by Guest Contributor | Oct 24, 2021 | Members' posts, Race Report
Whilst the majority of my club members were loyally scampering up the hills for the British Fell Relays on Saturday, I was committed to running the Cheshire 10K. I chose this race due a combination of factors: running in my birth county, trying a new race and a...
by Guest Contributor | Oct 13, 2021 | Race Report
I finally gained the club place for this marathon after about 7 years of trying. I had already entered Manchester for the following week, but quickly changed my plans. The last three marathons I ran were all the Eryri (Snowdonia). The thing about London , if you buy...
by Guest Contributor | Oct 13, 2021 | Members' posts, Race Report
Perched on the moors above Haworth sits the forlorn Top Withens. Not much remains of this ruined farmhouse, standing as it does roofless and windowless, its grey stones dour and lifeless, long since abandoned. But the hum of visitors and well-trodden paths that lead...
by Guest Contributor | Oct 6, 2021 | Members' posts, Race Report
5th September, 2021 AM: 8 miles, 450m This was the first year this race was run and I was curious to try a new cat-A race an hour’s drive away in the Peak District. On paper it looked a straight forward lollipop-shaped course mainly following the Pennine Way with a...
by Guest Contributor | Sep 20, 2021 | Members' posts, Race Report
I first came across the Dragon’s Back Race (DBR) through Vassos Alexander’s book: Running Up That Hill: The highs and lows of going that bit further in which he described this absolute monster. I’d not been running regularly for long at the...
by Guest Contributor | Sep 20, 2021 | Members' posts, Race Report
“Text me when you’ve finished, so I know you’ve not had a heart attack,” says my mum, as I give her a call and mention my plans for Sunday afternoon. On the face of it, I can see why running a fell race seems like a really odd – and potentially heart-wrecking – way to...
by Guest Contributor | Aug 23, 2021 | News
Last week, we were delighted to host Emma Beddington on her first ever fell run. She is filling in for Rhik Samadder’s series for the Guardian on trying new experiences: Emma’s were fell running and swordfighting (yes, yes, not together). So she turned up...
by Guest Contributor | Jul 26, 2021 | Members' posts, Race Report
I have been training for marshalling for a few years now; standing around and staring into the distance is something I am particularly good at. I can also clap and say “well done” a lot. Marshalling duties started with meeting the ‘Kettlewell Anniversary Advanced...
by Guest Contributor | Jul 20, 2021 | Members' posts, Race Report
I once ran a 20K race in India, when Delhi was in the middle of a heatwave. A heatwave in the UK is high 20s to 30C. In Delhi it was 50C. So the race started at 5am, and even then it was stunningly hot. I survived though I can’t quite remember how. I do remember the...
by Guest Contributor | Jul 14, 2021 | Members' posts, Race Report
After having a year off official racing, the time had finally arrived to make my legs burn. The last time I ran Kettlewell Anniversary Fell Race was pre-Covid in 2019. I don’t have the fondest of memories of it. They were mainly “oh dear, this hill is longer than I...
