Turns out the Three Peaks online entry system opened today, so if you’re wanting to enter (Carshare League as well as Yorkshire Championship this year), you’re strongly advised to get cracking … already 415 entered of the 999 places available. http://www.threepeaksrace.org.uk/raceinfo2016.html
Almost full now – see revised running order below – and Dave Lund’s keen to find a race to organise too, so looks like we’ll be knocking one or more of the Sharpeners off the menu. Could ROs identified below who have not yet OK’d or suggested a date please Read more
To pretty much everyone’s surprise, Tim H and Dave H managed both to agree on their route finding and avoid any undue confrontations with farmers, whilst leading us all a merry dance around the sites of the upper Loxley Valley. Your correspondent was a tad disappointed that there was to Read more
Lucy Wiegand has asked (“for some reason the SYO committee think it needs more fell runners to come”) that we plug a South Yorkshire orienteers ‘city social event’, registration 6pm, Tues 19th Jan at the Red Deer on Pitt Street. ‘Urban map based run with social afterwards’. More info on Read more
The 40@40 running order currently looks as follows. Could ROs identified who have not already OK’d the suggested date please calendar@dpfr.org.uk to confirm they’re happy with suggested dates – and check/supply calendar details (timings, CPs etc. as necessary) in good time. Still time for additional suggestions and/or volunteers to organise Read more
One small benefit of a week of post-Boundary Run manflu is that the calendar has been sat on its increasingly substantial arse behind just long enough to enter the 200+ new fixtures for the upcoming year to the DP website calendar. For techies with smart phones, you can download the Read more
A gentle shamble out from Fairholmes for my shiny new watch, in honour of which please find the track below. Fourteen soon enough became thirteen as Clive retired for an early bath. Meanwhile, runners were scattered to the four corners of Abbey Brook, with Big Bob professing little interest in Read more
We’re halfway there already with the Carshare League this year (see full list of races below), with a couple of us already having bagged our five counters. Looking good too at present for junior Paxman to deliver our first five women’s completions in a year … the trophy is a Read more
As those who have read their DP News – or can count – will know, 2016 heralds the fortieth anniversary of the formation of Dark Peak Fell Runners. Our esteemed (ish) chair is plotting a number of events to recognise this questionable landmark.In the meantime, the calendar and webmaster have Read more
Simon Mills has organised a bus to the start of the Trigger in Marsden. Pick ups provisionally planned for Dore Station, Hillsborough and possibly Oughtibridge. £8 or £9 per head. stealth_trousers@yahoo.co.uk Simon, or get his mobile number from the club list recently circulated with DP News.