Other races

  • Not The Roman Nine – 15 Jan 2012

    Not The Roman Nine – 15 Jan 2012

    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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    Fladbury Festive 5.5 – 2nd Jan 2012

    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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  • BvH Yacht Handicap 18th December 2011 – results

    BvH Yacht Handicap 18th December 2011 – results

    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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  • Croome Capability Canter 2011 2

    Croome Capability Canter – 27 Nov 2011

    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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  • Kat is pictured with Ann from Hobsons Bay: "we've been keeping each other going in training and despite not meeting at the start both finished in 74 minutes!"

    Melbourne City2Sea race – 13 Nov 2011

    Kat Gibbons reports: Ok, so I know I’m not technically a BvH member anymore but I didn’t think you’d all mind if I took the mighty teal vest on a little adventure down under.

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  • Liverpool Fab Four Miler and Marathon – 8/9 Oct 2011

    Liverpool Fab Four Miler and Marathon – 8/9 Oct 2011

    Linda Howell reports: Saturday 8th October dawned to less rain than expected and saw myself and my sister, Jo, heading to Sefton Park to run the “Fab Four Miler”. Billed as a warm up for the Liverpool Marathon the next day, entries were limited to...

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  • Salomon Rivington Trail Half-Marathon – 1 October 2011

    Salomon Rivington Trail Half-Marathon – 1 October 2011

    Stephen Hopkins reports: This is a trail race that anyone with a liking for testing off roaders should try. In a lovely area not far from Bolton,it circles around two reservoirs, one being Rivington reservoir.

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  • Sandwell 6 Towns 16miles – 28 August 2011

    Sandwell 6 Towns 16miles – 28 August 2011

    Lesley Pymm reports: A slightly less well attended event was the Sandwell 6 Towns 16 miles on Sunday. There were two runners on this distance and more on the marathon distance that started an hour earlier.

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  • Lesley Wenlock Olympics

    Wenlock Olympian Games 9 – 10 July 2011

    Lesley Pymm reports: For the last couple of years I have not been able to run the 7 mile road race at Much Wenlock as it has clashed with the triathlon. This year, however, the tri was on Saturday.

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    Welsh 1000 Metre Peaks Race – June 4 2011

    Report by Nathan Jones: At just over 22 miles and 9000ft of ascent, taking in the summits of all five Welsh mountains over 1000m high, this was a race I’d been looking forward to with equal parts fear and excitement.

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