Sunday (12th)’s race – Boz’s Birthday race is cancelled because of the snow. Hopefully it will get rescheduled for later in the year.

The first race in the 2023 Junior championships (23rd April) has been changed from Black Combe to Duddon, due to organisational issues. https://www.fellrunner.org.uk/juniors/junior-engli… Further details will be in the Dark Peak Calendar as they emerge.

The following message is on its way to members via email: We are currently around 20 volunteers short for the Edale Skyline on the 26th March. If you are available, please consider volunteering. Without your help on the hills the Read more

Dark Peak entered one team in the Trans-Pennine Relay on Saturday 4th March. The Dark Peak team (‘Dogsbane’, don’t ask) comprised Steve Matthews, Mike Bourne, Carl Egdell, Tim Egdell, and Richard Bradbury. We ran 5 legs from Sheffield Town Hall Read more

British Athletics are drawing up proposals for changes to the British Fell & Hill championships for 2024 and beyond. The proposals are set out in this document from British Athletics: 2023-03-08–mrag-british-championships-format-proposal.pdf The FRA are running a consultation on the proposals Read more

The National Trust have requested that nobody uses the south ridge of Mam Tor, and have put up fences and signs to this effect. I assume for erosion control. So I’ve amended the Horsehill Tor race map to make this Read more

Trans Pennine Relay – Dark Peak have one team in this event which starts at 10:00 outside Sheffield Town Hall this Saturday 4th March (and ends near Poynton). Any support at the start or at any point along the route Read more

Earlier this month we held a club committee meeting where we discussed a wide range of club matters. We noted the great turnout at Club runs throughout the Winter and were really happy with the uptick in attendance at Club Read more