With the temperature rising runners from around the South-westconverged on the Dartmoor village of Peter Tavy last Saturday for theAnnual Langstone Fell Race, part of the SW Fell Running series.Starting in the centre of the village the runners climb past StepensGrave, to the Langstone, a tall upright stone due east of White Tor,erected as a […]
First Race complete – updated series list with links We hope you enjoy our fifth year of the series. all races now confirmed. Including a visit to Exmoor for an interesting new course. Note this year Junior age groups have been shaken up by FRA – so please check out on main FRA site. There […]
Dates for 2026 races We hope you enjoy our early posting of race dates- some are still to confirm. We hope to have 11 senior races this year with a potential extra ‘off piste ‘ invite to Exmoor also being worked up. Note this year Junior age groups have been shaken up by FRA – […]
Back by demand We had such great feedback from our 2 winter pairs races last year – that we are putting on three this year. Same format – must run as pairs , full kit , we will enabling tracing via one mobile, expect 16-22k courses with 600m- 850m climb- so a nice challenge. The […]
Huge congratulations to the 9 junior athletes (and parents) who travelled to Lancaster to represent their county in the UK junior fell running championships in June . We saw great strength up the steep inclines, tumbles down the technical downhills and huge determination to do their very best against the UKs top fell runners. I […]
Belstone loop including Devon champs Late excuses…please sir….but Well you may ask why has it taken so long. My first excuse is 6 weeks of fabulous weather. When you spend lots of the day travelling or on a computer- sometimes it just hard to sit and type . But i was really invigorated by my […]
While many youngsters were out on their Easter egg hunt , 22 young athletes took to the fells to compete in the first junior race of the 2025 SW fell running series and the county championships. It was a stunning day .. the moors at their best. Colin Kirk-Potter and Tim Mockford set a challenging […]
Happy runners Despite a cold early start there were a lot of happy faces at the finish line following Saturday’s second pairs race. For those not familiar with the format – this is a staggered start navigational running race, in pairs for company and safety, but also with kit. Also thanks to Tim Mockford we […]