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 relays and with baby-backpacks. With chips, beers and a club-colour cake we basked in some early autumn sunshine and celebrated a glorious decade of fell running together.
North Leeds Fell Runners was established in 2014 by a group of runners who wanted to set up an accessible, friendly club that was only affiliated for fell running. The club came to life during a long car trip to recce Langdale Horseshoe, appropriately, and the blue and black vest was fairly quickly devised and drawn. We added a blue red kite to celebrate the kites that fly over us in North Leeds.
The club would welcome anyone and the emphasis would be on informality while following EA rules of course. For that reason, we still allow non-members to join our training runs without requiring membership (though as our second-claim membership costs only £5, it would be nice if you signed up).
Since then we have set up two annual fell races; Kettlewell Anniversary, and Rombald’s Romp, and launched the Ilkley Skyline challenge. We have welcomed members from Canada, Sardinia, France and even East, South and West Leeds (!). We pride ourselves in being a welcoming and friendly club, and try to keep our Tuesday training sessions on the fells year round (please note that headtorches are mandatory in winter). We also provide fantastic Thursday structured training sessions in the North Leeds area and encourage spin-out groups for sharing other hobbies like cycling and climbing. Our membership fees are highly reasonable and we have (in our opinion) the best vest in fell running. Join us!
