The Bamford camping weekend, including a DPFR race on the Saturday morning, is less than a fortnight away. Details in the calendar. Recommended! Past races Up the Nab – Laurence Piercy 2nd. Results Parwich Panoramic Five – Rachel Rose 1st woman. Read more
Mermen in the mu Our ambition in the heady atmosphere of the Plough at Bradfield last Wednesday was to do a “there and back” to Mermaid’s Pool from Birchen Clough. However, in the real world of the damp and misty Read more
For a while the club has hosted several challenges on the website, e.g the Kinder Killer, Dozen and Heart of Darkness etc. Currently they are all listed on a long page with all the routes, FKTs and race reports interspersed Read more
Hello Dark Peak V60’s. The FRA relays (British Fell and Hill Relay Championships) are on Saturday 21st October in the Lake District and are being hosted by Keswick AC. It is not certain that the V60’s will get a space Read more
For those running in the British Champs race in Llanberis on Saturday, the route has been shortened so that it is an AM and not an AL. The race map on the Eryri website has been updated to reflect this Read more
Hodgson Brothers Mountain Relay – Sunday 1st October 2023 in Patterdale, Cumbria.– 1 Open Team and 1 Vets Team.– 8 runners per team, 4 legs run in pairs.– https://hbmr.org.uk/ British Fell Relays (FRA) – Saturday 21st October 2023 at Braithwaite, Read more
There were worries amongst the Slow Warts about whether the Mortimer Road would be accessible enough (road works) to reach the gas station, particularly for the Hathersage group, John D (and Moz) returning from injury recovery. Nevertheless, nine of us Read more
Kentmere kit check incident There has been a furore on social media about a kit check incident at Kentmere last Sunday. Two comments from the Facebook Fell Running UK group page are reproduced below. The first outlines the incident and Read more
A plan to satisfy a Slow Warts’ ambition to visit two caves on opposite sides of Yellow Slacks was shelved, as we gathered at Doctor’s Gate, because of speleological searching fatigue and replaced by Andy’s suggestion of a double crossing Read more
Congratulations to Stuart Reid who completed his BG last weekend in 23:28. At the half way point of the four race British Championship series Finlay Grant is 2nd MSEN and 1st M23. Dark Peak are 3rd MSEN team, a couple Read more