by Richard Brawn | Aug 17, 2020 | Road_Reports
It had been around four-and-a-half months since lockdown restrictions came into play, forcing all forms of competitive racing off the agenda. Over the course of that time event organisers and race planners had been searching for ways and means to get races back up and...
by Richard Brawn | Apr 24, 2020 | Road_Reports
It’s a sign of the times when a relay race has to be run solo. In fact, to be fair, it’s probably never happened before. But unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures and alternatives to the conventional customs applied to all aspects of life are...
by Richard Brawn | Apr 7, 2020 | CrossCountry_Reports
Long stretches of thick, gloopy, shoe swallowing mud and an extraordinarily high standard of competition was the order of the day for the Team Dorset runners when they ventured up to Loughborough for the UK Inter Counties Cross Country Championships. Several...
by Richard Brawn | Apr 5, 2020 | CrossCountry_Reports
Following all the storms that had battered the UK from pillar to post and the persistent rainfall that followed for weeks on end, when the day of the National Cross Country Championships came round it was inevitable the participants would have some testing conditions...
by Richard Brawn | Mar 30, 2020 | Road_Reports
In what would turn out to be the last major race in the southern region before the COVID-19 pandemic forced a shutdown of all races and mass gatherings, the Bath Half Marathon went ahead in controversial circumstances. Less than 7,000 of the 15,000 entrants actually...