English Championships James Lowe reports elsewhere that “Fairfield Results (are) in. I make us first men’s team and second women’s with another cracking win (by 6 minutes!!!) from Phillipa Williams and a stonking 5th and 1st U23 for Fin Grant! Read more
Currently, the last entry in the DPFR calendar is for a race from King’s Tree to the cabin in Upper North Grain and back via a sheepfold at the junction of Ravens Clough and the Westend, to be run next Read more
As previously announced this years AGM will be held at the Norfolk Arms at 8pm on Wednesday 17th May. In order to help us order the right amount of food (chip butties) please fill in the form linked if you Read more
Bertie Houghton on his way to an outstanding 7th placed finish at the Yorkshire Three Peaks race last weekend. Past races Rainow 5 – Tracks, footpaths, fields and not enough walking. Fine views over Macclesfield across the Cheshire plain and Read more
Emerging from a long and often challenging winter, our expectations for gentle conditions for Slow Warts’ Wednesday weather had become low to the point when disappointment was sometimes perversely expressed on the lack of wind, rain, snow, flood, pestilence, etc. Read more
Great scene in beautiful Duddon. The first round of the 2023 English Junior Championships was in the Duddon Valley 23rd April. The weather was pretty ideal, it stayed stayed dry, but the conditions were typically Duddon underfoot – Boggy! There Read more
The All-comers-group above Blackden Brook on Wednesday evening’s club run. Past races Kinder Springs – Race report and results here. Kinder Downfall – 23 brown vests with Edward Corden 2nd, Tom Saville 4th, Josh Williams 5th, Sally Fawcett 1st woman Read more
Unlikely bedfellows, but Slow Warts can find them especially if they gather at the unlikely car park of the “Elbow” at Midhopestones. Nine of us set off from here along the unforgiving concrete leading to Thickwoods Lane where, to preserve Read more
Jack Foxall apparently dancing a jig at the Whiteless Pike checkpoint on the excellent Teenager with Altitude race. Jack finished in an honourable 19th place with Simon Mills and Hal Roberts not far behind. Past races Wirksworth Incline – Dicky Read more
Thanks to all who joined the club weekend away in Torver. We had 22 attendees and got up to a wide range of fun with champs recees, Wainwright bagging, racing at Eskdale Elevation, some big days out and the odd Read more