English champs – round 2 Written on June 8, 2009, by johnh.
After a three month gap since the Half Tour of Pendle, we had the second round of the English Fell Running Championship in Shropshire on Saturday. The race was the short Stretton Hills race, designed specifically for the English Championship, and it was certianly a worthy championship course. The only flat bit of the race [...]
Fell running inter-counties Written on May 26, 2009, by johnh.
As mentioned elsewhere on the site I was running at the inter-counties fell race this weekend, contested over the Hutton Roof race. I was competing for Yorkshire for the sixth year in a row, and after numerous fifth places and a third last year I managed to grab the win. The Yorkshire team also managed [...]
Lakeland trail racing Written on April 20, 2009, by johnh.
I travelled up to the Lake District at the weekend to take part in the Hawkshead trail race, which kicks off the 2009 Lakeland trails series. It was the first of these races I had run since the Coniston trail in 2005 and it was run in glorious sunshine, which made a nice change to [...]
Weekend racing Written on March 23, 2009, by johnh.
I did two great A cat short races this weekend, one a race that has run for a few years, The Really Wild Boar race, and the other a brand new race in the Peak District, Wolfs Pit. Although there was only a relatively small field of about 80 at Wild Boar, the quality wasn’t [...]
Half Tour of Pendle Written on March 9, 2009, by johnh.
So thats the first chammpionship race of the year out of the way, and I managed to suprise myself. Like I said in myfirst posting I normally dont run that well in the first few champs races of the year, but in the Half Tour of Pendle on Saturday I ended up finishing second. It [...]
Johns first blog Written on March 2, 2009, by johnh.
Hello, Â The first thing I should say is I have never written a blog before and the number I have read could be counted on one hand. Forgive me if this is very boring, blame it on my blogging ignorance. Â I have just finished my shortest cross country season in many years, running [...]