12 lucky winners will receive one of these unique small trophies at the 2024 Jack Bloor Senior Race. This years trophy is called the ‘Almost a Rosewell stone’ Three Cups in one distorted ring, can be found on a path near St Bees Farm, Grid reference: 1289 3949 DRG Four The Small Trophies have beenContinue reading “2024 Jack Bloor Race Trophies”
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Has the Jack Bloor Fund inspired you?
Jack Bloor was a legend who lived life to the full, he excelled as a mountaineer, fell runner and rock climber, however after his death it was his love of life, to live adventurously and his generosity to help others that people will remember him for. Have a look at our NEW website and readContinue reading “Has the Jack Bloor Fund inspired you?”
2024, Alana Invernon, Mountain Leader Training, Mountaineering
Alana Invernon, a member of Ben Lairig Mountaineering mountaineering club was awarded a Jack Bloor grant towards her mountain leader award. I’ve just come back from my mountain training course with Bryn Williams which was absolutely fantastic so thanks so much for helping me get towards that – with an eye on booking my assessmentContinue reading “2024, Alana Invernon, Mountain Leader Training, Mountaineering”
2023, Euan Tryner, Junior World Championships, Orienteering
Thanks to a grant from the Jack Bloor Fund l was able to compete in my first Junior World Orienteering Championships in Romania. The highs and low of JWOC 2023. All in all, a pretty good debut JWOC, 44th in the Sprint, 34th in the middle, and 20th in the long. Sprint was never theContinue reading “2023, Euan Tryner, Junior World Championships, Orienteering”
2024 Helena Coy, Warm Weather Training Camp, Triathlon
Thank you so much for the support towards my warm weather training week in Fuerteventura, it was great fun! Over the week we completed around 25 hours of training, 8 hours of swimming, 10 and half hours of cycling, 3 hours of running and 2 hours of s&c. The weather was really great throughout theContinue reading “2024 Helena Coy, Warm Weather Training Camp, Triathlon”
2023 Imogen Pieters, Junior World Championships, Orienteering
The Junior World Orienteering championships was held in Baia Mare, Romania between the 30th-8th July this year. I was selected for the Great Britain team off a series of selection races in the spring in the Lake District, as one of 6 girls in the W20 team. JWOC was an amazing week of races, gettingContinue reading “2023 Imogen Pieters, Junior World Championships, Orienteering”
2023 Martha Calton-Sel, Senior European Cup, Triathlon
After recovering from an operation last December and picking up an injury in the return to training, I was really happy to be able to get on the start line again, albeit much later in the season.I qualified, and was selected to represent Great Britain at the Senior European Triathlon Cup in Alanya, Turkey, fromContinue reading “2023 Martha Calton-Sel, Senior European Cup, Triathlon”
2023 Pippa Carcas, European Orienteering Championships, Orienteering
I was very grateful to be selected for the European Orienteering Championships in Verona after struggling with injury for much of this year. The championship, for me, consisted of an individual sprint qualifier and a knockout sprint. Unfortunately I mispunched in the first race after the spectator run through. The knockout qualifier went a bitContinue reading “2023 Pippa Carcas, European Orienteering Championships, Orienteering”
2023 Betty Bergstrand, World Youth Sky Running, Fell Running
Youth World Skyrunning 2023 Race Report- Betty Bergstrand This year’s Youth World Skyrunning Championship was located in a small village, Fonte Cerreto, just north of L’aquila, Italy. It is an event spread over a weekend, with a vertical kilometre race (VK) on the Friday and the skyrace on the Sunday. The VK was a toughContinue reading “2023 Betty Bergstrand, World Youth Sky Running, Fell Running”
2023 Emily Field, World Youth Sky Running, Fell Running
Thanks to the support of the Jack Bloor Memorial Fund, I was able to travel to L’Aquila, Italy this August (2023), to represent Team United Kingdom in the Youth World Sky Running Championships. I raced in two events in the U23 category, the uphill only (3.8 km long with 1,033m vertical climb) on the FridayContinue reading “2023 Emily Field, World Youth Sky Running, Fell Running”