by NLFR | Jan 1, 2026 | News
North Leeds Fell Runners has confirmed the races that will make up the 2026 Club Race League. The league is designed to encourage members to race across a mix of distances and terrains throughout the year, while also recognising consistency and participation across...
by NLFR | Dec 21, 2025 | FKT, Members' posts, Ultra
This is a write-up of my South Wales Traverse winter record, completed on 13/12/2025 in 15:57. The Route I was in south wales for four years studying at Cardiff, and joined the city fell running club MDC. Whilst I was at the club there was always some mention of...
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 NLFR | Jul 4, 2025 | Members' posts
by Scott Coates Background The Black Cuillin Ridge Traverse had been occupying a corner of my mind since we’d decided to go on holiday to the Isle of Skye in May 2025. It’s also one of those lifetime ‘ticks’ I’d wanted to do ever since hearing about it when I’d...
by NLFR | Jun 28, 2025 | Members' posts, Ultra, Uncategorized
by Eleanor Walker Becoming Spine Curious Ever since my first race (an entered-under-duress corporate team-building Abbey Dash) I seem to have been drawn to attempting ever longer distances, increasingly proving that I am very much not a sprinter (additional evidence...
by NLFR | Jun 16, 2025 | Members' posts
by Jen Roberts From Marsden to Ilkley – via poetry, painkillers, and puddles. On the 7th June, I (along with a couple of other Ilkley mums) took on the Stanza Stones Ultra — a 50-mile race starting in Marsden, at the northern edge of the Peaks, finishing in Ilkley....
by DaveM | Feb 11, 2025 | News
Please see below the list of 13 nominated races for this year’s Club League for NLFR members. You will be glad to know that you don’t have to do them all to take part! Points will be available for each race depending on your closeness to the winning time, with your...
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...
