Wednesday evening club run from The Sportsman Upcoming events To Sunday 18th April – Kinder Killer TT Monday 19th April – Trunce Monday 19th to Sunday 25th April – Pike Low TT Until Sunday 30th April – Redmires iOrienteering Past events Hoppits Hill – The massed battalions of Clan Patton Read more
The Kinder Killer has for the most part been acclaimed to be a fine day out. To date, ten results have been submitted but I know that there are at least as many again that are unreported! Mses. Elmore, Spinks and Hart (I think) heading down Rowland Cote Moor on Read more
Congratulations to Marcus Scotney who has run The Limestone Way (Castleton to Rocester in Staffordshire, via assorted trails though the White Peak) in what I understand to be a record time of 6:18:18. Marcus at the finish in Rocester looking as fresh as a daisy. Wednesday evening’s first club run Read more
After a three month hiatus since the last club race, Crookstone Crashout on 20th December, it’s great that racing, albeit in TT form, can resume tomorrow. The guidance from the Government website (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home#stay-at-home ) includes the following: you will be able to meet outdoors either in a group of 6 Read more
Wednesday evening runs from The Sportsman and elsewhere will re-start on Wednesday 31st March with the traditional run across to Hathersage. Details, including Covid guidance, in the Calendar. Non-Facebook using BG connoisseurs may not have seen this… Upcoming events: There are now four TT’s in the Calendar for April with Read more
Now that Covid restrictions are slowly starting to ease we are able to re-start club races. They will be in the all too familiar time trial format for the time being, but with the possibility at least of mass start races later in the year. To date, there are two Read more
Congratulations to Josh Williams who clipped 11 seconds off Tom Brunt’s record for the Kinder Trigs route. Josh’s time was 2:23:24 and his Strava shows a distance of 22.52km with 1,218m of ascent. Details of the route can be found on the ‘Other Challenges’ tab of the Bob Graham page Read more
Congratulations to Ben Kelsey who has completed the Kinder Kozen in 16:05:51. The Kozen is a Kinder Dozen and a Kinder Killer back to back and, according to Ben’s Strava, is 53 miles in length with 18,000 feet of ascent. Willy Kitchen and Dave McGuinness ran the first Kozen seven Read more
With this third lockdown grinding seemingly ever onwards, there has been all too little to report. However, Lewis writes: “Here is a good read. One time dark peak member Shane Ohly’s winter bg. https://www.shaneohly.com/blog/winter-bob-graham-round-2020 ” I understand that reading stuff like this is now called working from home. One other Read more
Covid Almost the whole of England remains in the “National lockdown: Stay at Home” tier. The following sentence is lifted from the official guidance: “You should minimise time spent outside your home, but you can leave your home to exercise. This should be limited to once per day, and you Read more