Category: Race Reports

The inclusion of the Night Sugar Fell Race in this years club championship promised something a bit different for the penultimate round. The route comprises 5.5 miles of running on good trails and paths around the Sugar Loaf above Abergavenny, the catch is that as an evening race in November the event takes place in […]

Sunday marked the first race in the 2019/2020 winter league series. The race was held at Fforest Fields Camping Site in Builth Wells. With the amount of rain that we had had in the week before the race, I think that each runner knew what to expect when it came to the conditions of the […]

Breidden Hills is traditionally the first of the Shropshire winter fell series, and marks the watershed between summer and winter. Despite the rain before the race, by the time runners had assembled it had stopped, but leaving the hills shrouded in low cloud. Admiral Rodney could have sailed off on an adventure, for all we […]

The second race in the Shropshire Young Athletes Cross Country League was on a bright and breezy day at Meole Brace School, Shrewsbury where Croft Ambrey Juniors raced against runners from 12 other clubs, colleges and schools across the age groups. The races were all based on a 1450m circuit of the school sports fields, […]

I was quite surprised I was the only runner from Croft at this event as it is a decent trail half marathon that is totally off the roads (unlike the Spring Half) with around 1000ft of elevation over the 13.1 miles. Perhaps there were too many competing events or it was not flat enough for […]