Congratulations to Mike ‘Baywatch Kong’ Robinson(!) who was the wide margin winner of the M50’s in the Kong Winter Series, a series of five short sharp and invariably well contested Lakeland races. Results. Past events Doctor’s Gate – Andy Barnett, Richard Bradbury (Matlock AC these days) and Steve Matthews who, Read more
A quiet week, apart from the weather! Past events New Chew – Steve Adams 5th, Despina Berdini and Matthew Pickering 7th. Results. Doctor’s Gate Upcoming events Wednesday 23rd February – Rivelin Landmarks. The uninitiated will do well to find Wyming Brook Knoll without a reccy. Sunday 27th February – Hoppits Read more
Austin Frost at Lad’s Leap. Caption competition? Past events Margery Hill – Some robust weather resulted in 30% of the field wisely bailing towards the northern end of the course. Tom Brunt’s time of just over two hours was most impressive in the conditions. Results. Lads Leap – Austin Frost Read more
Juliet Downs on her way to a fine win at Tigger Tor last week. Past events Tigger Tor – As ever, there was a healthy DPFR presence at Tigger Tor this year. Oli Johnson and Sally Fawcett won their respective V40 categories, but run of the day was undoubtedly by Read more
Congratulations to Nicky Spinks who spent the weekend at the seaside and finished 1st woman and 8th overall in the 100 mile Arc of Attrition, a trail race that follows the South West Coastal path on the Cornish coast. I suspect that there may have been a bit of a Read more
Dave Tait in his Sunday Best at Stanbury Splash last weekend. Past events Stanbury Splash – Results. Upcoming events Saturday, 22nd January – Ashop Horseshoe. The ‘mass start’ was this (Saturday) morning, but this can also be run as a Time Trial tomorrow, Sunday 23rd January. Current winning time 1:23:31. Read more
Tom Brunt’s 12 Trigs of Christmas competition, which concluded last Sunday, proved to be popular taking many of us to various obscure corners of the country. Your correspondent was oh so nearly pipped at the post by Tim Rippon who would most probably have carried off the non-existent prize had Read more
Reports of Tim Rippon’s visit to Ben Alder had Jim Paxman very worried, thinking that his seemingly unassailable position at the top of the table could be under threat after all. As it happened, Jim clung onto the top spot thanks to the bonus points accrued from his Christmas Day Read more
The FRA’s 50 at 50 series ended a year later than planned on Hogmanay with the Auld Lang Syne race up at Haworth. The leading Dark Peak Fell Runners were 6th Will Carter, 9th John Hunt, 27th Keith Holmes and 29th Alison Wainwright. The series was the brainchild of our Read more
There has been plenty of action on the trig-bagging front over recent days with two teams making particularly noteworthy progress. The Fawcett / Mills pairing made particularly good use of the Christmas Day bonus points ticking off Margery Hill, Outer Edge and Alport. The Elmore / Ashton / Borrell team Read more