As the Trans 333 looms ever closer, a frisson of pure terror is rippling through our little band of British ‘disties’ – we who are either too old, too fat, too lame or generally too congenitally useless to run anything under 100 miles in a time

vital part of the West Yorkshire community since their inception 125 years ago in 1884, and have worked hard to achieve this status – they boast an impressive 485 members, around half of whom have joined in the last two years. Such a sudden boost

PRIZE WINNERS:Thursday September 1 - Saucony Cortana Running Shoes (x2)Debra Bourne (Beckenham)David Barron (Oxford)Friday September 2 - Garmin Forerunner 610Malcolm Cliff (West Yorkshire)Monday September 5 - Xempo Technical Tee (x10)Simon Davenport

discomfort when I do this’). The path hurls itself gleefully at vertical climbs, then thunders directly down dead drops. There are no ‘gently winding sections’ or ‘gradual ascents by means of easily-negotiable hairpin bends’. This is Yorkshire. The course

.”“He’s working undercover for DEFRA in the Brecon Beacons.”“He’s realised that, in his heart, he’s really a Yorkshire Terrier. He’s resting up before the op.”“Someone told me he had a lovely coat, and it suddenly occurred to me that he’d make a lovely coat

amazement when, as I dropped down from the North Yorkshire Moors, my pedometer read 300 kilometres – and I calculated that Whitby was just 33 kilometres away.However, my calculations proved to be wrong. It was actually 36 kilometres to Whitby. But three

. And everybody’s in on the joke. Nobody believes that the man from Del Monte is really touring the world personally testing every fruit crop. Or that Aunt Bessie is slaving over a hot Aga in her country kitchen to bring you her famous Yorkshire puddings