Author: bvrbovey

There was a variety of different races and terrains that Bovey Valley Runners participated in last weekend. Out on the South Cornwall coast was the Polruan Shuffle organised by Purple Gecko…

Running the Hameldown Hammer Half or the Hammer 7EVEN, organised by OuterEdge, is always an exciting prospect.  When you enter the event around December time, winter hasn't quite hit yet,…

Four BVR runners were in action at the First Chance event organised by South West Road Runners, with 500 runners taking the opportunity to run their first 10k of 2024. Conditions…

Last week saw the culmination of a 12-week training programme for brand new runners at BVR with their 5k graduation run. The BVR Couch to 5K program is designed as a…

Tim Magor from Bovey Valley Runners was fortunate to get a place in the New York Marathon and he had just an amazing time. The crowds were enormous, and the…

Four BVR Runners travelled to the Roman City of Bath to take part in the annual half marathon on Sunday Oct 15th. The route was a two-lap course described as…

Under very humid conditions there was a great turnout of BVR runners for the Cardiff Half Marathon. This is a very established race with over 20,000 taking part. The fast,…

Our next new intake of Couch to 5K training starts this Thursday 7th Sept at 7pm at The Dolphin in Bovey Tracey. This is an initial meeting to explain the…

A tale of two races. There was quite a lot of disappointment on the cancellation of the Haytor Heller run last Saturday, a favourite in the race calendar of many…

Caragh Mellitt from Bovey Valley Runners ran the gruelling one-day non-stop 100K Race to the Stones on Saturday 8th July.  She crossed the start line in Lewknor, Oxfordshire, at 08:10…