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 Rose | 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 Rose | 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 DaveM | Sep 7, 2024 | Members' posts, Race Report
Muker Show and Ilkley Incline, 4pm and 7pm, Wednesday 4th September It’s not that unusual to do two races over a weekend, one on Saturday one on Sunday. But two races in the same day, that sounds a bit excessive. Where do you get the puff to do that, let alone find...
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...
by Guest Contributor | Aug 27, 2024 | Members' posts, Race Report, Ultra
Saturday 24th August The Pennines are host to some of the most stunning and scenic trails in the country, and  Pennine Trails dedicated a whole flipping trail marathon to them! Starting in the woods of Hurstwood in Worsthorne, the marathon takes you along the trails...
