Will Carter leading John Hunt at Black Lane Ends, Saturday’s 50 at 50 race in the Dales. John pulled ahead to finish 4th. Run Leaders and Coaching Over recent years, the club has agreed to pay course fees for a number of people to take introductory leadership courses. UK Athletics Read more
My previous column briefly reported the successes of the three winning teams at last week’s FRA relays together with the outstanding individual run by Euan Patton to win Leg 1 outright. Having now had more time to digest the full results, I can also report that: DPFR won three of Read more
Congratulations to Helm Hill for hosting the FRA relays. They did an outstanding job, it was almost as good as the 2019 edition at Fairholmes! Dark Peak had more than our fair share of success. The men’s and women’s A teams were second and seventh respectively and three of our Read more
Congratulations to our Vets team who held off Helm Hill by under 20 seconds to win the Hodgson Brothers Mountain Relay. Top Pape, Tom Brunt, John Hunt and Pete Davies clutching the vets trophy and some loot at the Hodgeson Brothers Mountain Relay. Also in the team of eight were Read more
Congratulations to Andy Heyes who, running incognito in a Hallamshire vest, was a wide margin winner of last weekend’s Sheffield Half Marathon in the astonishing time of 1:06:04. As reported in the Carshare blog a fortnight ago, Izzy-Mai Wilson came second in the U15 English Junior Championship and here she Read more
South Mynd last Saturday wrapped up the 2021 English Championship. Keswick won the Men’s open team championship in a tie break ahead of Calder Valley with DPFR 5th close behind Matlock. DPFR M40’s won Bronze medals in 3rd behind Calder Valley and Helm Hill. DPFR M50’s were 4th with another Read more
The Junior FRA Championships concluded at Ilam last week with DPFR 7th overall. Well done to all the competitors and the many many others whose good works enable a championship like this to take place. The outstanding result of the four race series was by Izzy-Mai Wilson who was 2nd= Read more
Congratulations to Euan (2nd) and Ellen Patton (10th) on representing England in the U20 Junior Home Internationals held in the Mourne Mountains last weekend. Congratulations also to Mark Whitworth who overcame extreme heat over the first three days to complete the Dragon’s Back this week. Mark and his hard earned Read more
Congratulations to Tim Rippon who has completed his Joss Naylor Lakeland Challenge in 13:31. For those who don’t know, the JNLC starts at Pooley Bridge and finishes 77km and 5182m of ascent later at Greendale Bridge in Wasdale. It’s for the over 50’s with a time limit of 12 hours Read more
Congratulations to Hal Roberts who took 23:43 a couple of weeks ago to complete his BG. I believe that his was the 8th BG completion of the year by a DPFR member to add to 3 Paddy rounds, a Ramsay and a fast Rigby. Good work! Hopefully, prospective BG contenders Read more