Otley Athletic Club

Well done everyone who successfully raced the 4mile 900ft first race in the Virtual Fell Running Championships. The challenge was to run an off-road 4 mile route with 900ft ascent and send your GPS record to the organisers. Women’s Results for Otley: Men’s Results for Otley: Women’s team finished 5th overall, Men’s team 13th. Oh, and Otley had the highest number of entries of any club! Some strong performances, especially from Jenson (up against u19s in his age cat), Sara,…

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Please see the event for details of the Virtual Fell Running Champs, and a course that Graham has devised to meet the 4 mile and 900 ft requirement of the race. You can run the race anywhere you like though, you can enter here   Update! Below you’ll find an alternative Danefield route that I finally got round to checking. It’s slightly more ascent than Chevin one, but probably faster running. Danefield 4m 900ft route description

Report from El Pres Following over two months of no reports I am pleased to report on the Lockdown Bake Off. After an afternoon of stuffing my face with cake and coffee I am pleased to announce the results of the Lockdown Bake Off as follows: 3rd Tom Dyson’s Lemon Drizzle cake. 2nd Maddie’s Marmalade Drizzle cake. 1st Jules Gifford’s G&T Drizzle cake. Well done to all who took part. It was a very close call but we won’t be…

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A great and welcome report by Tash Whitaker In these unusual times where we can’t run together and we are all in the house a lot more, I thought I’d do a report from the last Half Marathon that I’ll be doing for a while I reckon! I’d booked the Retford Half as a training race for the London Marathon as I’d done it a couple of years ago and know that it’s not too hilly so perfect preparation!  It’s also…

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Report from Richard Hamer. “Was everything okay?” “No, it was horrible.” Wearing my journalist’s trilby, you never start a report with a quote; but we’re living in exceptional times and a certain unnamed someone was evidently not happy with their evening meal on the opening night of this year’s training weekend to Pooley Bridge, in the northern Lake District. For those in the dining room of the village’s Sun Inn, it provided a little light relief from the coronavirus that…

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Report from Richard Smith After cancellation of the Bradford 10K I made a last minute call to run Thirsk 10. Fortunately, I was able to enter on the day. Despite the global pandemic, Thirsk decided to go ahead with the race following consultation with the Yorkshire Vet and England Athletics.  Given other race cancellations, it was a large and speedy field. Make no mistake, this is a fast, flat and scenic course. However, not the best conditions today in terms…

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Pos Gender Pos Parkrunner Club Run Time Armley 1 1 Dale Marshall Unattached 17:37 3 3 Rob Grant Otley AC 18:02 7 1 Aisling Wall Horsforth H 19:51 Bradford 1 1 Michael Malyon Baildon R. 17:03 4 4 Ross Mccall Otley AC 18:15 17 1 Rachel Mccusker Dewsbury Road R. 20:40 Conyngham Hall 1 1 Phil Rogers Harrogate H & AC 20:02 14 14 Lee Gumbrell Otley AC 23:21 38 1 Georgina Dickinson Unattached 26:38 57 47 Jarod Merridew Otley…

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Report from Phil Robinson No, I’ve never heard of it either. But since Spen and Trimple coincide with our training weekend and I’ll be overseas on the East Hull 20 date this was the nearest 20 miler I could find. It’s a three-lapper in the Cheshire countryside with a few hills. No other Otley runners but a decent field of about 350 including relay teams doing one lap each. The fastest time for 20 miles this year in my age…

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Report from Matt Podd BM, 10.4 Miles, 1936ft Ascent. Whilst others were running the club handicap, or the Panther’s ultra I was tempted to do this jaunt around Pendle Hill. Driven there by Mr Tate with his daughter accompanied us. At Race HQ we met the legendary Italian fell runner Mr Cardinale. I’ve not done this race before, and there had been some changes to the route due to erosion. We had a lovely day, dry (though not underfoot) and…

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