Well the Keswick Mountain Festival has been & gone but was very enjoyable & once again spent in the great company of Fraser. Without the pressure of our own Presentation this year we could enjoy attending a couple of Presentations in the main Lakeland Theatre. The first was a Q & A session with Joss Naylor hosted by Claire Mixsted of Trail Running Magazine, Joss was accompanied by fellow Fell legend Kenny Stewart & it

After a 5 day lay-off I was more than a little bit relieved to get out for an un-troubled 12 miler at the start of the Bank Holiday weekend. Nervous wasn’t the word as I deliberately kept close to the Cafe using a 6K loop to test the calf & give me bail out options should they be needed, thankfully they weren’t. This was followed up with a six miler on the Sunday & 14

I am pleased to announce that Mike Lees has agreed to return to host our second Quiz Night. It promises to be another great night with all funds raised from entry fee to raffle tickets going to Mike’s chosen Charity the Alaw Ward Unit at Ysbyty Gwynedd Hospital, the cancer centre for North Wales. For full details visit our Events page on this web-site. We hope you can join us, enjoy a great & very

With April let alone March now behind us time for a little update on how things are going on the running front & my preparation for an important June. I have continued to clock up the miles more than ever (well by my standards you understand) but I did suffer a setback during the latest trip to Italy. Again this was not a glamorous one as I was there simply to carry out a number

Thanks to Sandra Rowlands for correcting me, the race starts at 14:00 with events on the field starting at 1:00pm, although she could have done so by e-mail rather than call into the Cafe with that over-syching husband of hers, really did I have to hear about that pb of his from many moons ago. Only joking Kean & thanks for your help over in Italy even if that rear room should have been done