by Guest Contributor | Jul 26, 2021 | Members' posts, Race Report
I have been training for marshalling for a few years now; standing around and staring into the distance is something I am particularly good at. I can also clap and say “well done” a lot. Marshalling duties started with meeting the ‘Kettlewell Anniversary Advanced...
by Guest Contributor | Jul 20, 2021 | Members' posts, Race Report
I once ran a 20K race in India, when Delhi was in the middle of a heatwave. A heatwave in the UK is high 20s to 30C. In Delhi it was 50C. So the race started at 5am, and even then it was stunningly hot. I survived though I can’t quite remember how. I do remember the...
by Guest Contributor | Jul 14, 2021 | Members' posts, Race Report
After having a year off official racing, the time had finally arrived to make my legs burn. The last time I ran Kettlewell Anniversary Fell Race was pre-Covid in 2019. I don’t have the fondest of memories of it. They were mainly “oh dear, this hill is longer than I...
by Guest Contributor | Jun 30, 2021 | Members' posts, Race Report
In 2019 as I approached the next decade I decided it was time to do something a little different. Most people, I guess, would not choose to run 54 miles across the South Downs Way, but I did. I entered the Race to the King, so named because it ends “on the...
by Guest Contributor | Jun 23, 2021 | Members' posts, News, Race Report
June 13, 2021 Five legs, 47 ¼ miles, 6300 feet of climb A relay and an actual race. How exciting. We were delighted to dig out our race vests and buffs to take part in the Bradford Millennium Way Relay, organized by Saltaire Striders. It starts and ends in Bingley,...
by Guest Contributor | Feb 5, 2021 | Members' posts
I took for granted the freedom that I was privileged to have during my childhood and growing up in the 1960s and 70s: those endless days exploring the vast woodland of Meanwood Valley with friends and siblings. We named rocks, had picnics in the thickets of Scotland...
