YKH Weekly Round Up Week Ending 27th November – Relay Team Victories & more…

---Rossendale's Lee Mill Fell Relays. We returned for a second year to this challenging  Pennine relay race , with our Ladies winning the Female Team competition last year we had quite a bit to live up to.       The race held near Bacup , (nr Rochdale) comprises four legs of almost 6.5 miles, climbing through disused Quarries ( now a popular Mountain Biking venue) onto the high moor where perilously deep bogs  had to be negotiated before careening back through the quarries to the … [Read more...]

YKH Weekly Round Up – Week Ending 20th November.

---West Yorkshire Cross Country League  Race #3 : Spenborough. Plenty of mud for the third race in the hard fought series, battled over by some of Yorkshire's best Athletic clubs and athletes. Knavesmire's Ladies had  our the best team result , placing fourth of 14, with the Men's team finishing seventh of 12 teams. Results :http://www.westyorkshireathletics.org.uk/R3Spen2016.htm For the Ladies team we had : 13th Nik Tarrega 22nd Caroline Warrington 35th Cassie Holmes 42nd … [Read more...]

Cross Country Entries – Get them in …Yorkshire’s / Northern’s and Nationals.

Christmas is not far away, which means ?? Championship Cross Country Season is just around the corner and those entries , as well as your letters to Santa need to be in the post. Yorkshire Cross Country Championships at Lightwater Valley nr Ripon  -  Saturday 7th January. Entry Form :  yorkshire-xc-prospectus-2017-individual-entry-forms                             ( entries close 14th December ) The Northern XC championships 2017 will be held at Knowsley Park Safari Park. Liverpool … [Read more...]

YKH Weekly Round Up – Week Ending 13th November

---Dalby Dash. Some great results and a good number of  runners from YKH at this 10k trail race held in Dalby Forest near Pickering. We had a great Knavesmire  one/two with Chris Roberts in first ,  flying around the course in 33:15 and Phil Elliot Dick second with 33:51. The course is mostly uphill to start with and the latter half being largely downhill . With some help from  gravity Chris was able to record a still remarkable 5:02 for mile 3, 4:47 for mile 4 and 5:03 for mile … [Read more...]