Arriving in a very wet and stormy Minehead on Saturday evening, we were under no illusion that weather conditions on the top of Dunkerry Beacon were going to be anything but easy. Nonetheless, we woke on Sunday morning to beautiful blue skies and a choppy sea from our room and thought actually it was maybe going to be nicer than expected. Minehead may be a bit of a trek from Falmouth, in fact a 3 hour drive, but the race was more than worth it. Starting from the college in Minehead, the route takes runners high into Exmoor inland from the town, ascending to the highest point of Dunkerry Beacon at 519 m (1705 ft) and encompassing 16 miles of challenging but often spectacular trail. It was col
The Eden Half Marathon is the most popular and largest half marathon in Cornwall but is certainly not the easiest. Starting and finishing at the Eden Project, the race takes runners around the hilly granite countryside surrounding the china clay pits, through some attractive villages and picturesque forests. The full marathon option takes runners out on an extra long loop up Helman Tor and through more forests, including much more trail. Jenna and Tom pictured here took on the full marathon! Ahead of ex-hurricane Ophelia, a a breezy south-westerly wind brought warm and humid sub-tropical air up from a long way south, but thanks to persistent cloud cover for most of the race, conditions didn
The first round in the Westward League Cross Country Series took place on the playing fields of Stover School near Newton Abbot in Devon. The senior women ran ~6km, starting at 1.10pm, whilst the senior men ran almost 10km, starting 1 hour later. The men's route was changed just before the start of the race to include two short laps followed by 4 long laps, totalling 6.18 miles. The long lap included a sizeable hill which therefore had to be run four times...The ladies had to run this hill twice... The weather was unusually warm for October and a blazing sun made this race tougher than it probably should have been for all involved. Thanks to the drier climate east of Dartmoor, everyone's exp