The fell running section
of Preston Harriers. Some of our fell runners also do cross country and road
running, but fell running is our main activity. Our junior fell runners are in a
keen fell running section, you can read about them in juniorfellblog
below. Preston Harriers running club was
established in 1881. Mick McLoughlin our chairman of fellblog recently did
the Bob Graham Round. Fell Runners are not as much bothered about PB's as they
are about 3B's ( a local brewery).
Preston
Harriers Fell Section
:- fellblog
CROWDEN
HORSESHOE
Crowden Horseshoe. BM. 8m/1700’
30.4.06
Race three in our
championship and six Harriers register at Crowden Youth Hostel for this race in
the Dark Peak District. On a beautiful day for running 107 runners started in a
field behind the Youth Hostel, headed down the lane, up the hill to turn right
and pick up the
Pennine Way
on a run able climb to Laddow Rocks. Good running across the tops,
concentrating hard as we ran on the grit stone strewn path. We crossed boggy
Great Brook and on to the meandering flag stone path to the turning point,
Soldier Lump on Black Hill, also the highest point on the horseshoe.
From here we head across
Tooleyshaw Moss on a flagged route over the boggy peat which was hard going with
a number of runners falling or sinking in the black peat. We continued over
undulating hills from one Moss to the next until we reach the vehicle track and
a short run to the final very steep and rocky descent to the finish in the field
where we started. An excellent race which had everything you need in a fell
race, it is highly recommended.
Result,
1st. Dave Taylor,
Dark
Peak
, 1.02.07 (local knowledge)
36th. Willie
Garner,
1.15.47
51st. Mick
McLoughlin,
1.22.47
57th. Pete Carter,
1.24.08
60th.
Roy Parkinson
,
1.24.36
86th. Eddy
Stewart,
1.33.18
98th.
Brian Dearnaley
, 1.49.41
107 started, 106 finished.
2005
Fell
Championship
Results (back in time)
fellblog
