This year’s challenge is perhaps a little harder than the last couple (by popular demand I should add) and is one for the fellrunner with a well-rounded knowledge of the United Kingdom’s hills and mountains. The answer to each clue is the name of a hill or mountain. Fill them Read more
Champs Please find a link to the final handicaps below, ahead of tomorrow’s race. Please note the amended start time of 09:30 for the first runner. This is to allow for trains out. Due to the above, please check your handicap prior to setting off. Please also remember to bring Read more
The 2025 Club Champs will be taking place from near Barber Booth. PDFs with the route and provisional start list is below. A massive thank you to Felix Watts for handicapping the race. Any comments on the handicap must be sent to Felix Watts and myself via secretary@dpfr.org.uk or 07713 Read more
🏁 The Moment You’ve All Been Waiting For! The Round the Parish Race Series results are in! 📊 Some Stats 👟 21 people and 1 dog took part 🎈 1 balloon recovered 🗺️ 5 parishes circumnavigated 🏃 5 people completed enough races (3) to count for the series 💪 Only Read more
As with the past few years, the annual dinner will take place at the Burton St Foundation on 15 November (same day as the club champs). Arrival for 19:00, with dinner being served approx 19:45. The link for sign up and providing meal choices is below – Hope to see Read more
For all you folk hankering after some winter interval training in Dave T’s absence, why not get yourselves along to this week’s Winter Mondays race from Fairholmes for a proper workout – the marvellous Orrell Crook? We’ve had nineteen starters over the first four races, in pretty much every age Read more
George Yates and Dominic Watts are the organisers for the DPFR 2025 Champs Race and need some club volunteers to help marshal the race on the 15th of November. They need a minimum of 8 people or so (2 at each of the 4 checkpoints) out on the fells, somewhere Read more
Following the near euphoric excitement surrounding the first Winter Mondays road race last week (results here and league standings here), we will be enjoying the first trail race this coming Monday; and a real belter it is too, up Fair Brook from the Snake, along Seal Edge, and a testing Read more
Now in its twenty-somethingth year, the ‘Winter Mondays’ series of road and trail races provide the perfect antidote to the commencement of the winter working week. The combination of regular on and off-road ‘chasing start’ races are an excellent way to gain or maintain fitness through the winter months, to Read more
Thank you to all those who attended Tony Keddie’s funeral last Tuesday, and thank you to all who sent kind and thoughtful messages of condolence.Charity donations to Blood Cancer UK, Sheffield Hospitals Charity, and The Haematology Wards at The Royal Hallamshire Hospital where gratefully received.