Thanks to Paul Walwyn for pulling together this rather dinky animation of Mike Bourne’s descent from Robinson to the Moot Hall. Don’t forget to turn the sound up on your PC to enjoy the musical accompaniment, and if viewing in landscape click on the ‘map control’ icon (second one from Read more
Thanks to our man in Keswick, @dpcalendar, I can report 8 out of 9 successes: first in was Pete Fraser-Smith, then Penny Collier and Sarah Broadhurst, closely followed by Hannah Saville. James Pierce, Richard Bradbury, Lewis Ashton and Mike Bourne all also successfully completed. Mike with less than a minute Read more
All best wishes to Sally Fawcett and to Bonnie van Wildenburg, who are both representing Great Britain for the first time this weekend at the Trail World Championships in Annecy, France. You can follow their progress here and read a preview here. Simon Mills reports that our newest international stars Read more
Mike Robinson, to the FRA MV40 Relay Team 2014: “Shaun Godsman has just phoned again [regarding the mix up at last year’s presentation night when DP Vets were given CVFR’s relay Gold medals … and a number of our Vets ended up with both gold and bronze medals the following Read more
Lots of DP successes to celebrate this weekend including: Ian Loombe’s completion of the Paddy Buckley Round in 23hrs46mins; Tom Saville’s U23 Bronze Medal at the National Inter-Counties Fell Running Championships in Wales (looks like Neil N had another good run too); Nicky Spinks’ women’s record at the Old County Read more
Many congratulations to Nicky on lowering her own BG record by 6 minutes on Easter Sunday in a time now confirmed as 18.06. Nicky showed characteristic strength of mind in the face of unseasonally warm weather and a nasty gash to her hand, whilst treating her supporters to a day Read more
For those with nothing better to do this Easter Sunday, you can enjoy a virtual tour of the BG route, Spinks style, by periodically visiting the tracker site charting her attempt to lower her own BG record by 50 minutes or so, thereby giving her the fastest cumulative time – Read more
Back by popular demand, provisional Burbage Summer Sharpener dates now in the Calendar for Weds 10th June, 22nd July and 2nd September. Thanks to Dave Holmes for volunteering (I think) to put these on again, subject to whatever constraints recent deforestation in the Burbage Valley may impose. Further details in Read more
Just uploaded details of the twelve Summer Series Monday night races to the calendar – courtesy of Nicky Spinks, RO. See http://www.runbg.co.uk/Summer%20Series.htm for chapter and verse. Highly recommended, with or without a beer afterwards.
The menu of summer Wednesday night runs is now available via the Calendar. Thanks to Bob B for pulling this together.