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 …
Orchan Rocks organised by Todmorden’s Dan Taylor was an evening of records and firsts! It was the first evening fell race of the year with the first warm evening sun of the year and first 2024 fell race with hardly any mud. Well certainly in the Tod GP anyway! Records were broken, largest number of entries for one of Dan’s …
The second trail race of the 2024 GP saw a return to Thompson Park in Burnley for the Brun Valley 10K Trail with 22 Toddies taking part. The route is a mix of twists and turns, laps and crossing of earlier parts, and there was concern in the Tod ranks when the organisers emailed out with instructions to follow white, …
