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...
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...
by DaveM | Jun 23, 2024 | Lakeland, Members' posts, Race Report, Results
22/6/24, 20.8km, 1518m (AL) Preparation for this race began in 2022. I’d pre-entered that year but had to pull out with COVID. I’d obviously done a bit of research: when I dug my OS map out last week it still had the checkpoints dimly marked in pencil. My vague plan...
