Seven Torbay A.C. Athletes ran Exeter’s Great West Run with over 2,200 other runners which takes a 13.1 mile route through the heart of Exeter with a fantastic stadium finish at the Arena athletics track. Steve Weeks, Sara Crozier and Gemma Radcliffe all ran pbs despite the wet conditions. Race positions and chip times on […]

A total of 41 Junior and Senior Torbay A.C. Athletes found great form at the first westward league cross country of the season at Plymouth’s Central Park. The weather and conditions were not typical for cross country with sunshine and little mud. The stand out performance of the day was Iona Farquaharson who flew around […]

Torbay AC’s Brian Lewis joined over 25,000 runners who competed in the Cardiff half marathon on Sunday. This was the Commonwealth Half Marathon Championships welcoming athletes from all over the globe. Brian finished in a very respectable 1,755th place in a great time of 1:42.43. Bournemouth Marathon Paul and Karen Frissen competed at a very […]

Killerton Trail 1/2 Marathon Torbay AC’s Jo Loten ran in the new Killerton Trail 1/2 Marathon. This was a challenging multi-terrain course around the historic grounds at Killerton with a 1,929ft hill climb! but glorious setting and views which have not been used by any other previous events. Jo’s time was (2:03:01) finishing 4th in […]

Triple Jump National Title One of Torbay AC’s most promising juniors, Georgina Scoot competed in the England Athletics National Championships at Bedford. Contesting in the under 15 girls triple Jump, in the fifth round a 11.80m jump was good enough to win her the national title also setting a new championship best performance in the […]

City to Sea Three hundred and sixty seven participants lined up at the start line of the fourth City to Sea event organised by Torbay Holiday Helpers Network charity, (who give families living with serious illness and bereavement, memory making holidays). It was a question of “Which event will you choose?” the 34 Mile Ultra […]

Torbay Five Bays Challenge Torbay A.C’s inaugural Five Bays Challenge, a 10 kilometre multi-terrain race, was held last Sunday with great success, following the need to replace the Torbay Regatta 10k road race. There were many positive comments from the 172 competitors who ran the challenging course from Broadsands Beach to Brixham and back with […]

The Forest Flyer Fifteen Torbay AAC members dodged the rain clouds and donned the trail shoes to take on the Dawlish Coasters Forest Flyer,nearly 5 miles of completely off-road running through the Haldon Forest Park this route was not flat! all were delighted to conquer the nearly one mile hill at the end! First home […]

Totnes 10k Nineteen TAAC members ran in the Totnes 10k, on a mostly flat course following the beautiful River Dart on tarmac, grass, and trails from Borough Park in central Totnes. There were many outstanding performances Pete Monaghan finishing 6th (38:36) to claimed 1st MV50 award, Ray Brown (57:26) 1st MV70 award Irene Hewings (59:07) […]

Redbull 400 On Saturday Debbie Drake completed the Redbull 400 at Titisee-Neustadt, Germany. This is an extreme 400 meter race which starts with a steep grass down hill then goes almost vertical where competitors have to crawl. Debbie knocked 23 seconds off last years time in 07.44. Debbie reported that it was a party atmosphere […]