It was a lovely evening for running in Milton Keynes last night, as nine LBAC members went over to the Open University for the final race of the East Midlands Grand Prix Series which was the MK 10K.

It's a pretty flat course in general, with one steady hill just after 8K and only a few fairly sharp turns to possibly slow you down, so with a warm evening and lots of confidence after a weekend of relaying across Bedfordshire hopes were high for fast times.

There were three of our ladies in the race and they took slightly different approaches to it. Kate Johnson went off at around 7:30 pace for the first mile, which was maybe slightly ambitious, but showed that her speed work from the previous evening had inspired her. Although she then did slow somewhat, a fast last mile around the OU site enabled her to come home in 53:23 and record a new PB. read more

So when two blokes in the Nueadd Arms, in Llantrwyd Wells, challenged each other to race – one on a horse and one on foot over the welsh countryside, over about 22 miles, they had clearly had too much of the mountain air or too much beer…….or maybe both.

35 years ago there were two (three if you count the horse), this year there were over 600 hundred runners including relay runners, and over 60 horses (a record), surely not all of us could have been under the influence? Readers, you can make up your own minds as you go along. read more