Ten Northumberland Fell Runners took to the Westmorland Fells on for the 4th race in the 2014 NFRS champs.\u00a0 This 23 mile race was instigated to commemorate that famous ‘Yomp’ across the Falklands to Port Stanley 31 years ago.\u00a0 The format was unusual with walkers and runners starting when they felt like it over a 2 hour window on chip timing.\u00a0 The sunny forecast was exceeded with temperatures in the mid 20s and dehydration a real risk. Paul Hainsworth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE YOMP, Sunday 1st June Ten Northumberland Fell Runners took to the Westmorland Fells on for the 4th race in the 2014 NFRS champs.\u00a0 This 23 mile race was instigated to commemorate that famous ‘Yomp’ across the Falklands to Port …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northumberlandfellrunners.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe route follows a circular route from Kirkby Stephen over Wild Boar Fell (708m), Swarth Fell, the scarp edge of Mallerstang, High Seat (709m), 9 Standards Rigg, (662 m) and back down to Kirkby Stephen again.
\nFirst home for NFR and in 4th place was Will Horsley.\u00a0 Steph Scott was outright ladies winner and NFR was 1st team home (Will, Dexter, John Tollitt and Steph).\u00a0 Full results at: http:\/\/www.yomp.org\/index.htm<\/a>
\nThe next NFR Champs race is The Roman Wall Show race on 14th June.\u00a0 Collated results so far are to follow.<\/p>\n