Borrowdale is my third and final of the Lakeland Classic series of fell races for this year.  I had previously completed the Ennerdale Horseshoe and Wasdale Fell Race within the last couple of months (links here to my blogs on those races). http://www.lakelandclassicstrophy.org.uk/ I was hoping for a more enjoyable run at Borrowdale given what had happened at the […]

Saturday 30th July was the 7th race in our new championship and the 2nd one to be a Parkrun.  This time we ventured from the familiarity of Lister Park and across town to Horton Parkrun.  A record attendance of nine of us were there on the start line at 9am along with with Emily and […]

Bingley fun in the sun? Saturday 23rd July was the Bingley Show 10k.  A fell/trail race around the Bingley St Ives Estate with plenty of hills and some good fast trails. Bingley Show was also the 6th race in our inaugural club championship and we had a good turn out (for us). The sun was […]

Races (and blogs) coming thick and fast at the moment.  With my legs still aching, scabbed and bruised from Wasdale the previous Saturday I turned my attention to Wales and the Snowdon Race. The 41st International Snowdon Race (as it it correctly known) was going to be a big event and I’d been given the […]

Almost four hours into Wasdale Fell Race.  To be precise 3:48:24 to do these 15 miles.  The last mile alone has taken me over 25 minutes but I am now 2816ft above sea level at the summit of Great Gable.  The weather is vile, horrendous, hideous and debilitating.  Gail force winds drive sharp rain into my face […]

Referendum and Race – Thursday 23rd June 2016 It’s 6.30pm in Addingham village just outside Ilkley in West Yorkshire.  It’s a pleasant, warm summers evening and the village is buzzing with people going to the polling station and fell runners congregating outside the Crown Inn where registration for the 5.5 mile Beamsley Beacon Fell Race is […]