Spot the brown vests… Past races Tour of Pendle – John Hunt 1st M55, Despina Berdeni 3rd woman. Results Kong MMM Dolgellau – Good news: These fine events will continue next year under new management. Finlay Grant 1st and 1st in the 3 race series having won all of them. Read more…
Ken Jones celebrating his 75th birthday by Legging it round Lathkil. 3rd M70. Past races Roaches – John Hunt 1st M55 and Tom Smith’s first race in the famous brown vest. Welcome to Dark Peak Tom Smith. Results Leg it Round Lathkil – 7 miles with a mixture of limestone Read more…
Another of Dave Lund’s easy to identify creations. Past races The third Peak Raid of the four race series was staged at the Roaches last weekend. Jennie Stevens was 1st woman with 390 points, is the leading F40 in the series and has the opportunity to overhaul the leading woman Read more…
Fin Grant back to winning ways at Stybarrow Dodd, the first of the Kong Winter Fell Series. Mike Robinson and Spike were 4th and 5th M50’s respectively. Results. The maps below are Tom Saville’s Strava tracks from the Elite race at last weekend’s OMM and constitute a couple of proper Read more…
The OMM was run from Bethesda this weekend over the Carneddau and Glyerau with the overnight camp in Nant Francon. Three DPFR teams completed the Elite course: Oli Johnson and Tom Saville were 5th less than 3 minutes behind the 3rd placed team. Lisa Watson and Despina Berdeni were 11th Read more…
British Fell Relays Keswick AC laid on an excellent FRA Relays and were lucky to miss the worst of last week’s extreme weather. Starting with our men’s teams, Dark Peak Alport (Cynog Williams, Edward Corden/Nathan Lawson, Jonathan Crickmore/Tom Saville, Finlay Grant), were 1st finishing less than a minute ahead of Read more…
Geoge Yates’s Bole Hill Badboy race on Saturday 28th October has been nominated by Mick Cochrane for his defence of the Eric Mitchell Memorial Trophy. This year’s new route looks to be a good one. Race information here and Eric Mitchell Memorial Trophy info, including details of the handicapping system Read more…
The final results from the English Championships are available on the FRA website here. Highlights include: Teams Men’s open 2nd just 2 points behind Keswick. Men’s V40 3rd. Men’s V50 4th 3 points behind 3rd placed Keswick. Women’s open 1st. Women’s V40 1st. Individuals Men’s open – Fin Grant 4th, Read more…
Lisa Watson’s write up of the Hodgson Brothers Mountain Relay Great running this weekend at the Hodgson relays, we had 3 teams out: mens, mens v40 and ladies. It was wet, windy and foggy making for exciting racing, but nicely cleared up for the finish. Well done all! Results: MV40 Read more…
Dave Sykes’s Three Shires write up… What has to be one of the musts of the autumn fell running season in the Lakes saw 16 Dark Peakers arrive in the field opposite the Three Shires Inn on an improving forecast. The river was rather full so the crossing of the Read more…