The January Jaunt This years January Jaunt, organised by Plymouth Round Table saw its biggest entry numbers yet. The multi terrain 10km course started at Plymouth’s Speedway track with the field of runners heading out back around Saltram House. Finishing second overall and first home for the Torbay AC team was Pete Monaghan in a […]

Race the Light Torbay Athletic Club fielded six determined members who battled the elements to Race the Light and the Tide! in an 8.5 run to Mothercombe and back, on the Holbeton. Doing battle with a double estuary crossing and mountains of mud. The rain finally holding off during the multi terrain course, with 257 head torch ready, […]

Westward League Exeter Torbay AC fielded thirty eight Junior and Senior members in the 3rd Westward League and Devon County Cross Country Championship at Exeter. Once again it was junior Iona Farquharson who produced the performance of the day coming 2nd in the U13 Girls race earning a place in the Devon team and 1st […]

Bicton Blister and Lite  Torbay Athletic Club had eleven members line up at Bicton College to take on the Blister and Lite races. The Blister was an undulating 10 miles around Woodbury Common, through the woods and across streams, the mud lovers were not disappointed. At the highest point of the longer route runners were […]

Manaslu Himalaya Race Torbay AC’s Debbie Drake completed the Manaslu 9 day stage race, set deep in the Himalayas, this was the hardest challenge that she had ever take on. The runs each day were hard with ascents of up 13000ft. The tracks were very technical often very narrow on the edge of cliffs. Stages […]

Drogo 10 Torbay AC had five runners enter in this exciting and challenging multi-terrain race that started and finished at Castle Drogo. With a chance to experience 10(ish) miles of hilly, muddy cross-country terrain in the Teign valley, and tackle the infamous Hunter’s Hill footpath an elevation of 1526ft First home for the Club was […]

Cross Country Newquay On Remembrance Sunday 2018, 31 Torbay A.C. Junior and Adult members descended upon Newquay for the second fixture of the Westward League cross country which is also the Cornwall County Championship attracting some of the region’s best endurance runners. The rain held off for a change this year and despite the blustery […]

Templer 10 Torbay Athletic Club turned out twenty runners on a rainy Sunday to take on the Templer 10 challenge. The ten mile very multi terrain race started and finished in the impressive grounds of Stover School. The team snaked across the fields of Teigngrace, through Stover Country Park in beautiful, glistening red and gold […]

Dartmoor Vale Races Pete Monaghan was first finisher in the Dartmoor Vale 10k on Sunday leading home ten Torbay AC members in this event, with five other club members running in the Half Marathon.It was a bright chilly Autumn morning with a buffering biting wind, where long sleeves and leggings were chosen by some before […]

Two Torbay A.C. Athletes ran Saturday’s Flying Fox Running’s Dark Wood 8.5 Mile Race located in Great Wood in the Quantocks. Great Wood is known for it’s Combes, trees and Red Deer. This hilly race is challenging, but the steep climbs reward competitors with some spectacular downhill running and a great medal for all finishers. […]