Category: Race Report

Race Report: Wesel Marathon and Half

Felixstowe’s twin town of 50 years is Wesel in Germany. FRR have a reciprocal arrangement with HADI (Wesel’s running club) to host members at each other’s races. Various aspects aligned that meant that I...

Race Report: post-lockdown SVN challenge

After 4 months of announcements of race cancellations, some events are now starting to go ahead. It’s not practical for all, but some locations and formats can accommodate the current restrictions enough to make...

First Wesel Marathon – 5th Jan 2020

What a brilliantly organised event this was, considering they anticipated 500’ish runners in the planning stages but in fact 1400+ runners attended. Another great event put on by our Twin town and one we...

Kirton 5 Mile Race Report 2019

31st May again brought near-perfect running conditions and I think we can now finally put the awful weather of 2017 to bed. I would like to thank all the runners and spectators for their...

Barcelona Ironman report

Barcelona Ironman 2018 I started off writing this for myself to look back on as the memories (and the pain) fade away. Partly because a few days after the event, it seems a surreal...

Race Report: South Downs Way 100

100 miles, 12,700 feet of elevation, 305 starters, 223 finishers, 15,000 calories burnt. 26hrs 58min on feet. Training had gone well, very well in fact. Following my own 4-month build, peak and taper training...

Brighton marathon post race report

Right then, as promised (to those that bothered to read my pre Brighton ramblings) here is my post Brighton Marathon 2018 report. Preamble For those that didn’t read that, or are unfamiliar with the...

Race Report: Round Norfolk Relay 2017

For the uninitiated, the weekend of 16/17th September saw 17 of our runners take the “Red” to Norfolk and compete in the annual Round Norfolk Relay where 60 odd teams of 17 runners run...