Lakeland 50 race report

Trying to sum up my weekend at Lakeland 50 is extremely difficult, as there just aren’t words that are expressive enough to describe some of the feelings and emotions I felt on my wonderful adventure.   I woke up that morning totally hyper, as Is usual on race day. Quick shower then into my race […]

Ian Hodgson Mountain Relays

The club have now entered 1 open team (mixed) into the Hodgson brothers relay on October 7th and as already mailed out the event is open to all members who have experience of mountain running and navigation.   To that end I am going across on Saturday September the 1st to recce parts of the […]

Brough Law Fell Race

This Sunday (25th March) see’s the first race in this years Fell Race Series at Brough Law. It is a great race and a good introduction to Fell Running. To participate in the series men are to complete 4 races – short, medium & long plus another. Best position to count. Women to do 4 […]

Haworth Hobble aka the Wuthering Hike

  Naz – “Phil, what shall we do in March?” Me – “Well I’ve got to get a long one in sometime, it’s in my ‘marathon plan’ for Manchester. What do you reckon?” “I know, let’s do the Hobble, it’s a 32 miler in Bronte country. I did it back in the day and actually […]

Keith’s Joss Naylor Report

Whilst supporting an aspiring Bob Graham member he asked me, ‘if you were feeling fit, how long do you think you would take to complete a Bob Graham Round now?’ I mulled over the question for a brief moment, conscious that I didn’t want to lessen our pace as we headed towards High Raise. The […]

White Rose Ultra Race Report

After supporting Phil James and Naz on their 60 mile White rose ultra last year I decided I wanted to do one. So after chatting with a few people who have done ultra marathons I decided to join some of my fellow hoops and signed up for the 30 mile White rose ultra.   Team […]

Bob Graham Round Report

Well all good things must come to an end and my Bob Graham journey came to an end when I climbed the stairs and touched the door of the Moot Hall in Keswick at 7:19pm Saturday 24th June.   It was the culmination of 7 months of training and around 5 years of planning, procrastinating, […]

Scafell Pike Report

I entered this race on a whim. I was aware of how challenging it was likely to be as a running CV was required for entry to check you were capable of it. This was my third marathon. My first was Windermere, a hilly road race and my second was the St. Oswald’s ultra, a […]

Saltwell Fell Race Results 2017

POSITION NAME CLUB AGE CAT TIME 1 LEE BENNETT NFR M45 45.52 2 PAUL LOWE DARLINGTON HARRIERS M SEN 46.07 3 ANDY GREEN TYNEDALE HARRIERS M50 46.25 4 CHRIS THAIN HEATON M SEN 46.50 5 CHRISTOPHER HENDERSON U/A M SEN 47.07 6 JAMES OSBORN DFR M SEN 47.10 7 DAVID BEST BLACKHILL BOUNDERS M40 47.14 […]