Monthly Archives: October 2013

The penultimate round of the 2013 Championship was the Stroud Half Marathon, held in windy conditions on October 27th. 12 male and 3 female members of Forest of Dean AC represented the club.  First finisher was James Dobbing, 93rd in … Continue reading →

New member Chris Penny wanted to do something special for his 40th birthday so decided to enter a marathon.  Not any marathon, but one of the toughest in Britain: the Snowdon Marathon.  In spite of much climbing, he completed in … Continue reading →

Following on from the fantastic turn out at Saturday’s Cross Country the club is hosting its own xc series, the first event is this Saturday 12th Oct at Lakers starting at 11am. If you have secondary School age children please … Continue reading →

Forest of Dean AC recently staged the Great Oaks Gallop in order to raise funds for the Coleford Hospice.  The race also gave an opportunity to present the Carol Jones Trophy, given in memory of our former chair, to the first FODAC … Continue reading →

Kate Frost completed her first marathon finishing in 4h 24min in Chester.  Matt Bond also completed this race in 3:26:52. In the Badminton Horseless Trails 9 mile race, James Dobbing was 4th in 61.49, followed by Mark Mathews 64.34; Mark … Continue reading →

This race was held at the Cotswold Farm Park on October 5th.  There was good turnout from Forest of Dean runners in spite of the races on the following day. In the Senior Women’s race, run over two laps of … Continue reading →