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Lesley Pymm reports: The sun shone as we waited to start the Haughmond Handicap Chase as the Sports Village at Shrewsbury. The usual decisions about what to wear, I decided that it was warm enough for a vest and then a coffee after picking up...

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Andy Wheeler reports: Whilst everyone else was in Sutton park running in the relays, I was down in London at the new Olympic Park for the ‘once in a lifetime’ National Lottery 5m race. 

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Barrie Roberts, Katie Roberts along with Martin and Marie Foster have recently returned from warm weather/pre-season training in the Algarve, Portugal. Barrie and Martin competed in 3 races. Barrie report on the results:- Falesia Annual 5k Road Race held on 13th March, 2012 A strong...

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Lesley Pymm reports: This was the 25th Anniversary run of the Grizzly – and I had done 15 of them. Every year I think ‘is this going to be my last full Grizzly? Will I be shortcutted or pulled out?’, but I intend to keep...

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Lesley Pymm reports: This is one of my regular events, part of my build up to the Grizzly in March. This year it was a lot warmer and dryer than it has been in many previous years. The event begins in the village of Harby...

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Lesley Pymm reports: What a surprise – when we got to the Wyre Forest Visitors Centre we found that it was still totally white! The snow from last week had not shifted at all. This was what met the organisers, Amazing Feet RC, when they...

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Nicola Morris Reports:  Certainly an interesting start……and I have to say a bit of a challenge ……..collecting numbers and chips, negotiating a large number of runners all in quite a small room, finding a toilet that wasn’t blocked or didn’t have a queue and making...

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Lesley Pymm reports: I thought things looked promising when I got an e-mail from the organiser telling me (and everyone else as well, presumably) that the village had been baking cakes for ages now in preparation for the event. That seemed like a pretty good...

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Well done to everyone who took part in the Yacht Handicap this year on 18th December. The winners were Lesley Pymm and Phil Williamson who were only 10 seconds out from their predicted time.

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Lesley Pymm reports: I read the race report that someone else did on this event last year and thought it seemed like my sort of run, and so it proved to be! I was a little late getting to Croome, which is a National Trust...

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