Su Thompson

IN a welcome return to New Year’s Day tradition, the Silsden New Year Resolution Fun Run made a come back for it’s 37th run in 38 years.

VERY few can doubt that 2021 has been a weird and mixed up year but for the summer season of fell running at least, there was the “usual” dramatic finale race accompanying the Wasdale Shepherd’s Meet at Wasdale Head.

IN typical Yorkshire August style, the weather at Arncliffe really could not decide what to do. In the end, the rain stayed away and everyone was treated to a warm, breezy afternoon on the green.

THE 2020 Stanbury Splash certainly lived up to its name after heavy and plentiful rain the previous night ensured that the whole 6.7 mile course was muddy at best and a deep sploshy grass and mud combo at worst.

A YEAR'S worth of runners (365) romped around the hills of Haworth in the Auld Lang Syne on New Year's Eve.

A WINTERY, seasonal dusting of snow gave this year’s Stoop Fell race that extra Christmas appeal, to add to the compulsory Santa hat for all runners.

THE 2019 summer season of fell running ended on a high note at the Wasdale Show Fell Race, with wins for Barlick's Jacob Reeday and Wharfedale's Amelie Lane.

AFTER a brief, firm respite in 2018, the rains returned with a vengeance to replenish the bogs on the Withins Skyline route at Haworth to their more usual “man-eating status” for the senior race and; made the junior Quarry Runs particularly muddy, adding to the fun of these frantic races.

This year’s BOFRA Malham Charity Relays took on an extra poignancy as they were being run in memory of Stanley Clayton, who sadly lost his battle with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia on June 11 this year having been born less than 24 hours earlier.

A HUGE field of 120 senior and 167 junior runners toed the start line to tackle the varied terrain at the Embsay Fell Face.