Run for your Life

As someone who loves running in wild and lonely places, hills and dales, rough moorland, remote islands or mountain ridges that thrust roc...

From the cloudless, 30º+ volcanic landscape of Tenerife.... The past week with its 11º temperatures, soaking rain and NE winds blastin...

The Gran Hotel El Tope, Puerto de la Cruz After our Tenerife flight had been delayed due to late arrivals we arrived at our gradely ...

Hebden Crag on a better day - showing the white stone at centre top which runners climb around before returning along the Rt skyline ...

   At times last weekend one could be forgiven for thinking Hurricane Isaac had lost its way to America's Gulf Coast and come ramp...

Running up Mastiles Lane on the way to Malham Moor One of my  'secret paths' through the wheat field A slight obstacle wh...

    Over the past month I've reduced my number of training runs to three per week, or just two if racing at the weekend.  The tw...

A few anxious faces watching the race in the village pub (photo courtesy of Viv Dawson) Most other happenings related to our North ...

A wee dram to celebrate 21 wonderful years together      Apart from one or two spells of atrocious weather that swamped our surrou...

Another quality 23 mile week culminated in an excellent 10K race inaugurated by the recently formed Bentham Beagles Running Club . C...

I'll go with that..... The wild unsettled weather continued throughout last week producing a somewhat wild but determine...

Rain is alright for gardens - but not for me thankyou A set of repetitions on Castle Hill and what should have been an easy run ...

Ending an al fresco meal with clotted cream - and choice of wine Natural arch at Park Head on a misty day Herring gull among the ...