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...
by Guest Contributor | Aug 1, 2024 | Cycling, Injury, Members' posts, Race Report
Time Trialling is, in its very essence, a race against yourself. You have an individual start time, you depart the line alone, you push against your own capacity and race the clock: you have a lonesome journey through the course, unaccompanied other than the...
by DaveM | Jul 25, 2024 | Injury, Kit requirements, Members' posts, Mountain Rescue, News, Race Report
Health and safety reflections from Cracoe fell race, Sun 21 July 2024 Always carry a phone Always carry a waterproof Be able to call Mountain Rescue, and keep warm while waiting for them to arrive For all runs on the fells – short or long, racing or training, good...
by DaveM | Jul 16, 2024 | Members' posts, News, Race Report, Results
13 July 2024 Normally to merit a write-up on here you need to have completed some epic Category A fell race or ultra, reliving your day with the following likely sequence: weeks of training – meticulous on-the-day preparation – step-by-step details of each challenging...