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The start and finish are at Rowlee Bridge, as usual. Checkpoints are: 1 Shooting Cabin 142887 2 Wall End 128885 3 Druids Stone 134874 4 Quarry (bottom) 153872 5 Crookstone Knoll 145884 Start 7 pm

Three Peaks Yacht Race:- There was Dark Peak involvement in two of the yachts, Vlad the Impaler (2nd) and Abbeydale Moonshine (3rd). For a race lasting 4 days, the finish was very close, depending on the final Leg, the run of Ben Nevis. The winner had a lead of 37mins, Read more

This year’s event was held in the far Northwest of Scotland. Notable Dark Peak results include Liz and John Batt finishing as the leading mixed team in the Elite, Kirsty Bryan-Jones in the winning ladies team on the ‘A’ class, Tony Heron 2nd in the ‘B’, and Sally Ward 5th Read more

Kinder Trog:- Both records smashed! Lloyd knocked 15mins off the old record, and Jackie took 20mins off the Ladies record! Conditions were excellent – dry underfoot, no wind and a few spots of rain to keep things cool. DP took 1st Team prize. Lots of free food and drink afterwards, Read more

Ennerdale – Senior Men-2nd, V40’s-4th, V50’s-2nd , Ladies – 2nd Lloyd was 3rd, John Hunt 7th and 2nd V40, Liz hopefully 1st V40. Ennerdale was extremely hard, no respite from the sun, and we were battered at times by a very strong wind, buffeting from any direction. Once again, our Read more

Hilary Bloor is now the 7th woman in the Joss Naylor club so very happy!! “Successful round with thanks to all the supporters, Paul, Kev, Dave, Anne, Jeff, Roger, Phil and Debbie, l couldn’t have done it without you all. Very hot – Richard said it was 29C in the Read more

Nick sends:- “I thought I’d let you know that the Paddy Buckley round claimed 2 more scalps this weekend ! Or rather, the sun and the wind did. As you know Saturday was very hot, we thought we’d got away with it after drinking c. 8 litres of water each Read more

A valiant attempt at the Paddy Buckley Round by Martyn Goodwin. Tom Westgate’s report is on this link,here . Two photos also on Carshare – I’ll try to put a link from here later…

A very hot trip round, glad it was only a short race. Tim was 2nd, Natalie 1st Lady, then Keith well ahead of myself. Wharfedale website is here

Duddon Valley;- Richard Hopkinson sends:- “Great day for fell running the Lakes at its best. Warm up to Harter fell but then breeze kept temperatures manageable” John Heneghan just beats Lloyd, with Mike 8th. Full results on Carshare, during the day I’ll try and sort out a link.