Just short of 400 runners set off on the ever popular Haworth Hobble Ultra Marathon on Saturday morning, a 31.7 mile outing with 1340m of climbing. The weather was a bit grim with some rain and a strong breeze to start but soon cleared out into a perfect sunny but cool day, ideal conditions for a long run. The route …

The club championships stayed on the road this week with the Haweswater Half Marathon. Almost certainly the most scenic road race on the Tod calendar, if not in the entire country, one downside to the Haweswater is that with over 1000ft of ascent it ordinarily wouldn’t be described as a PB course! Some Toddies would prove that theory wrong however… …

With a bumper weekend of racing having taken place it almost seems remiss to be giving so little space to 2 quite exceptional performances at the Trafford 10k. Andy Ford ran one of the fastest ever 10k times in a Todmorden vest in 34.04 and Darren Shackleton ran a blistering 35.33 placing them both in the top 200 places out …

The sun finally showed its face, providing the backdrop for a glorious day of racing at the Stan Bradshaw Pendle Round. A 9 mile loop of the ever present Pendle Hill starting with quite a stiff climb from the Ogden valley straight to the summit before a beautiful ridge run round to the back end of hill before another stiff …

The 10 Reservoirs race is quite a new race, with its inaugural running being one of the very last races that took place before the very first Covid Lockdown in March 2020, so it was great to see it back up and running again. The race is about 26 miles long, just shy of a Marathon over classic South Pennine …

This Sunday also saw the final fixture in the West Yorkshire Winter League with Andy Worster once again winning the race out right. Also performing extremely strongly was Zoe Dijkman, coming in 11th female which rounds out a consistently good league performance for the pair. Other notable performances came from Dom Leckie and Dave Garner who both claimed top 50 …