Winter Monday Series commences Monday 29th September. Willy Kitchen writes: In something more than its twentieth year, the curiously great, yet decidedly undervalued, institution that is the ‘Winter Mondays’ series of road and trail races commences its 2025/2026 iteration next Read more
All paths, no rough stuff, what’s happened to the Slow Warts? The combination of hard Alpine walking and some serious Yoga (Moz suggested he’d fallen off his Yoga mat) had scuppered Andy for today’s outing from the Snake bridge. However, Read more
Winter Monday Series commences Monday 29th September. In something more than its twentieth year, the curiously great, yet decidedly undervalued, institution that is the ‘Winter Mondays’ series of road and trail races commences its 2025/2026 iteration next Monday 29th September. Read more
Yes, we’d agreed to return to the Strines for our Wednesday outing for which Moz (in the absence of Andy, in the French Alps) had chosen a fine route, keeping up all the traditions the Slow Warts would want; a Read more
Saturday 25 May 2024 145.4 miles (234.0 km); 5,827 feet (1,776 m) of ascent Starters: 103 Finishers: 48 Retired: 55 First Man: Chris Kelly; M41; Vegan Runners UK; 24:02 First Lady, 9th overall: Melissa Venables; F49; Spa Striders; 34:11 Steven Read more
We were promised a gentle run by Andy to ease Chris back into the harsh reality of the Dark Peak after his extended stay in the soft sands of Portugal. We ten even started in the civilised urban surroundings of Read more
Four last week, eight this week, all out to enjoy probably the first serious downpour of the summer for the Slow Warts. We were also forecast a “feels like temperature” of 8 C for added refreshment. Not daunted, we set Read more
English Championships Congratulations to Finlay Grant who won three of the year’s six English Championship races and was second in his other counter, a feat replicated by Ben Rothery of Ilkley and so Fin and Ben are joint men’s champions. Read more
It was holiday time and Slow Warts were taking a rest from the Wednesday rigorous training regime. This, and the annual moorland restrictions for grouse shooting reduced our choice of venue and, possibly, our numbers to just four. A notable Read more
Thanks to Clive and Bob, we were made aware of the grouse shooting restrictions on the moors around Broomhead and Bradfield where we had planned this Wednesday’s outing. So, after a couple of attempts to find somewhere free of shooters, Read more