Haworth Hobble is one of those events I’d wanted to kind of do but never got round to it due to being on a Saturday and well that I am picky. But at £15 a shot for (the whiskey at Mankinholes) 32 miles with 5000ft ish of climb – it’s one that you won’t need […]
Furnace Inn Fun Run
One of those rituals in my calendar, the Furnace Inn Fun Run – £2 at Darley Abbey, a very flat route, muddy in places though on mainly pathways there is a small section on the grass and it’s Boxing Day so it gives the world something to do. But this year was different. There was […]
South Yorkshire Cross Country #4 – Penistone
Brrr… it’s cold, very cold and I have cold and I am not sure I want to do this but I want to get out of the house and run despite having cold. So I took myself off to Penistone for the last of the 4 cross country races in South Yorkshire. My chest was […]
Cappadocia Ultra Trail
Cap a doh kay yah, sounds like a weird animal from outer space – well you are not far off if you are thinking that…. Cappadocia ultra trail was first introduced to me by top ultra duo Marcus and Jen Scotney who had taken part in the race the year before (Marcus bagging 2nd place […]
South Yorkshire Cross Country #1 – Norfolk Park
The first cross country of the season was upon us already, local, very local, hilly, quite hilly, so why not? Just a week before my big event in Turkey the Cappadocia Ultra Trail I was to make sure I would take it easy. I ran up to the park around 4 miles away, a misty […]
Forest and Moors Marathon
A friend had signed up for the Forest and Moors event in North Yorkshire, organised by Scarborough and Rydale Mountain Rescue. He’d done the Ravenscar half earlier in the year and spoke very highly of the simplicity of the events. Low key, (but chipped) limited to around 300, marked course, (but still needed OL27 and […]
Dales Way Ultra
The Dales Way is a long distance route from Bowness in Windermere, in the Lake District to the West Yorkshire town of Ikley and passes through the heart of my favourite place; the Yorkshire Dales National Park. This was a brand new ultra to celebrate 50 years of the Dales Way when Colin Speakman inaugurated […]
Snowdonia Trail Ultra
It’s taken me a good 6 months to do an event again, for a number of reasons, February and March I’d had minor surgery so that put me out for a while. I’d danced around a few trails myself in slow-mo mode over bank holidays which was fun but just taking my time. I then […]
Wilmot Wander
The Wilmot Wander is a great 32-mile route around Derby. Although not particularly hilly its a great event to end January with or start the year with – whichever way you want to look at it, and you are guaranteed mud, delicious oozing, slushy mud. Oh yes! It is an LDWA event which means its […]
South Yorkshire Cross Country #4 – Graves Park
It’s cross country time – well only the one for me because my excuse has been ultra running having not been able to make any of the other South Yorkshire Cross Countries. Given the fourth and final one of the series was on home turf at Graves Park in Sheffield I had no excuse not […]