Run for your Life

Along the Wharfe . Due to treacherous icy conditions on the hills in and out of Grassington we'd to abandon the car three miles from ho...

Last year when people were crawling across the streets of Huddersfield on hands and knees, terrified of standing up on the treacherous blac...

We drove 'goodness knows how many miles' to Thirsk last Sunday only to be told their 10 mile North of England, Yorkshire and Yorkshi...

 I was rather proud of my Derwentwater 10 mile road race result and thought it merited a paragraph in the Athletics column of our local news...

Saturday, a birthday walk. Ullswater       Awoke to clear skies and a touch of frost that brought leaves shuttering from the trees. The ...

The day dawned clear and frosty with brilliant sunshine. A distinct nip in the air prompted many runners to don leg warming tights, rather t...

To summarise, September was a good month running-wise although, largely due to a two week vacation in Switzerland, my actual mileage was onl...

Friday Friday night camp On the day before the race we camped in the Langdale Valley at a beautiful, well hidden spot we haven't used...

Eiger - the smoking mountain Switzerland has not had the best of weather this summer, which was bad for the tourist trade, but it turned...

Hebden from the crag It's almost time for our Swiss holiday so this will be my last post for two or three weeks.  On Thursday we...

The Mummers (the one in the brown coat is a local  GP) The opening of Burnsall Feast Sports this year was much enlivened by the Penny Pl...

Last half mile Saturday. Our weekend began with a low key race at Arncliffe, an olde worlde village in the heart of beautiful Littondale...

Wheat fields In the run up to Saturday's four mile race at Arncliffe I took things very easy today. A nice, slow enjoyable run throug...

I'd no sooner entered the Great Langdale ½ marathon last weekend, online, than my race number plopped onto the mat along with a letter f...

Years ago, before my wonderful partner retired from teaching, Friday evenings were rather special, a time to unwind, to put the pressures of...

Knee deep in heather at Wig Stones My twenty three miles of running last weekend revealed a couple of premature happenings. One of the ma...