The Saunders Lakeland Mountain Marathon is a two-day mountain navigation competition that is held annually in the Lake District for teams of two runners. Competitors must carry all their own camping equipment as the first day finishes at a mid-way campsite. The event involves navigating yourself around a mountainous course to visit controls and score points along the way. Mandy …

A lovely summer evening saw over 100 runners enter the local Cragg Vale Fell Race. There was an extremely strong field taking part with an age range of 14 years old to 75 years old. The race starts at The Hinchcliffe Arms in Cragg Vale and heads steeply up towards Stoodley Pike before returning back down in to the Cragg …

This week saw a return to the trail championships in a GP double header, the first of which being a potentially record breaking turnout. 45 Toddies turned out on a warm Tuesday evening to have a blast around the now 5k Cowm Res 5k race. A short uphill start (which doubles as a quick downhill finish) is the only “tough” …

The bank holiday weekend came up trumps with the weather for the Todmorden Harriers who descended on the Duddon Valley for the annual fell race. The event is a classic fell race covering 18 miles around the head of the Duddon Valley with 6000ft of climb over Harter, Hardknott, Little Stand, Swirl How, Dow Crag, White Pike and Caw. In …

Thursday evening saw the overdue return of the “That’s so Hebden Bridge Fell Race”, organised by Todmorden Harriers, and led by Nick Barber and his team of helpers. On a beautiful but windy evening, runners were led on a 6 mile route up to Stoodley Pike from Calder Holmes Park and back via Erringden Moor. First over the line for …

Whilst the rest of us have been getting on with our every day lives, a bunch of hardy souls headed to North West Scotland to take on the Cape Wrath Ultra, which follows the 400km Cape Wrath Trail through the rugged and remote terrain on North West Scotland over an 8 day stage race, which accumulative times making up the …