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Competition

Fell running offers different types of races: big and small, short or long, take your pick. Other events include challenges where completion is the name of the game.

Fell racing is an excellent way to discover the Dales, and the variety of races available mean that you can race for just a couple of miles or for over twenty. Fell racing provides a different type of enjoyment and challenge and is the culmination of weeks, sometimes months, of training. Turning up on the start line with similar-minded people, all with their own version of the ‘no I am not fit at the moment’ comment or a description of a niggly injury is not uncommon. Inevitably, they will speed away from you as race begins. Most runners can usually manage a good final sprint, and the shared sense of achievement as you cross the finish line is tremendous. A shake of the hand with your fellow competitors is usually followed by a discussion of how hard it was and which sections you ran well.

Containing some of the finest running terrain in the British Isles, the Yorkshire Dales covers an area of over 2000km2 in northern England, sandwiched between the Lake District and the Pennines. The abundance of good paths and tracks make running in the Dales an amazing experience, and one that is accessible to most of us, with a mixture of medium-sized peaks and broad open moorlands to climb and run across. This book contains what I consider to be forty of the best routes in the Dales, including runs up the iconic mountains of Whernside, Ingleborough and Pen-y-ghent, as well as routes that traverse the moors in the far north of the region. From the honeypot sites of Malham and Grassington, to runs in the Howgills (the Yorkshire Dales National Park boundary was extended in August 2016 to include the northern Howgills, among other areas), there is a route in this book to suit runners of differing abilities.