Hardwick X-Stream (a final hurrah for cross-country season!)...
It's no secret that I have a deep and abiding love for cross country - so I'm a bit sad that the Three Counties Cross Country season is over for another year. But, just as I thought I'd have to wait until November, the Hardwick X-Stream comes along!! It's a local non-league cross country race open to anyone, a touch shy of 6 miles, with GUARANTEED water obstacles - "X-STREAM" - cross-stream AND extreme - I see what you did there Bearbrook Running & Triathlon Club - very clever! Hardwick is a really pretty village near Aylesbury, and it must be a proper cross-country as the village hall stands in as the race HQ (you can keep your fancy-dan "race villages" - I like races that involve folding tables village halls and the smell of deep heat). The race starts a couple of hundred metres away in a farmers field (where you can park too!) and is all within the same farm. It has my new favourite bag drop - at Royal Parks Half you had to queue for 3