Hi All. We need 30 or so volunteers to help run DPFR’s Burbage Skyline race on Tuesday 8 May. Helpers are needed for registration, marshaling, sweep, finish line and results. Please see the attached map with marshalling points and if you have one you’d like then get in there first! Read more
In a shameless plug for a local (to the webmaster, anyway) event, Kirsty tells me that the HVAFF is on again this month: Films:Activities:Lectures:Food WHEN? Sat. 14th April WHERE? Hope Valley College WHAT TIME? Bacon butties from 10:30, activities from 11am, films from 11:00 – 6:30pm. Evening event from 7:00pm. Read more
Coledale Horseshoe, the third Carshare League race of the year, takes place at 11:00 on Saturday, 7th April. The route involves about 8-1/2 miles and 3,000 upward feet of, as I recall, pure unrelenting pleasure. £10 EOD. JimP
Following the heavy snow last week, and snow on Wednesday morning the parking field is VERY wet, and rain is now forecast to arrive before the event. As a result parking will be difficult. Please car share as much as possible or come on the train if you can.
I think all entrants will have received an email, but in case it’s gone astray here is the content: Sorry Folks- we’re calling it off. Feel bad for doing this for 2nd time in 3 years but the factors against us were stacking up too high. Although forecast is for Read more
Rob Moore has received this letter: Dear Club Secretary, I am sending this letter seeking help to the 30+ England Athletics affiliated clubs with the highest number of members of the Fell Runners Association; indeed, these clubs have almost 1/3rd of our total membership. I do so aware that some Read more
Stybarrow Dodd, the second Carshare League race of the year, takes place at 11:00 this Sunday, 18th February, from the Thirlmere Community Hall, which is where the ‘B’ road that runs south from Threlkeld through St. John’s in the Vale meets the A591 Keswick to Ambleside road. £5 EOD. Unfortunately, Read more
Graham Berry, who is looking after marshals for the Edale Skyline race on 11th March (only a month away), tells me that the current score is “Controls 16: Marshals 11”. That is to say, we have 5 controls without any marshals. So thanks to everyone who has already volunteered, but Read more
Due to the forecast of snow for Sunday, the venue has been changed to Longshaw main car park (near the Fox House). Park where you like and meet in the Longshaw car park at 9:30. Wrap up warm. Its likely to be snowy and blowy. A Junior run led by Read more
Our classic Great Urban Fell Race route is becoming blighted by fly-tipping and industrial-scale littering, turning the flanks of the majestic Wincobank Hill into an unofficial rubbish dump. We’re teaming up with Runners against Rubbish (RvR) to try to do something about it – and we need your help! We’re Read more