Commiserations to Jim and Keith on their heroic failure to conquer the Ramsay this weekend. It seems slightly absurd to claim the weather was just too good, but rest assured the hottest day of the year in the Glens is not the one to attempt this big round in a Read more
Following #6 at Yetholm six weeks ago, the ageless Mr Rimmer has snuck into top slot in the league, with Carshare lurking in third place. Young Mr Holmes (Keith) has been at repeated pains, ever since, to point out that he won the team prize on the day, hosting Messrs Read more
Huge thanks to everybody who donated a squid or two to the cause. We’ve now raised nearly £4,500; three quarters of the cost of an Odyssey holiday, and we’ll be drawing the two Dragon’s Back DVD winners out of a hat next Saturday 20th July (so there’s still time to Read more
On Tuesday morning at 7am, Nicky Spinks, Clare Oliffe, myself and a bunch of others much more likely than me to make it all the way will be setting off from Conwy Castle to retrace the route of the original 1992 Dragon’s Back race (give or take the odd road checkpoint). Read more
MC Hakes has now spoken. See here. Many congratulations to Bernie Burke, Martha Hart, Dale Mathers (Northern Ireland), Laurence Piercy and Tim Rippon, who all successfully battled the rather hostile elements to complete the BG this weekend in times between about 22.50 and 23.50. Thanks are due, as ever, to Read more
They seem to have been far too busy eating fish and chips or summat to bother telling us, but the news is good. Well, better than that actually. All done in 16 hours 4 minutes. Records broken on every leg. Stupendous stuff. Many many congrats to all concerned. Next year, Read more
And last but not least … not entirely sure of the time on the final leg – Nicky will no doubt give us all chapter and verse in due course, but it’s somewhere between 1 hour 40 and 1 hour 43. At least 10 minutes quicker than Billy B, and Read more
The weather’s looking mostly set fair for the DP women’s second crack at the Billy Bland challenge – and they’re hoping to knock a goodly chunk off the record time they set last year at 18hrs 51mins. If all goes to plan, first off at 3am Sunday morning will be Read more
Congratulations to Greg Crowley who yesterday successfully completed his Bob Graham round in 23 hours and 26 minutes. That’s three successful rounds in two weeks.
Third time lucky for the DP mixed team at this fine pootle around the bounds (more or less) of the city. We picked up an additional four places and took 48mins off our previous time last year; it’d be good to make a similar dent into the time this year. Read more