The Fellsman is a strenuous ultra-distance challenge set within the beautiful Yorkshire Dales National Park. It starts in Ingleton and finishes some 61 miles later in the village of Threshfield. It is organised by the Keighley Scout Service Network though originally the brainchild of a chap named Don Thompson of the Brighouse District Rover Crew,… Continue reading The Fellsman. Saturday 29th April 2023.
Author: Tim
The CRO Ingleborough Marathon. Saturday 21st May 2022
The Cave Rescue Organisation (CRO) Ingleborough Challenge is their annual fundraising event. For the benefit of those who aren’t familiar with who the CRO are or what they do, here’s a synopsis: They are a group of highly trained volunteers who provide cave and mountain rescue mainly in the region of the Three Peaks in… Continue reading The CRO Ingleborough Marathon. Saturday 21st May 2022
The Lap Clockwise (Spring Forward). Saturday 14th May 2022
I was late to the start line. Again. The Lap was my first attempt at an ultramarathon eight months previously. I was so concerned about potential gastrointestinal issues that I had forced myself to take advantage of the toilets at the start, and subsequently missed the klaxon. I was last out. That was not going… Continue reading The Lap Clockwise (Spring Forward). Saturday 14th May 2022
To Run:
to move at a speed faster than a walk, never having both or all the feet on the ground at the same time. The Oxford English Dictionary Around 4.2 million years ago, our ancestors came down from the trees and went for a bimble. Australopithecus was likely the first known bipedal species of hominid, possessing… Continue reading To Run:
Lessons from a Long Distance Run.
It’s not about speed or even miles, for that matter. It’s more about time on the legs. At least that’s my take on it. Any ultrarunner will tell you: walk the up-hills, and run the flats and the downhills. Informal runs (you can read that as training runs if you like?) give you the opportunity… Continue reading Lessons from a Long Distance Run.
The Language of Love.
That love being running, of course. So, what’s in a word, I often find myself asking. Runners are not normal folk. For example, they don’t talk about food, they talk about fuel. To ordinary folk, fuel is coal, wood or petrol and the like, and you chuck it in your car, or on your fire.… Continue reading The Language of Love.