SATURDAY AUGUST 3RD10am TILL 5.30pmTOD HARRIERS & FRIENDS 777 CHALLENGECENTRE VALE PARK https://donate.giveasyoulive.com/fundraising/fundraising-with-a-friend-for-a-friend Helen Wilson is no longer able to do a challenge due to Dave’s needs. So we are doing it for her. 7 was Rob Burrow’s number so between us we aim to run/walk 777 laps of Centre Vale Park throughout the day. Hopefully we can raise £777. …

From the Bronte 5 last Thursday to the Otley 10 this week (Weds 12/06), 12 Toddies ventured over to Otley for an unusual mid-week 10-mile race.  There are lots of similarities to Caldervale 10 with hills that just keep on giving! After a fast flat and downhill 6 km, the first of 3 hills appear where each one gets steeper …

Road race number 5 of the 2024 GP saw 26 Tod Harriers taking on the deceptively tough 5 miles and 2 laps of Penistone Country Park in Haworth.  The “big hill” on the 2nd lap is a bit like running into a brick wall after a very fast decent and flat section. Not that the hills bothered the mighty Toddies …

Saturday saw the 2nd running of Cragg Runners’ Stanza Stone 50 mile ultra. The Stanza Stones are 6 poems created by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage around the theme of water and then carved into rocks and placed at various locations across the Pennine moors. The race follows a beautiful linear route up the spine of the Pennines starting from Marsden …

At the back end of 2023 I bumped into Kev Shand at a Red Rose XC event, after 40 years of organising he felt it was time to pass on the baton, not wanting a class short fell race in the Pennines to die, I took the baton! The day arrived and coincidentally so did the bad weather, what a …

Saturday brought the 3rd qualifier in this year’s English Fell Running Championships and was the first of the AL races, a tough outing summiting Pendle Hill twice between visits to various outlying cloughs over a distance of 22.5km and 1250m. It was also in the club Grand Prix and on a hot sunny day brought 21 club members to the …