by Guest Contributor | Oct 27, 2025 | Members' posts, Ultra
I had the good fortune to have quite a serious crash on my road bike earlier this year. You see, I finally managed to finish the South Downs Way 100 (SDW100), on my third attempt, but it had never actually been part of the plan. After an abysmal year of running in...
by Guest Contributor | Feb 5, 2025 | Lakeland, Members' posts, Reports, Resilience
On 6th December 2024, I packed up the van and headed to Northumberland with Pippin and Will in tow. Notifications kept pinging through from the NLFR 2024 Whatsapp chat. Will relayed these to me with a chuckle. “Wild Boar fell race is cancelled on grounds of safety and...
by Guest Contributor | Sep 25, 2024 | News
This year North Leeds Fell Runners turned 10 years old. We decided to use the Ilkley Skyline route as our celebration run. Over half our wonderful members and club-friends turned up to the Hermit Inn to run the route in groups, solo, backwards, in...
by Guest Contributor | Sep 10, 2024 | Subs Bench
A few years ago I was out doing a recce for leg 5 on the Leeds Country Way. I was chatting with my partner and didn’t notice a little rock. I suddenly tumbled over it and felt immense pain . We were at the middle point of the run so I had to get to the end where the...
by Guest Contributor | Aug 27, 2024 | Gala races, Members' posts, Race Report
Tuesday 20 August, 5 miles (ish), 801 feet (exactly) Every summer, three Ward generations (myself, my Dad and my son) retreat to the Lake District and spend a few days together in Dad’s motorhome. This year we also convinced my brother to extract himself from the...
