by Rose | 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 Rose | 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 Rose | 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 Rose | 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 Rose | Oct 2, 2020 | Members' posts, News, Race Report, Uncategorised
A race. An actual race. A race with real numbers that you pin to your club vest with actual pins. Real checkpoints. Real marshals. Everything real. Everything vivid. Everything I have not done for six months, since FRB and I did the 30-mile Haworth Hobble in March, in...
by Rose | Feb 24, 2020 | Members' posts, Mountain Rescue, Race Report
I’ve done High Cup Nick race five times, by my count (which is probably off), and I will be doing it again, because it is so astonishingly beautiful. And because the race route serves my skills perfectly: five miles to the top of the Nick, then four miles mostly...
