The Mob Match is a race that everyone knows but perhaps not everyone loves... Celebrating the end of the Cornish Grand Prix Series 2018, the coastal 5 mile road route takes in a pleasant assortment of some of Falmouth's finest hills, negating its potential for being a PB course. The volume of support for Falmouth Road Runners is phenomenal though, and what makes this race such an important one to perform on. There is also the small matter of team honours and bringing home the team prize... The route starts at the end of Castle Drive and finishes outside the Falmouth Hotel, taking runners on a tour of Pendennis Point, down past Castle and Gylly beaches to Swanpool, via a detour down Boscawen
Round 4 in the 2018/19 Cornwall Multi-Terrain Race Series, the St. Michael's Mount Remembrance Run is organised by Mounts Bay Harriers and takes runners along the fine stretch of sandy coastline between Marazion and Penzance. The race may only be short and flat, somewhat atypical for most Cornish races, however what it lacks in elevation change it more than makes up for in energy-sapping soft sand. This year's race was run on a falling tide. After a 2 minute silence, we were off across firm flat sand. However, that wasn't to last for long. Runners soon found themselves sinking ankle deep into loose wet shingle, brought in by rivers during the recent storms. As the tide was still falling, it
The Cornish Marathon, the beast of Cornwall, closes out the 2018 Cornish Grand Prix Series once again. A challenging route, entirely on tarmac, takes runners out onto wild Bodmin Moor and includes a total cumulative ascent of around 600 metres. Perhaps the most challenging part is that a quarter of that ascent comes in the last 5 miles, just when you don't want it. Ahead of the race, concerns were focused on the weather and the potential for some very wet and windy weather, which would have made the Bodmin Moor section even more challenging. As it turned out, a well-timed weather window saw the bulk of the race proceed in dry and calm conditions, although the the rain did set in big style ~4