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Click here to see the route map of the Humberton Hill Fell Race.

Humberton Hill Fell Race is a new race on the calendar starting and finishing in Haydon Bridge, Northumberland. The distance is 5.25 miles with 790 feet of ascent (category BS). The fun starts at 7.15pm. Allow 10 mins to walk from registration/race HQ to the start. Registration and parking: Shaftoe Trust First School, Haydon Bridge, NE47 6BN. Grid ref: NY843641 Enter on the night only at a bargain price of £6 with refreshments included. All proceeds go to the School, donations welcome.

This years Saltwell Harriers Fell Race is on Tuesday 3rd July. The course is the usual 5.5 miles near Stanhope that takes in a mix of disused railway line, heather, rough moorland and a stream. So, bring your water wings ? There is also a few hills too. The fun starts at 7.30pm at the top of Crawleyside Bank, 2 miles north of Stanhope (Grid Ref 996 416 O/S Sheet 87). To add to the fun there is a presentation at Moorcock Inn afterwards. There is usually a bit of... Read More

Thanks to David Aspin for a great video of the Broughton Woods Fell Race which is a new race to the calendar and part of the Northern Runner/ Esk Valley Summer Fell Race Series.

A pleasant night’s run with moderate temperatures and the constant threat of rain. Ground tended to be wet. It was a case of exercising the Wisdom of Solomon to sort this result out. We had to use photographic evidence from above Check Point Four. As a consequence some runners had 12 minutes added to their times and two had 20 minutes. The final result therefore will have to stand , which is the race committee decision. The only exception would be if I have not recorded someone at the finish... Read More

Click here to see pictures of the last round of the Northern Runner/ Esk Valley Summer Fell Race Series at Broughton Woods.

Thanks to Clive Thornton for the Photographs of Ossy Oiks Fell Race which is the most recent race in the Northern Runner/ Esk Valley Summer Fell Race Series.

Broughton Wood Wobble is a new race in the Northern Runner/ Esk Valley Summer Fell Race Series. The race is the next in the series and takes place on Wednesday 6th June starting at 7.15 pm from the Black Horse Inn in Swainby, North Yorkshire (Entry on the night only £6. The race is a short one only 5.7 miles in length but, with over 1300 feet of ascent it will be a tough one. For a map of the route click here.

While the rest of the country where enjoying cream teas the elite of Great Britian’s mountain runners where at Sedbergh for the European Mountain Running Trials. For some great footage click here to see Bethanie Murray’s films from the athletics.org website.

Northern Runner now has stock of the Inov-8 Race Pac 4, Inov-8 Race Pac 8 and Inov-8 Race Pac 16 in our Newcastle-upon-Tyne Shop. These are the new packs from Inov-8 which can be used with the more conventional verticial bladder instead of Inov-8’s horizontal bladder. They are also smaller more compact sacks that could also be used on a bike as well as running and walking. Click here for more specific details.