Windy Hill – the first race in the 2024 Club Fell Champs – 12 races in total. To maximise your results, your best 6 races count (including 2 distances from Short, Medium and Long), you must be a Bingley Harrier and wear your vest, or just join in the ones you can make – with good Bingley company. Windy Hill at 19km is as long as a Medium race can be, and combined with Pennine moorlands, and February will be a challenging first race for the series …. , and an opportunity to score good points in the fell championship 😉. Alternatively if this is more than you feel ready for at this point there are still plenty of races left to get your 6 (or more !) in.

Kit? Pennine moors, February – Full FRA kit is required. I wouldn’t venture out on the moors at this time of year without it – and maybe more.

Details : Registration from 9.00 at Rams Head Inn, Ripponden Rd, Denshaw, Oldham OL3 5UN
Start 10.00. Minimum age: 18
Entries : £13 or £15. https://www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?elid=Y&event_id=12094
Pre-entry. Entries open now and upto Thu 8th Feb 22.00hrs
Map – see map in header or attached file
We already have a number of runners entered and it would be great to see more. Any queries – contact Becky, Paul or Andy as below.

Full details of the Club Fell Champs are in the Fell section under Disciplines.
All the races are run under Fell Runners Association rules – see Requirements for Runners on https://www.fellrunner.org.uk/documents.php. Assume you need full kit and note that electronic / GPS navigation aids are not allowed in races.
If you are new to the fells but would like to give it a go we can help with advice, kit, maps etc. I would like as many people to join in as possible even if you can’t manage 6 events to score.
We are targeting teams at the English Fell Champs races and relay teams for Calderdale Way (Sun 19 May), the Bradford Millenium Way (Sun 9 Jun) and the October Fell Relays in the Lakes – Hodgson Brothers Mountain Relay (Sat 5 Oct) and the British Fell Relay (Sat 19 Oct). Even if you are new to the fells we can help you build your fell skills and experience so you are ‘ready to relay’, and October comes around surprisingly quickly ;-).
Get in touch with the Fell Team Managers Becky Weight (beckyweight@btinternet.com), Paul Crabtree (paulcrabtree67@yahoo.com), or Andy Jebb (andrewjebb2@gmail.com) if you are interested or to chat about what would be good for you, or pick up with some of the regular fell runners on our training sessions.