Could we manage a quorum? After a morning of WhatsApp to-ing and fro-ing, we managed a foursome of promises, to come to Rowlee Bridge. The rest of the Slow Warts had good excuses (off to Jura, the effects of treatment, Read more
Many Pendle Cloughs photos can be found here. Past races Round the Parish race 1, DPFR race. Still open as a TT. Cressbrook Crawl. Keith Swainson 2nd. Results Trunce 3 Results Parks Life. John Hunt 1st M50. Results Mount Famine. Read more
The King’s Tree outing last week and the Cap’n’s absence then, must have distorted our collective Slow Warts’ minds (easily done) into deciding to start this week’s later outing from Callow Bank on the basis it was close to the Read more
Pendle Cloughs – The 3rd of the 6 English Championship races. Fin Grant was 2nd (and 1st MU23) and now heads the championship table but has Ben Rothery lurking down in 6th place having only run in 2 of the Read more
There were four suggestions, from seven of us, for possible routes from King’s Tree; straight up Cold Side and beyond, Linch Clough to Barrow Stones, Slippery Stones to Bull Stones and part of the December Birthday race route. In the Read more
Apologies Last Year’s Minutes Chairman’s report Treasurers Report Membership Report Appointment of Officers and Committee Members. Chairman – Tim Tett – standing for re-election Treasurer – David Arundale – standing for re-election Secretary – position vacant (James Lowe standing down) Read more
John Hunt with his race face on at Three Peaks. Duddon Juniors Jon Coe writes… Dark Peak’s junior racers were in the Duddon valley on Sunday 21st April – with the racing being the hillside above the Newfield Inn – Read more
Now in broad daylight on the first of May, the Slow Warts could better see where they were going so there was less chance of doing the odd bit of circling around to find checkpoints. To compensate for this, we Read more
Cakes of Bread Tom Westgate writes… Given the general weather this Winter and Spring we were blessed for the Cakes Of Bread race this year with glorious sunshine and a nice chill in the air. Folk started at four different Read more
The Slow Warts tend to run together and therefore protect themselves from the harsh reality of the high performances of the “standard” Warts and the rest of DPFR. However, we bravely took on the challenge of the latest Cakes of Read more