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...
by DaveM | May 13, 2024 | Members' posts, News, Race Report
Fairfield Horseshoe fell race, 11 May 2024 (AM, 14.5km, 914m ascent) “You’ve come all the way here before to do a 20-minute race?” exclaimed Adam in surprise. He wasn’t referring to the race we were about to do – the 10-mile Fairfield Horseshoe – but to my several...
by Rose | Dec 2, 2022 | BGR, Members' posts, News
It started with a handful of club runners, then slowly but surely, the word spread, a Whatsapp group was created and a few months later 24 fresh legs stood at the bottom of Dunmail Raise ready for a three-day Bob Graham Round. The Bob Graham Round (BGR) is a renowned...
by Rose | Jan 24, 2020 | FKT, Members' posts, News
As 2019 was the year for dubious world records and associated PB claims in athletics (no offence, Eliud 😉), I thought why not celebrate my lovely new NLFR vest by staking my own tenuous claim for a world record, OK fastest known time (FKT), for the Fellpack Triple...
by Rose | Sep 11, 2019 | Members' posts, News, Race Report
Saturday 7th September 2019 The Bob Graham Round, as all fell runners know, is steeped in legend by the vast history of attempts from running legends like Billy Bland, Joss Naylor, Rob Jebb, Nicky Spinks, Jasmin Paris, and Kilian Jornet, and the list goes on! Like...
