By Ian Grimshaw

To Chester racecourse for the fifth Chester marathon on a cold October morning.  After the stress of traffic jams through the city centre and not being able to park at the marathon car park, there was a very well organised start area for the 4,500 people taking part in the join Chester marathon and metric marathon, including LBAC runners Amy & Andy Inchley, Helen Crossland and myself.

The race itself started in almost perfect conditions with a 2.5 mile tour of the city before crossing the river Dee and heading into the Welsh countryside.  The route varied along quiet county lanes with few spectators and through picturesque villages with lots of support from residents. Churton village even had a brass band playing… was that Colonel Bogey!  The course was attended by lots of friendly marshals, with drinks, fuel and toilet stops every three miles and marshals at all road junctions to ensure you took the right turning. read more

A merry band of three LBAC members have taken on the MK tour this year. In a bid to complete six races in six days Richard Inchley, Chris Norman and Andy Inchley are heading off around the sights of MK every evening for a hard fought race against a bunch of other fools.

Currently three days in and half way in race terms, but a little short in distance terms all three are equitting themselves well. As past participants Andy and Richard know only too well what a 5 mile cross-country, 5 miles on the hills of Campbell Park and a 10K can do the legs so no chickens are being counted here. Brian Graves who organises the event does unique T-shirts each year for all the finishers and burns any that are left spare so if you don't complete, you can't have one! read more