There are quite a few changes for the event on Saturday 3rd February – read carefully! Margery Hill 2024 Map with annotations 1. Start times – I have moved ALL start times forward by 30 minutes to avoid general busyness Read more
Nicky Spinks’s latest creation is Bruce’s Crown which starts on Friday 5th April for teams of 4 in the Galloway hills. Think of the High Peak Marathon reincarnated. By all accounts it’s a bit rough underfoot, proper hill country in Read more
Excuses had been sent. In foreign parts (alpine skiing, Portuguese sunbathing…….), illness, unfit, injury, even not bothered, etc. so only four Slow Warts arrived at Westend in the half light of sunset and moon rise. Even the four of us Read more
Congratulations to Nicky Spinks, Sophie Littlefair and Jennie Stevens who all completed The Spine this week. Nicky did what Nicky does to finish 4th= woman in 4 days 15:40:56. Sophie was 7th= woman and finished in 5 days 9:10:37 with Read more
“Come back Andy, all is forgiven” Chris’s plea at about 7pm on Wednesday 17th January 2024 Whether it was the cold (very) or our navigation that caused this comment I’m not sure, but I suspect it was both. There were Read more
Nicky Spinks, Jennie Stevens and Sophie Littlefair set off on The Spine at 08:00 on Sunday. Dot watchers can follow them here https://live.opentracking.co.uk/spinerace24. Past races Auld Land Syne – Des Berdeni writes “Victory for Anna Watkinson-Powell at the Auld Lang Read more
It is a question I’ve occasionally asked myself when facing cold blustery wind, rain, darkness, soggy peat, heather and ice. The question is still unanswered, but, the reason may be because there is a good feeling when we’ve finished the Read more
Tom recounted a disturbing nighttime experience he had on the Ramsey Round when he was faced with a large number of torch lights. This may have been the effect of a long time on the hill or, as Tom worked Read more
The Barbrook Blast NYD race tomorrow (01/01/24) starts at 11am, not 10am as previously erroneously described. Apologies for any confusion.
Dark Peak Races League The Boxing Day Bogtrot marked the conclusion of the 2023 Dark Peak Races League which all the DPFR races are counters for. The scoring system is somewhat opaque but finishing at or near the front of Read more