One Foot in the Gargrave – Sat 6 Sept 2025
From Jane McCarthy… LDWA-organised ‘One Foot in the Gargrave’ offers runners and walkers a Challenge event (as opposed to a race – think Rombald’s Stride) with pre-event tea/coffee/toast, 4 well-stocked checkpoints, post-event meal and a super friendly team. The 22-something mile route starts along quiet lanes out of Gargrave towards Otterburn, climbing gently before dropping […]
Ilkley Incline – Wed 3 Sept 2025
[Ruaridh Mon-Williams, first Ilkley Harrier home, photo courtesy of Will Worboys] From Jean Sullivan… Wednesday evening saw the staging of the 23rd Ilkley Incline race. This unique one-mile uphill only race, with 560ft of ascent, starts at the bottom of the Keighley Gate Road in Ilkley. The route starts on tarmac road, before runners have a […]
Vale of York Half Marathon – Sun 7 Sept 2025
From Ash Winter… With the Yorkshire Marathon fast approaching, the Vale of York Half Marathon is the classic tune up race. Always useful to see if those long runs are making a difference while there’s still a few weeks to tweak the training. Over a thousand runners too, so you get that big race vibe […]
Ingleton Three Counties – Sat 6 Sept 2025
From Dan McKeown… Having injured my knee prior to this year’s Yorkshire Three Peaks race, I had set myself a recovery target of a ‘Calendar Three Peaks’: to do Pen-y-ghent on Y3P race day, retire from the race at Ribblehead, and pick up the other two peaks in other races during the year. I accomplished […]
One Foot in the Gargrave – Sat 6 Sept 2025
From Jane McCarthy… LDWA-organised ‘One Foot in the Gargrave’ offers runners and walkers a Challenge event (as opposed to a race – think Rombald’s Stride) with pre-event tea/coffee/toast, 4 well-stocked checkpoints, post-event meal and a super friendly team. The 22-something mile route starts along quiet lanes out of Gargrave towards Otterburn, climbing gently before dropping […]
Ilkley Incline – Wed 3 Sept 2025
[Ruaridh Mon-Williams, first Ilkley Harrier home, photo courtesy of Will Worboys] From Jean Sullivan… Wednesday evening saw the staging of the 23rd Ilkley Incline race. This unique one-mile uphill only race, with 560ft of ascent, starts at the bottom of the Keighley Gate Road in Ilkley. The route starts on tarmac road, before runners have a […]
UTMB Julian Alps, Slovenia – Sun 21 Sept 2025
From Rebecca Mon-Williams… The Julian Alps UTMB race offers a smorgasbord of race options, ranging from 120km to 5km. We opted for the 25km route which starts and finishes in the Alpine village of Kranskja Gora. Our route took in 3 main climbs (1000m total), and followed tracks along rivers, up wooded hillsides, along tops with […]
The Tilbury Douglas Yorkshire Run for WaterAid – Sun 21 Sept 2025
From Colm McCann… The Tilbury Douglas Yorkshire Run for WaterAid isn’t exactly a catchy name for race. It is essentially an annual 5/10k race to raise money for WaterAid which is a charity that aims to provide water and sanitation services in developing countries. The race is organised by Yorkshire Water, their partners and local […]
Kirkstall Abbey 7 – Sun 21 Sept 2025
From Matthew Snow… Four Ilkley Harriers took on the Kirkstall 7 mile trail race, starting at Kirkstall Abbey and following a roughly out-and-back route to Rodley and back. The race was treated as Ilkley Harrier Steve Gott’s latest stag event before drinks in Leeds, in honour of which we all ran in T-shirts demonstrating Steve’s […]
Three Shires Fell Race – Sat 20 Sept 2025
From Alison Weston… Charles Wain and I ran the new route for the Three Shires fell race this weekend. Starting and finishing at Tilberthwaite farm, instead of Little Langdale, and in an anti-clockwise direction with Wetherlam as the last climb. A bit more distance and climbing (22km and 1535m) but I like the new route! […]