Carshare

 Thanks for all the comments, this has run it’s time now.

 Famous Grouse:- Andy Howie has kindly sent the results through, and also loads of photos are on the typically excellent Hayfield website. S Yorks Cross Country Results Wingerworth Wobble Results:-   Bochum:- This is a city within the Ruhr, twinned with Sheffield. There are many similarities, huge coalfields now worked out and Read more

 Phil “used my new toy to follow me around the course tonight.  Tim Hawley (and a few others) wanted to see the route.  As you can see I didn’t really take the optimum route.  Dave Holmes slaughtered me to the Headstone from Rivelin track, I took the ‘bad’ option straight Read more

Karen Davison is holding a Run-A-Long party this coming Thursday evening, from 7.30pm. If you have been to a ‘Tupperware Party’ or even an ‘Anne Summers Party’ you’ll be familiar with the idea….except it’s running kit and gear… Debs and Stuart from Accelerate will be bringing all the latest Autumn/Winter Read more

 Three Peaks Entry:- Now being taken – http://www.threepeaksrace.org.uk/  And looking now,  650 already gone…Not sure about their “enhanced prize list” though, the V60 category is thinner than last year. Midweek Running:- On Tuesday Roy Gibson and Ian Winterburn ran over Blackhill and down to Dean Clough before returning to Crowden, very foggy on the Read more

Tour of Pendle:- Photos.   Full results .A prestigious course record from Lloyd – that’s some achievement. A marvellous mass DPFR travelling turnout – 18. Cold, but clear and dry, so no trouble finding the way. That last hill sorted everyone out, we all know it’s knackering, it always is, so stagger Read more

Start lists are out, here  – race details are here

After some hesitation the powers that control the Dark Peak Cyberspace have allowed Dr Bob his foot in the door.  As you may recall it all began with a few educational shots of foot surgery, closely followed by graphic images of injuries suffered while using a skip for hill training Read more

    Proof indeed, Phil and Izzie, with photographer. If you’e going from King’s Tree round to the Westend Valley, there are paths through the woods to avoid the road. At 1560093167 are the ruins of Banktop Farm – don’t know anything more about its history, though. New competition coming soon.

This  is worth a read, from the Telegraph – written by someone who knows their stuff. Of course I never knew him, but his climbs have a strong reputation – Demon Rib on Black Rocks, Suicide Wall on Cratcliffe, Goliath’s Groove, Cave Innominate finish on Stanage, Spectre on the Grochan, Read more