Dark Peak Fell Runners is an athletics club for (mostly) hill & mountain running. The club is based in Sheffield and although the majority of the 300+ membership is local, the famous brown vest has migrated as far New Zealand. The club caters for a wide range of running interests and abilities, from short local races to ultra distance events, with some individuals achieving success in the English and British championships. The club thrives on minimal organisation and if you have a slightly anarchic sense of humour and an appetite to compete in unusual events, you will feel at home with people of a similar disposition.
Fell running has a culture for individuals to take personal responsibility for safety when out on the hills, as terrain and weather conditions can be severe. Therefore it is expected that you assess your own physical ability, mountain craft skills, clothing and equipment before going for a run.
We learnt from last Wednesday’s epic wet and windy wanderings that it was useful, sensible and safer to split ourselves into two groups, so we did. There were five fast Serious (Slow) Warts (including birthday Read more
Wednesday Warts weather this summer has generally been kind to us, so much so that comments were even made about the lack of bad weather. We had fallen into a group mood of complacency about Read more
Due to the club dinner being a special 50th anniversary undertaking and being a significant undertaking on the Saturday for those organising and assisting, the committee had decided to have the champs on a different Read more
‘Tis the season, for mists and mellow fruitfulness and head torches, (forgive the mixing and ruining of quotations) this set the scene as we tentatively descended over the rocks and mud to the river bridge Read more
I have cursed him many, many times when we’ve been staring face to face into a mass of impenetrable bracken some of which is trying to wrap around our legs in a “frond” boa constrictor Read more
A journey of discovery or the wrong destination? We, the slow section of the Serious (Slow) Warts, were accused of incompetence by the fast Serious (Slow) Warts. They had run ahead to Shelf Stones and Read more
After last week’s bracken-fraught outing, it was a pleasure for ten of us to step out into clearer ground. However, we did encounter some bracken immediately above Rowley Bridge. We hesitated and some of us Read more
Following a very successful Summer Series, with victories for Tom Saville and Eloise Lee, we return to the roads (and trails) this coming Monday for the club’s 50th anniversary year Winter Mondays series. For full Read more
No, we weren’t doing a sort of duathlon, the plan was to have a shorter, “easy one” from Fairholmes by taking the original (Andy’s) or possibly the later modified (Tom’s) Cakes of Bread race route. Read more
569 Redmires Rd, S10 4LJ
53.3714280000, -1.5775460000
SK282861
Fill in the contact form here