before the treacherously steep descent through oak woods (where poor Gary P turned his ankle over), followed by a long flattish run along the […]

Unusually, the sun came out, and if it hadn’t been for the slurpy mud, the conditions would have been ideal! 157 runners took part, relatively few though from Croft, but thanks to all who set out the course, marshalled, tidied up afterwards and helped in any way. Stacey had a great run: 4th behind Eliot […]

This was the first running of the Herefordshire trail ultra, which formed day 12 of The Relentless Series (also in its first year) organised by Worcester based Ultra Running. The relentless event is 30 consecutive days of ultra marathons covering all 47 English counties and totalling 1600 miles. Unfortunately only three people started the Herefordshire […]

Finding the new venue in the fog was not easy (remembering the map might have helped) and the fog persisted till after the last runner was home. Inevitably the going was muddy in places, and running round orchards is beginning to pall a bit, but it was an interesting course, up and down for the […]

After hailstorms on the Saturday, and heavy overnight frost, Sunday dawned bright and sunny, with no rain for 24 hrs – some sort of record. Mark was able to gather together a ‘scratch’ team for the open event and I think we were all somewhat pessimistic about our final position, as we milled about at […]