Stephen Wilson’s composite image of the first ten women to finish Peris Horseshoe last weekend, the British Championship long race, including an impressive five Dark Peak Fell Runners. Past races Shelf Moor – Lura Robertson 1st woman. Bertie Houghton 1st, Jonny Crickmore 2nd, Tom Saville 3rd with Henry Webb, Read more…
Peris Horseshoe Yesterday’s Peris Horseshoe was the Long British Championship race. Finlay Grant won the gold medal in the men’s race with Keith Holmes taking silver in the M70 category. In the women’s race Dark Peak blitzed the team event to take gold with Emily Cowper-Coles 4th, Fran Collett 5th, Read more…
Climbing Bunster Hill at the start of Ilam Three Peaks. Past races Ilam Three Peaks – The first of the four race Limestone Series attracted a strong field but not strong enough to stop Finlay Grant winning convincingly with Henry Webb 3rd, Laurence Piercy 6th, Felix Watts 7th and Harriet Read more…
Stephen Wilson’s composite pictures of the twenty elite runners including four brown vests who won their respective categories in this year’s English Championships. There are one or two ‘game faces’ on display! Limestone Series Alison Wainwright is organising the Limestone Series which comprises four races in the White Peak Read more…
Limestone Series Alison Wainwright is organising the Limestone Series which comprises four races in the White Peak starting with Ilam Four Peaks this coming Sunday. EoD is available but pre-entry is cheaper. The other three races are Litton Christmas Cracker in December, ‘Moonriver’ a night race in Dovedale in January Read more…
Past races Crowden – Harriet Wingfield 1st woman Results Trunce 8 – Results Upcoming races Tuesday 27th August – Eyam. Saturday 31st August – Longshaw. Sunday 1st September – Bleaklow Blitz. Friday 6th September – Great Longstone. The last of the weekday evening races and well worth the effort. Read more…
A bumper edition this week after your correspondent’s return from six weeks away dragging himself up and down an alp or two. Congratulations to Matt Spoor and Fran Collett who recently completed the Ramsay Round in 23:51. This was Fran’s first big round and Matt’s completion of ‘The Big Three’ Read more…
My apologies for this lean edition of the blog. ‘Young Carshare’ is away in foreign climes on foreign climbs and I.T. is a bit limited here. The Wasdale results are well worth examining and several of our elite runners have now secured medals in the English Championship. Respect! Past racesWinster Read more…
Congratulations to Matt Spoor who completed the Paddy Buckley Round early on Saturday morning. In other news, sadly it is reported on the FRA website that the great Joss Naylor died on Friday. Past races Tideswell – Results Buttermere Horseshoe – Fran Collett 2nd woman, John Hunt 2nd M50 and Read more…
Congratulations to James Wilkins, Dalton Barham, Laurie Baxter and Helen Roberts who, with the considerable help of Richard Hakes and his cast of tens, completed their Bob Graham Rounds this weekend. English Championship standings: After Buttermere Sailbeck which was the 4th English Championship counter, Dark Peak Fell Runners in the Read more…