by Richard Brawn | Aug 21, 2022 | Road_Reports
In a celebration of distance running in it’s rawest and truest form, the Hercules Wimbledon 5000m Festival pits some of the very best speedsters in the south against each other. With a barbecue and beer on offer and a carnival atmosphere in tow, along with the...
by Richard Brawn | Aug 15, 2022 | Road_Reports
A fairly testing multi-terrain route with some intricate woodland pathways awaited the runners lining up for the D’Urberville Dash 10k. In amongst the 224 runners taking part were Bournemouth AC members Stu Glenister and Ken Parradine. Stu often pops up in the...
by Richard Brawn | Aug 14, 2022 | Road_Reports
Set in a glorious, rural area of Yorkshire, the Castle Howard Multisport Festival presented a wonderous selection of race opportunities to choose from. They included sprint and standard distance triathlons and triathlon relays, aquabike, aquathlons and duathlons....
by Richard Brawn | Aug 13, 2022 | Road_Reports
It was an outrageously hot day when the Somerley Estate Spring 10k, 5k and Half Marathon event was due to take place and that was probably because the race organisers had got their seasons mixed up. It was actually the middle of summer and with temperatures soaring...
by Richard Brawn | Aug 6, 2022 | Road_Reports
Imagine doing a half mile swim and a 70 mile bike ride, and a half marathon, all on the same weekend. Well that’s what Caitlin Peers did at the Long Course Weekend. In fact, she didn’t imagine it. She did it for real. The Long Course Weekend is the biggest...
by Richard Brawn | Jul 31, 2022 | Road_Reports
In some ways it’s a bit like riding a horse. When you’ve fallen off and hurt yourself, the only way to properly get over it is to get back on the horse again. And that’s exactly what Linn Erixon Sahlström had to do when she returned to the scene of...
