So that’s it, the 15 races of the Cornish Grand Prix Series 2017 are done and dusted! In true style, the series came to a close in Falmouth with the annual Mob Match. A record number of entries (600) added extra stress to the race team but everything ran smoothly, a gr...
The final round in the 2017 Cornish Grand Prix Series, the Cornish Marathon is reputedly one of the hardest road marathons in the country and it certainly is a toughie. With 535m (1755 ft) of cumulative ascent over the 26.2 miles, the race is indeed a real test of phys...
The second race in the Westward League Cross Country season and the first in the Cornwall championships, this cross country race for the senior men involved 3 laps around the exposed playing fields of Newquay School. A gusty Arctic wind made the race much harder than i...
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...
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 attr...
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 ch...
Racing on consecutive days is never advised for health or performance, but I figured I could get away with the rapid Mawnan 5K the day after the Lanhydrock 10 miler. Starting from the Carwinion Playing Field at the top of Mawnan Smith, the Mawnan Fun Runs offers a 5K a...
The second race in the 2017/18 Cornish Multi-Terrain Race Series (MTRS), the Lanhydrock 10 is arguably one of the toughest. The route follows a tortuous lap of the attractive Lanhydrock Estate, taking runners around some fantastic undulating hilly countryside. Yes hill...
The 14th and penultimate round in the Cornish Grand Prix Series, the "undulating" Truro Half Marathon took place in glorious autumnal conditions on Sunday 17th September. As Falmouth Road Runners gathered on Lemon Quay in blazing sunshine for the inaugural pre-race pho...
Treggy 7 will probably always be remembered for 2 things: the weather (wet, very wet) and the pre-race organisation (or lack of it). Runners having to queue up, the back of the queue headed out the door of the registration hall into the rain, for over 20 minutes didn't...
